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Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205764
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205771
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: £94.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film Adam Lowenstein 9780231132466
SciFier: £94.31In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and... -
The Postmodern Slasher Film Steve Jones (Assistant Professor in Media and Film, Northumbria University) 9781399537100
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it... -
The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul Gina Freitag 9781442650541
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £42.44From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and AndrE... -
Visceral Screens by Allan Cameron
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation Demonstrates how a range of different... -
The Canadian Horror Film by Gina Freitag
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and Andre... -
Monster Cinema Barry Keith Grant 9780813588803
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily... -
Monster Cinema Barry Keith Grant 9780813597652
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £47.98Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily... -
The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre Cecilia Sayad (Senior Lectur, Senior Lectur, University of Kent) 9780190065775
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.36Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found footage. The horror genre is no longer exclusive to... -
The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre Cecilia Sayad (Senior Lectur, Senior Lectur, University of Kent) 9780190065768
SciFier: £117.37Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found footage. The horror genre is no longer exclusive to... -
Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology Professor Xavier Aldana Reyes 9780231220965
SciFier: £15.19The subgenre of body horror, associated with directors such as David Cronenberg and Coralie Fargeat, depicts the human body's susceptibility to disease and change. Preoccupied with anatomy,... -
Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs 9780231163477
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157162
SciFier: £94.31Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157179
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148719
SciFier: £29.89It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148702
SciFier: £108.33It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era Murray Leeder (University of Alberta, Canada) 9781628922134
SciFier: £31.99In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201339
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has...