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Making Short Films, Third Edition: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen Clifford Thurlow 9780857853875
SciFier: €36.88Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at colleges across the western world. A short film... -
Sketching for Animation: Developing Ideas, Characters and Layouts in Your Sketchbook Professor Peter Parr (Arts University Bournemouth) 9781350087095
RRP: €45.21SciFier: €38.95Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of... -
Classical Antiquity in Video Games: Playing with the Ancient World Dr Christian Rollinger (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Trier, Germany) 9781350193864
SciFier: €41.64From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the... -
Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: From the Orient to the Mediterranean Professor Mary Harlow (University of Leicester, UK) 9781350189737
SciFier: €40.45This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space - with surprising resonances... -
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s Dr Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK) 9781350293083
SciFier: €37.34Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental... -
Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary Rick Dolphijn 9781350163768
SciFier: €42.83Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112070
SciFier: €34.75Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches... -
Sound Design for Moving Image: From Concept to Realization Miss Kahra Scott-James 9781474235112
SciFier: €45.91Sound Design for Moving Image offers a clear introduction to sound design theory and practice to help you integrate sound ideas into your productions. Contemporary soundtracks are often made up of... -
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion by Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
SciFier: €135.65Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices... -
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781350240902
SciFier: €126.03Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual... -
How to Write Everything by David Quantick
SciFier: €22.16How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It... -
Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera Dr. Gail Segal (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA) 9781474285827
SciFier: €45.08The camera's capacity to organize space within a "frame" produces the fundamental unit of movie making: the shot. Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera is a practical guide to the visual... -
Tweed by Fiona Anderson (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK)
SciFier: €34.50The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development. This book considers the historical factors that helped to shape the design... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler by Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)
SciFier: €41.21Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933269
SciFier: €124.34What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study,... -
Samuel Beckett and Cinema Anthony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton, UK) 9781350081611
SciFier: €45.21In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the... -
Portugal's Global Cinema by Dr. Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
SciFier: €40.45Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact. From the prestige of directors Manoel de... -
Sportswomen in Cinema: Film and the Frailty Myth Nicholas Chare 9781350418998
SciFier: €38.07Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida... -
Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy Brett M. Rogers 9781350068940
SciFier: €104.71In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, 'displacing' them from their original settings-in time and space, in points... -
Autobiographical Comics Professor Andrew J. Kunka (University of South Carolina, Sumter, USA) 9781474227841
SciFier: €35.69A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and... -
Bollypolitics by Ajay Gehlawat (Sonoma State University, USA)
SciFier: €121.53This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, including a surge in sectarian violence and the ascent... -
Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University, USA) 9781350365742
SciFier: €32.18Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie... -
Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University, USA) 9781350365759
SciFier: €94.37Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie... -
Soviet Spectatorship by Samuel Goff (University of Cambridge, UK)
SciFier: €120.70What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers these questions through an in... -
Dress, Law and Naked Truth by Professor Gary Watt (University of Warwick, UK)
SciFier: €135.65This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire Denise Amy Baxter (The University of North Texas, USA) 9780857856845
SciFier: €127.26During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The... -
Benjamin on Fashion Philipp Ekardt 9781350075993
SciFier: €135.65Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin's complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion theory that he developed in the Arcades Project (1927-1940) and beyond, while... -
Working in the Global Film and Television Industries by Dr. Andrew Dawson (Principal Lecturer and University Teaching Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Greenwich)
SciFier: €38.07Like many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends... -
Bomber Boys on Screen by S. P. MacKenzie (University of South Carolina, USA)
SciFier: €41.64Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre worthy of scholarly attention. In this illuminating... -
Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present Phyllis G. Tortora 9780857851918
RRP: €38.07SciFier: €35.91Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the... -
Feminist Visions: Tracing Feminist Epistemologies in Contemporary Film and Television Helene Charlery (Universite Toulouse Jean-Jaures, France) 9781350417717
SciFier: €114.16What does feminist filmmaking in the 21st century look like? This book assesses the influence of Western feminist theory on contemporary film and television - nearly fifty years after Claire Johnston... -
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda Jennifer deWinter (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) 9781628923889
RRP: €27.36SciFier: €26.53Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment-essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention. But as any gamer knows, there's incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a... -
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading Dr Angelos Koutsourakis (University of Leeds, UK) 9781501307690
SciFier: €41.64This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars... -
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia Dr Ross Clare (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350157194
SciFier: €122.56This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum... -
Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time Christopher Bartel (Appalachian State University, USA) 9781350202702
SciFier: €40.45Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their... -
Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination by Irene Berti (Karls Universitat, Germany)
SciFier: €40.45The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence - from war to slavery, rape and murder - in the modern visual and performing arts,... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing by Dr Tara Mokhtari
SciFier: €33.47Covering all of the major genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing. Now in its second edition, the book features an... -
Realism in Greek Cinema by Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney, Australia)
SciFier: €41.64The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusing on the works of six major filmmakers active... -
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781472569417
SciFier: €116.61This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered... -
Critical Fashion Practice: From Westwood to Van Beirendonck Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781474265539
SciFier: €116.61There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs...