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'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film: Cinematic Dialogues Between the US and the USSR Marina L. Levitina 9781350200050
SciFier: $50.03Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are... -
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads Dr Daniel Stein 9781472587589
SciFier: $56.98This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social,... -
The Art of Czech Animation by Adam Whybray (University of Suffolk, UK)
SciFier: $47.25The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the... -
Scribbling through History: Graffiti, Places and People from Antiquity to Modernity Professor Chloe Ragazzoli (Associate Professor of Egyptology, Paris Sorbonne, France) 9781350122383
SciFier: $51.42For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th... -
Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK) 9781350114555
SciFier: $157.06The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its... -
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, USA) 9781350091672
SciFier: $122.31Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature,... -
Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers Dr Trent Hergenrader (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) 9781350016668
SciFier: $37.52The digital technologies of the 21st century are reshaping how we experience storytelling. More than ever before, storylines from the world's most popular narratives cross from the pages of books to... -
Webcomics Dr Sean Kleefeld (Independent Scholar, USA) 9781350028180
SciFier: $136.21**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** The first critical guide to cover the history, form and key critical issues of the medium, Webcomics helps readers explore... -
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy Neil Archer (Keele University, UK) 9781350242449
SciFier: $48.64At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after,... -
Modern Fashion Traditions: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion M. Angela Jansen (Independent fashion anthropologist, Belgium) 9781350058491
SciFier: $57.17Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of... -
Costume Since 1945: Historical Dress from Couture to Street Style Deirdre Clancy 9781472524249
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $36.57Since the mid-20th century fashion has undergone phenomenal change at a rapid pace in the context of unprecedented social, political and cultural upheaval. This fully updated and expanded second... -
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781472569400
SciFier: $40.30This 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... -
Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders Walter Crist (Arizona State University, USA) 9781474221177
SciFier: $48.64The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to... -
Luchino Visconti: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Joan Ramon Resina (Stanford University, USA) 9781350185777
SciFier: $39.10Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto... -
Fashion's Double: Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9780857857118
SciFier: $45.12Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether... -
The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity Professor Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 9781350178076
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $35.60The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne... -
The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Bulent Diken (Lancaster University, UK)
SciFier: $47.25Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout... -
Robert Pippin and Film by Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK)
SciFier: $44.47Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933139
SciFier: $44.47What 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,... -
Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood Katie Barnett (University of Chester, UK) 9781350120884
SciFier: $157.06The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade's most popular films like Kindergarten... -
Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944 David Frey 9781350248069
SciFier: $47.25Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944,... -
The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the 'Genuinely' Religious Film Dr Sheila J. Nayar (Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA) 9781472533029
SciFier: $56.98For more than half a century now, scholars have debated over what comprises a 'genuinely' religious film-one that evinces an 'authentic' manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholars do so by... -
Philosophy through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible Helen De Cruz (Saint Louis University, USA) 9781350081215
SciFier: $37.59Bringing together short stories by award-winning contemporary science fiction authors and philosophers, this book covers a wide range of philosophical ideas from ethics, philosophy of religion,... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment Peter McNeil 9780857857613
SciFier: $148.65Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits,... -
Benjamin on Fashion Philipp Ekardt 9781350262324
SciFier: $48.64Benjamin 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... -
Thinking in Film: The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila Mieke Bal 9781472526915
SciFier: $143.85What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish... -
The Calling Card Script by Paul Ashton
SciFier: $29.84The calling card script is the script that expresses your voice, gets you noticed and helps you reach commission and production. Written by Paul Ashton, Development Manager of the BBC writersroom,... -
Swedish Film Feminism: Between Grassroots Movements and Welfare Policies Dr Ingrid Ryberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9781350186316
SciFier: $132.04Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s. Ingrid Ryberg makes an important... -
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking: The Aesthetics of Trauma Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo (CY Cergy Paris Universite, France) 9781350528024
SciFier: $133.34This book explores how the generation of filmmakers born in the aftermath of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) use cinema to navigate and narrate the complex legacies of their country's turbulent... -
Adapting Sex on Screen: The Cinematic Biographies of Lulu, La Ronde and Venus in Furs Julian Preece (Swansea University, UK) 9781350538139
SciFier: $134.32Tracing the adaptation histories of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, and Frank Wedekind's play Lulu, Julian Preece explores how these works were... -
Artists' Moving Image: Cinema as Archive Sarah Smith (The Glasgow School of Art, UK) 9781788313988
SciFier: $116.84Artists have long been fascinated by film, but recent decades have seen an explosion in direct artistic engagements with mainstream cinema, particularly from the classical and post-classical eras of... -
Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema Dr. Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 9781628923025
SciFier: $48.14European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of... -
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress Eric Silverman 9781847882868
SciFier: $57.17A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to the present. For centuries Jews have dressed in... -
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) 9780826429537
SciFier: $72.53This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia Dr Ross Clare (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350157194
SciFier: $143.16This 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: $47.25Is 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: $47.25The 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: $39.10Covering 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: $48.64The 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: $136.21This 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...