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The Cambridge Companion to Comics Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) 9781009255691
SciFier: £23.24The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521037150
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £45.54In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521042666
SciFier: £55.99The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521651561
SciFier: £106.31The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521772358
SciFier: £77.28The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia Vera Dika 9780521815680
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £87.01The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives,... -
Hollywood Censored by Gregory D. Black (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
SciFier: £30.24After a series of sex scandals rocked the film industry in 1922, movie moguls hired Will Hays to clear the image of movies. Hays tried a variety of ways to regulate movies before adopting what became... -
Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York) 9781107001947
SciFier: £77.28Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick) 9781316513002
SciFier: £76.58Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the... -
Renoir on Renoir: Interviews, Essays, and Remarks Jean Renoir 9780521385930
SciFier: £29.39Renoir on Renoir is a 1990 collection of essays by, and interviews of, the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, who created such classics as The Grand Illusion, The River and The Rules of the Game... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9781108057080
SciFier: £40.19Since it was first published in 1897, this infamous Gothic horror novel, which brought its author international acclaim, has spawned a global following, inspiring hundreds of films and setting the... -
A History of Film Music Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) 9780521811736
SciFier: £81.51This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also... -
Victims of Fashion by Helen Louise Cowie (University of York)
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £34.49Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape herself in a sealskin jacket, brush her hair with a... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9780521856850
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.54This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock David Sterritt 9780521398145
SciFier: £20.04The introduction gives an overview of Hitchcock's long career, with special attention to the varied influences on his work; themes that run through many of his films, from the 'transference of... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window John Belton (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 9780521564236
SciFier: £76.58Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging piece of entertainment as well as a fascinating... -
Ways of Remembering: Volume 1 by Oishik Sircar (O.P. Jindal Global University, India)
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £98.15Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom-postcolonial India's most litigated and... -
The Catholic Crusade against the Movies, 1940-1975 by Gregory D. Black (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.19For more than three decades the Catholic church, through its Legion of Decency, had the power to control the content of Hollywood films. From the mid-1930s to the late 1960s the Catholic Legion... -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholms Universitet) 9781009009980
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.86In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the... -
Science Fiction and Christian Theology Victoria Lorrimar (University of Notre Dame, Australia) 9781009428910
RRP: £17.00SciFier: £15.85Theologians often struggle to engage with scientific and technological proposals meaningfully in our contemporary context. This Element provides an introduction to the use of science fiction as a... -
Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham) 9780521815475
RRP: £64.00SciFier: £60.49Shakespeare Films in the Making examines the production and reception of five feature-length Shakespeare films from the twentieth century, focusing on the ways in which they articulate visions of... -
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (University of Minnesota) 9781107485464
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.89The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew... -
The Cambridge Companion to William Morris Marcus Waithe (University of Cambridge) 9781108940634
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.86In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This... -
Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel Benoit Crucifix (KU Leuven & Royal Library of Belgium) 9781009250931
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £82.93Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past,' this book considers comics memory in the contemporary North American graphic novel. Cartoonists such as Chris Ware,... -
Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life Karen Tranberg Hansen (Northwestern University, Illinois) 9781009350365
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £85.65Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day... -
Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont) 9780521466325
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89This book is a pathbreaking study of the 'unknown' Soviet cinema: the popular movies which were central to Soviet film production in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood discusses acting genres, the... -
Understanding Video Game Music Tim Summers (Royal Holloway, University of London) 9781108413428
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.54Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video... -
Shakespeare on Screen: The Tempest and Late Romances Sarah Hatchuel (Universite du Havre, France) 9781107113503
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £92.70The second volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to The Tempest and Shakespeare's late romances, offering up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new... -
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) 9780521536042
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.54Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest... -
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy Michael Cameron (Dalhousie University) 9781009494526
SciFier: £57.19This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges... -
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950 Ian Jarvie 9780521041430
SciFier: £46.99A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain in the period 1920-1950, this book shows how well-organised and effective the American... -
Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion J. Michael Sproule (San Jose State University, California) 9780521022002
SciFier: £25.55This is the first comprehensive study on the relationship of propaganda to participatory democracy in the United States during the twentieth century. The Muckrackers were the first critics to... -
The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry Suzanne Lewis (Stanford University, California) 9780521632386
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £87.47The Bayeux Tapestry has long been recognized as one of the most problematical historical documents of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. More than a reinterpretation of the historical evidence,... -
Remote Control by Catharine Lumby (University of Sydney)
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £33.99This book examines the ethical challenges posed by new media formats, technologies and audiences. It considers how these emerging genres and technologies work, how they are reshaping the public... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521596978
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.64Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock David Sterritt 9780521391337
SciFier: £49.89The introduction gives an overview of Hitchcock's long career, with special attention to the varied influences on his work; themes that run through many of his films, from the 'transference of... -
Jataka Tales by H. T. Francis
SciFier: £38.89Originally published in 1916, this book presents a selection from the Jatakas translated into English. The selection was made 'with the purpose of bringing together the Jataka stories of most... -
Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. Andrew Horton (Loyola University, New Orleans) 9780521485661
SciFier: £16.69Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr focuses on a classic by one of America's greatest silent film geniuses whose films still delight and amaze audiences worldwide. Written specially for this edition, the... -
Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy Garth S. Jowett (University of Houston) 9780521041454
SciFier: £33.49An analysis of the first and most comprehensive study of the influence of movies on American youth, the Payne Fund Studies. First published in 1933, these studies are intrinsically important for... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, Leicester) 9780521614863
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.54This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from...