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The Cambridge Companion to Comics Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) 9781009255691
SciFier: $34.74The 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
SciFier: $73.66In 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: $86.17The 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: $164.70The 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: $118.83The 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
SciFier: $141.77The 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: $48.64After 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: $118.83Virginia 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: $118.14Opening 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: $47.25Renoir 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: $55.59Since 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: $125.09This 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)
SciFier: $55.59Animal 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
SciFier: $129.95This 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: $32.65The 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: $118.14Alfred 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)
SciFier: $150.80Ways 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)
SciFier: $58.37For 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
SciFier: $34.04In 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
SciFier: $25.35Theologians 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
SciFier: $93.81Shakespeare 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
SciFier: $59.76The 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
SciFier: $33.71In 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: $161.24SciFier: $140.10Following 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: $170.97SciFier: $147.60Drawing 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
SciFier: $62.54This 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
SciFier: $37.52Understanding 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... -
New Australian Cinema by Brian McFarlane
SciFier: $47.25The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9781108059411
SciFier: $38.91This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875-1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935)... -
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy Nick Browne (University of California, Los Angeles) 9780521550840
SciFier: $88.95The Godfather trilogy is among the most significant works of Hollywood cinema of the last quarter century. They provide a richly complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521114837
SciFier: $62.54Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window John Belton (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 9780521564533
SciFier: $25.35Alfred 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... -
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics Stephen Vaughn 9780521440806
SciFier: $132.73Ronald Reagan in Hollywood explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros. During the Depression, World... -
Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou David Wills (State University of New York, Albany) 9780521573757
SciFier: $108.41Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, made at the height of the French New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's... -
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Ray Carney (Boston University) 9780521388153
SciFier: $34.04The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces,... -
The Business of TV Production by Craig Collie (Queensland University of Technology)
SciFier: $72.27Television is the dominant mass medium of the current era. Its lifeblood in whatever form it takes is content - the programs it broadcasts to the public. This book is an insider's view of the... -
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Lauren Gillingham (University of Ottawa) 9781009296564
RRP: $161.24SciFier: $141.77Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comics Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) 9781009255684
SciFier: $129.81The 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... -
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare Steven Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521107853
SciFier: $40.30Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521009317
SciFier: $37.52In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed...