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Critical Insights: the Supernatural Robert C. Evans 9781637007402
RRP: £104.00SciFier: £83.36The supernatural as a category of literature can be difficult to define, and it can be especially difficult to distinguish supernatural literature from such closely related forms of writing as... -
The Us Graphic Novel Paul Williams 9781474423373
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.58This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention... -
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue Vida T. Johnson 9780253208873
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films-a very difficult task in any case-must read it." -The Russian Review"This book is a model of... -
Spielberg's Holocaust by Yosefa Loshitzky
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"This anthology of essays on Steven Spielberg's 1993 film is a solid achievement. It is a repository of considerable critical insight and frequently passionate argument." -Holocaust and Genocide... -
Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern Anne Friedberg 9780520089242
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.05Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern... -
The Third Sex: Beyond a Gender Binary in Thai Culture and Films Charlin Nukul 9781636671239
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £54.49Winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication. Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand... -
A Political Companion to American Film by Gary Crowdus
SciFier: £33.60The Political Companion to American Film is an encyclopedic collection of critical essays offering provocative social and political commentary on the work of filmmakers (from Woody Allen to Darryl... -
Basquiat Marc Mayer 9781858945194
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.65Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487126
SciFier: £102.64This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Refocus: the Films of Steve Mcqueen Thomas Austin 9781399510936
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £88.18Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in... -
Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives Craig Batty 9783030487157
SciFier: £101.12This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry... -
Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture Adam Geczy 9780367333188
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £39.55Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types... -
Video Games and Social Competence Rachel Kowert 9781138548978
SciFier: £48.93Despite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community. In particular, there is a growing concern that online video game play may be... -
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film Sonja Fritzsche 9781800349087
SciFier: £36.28The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational... -
Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture Chris Richardson (Young Harris College, Georgia USA) 9780367409210
SciFier: £61.76This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular... -
Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture Chris Richardson (Young Harris College, Georgia USA) 9780367562991
SciFier: £22.89This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular... -
The Golem, How He Came into the World by Maya Barzilai (Royalty Account)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.57Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema. Actor and director... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden 9781479811991
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.56Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden 9781479802074
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £58.25Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious... -
Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade Christine Sprengler 9780190067359
SciFier: £27.68The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires,... -
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s Neepa Majumdar 9780252034329
SciFier: £103.88Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa... -
Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade Christine Sprengler (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History, Western University) 9780190067342
SciFier: £113.88The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires,... -
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s Neepa Majumdar 9780252076282
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238636
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
The Rhetoric of Violence by Kamal Abdel-Malek
SciFier: £46.99Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian... -
Reappraising Cult Horror Films: From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho Dr Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK) 9781501387586
SciFier: £97.99Identifies key - and in some cases previously overlooked - cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways. New productions in the... -
Film and Television After 9/11 by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £41.95SciFier: £24.89In Film and Television after 9/11, twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238629
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9781349341559
SciFier: £46.99The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Dr. Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, UK)
SciFier: £24.99The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities. Many students have to produce critical essays comparing the novel and film versions of a particular text. The... -
Robert Bresson by Joseph Cunneen
SciFier: £34.99Although Bresson is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, his films are rarely shown in the English-speaking world. This book introduces his movies to a broader... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9780230338555
SciFier: £46.99The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
How Superheroes Model Community: Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally Nathan Miczo 9781498516808
SciFier: £83.49From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspirational exemplars. However, many of the virtues... -
How Superheroes Model Community: Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally Nathan Miczo 9781498516822
SciFier: £38.99From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspirational exemplars. However, many of the virtues... -
Richard Linklater David T. Johnson 9780252078507
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have... -
Black Magic by Krin Gabbard
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.49Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
SciFier: £94.31Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital... -
British Gothic Cinema B. Forshaw 9781137300300
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field,... -
British Gothic Cinema B. Forshaw 9781137300317
SciFier: £41.99Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field,... -
The Fashion Reader Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781350059139
SciFier: £44.38In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international...