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Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Film Genre for the Screenwriter Jule Selbo 9781138020832
SciFier: £48.06Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo's popular course, this accessible guide... -
Parody as Film Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview... -
Transformation of Contemporary Film Genre by Fangyi Xu
SciFier: £112.99This book is the first one focusing on Chinese mainstream films from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on case studies, it discusses three subgenres of mainland Chinese commercial mainstream... -
Refiguring American Film Genres by Nick Browne
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 Michael Guarneri 9781474458122
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.09Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of... -
The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre by Brad Windhauser
SciFier: £87.99In The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre, Brad J. Windhauser argues for the existence of this genre and, using a genre and queer theory lens, investigates how the initial, classic cluster of this... -
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 Michael Guarneri 9781474458115
SciFier: £91.29Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975Book InformationISBN 9781474458115Author Michael GuarneriFormat... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781349490165
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781137414168
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen Professor Doru Pop 9781501366253
SciFier: £96.69This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking... -
Passionate Love and Popular Cinema: Romance and Film Genre Erica Todd 9781137295378
SciFier: £46.99This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love... -
French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema Timothy Scheie 9781399520386
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.20The production of films that may be called both 'French' and 'western' spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early... -
Create or Die by Stephen Lee Naish
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £36.79Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who... -
Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood Eve Benhamou 9781474476126
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory Reveals new directions for the study of Disney's gender portrayals by combining a film genre perspective and the... -
Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood Eve Benhamou 9781474476133
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.77Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood is the first in-depth study of Disney's latest animated output from the perspective of genre theory. Analysing a decade in Disney's history... -
Film Reboots Daniel Herbert 9781474451376
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39'Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis' Film Reboots is dedicated to a fundamental question of the form, namely why do reboots exist and what do they do? An impressive array of scholars engage with... -
Film Reboots Daniel Herbert 9781474451369
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451369Author Daniel HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation David Church 9781474475891
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Explores one of the most prominent and debated trends within the horror genre Offers the first in-depth study of one of the twenty-first-century horror genre's most important and divisive... -
Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation David Church 9781474475884
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474475884Author David ChurchFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror Patricia Pisters 9781474466950
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £88.18Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466950Author Patricia PistersFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University... -
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror Patricia Pisters 9781474466967
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.35Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481854
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.99Provides an innovative theoretical approach to sci-fi films from the late 1970s to the present Highlights the specifically political dimension of sci-fi works and demonstrates how they speak... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481847
SciFier: £93.01Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s... -
Refocus: The Films of Wallace Fox by Gary D Rhodes
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.77Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399505642Author Gary D RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
Refocus: the Films of Wallace Fox by Gary D. Rhodes
SciFier: £93.01Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directorsAbout the AuthorGary D. Rhodes, Head of Film & Mass Media, University of Central... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444149
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa Calum Waddell 9781474450034
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part... -
The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity M. Paryz 9781349506842
SciFier: £46.99This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television... -
Dark Humor in Films of the 1960s by Wheeler Winston Dixon
SciFier: £46.99Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose... -
The Films of Michel Gondry by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456012Author Marcelline BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa Calum Waddell 9781474450027
SciFier: £93.01Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444132
SciFier: £98.24As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern - transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Refocus: the Films of Doris Wishman Alicia Kozma 9781474482356
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Offers the first book length contribution to Doris Wishman Covers Wishman's vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist films Situates Wishman within... -
Refocus: the Films of Michel Gondry by Marcelline Block
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has... -
The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity M. Paryz 9781137531278
SciFier: £46.99This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television... -
A History of Danish Cinema C. Claire Thomson 9781474461122
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.79The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day, this wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne... -
Sino-Enchantment: The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas Kenneth Chan 9781474460842
SciFier: £98.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460842Author Kenneth ChanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
The Cinema of Pedro AlmodoVar Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9780719074424
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including... -
Contemporary Thai Horror Film: A Monstrous Hybrid Mary Ainslie 9781474484466
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This book focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and the central role this plays in Thailand's...