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Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century Geoff King 9781850438144
SciFier: £28.99Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765082
SciFier: £113.99One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retained much of its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also... -
The Waltons by Mike Chopra-Gant
SciFier: £31.38The period in which The Waltons appeared on television screens was socially and politically volatile; a testing time in which Americans grappled with 'stagflation', rising oil prices, defeat in... -
Real Images by Josephine Woll
SciFier: £27.99This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry... -
Stairways to Heaven by Mr Geoffrey Macnab
SciFier: £22.49What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a... -
Producing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA) 9781784534356
SciFier: £31.38Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done... -
A Spanish Labyrinth by Mark Allinson
SciFier: £27.99AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and... -
Cinema and Soviet Society by Peter Kenez
SciFier: £29.99The story of Soviet film over the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of World Cinema. In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the... -
Fashioning the City by Dr Agnes Rocamora
SciFier: £28.99While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755635429
SciFier: £33.99Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between by Christopher Gow
SciFier: £28.99The New Iranian Cinema has had a fascinating success story in world cinema and critics have hailed Iranian films as alternatives to the homogenising global influence of mainstream Hollywood cinema... -
Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture Anthony Aldgate 9781860643835
SciFier: £30.29Contributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual... -
First Light: A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle Dr. G.R. Evans 9781780761558
SciFier: £47.99Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginning of things has forever tested the limits of... -
The TV Detective: Voices of Dissent in Contemporary Television Helen Piper 9781780762951
SciFier: £27.992016 Winner - BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Best BookWhat makes British television crime drama so perennially popular, both in the UK and internationally? What... -
Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor
SciFier: £22.49The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The... -
Marvel's Mutants by Miles Booy
SciFier: £20.49In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the... -
The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border Marjorie Vecchio 9781848859548
SciFier: £26.99The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including Chocolat, Beau travail and White Material... -
Television Comedy and Femininity by Rosie White
SciFier: £103.99Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' - playing the underdog or misfit - does a woman seem stranger in his... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760063
SciFier: £26.99The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
The Man with the Movie Camera by Graham Roberts
SciFier: £24.99The "KINO Russian Cinema" series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings... -
Delivering Dreams by Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK)
SciFier: £29.20Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan 9781788312080
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £28.20Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories Michael Rouland 9781845119010
SciFier: £27.99Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing... -
Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema and Utopia Lucia Nagib 9781845113285
SciFier: £27.99Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What... -
Gendering History on Screen by Julia Erhart
SciFier: £112.44Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female... -
Contemporary New Zealand Cinema by Ian Conrich (University of Vienna, Austria)
SciFier: £31.38Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of both national and international... -
Dress Behind Bars by Juliet Ash
SciFier: £29.20From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over... -
British Cinema and the Cold War by PhD Tony Shaw
SciFier: £30.29Cinema was one of the Cold War's most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured... -
New Argentine Cinema Jens Andermann 9781848854635
SciFier: £27.99Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in... -
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle Lina Khatib 9781848852822
SciFier: £24.99Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing... -
Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK) 9781848852808
SciFier: £27.04Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises", Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. Brooker's close... -
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir Mike Chopra-Gant 9781850438380
SciFier: £28.99This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge... -
Stop the Clocks!: Time and Narrative in Cinema Helen Powell 9781848851757
SciFier: £26.99The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinates, it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of... -
Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition: History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran Dr Haila Manteghi 9781788310307
SciFier: £102.99Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of... -
Black Artists in British Art by Eddie Chambers (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
SciFier: £24.99Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners... -
East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue Chi-Yun Shin 9781780760094
SciFier: £24.99Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong... -
Chaplin's Music Hall by Barry Anthony
SciFier: £51.98Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music... -
TV Horror by Lorna Jowett (University of Northampton, UK)
SciFier: £24.47Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. This... -
Harrison Ford by Virginia Luzon Aguado
SciFier: £113.99Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Hans Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard - but his career of fifty years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His... -
Reading Asian Television Drama by Jeongmee Kim
SciFier: £31.38The Asian TV industry is 'unstoppable' reported Variety in 2008, yet still most people living in the West have no idea what the rest of the world is watching on TV: what makes them laugh and cry...