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Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2 by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01This volume continues the exploration of contemporary Argentine cinema that began in the first book. It provides a close analysis of exciting new directors, including Marco Berger and Matias Pineiro,... -
Context Providers by Margot Lovejoy
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $38.43Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of... -
Film on the Faultline by Alan Wright
RRP: $44.15SciFier: $42.26Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator by Alistair Rolls
RRP: $37.45SciFier: $36.29The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
Directory of World Cinema: Africa by Blandine Stefanson (University of Adelaide, Australia)
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.95Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in... -
Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films by Outi Hakola
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences' hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here,... -
Lure of the Big Screen by Karina Aveyard
RRP: $77.65SciFier: $72.16Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can... -
Passion of the Reel by Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
RRP: $103.11SciFier: $96.56Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier... -
Photocinema by Neil Campbell
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $46.78Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image - the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the... -
Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012 Peter Sramek 9781783200320
SciFier: $94.62Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary 'rephotographs' taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles... -
World Film Locations: San Francisco by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
RRP: $24.05SciFier: $23.24An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticised and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust, at once a site of devastation caused by 1906 earthquake but... -
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volumes 1 & 2 by Kathy High (Professor of Video and New Media, Department of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
SciFier: $118.24The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over... -
Misreading Postmodern Antigone by Jan Jagodzinski
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49In the mid-1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the Flesh, a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli's... -
Christoph Schlingensief by Tara Forrest
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art... -
Saudade in Brazilian Cinema: The History of an Emotion on Film Jack A. Draper III 9781783207633
SciFier: $40.19The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence... -
European Identity in Cinema by Wendy Everett (University of Bath, UK)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution... -
Politics of Contemporary European Cinema by Mike Wayne (Brunel University (UK).)
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of... -
Unbecoming Cinema by David H. Fleming
RRP: $119.19SciFier: $110.09Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a... -
World Film Locations: Florence by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations:... -
Polanski and Perception by Davide Caputo (University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.)
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how... -
Peter Weir by Serena Formica (University of Derby)
RRP: $25.39SciFier: $24.43The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim - from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he's helmed since... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 by Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth, UK)
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.95Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the... -
The Visceral Screen by Robert Furze
RRP: $95.07SciFier: $89.32Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining... -
Educating Film-makers by Duncan Petrie
RRP: $66.93SciFier: $63.53A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of... -
World Film Locations: Venice by Michael Pigott
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31This book explores the rich history of films that have used Venice as evocative backdrop and integral character. Few cities are as densely packed with picturesque cinematic locations. Extensively... -
Stephen King on the Big Screen Mark Browning 9781841502458
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $31.25From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some... -
World Film Locations: Dublin by Jez Conolly
SciFier: $39.52With its rich political and literary history, Dublin is a sought after destination for cinematographers who have made use of the city's urban streetscapes and lush pastoral settings in many memorable... -
New Irish Storytellers by Diog O'Connell
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31With the success of such films as the Oscar winner Once, Irish film has been getting well-deserved international attention recently. New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and... -
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil by Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)
SciFier: $76.02Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD... -
World Film Locations: Melbourne by Neil Mitchell
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31An illuminating and visually led guide to a selection of the films set wholly or in part in Melbourne, World Film Locations: Melbourne covers the big screen representations of life in the city from... -
Frames of Mind by Luke Hockley
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully... -
Studies in French Cinema by Will Higbee
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $38.43Studies in French Cinema looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the... -
Berliner Chic by Susan Ingram (York University, Canada)
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators,... -
World Film Locations: Liverpool by Jez Conolly
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing... -
Global Fashion Brands by Joseph H. Hancock II (Drexel University, USA)
RRP: $74.97SciFier: $70.70Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While historically fashion branding has primarily focused on... -
The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States Post 9/11 Julie Webber 9781783200313
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31How do various forms of comedy - including stand-up, satire, and film and television - transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about... -
Transglobal Fashion Narratives: Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling Anne Peirson-Smith (Northumbria University, UK) 9781783208449
SciFier: $126.62Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society - who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary... -
International Horror Film Directors by Danny Shipka
RRP: $44.15SciFier: $42.26Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together... -
Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2 by Neil Mitchell
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific... -
World Film Locations: Sydney by Neil Mitchell
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs,...