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World Film Locations: Sao Paulo by Natalia Pinazza (University of Exeter, UK)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Sao Paulo is the largest city in South America and the powerhouse of Brazil's economy. A multi-racial metropolis with a diverse population of Asian, Arabic and European immigrants as well as migrants... -
Fan Phenomena: Mermaids by Matthieu Guitton
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be 'where the people are', but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like... -
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland by Bob Nowlan
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.95Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically... -
Europe and Love in Cinema by Luisa Passerini
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love-in its broadest... -
The Roots of Modern Hollywood by Nick Smedley
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema... -
Directory of World Cinema: India by Adam Bingham
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India's major cinematic... -
The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki by Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK)
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Mika Kaurismaki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different... -
Picturing the Cosmos by Iina Kohonen
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $38.67Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a... -
The Sensible Stage by Bridget Crone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
RRP: $119.19SciFier: $110.09The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre... -
World Film Locations: Beijing John Berra (Renmin University of China) 9781841506425
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31In a series of spotlight essays and illustrated scene reviews, a cast of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices explore the vast range of films - encompassing drama, madcap comedy, martial arts... -
Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star Pauline Small 9781841502342
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of... -
Historical Comedy on Screen by Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history "the cruelest goddess of all." This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless... -
Perform, Repeat, Record by Amelia Jones (Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, USA)
RRP: $78.99SciFier: $75.11Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: $16.19Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
Twin Peaks by Franck Boulegue
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $31.48Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and... -
Aleksandr Sokurov by Birgit Beumers
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de... -
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance by Judith Rugg
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it... -
Film, Drama and the Break Up of Britain by steve Blandford
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land... -
Truth or Dare by Gail Pearce
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form-but they have also... -
World Film Locations: Prague by Marcelline Block
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The... -
Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films Susan Felleman 9781783202508
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By... -
Architectures of Illusion: From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments Francois Penz 9781841500454
RRP: $29.41SciFier: $28.89The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify... -
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,... -
World Film Locations: Las Vegas by Marcelline Block
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers - and... -
World Film Locations: Helsinki Silja Laine 9781841507224
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible Chris Dumas 9781841505541
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
World Film Locations: Marseilles by Marcelline Block
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31As France's oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s,... -
World Film Locations: New York by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
RRP: $24.05SciFier: $23.24Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played - and continues to play - a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide... -
World Film Locations: Moscow Birgit Beumers 9781783201969
RRP: $22.71SciFier: $22.07A megalopolis of more than twelve million inhabitants, Moscow is a city with a rich and varied history. In 1918, following the Revolution, Moscow became the capital of the Soviet Union, and it... -
The Wise Body by Jacky Lansley (Freelance Dance Artist and Director of Dance Research Studio)
RRP: $26.73SciFier: $25.59In The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers, UK choreographers Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early interview twelve distinguished dancers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines who continue... -
The Art and Science of Screenwriting by Philip Parker
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31In an age where many see screenwriters as the storytellers of the new century and everyone appears to be trying to write a screenplay, this book provides the framework for you to write a great... -
Serious Play by Louise Peacock
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and... -
World Film Locations: Cleveland by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
SciFier: $39.45The prototypical rust belt city, Cleveland has long served as an emblem of late twentieth-century urban decay. But recent decades have brought a cultural and economic renaissance - a revival that has... -
Robert Frank's 'The Americans' by Jonathan Day
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The... -
Directory of World Cinema: Turkey by Eylem Atakav
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this... -
3D Cinema and Beyond by Janine Marchessault (York University)
RRP: $54.87SciFier: $52.77This book brings together essays that engage with mainstream entertainment, experimental film and historical scholarship as part of a larger context for examining the grammar of 3D cinema, its... -
Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary by John Timberlake
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalyzed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the... -
Phenomenology's Material Presence by Gabrielle A. Hezekiah
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience is an exploration of phenomenology and the aesthetics of the moving image. Drawing on the insights of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger...