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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... -
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...