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Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series Luca Bandirali 9781498597586
SciFier: £33.99What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics... -
The Relay of Gazes: Representations of Culture in the Japanese Televisual and Cinematic Experience Carol Ota 9780739121269
SciFier: £43.99The Relay of Gazes is a study of multimedia representations of Japanese culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. Carol Ota examines the way these representations changed and reflected... -
Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination Toni Pressley-Sanon 9780739198780
SciFier: £112.99This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics,... -
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Corinna Bille 9780739111697
SciFier: £97.99Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer... -
Marianne and the Puritan: Transformation of the Couple in French and American Films David I. Grossvogel 9780739113653
SciFier: £43.99As recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial... -
Part Blood, Part Ketchup: Coming of Age in American Literature and Film Karen R. Tolchin 9780739114377
SciFier: £41.99Part Blood, Part Ketchup analyzes novels by 20th century authors Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, John Irving, and Jamaica Kincaid, uncovering trends that obliterate cultural divides. With... -
Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity Asher Seidel 9780739123294
SciFier: £44.99Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the possibility of increasing the physiological and psychological capacities of humans to the point that they are no longer biologically,... -
Marianne and the Puritan: Transformation of the Couple in French and American Films David I. Grossvogel 9780739109465
SciFier: £92.99As recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial... -
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Corinna Bille 9780739112953
SciFier: £43.99Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer... -
Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739121887
SciFier: £51.99Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within... -
Political Philosophy Comes to Rick's: Casablanca and American Civic Culture James F. Pontuso 9780739111130
SciFier: £44.99Casablanca is a movie about love and loss, virtue and vice, good and evil, duty and treachery, courage and weakness, friendship and hate. It is a story that ends well, but only because the main... -
Netflix Nostalgia: Streaming the Past on Demand Kathryn Pallister 9781498583077
SciFier: £39.99Whether it's "Flashback Friday" or "Throwback Thursday," audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix serves up shows from the past that satisfy this... -
The Legends of Tono by Kunio Yanagita
SciFier: £56.99In 1910, when Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) wrote and published The Legends of Tono in Japanese, he had no idea that 100 years later, his book would become a Japanese literary and folklore classic... -
Locating Migrating Media Greg Elmer 9780739142417
SciFier: £97.99Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world... -
Extra-Ordinary Men: White Heterosexual Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Cinema Nicola Rehling 9780739124833
SciFier: £51.99Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and... -
The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama Rebecca Joubin 9781498515658
SciFier: £63.49Dramatic miniseries are the primary arena for the expression of postcolonial Syrian culture and artistic talent, an arena that unites diverse aspects of artisanship in a struggle over visions of the... -
Crisis of Transcendence: A Theology of Digital Art and Culture J. Sage Elwell 9780739141083
SciFier: £97.99From the Internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels-it is a fundamental... -
A Grammar of Cinepoiesis: Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema Silvia Carlorosi 9781498509862
SciFier: £41.99Cinepoiesis, or cinema of poetry, strikes us as a strange combination, a phrase we initially read as an oxymoron. Poetry is often associated with the abstract and the evocative, while cinema suggests... -
Citizen Science Fiction by Jerome Winter
SciFier: £87.99Citizen Science Fiction draws on an interdisciplinary swath of literature and media to make the case that the science fiction genre can help rethink the pedagogical use of citizen science as a tool... -
Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture Jes Battis 9780739186176
SciFier: £51.99Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television... -
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott Adam Barkman 9781498511773
SciFier: £51.99The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the... -
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts Tania Gomez 9781498521215
SciFier: £44.99Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship... -
Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas Elizabeth Johnson 9781498524742
SciFier: £83.49This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood... -
Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas Elizabeth Johnson 9781498524766
SciFier: £44.99This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood... -
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films Kellie Deys 9781793622105
SciFier: £87.99Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells... -
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films Kellie Deys 9781793622129
SciFier: £33.99Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells... -
How Superheroes Model Community: Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally Nathan Miczo 9781498516822
SciFier: £38.99From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspirational exemplars. However, many of the virtues... -
Netflix Nostalgia: Streaming the Past on Demand Kathryn Pallister 9781498583053
SciFier: £103.49Whether it's "Flashback Friday" or "Throwback Thursday," audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix serves up shows from the past that satisfy this... -
How Superheroes Model Community: Philosophically, Communicatively, Relationally Nathan Miczo 9781498516808
SciFier: £83.49From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspirational exemplars. However, many of the virtues... -
Screenplay and Narrative Theory: The Screenplectics Model of Complex Narrative Systems George Varotsis 9781498504430
SciFier: £43.99Screenplay and Narrative Theory draws attention to the notion that in order to comprehend complex narrative dynamics, which are encountered in a great variety of narrative genres, forms, and formats,... -
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) by Nathaniel Greenberg
SciFier: £92.99In the wake of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt's future Nobel laureate in literature devoted himself exclusively to writing for film. The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib... -
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future Tereza Dedinova 9781793636638
SciFier: £92.99In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction... -
Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film by Beverly Merrill Kelley, Ph.D.
SciFier: £113.99In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically... -
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future Tereza Dedinova 9781793636652
SciFier: £37.99In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction... -
Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture Linda Seidel 9781498516471
SciFier: £44.99Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV... -
The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781793624598
SciFier: £113.99The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus... -
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror Patrick McAleer, Inver Hills Community Col 9781498572804
SciFier: £39.99The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the... -
Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films: The Intersection of Geography, Ecology, and Slow Cinema Clara Orban 9781793645647
SciFier: £87.99Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Through a close examination of Tarr's... -
The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781793624611
SciFier: £37.99The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on... -
Religious Horror and the Ecogothic Kathleen Hudson 9781666945959
SciFier: £92.99Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, the category of Gothic literature that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film,...