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The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture Marguerite Corporaal (Department of English, Radboud University (Netherlands)) 9781786941602
SciFier: $58.76The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is... -
Ex Machina Joshua Grimm 9781800348301
SciFier: $164.34Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial... -
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals by Tingting Hu
SciFier: $208.05This book examines the representation of women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of... -
Cahiers du Cinema by James R Russo
SciFier: $105.24Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film Jan Culik 9781845195519
SciFier: $209.73Jan Culik's book analyses the value system constructed by Czech feature films produced since the fall of communism in 1989. It provides an overview of some three hundred Czech feature films made... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859241
SciFier: $164.34Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Attending Daedalus by Peter Wright (Department of English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education (United Kingdom))
SciFier: $47.80This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe's four-volume The Book of the New... -
Philip K Dick by Christopher Palmer (School of English, La Trobe University (Australia))
SciFier: $59.65Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he... -
Transformations by Mike Ashley
SciFier: $49.12This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf... -
The Angle Between Two Walls by Roger Luckhurst (School of English & Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London (United Kingdom))
SciFier: $54.60This is the first theoretically informed book on Ballard, reading his work not only within the science fiction genre, but also connecting it to issues of popular culture and legitimisation,... -
Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd by John Higgins
SciFier: $50.26Accompanied along the way by John's characteristic wit, and with prints ranging from magazine covers, comics and specialist commissioned pieces, Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd presents a tour de... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859258
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $41.13Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Stalker Jon Hoel 9781800348332
SciFier: $164.34Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
Demand My Writing by Jeanne Cortiel
SciFier: $47.80In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ's work and assesses its development. The book will be... -
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 Mike Ashley 9780853238652
SciFier: $63.03Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the... -
Understanding Film: A Viewer's Guide James R Russo 9781789761184
SciFier: $68.04This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released between 1922 and 1982. Written for college, high school, and university students,... -
Spanish Screen Fiction by Paul Julian Smith (Hispanic & Luso-Brazillian Languages, CUNY (United States))
SciFier: $54.60This pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is now one... -
Jurassic Park Paul Bullock 9781800348325
SciFier: $164.34Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of... -
Shadows of the Future by Patrick Parrinder
SciFier: $47.80H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critical anticipation'. Shadows of the Future identifies... -
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction Wendy Gay Pearson (Department of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario (Canada)) 9781846315015
SciFier: $58.80Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of... -
Brainstorm Joseph Maddrey 9781800348318
SciFier: $164.34The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with... -
Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction by Chris Pak
SciFier: $81.10An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction... -
Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 Mike Ashley 9781846310034
SciFier: $49.10This third volume in Mike Ashley's four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic... -
Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal Sherryl Vint 9781846318153
SciFier: $59.65Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular... -
Understanding Film: A Viewer's Guide James R Russo 9781789761177
SciFier: $208.05This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released between 1922 and 1982. Written for college, high school, and university students,... -
Film Nation by James R Russo
SciFier: $63.05Notable writers on literature and culture who occasionally penned opinion pieces on the movies prior to World War II include Clifton Fadiman, Mark Van Doren, Lincoln Kirstein, Edmund Wilson, Louise... -
Street Art Tel Aviv: In a Time of Transition Lord K2 9781789761337
SciFier: $113.66Distinctly unique, Tel Aviv's street art represents a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities. Echoing the uncertainty that permeates Israel's daily existence, it possesses... -
Studying The Lord of the Rings Anna Dawson 9781800348530
SciFier: $183.76Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
The Mechanics of Wonder by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: $64.35The Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856943
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $41.13William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856936
SciFier: $164.34William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859432
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $41.13Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859289
SciFier: $164.34Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859425
SciFier: $164.34Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
Beyond the Happy Ending by Kathryn Robson
SciFier: $208.05Happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on... -
Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Independence in the Films and Working Life of Stanley Kubrick Jeremy Carr 9781805966982
RRP: $56.68SciFier: $54.60Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick, as well as in his personal life and working habits. This study explores the ways... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859296
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $41.13Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976) Carolina Rocha (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (United States)) 9781800855786
SciFier: $54.60An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine... -
Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Goffredo Polizzi 9781800856851
SciFier: $215.82Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and... -
Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Goffredo Polizzi 9781835537237
SciFier: $54.60Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and...