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The Modernist Screenplay by Alexandra Ksenofontova
SciFier: £82.99The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France,... -
Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature: The Power of Story Caroline Webb 9781138547858
SciFier: £49.80This study examines the children's books of three extraordinary British writers-J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett-and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521846219
SciFier: £102.49Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521114837
SciFier: £44.99Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film JEAN MICHEL RABATE 9781032239903
SciFier: £43.73This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction... -
Migrant Form: Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray Gaurav Majumdar 9781433105036
RRP: £69.70SciFier: £62.99Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the... -
The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton 9781513263496
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?" -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author's... -
Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Benoit Turquety 9781041177913
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European... -
Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.27Falling into trap of writing commercially successful literary fiction, sure to alienate literary critics of yore, May Sinclair's reputation has been unfairly diminished in recent years - although in... -
Cinema and Modernism by David Trotter (University of Cambridge)
RRP: £19.75SciFier: £18.42This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as... -
Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music by Mette Gieskes
SciFier: £113.99This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own,... -
The Differentiation of Modernism by Professor Larson Powell (Customer)
SciFier: £110.99The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980). After 1945, the purist... -
Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman by Marilyn Johns Blackwell
SciFier: £84.06A detailed feminist study of Bergman's most important films. This book covers the whole of Bergman's production, but concentrates in particular on close analyses of five of his major films: Smiles... -
Wordless Secrets - Ingmar Bergman's Persona: Modernist Crisis and Canonical Status Peter Ohlin 9781860571183
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
An Aesthetics of Injury by Ian Fleishman
SciFier: £36.39An Aesthetics of Injury exposes wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound-texts that aim not only to depict but also to... -
Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle Mark M. Anderson (Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) 9780198159070
SciFier: £60.15'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else' Franz Kafka... -
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film Ana Hedberg Olenina 9780190051266
SciFier: £42.69In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories... -
Jettatura by Theophile Gautier
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under his gaze, and to discover that an Italian suitor, Count Altavilla, is... -
Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities: Reading, Editing, Writing Prof. Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra, Portugal) 9781501385384
SciFier: £111.37How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that goes beyond the printed codex? This book is an... -
Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities: Reading, Editing, Writing Prof. Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra, Portugal) 9781501385391
SciFier: £24.99How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that goes beyond the printed codex? This book is an... -
Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138232297
SciFier: £38.53This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric... -
Entranced Earth Volume 45: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape Jens Andermann 9780810145924
RRP: £37.95SciFier: £25.68A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin... -
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 9781847498298
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.95An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that... -
Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama Haiping Yan 9780765603081
SciFier: £46.33Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific... -
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism Jim Collins 9780415901376
SciFier: £39.39Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction David Leigh 9780268205768
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £58.49David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction David Leigh 9780268033804
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.99David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
Picture of Nobody Philip Owens 9781961341883
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and misunderstanding, in forgotten modernist Philip Owens's brilliant, one-of-a-kind... -
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.97A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the... -
Future Horizons by Dean Irvine
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £24.99Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by... -
The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics Matthew Levay 9781496237620
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56The New Old Style explores how the deliberate use of cartooning styles that mimic those of the early twentieth century has paradoxically become one of the most significant vehicles for formal... -
The Poetics of Chinese Cinema Gary Bettinson 9781137566089
SciFier: £112.99This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring. It brings together leading experts in the field, and... -
Literary into Cultural Studies Antony Easthope 9780415066419
SciFier: £45.46Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and... -
The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.36The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream... -
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions Fredric Jameson 9781844675388
SciFier: £30.88In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the... -
A Loom of One's Own: Crafts for Book Lovers Virginia Wool 9780008529246
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £7.41The perfect gift for fans of classic novels, crafting and puns. 'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my glue gun... -
When You Are Old William Yeats 9780143107644
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting... -
A Short History of 'Cahiers du Cinema' Emilie Bickerton 9781844677603
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £13.99Cahiers du Cinema was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the 'seventh art,' equal to literature, painting or... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
SciFier: £47.20This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author... -
The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814342008
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors...