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Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation G. White 9781137010735
SciFier: $129.26This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new... -
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema D. Welch 9780230238572
SciFier: $129.26This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9781349297146
SciFier: $65.32McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social... -
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9780230116511
SciFier: $65.32McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781349488261
SciFier: $157.06Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English... -
Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture E. Davis 9781137371867
SciFier: $65.32Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $129.26This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: $69.49SciFier: $52.68Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9781349303038
SciFier: $129.26Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781137324788
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $49.19Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781137407832
SciFier: $157.06Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
SciFier: $129.26Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Filming and Performing Renaissance History M. Burnett 9780230273436
SciFier: $65.32Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9780230338555
SciFier: $65.32The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912435
SciFier: $65.32This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912428
SciFier: $65.32This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale... -
Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context by Jorge Diaz Cintas
SciFier: $159.39This book offers an up-to-date survey of the present state of affairs in Audiovisual Translation, providing a thought-provoking account of some of the most representative areas currently being... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9781349341559
SciFier: $65.32The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9781349368181
SciFier: $65.32This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9780230579545
SciFier: $65.32This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9780230229235
SciFier: $65.32This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
Love, Mortality and the Moving Image E. Wilson 9780230308398
SciFier: $108.41In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9781349310609
SciFier: $65.32This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window T. Magistrale 9781349370726
SciFier: $65.32The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies... -
Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics Susanne Kord 9780230338418
SciFier: $129.95Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
SciFier: $65.32The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
Violence and the Limits of Representation G. Matthews 9781349451913
SciFier: $65.32Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780312229917
SciFier: $129.26A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781349442539
SciFier: $65.32A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781137263346
SciFier: $129.26A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9780230298927
SciFier: $65.32Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of... -
The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window T. Magistrale 9780230601314
SciFier: $65.32The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies... -
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism T. Nellhaus 9780230623637
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $49.19From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways... -
Hollywood Films about Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect by R. Chennault
SciFier: $65.32What do the Hollywood 'school films' of the 1980's and 1990's communicate about education and race? This book looks at The Graduate , Blackboard Jungle , The English Patient , Dead Poets Society ,... -
Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film M. Flanagan 9780230202962
SciFier: $129.26Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative... -
Violence and the Limits of Representation G. Matthews 9781137296894
SciFier: $65.32Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in... -
Passionate Love and Popular Cinema: Romance and Film Genre Erica Todd 9781137295378
SciFier: $65.32This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780333754122
SciFier: $129.26A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film... -
Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre M. Gunsberg 9780333751152
SciFier: $65.32Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
SciFier: $65.32Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial,...