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Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture E. Davis 9781137371867
SciFier: $62.97Rethinking 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... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: $66.99SciFier: $50.09Sound 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... -
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema D. Welch 9780230238572
SciFier: $124.61This 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,... -
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem K. Kessler 9780230230491
SciFier: $62.97A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781137324788
RRP: $60.29SciFier: $46.89Sound 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... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $124.61This 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,... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
SciFier: $124.61Since 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... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9781349303038
SciFier: $124.61Since 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... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781137407832
SciFier: $151.41Offering 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... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781349488261
SciFier: $151.41Offering 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... -
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9781349297146
SciFier: $62.97McGee 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: $62.97McGee 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... -
Filming and Performing Renaissance History M. Burnett 9780230273436
SciFier: $62.97Over 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... -
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem K. Kessler 9781349311491
SciFier: $62.97A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9780230338555
SciFier: $62.97The 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... -
Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context by Jorge Diaz Cintas
SciFier: $151.41This 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... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9781349368181
SciFier: $62.97This 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... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912428
SciFier: $62.97This 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... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9780230579545
SciFier: $62.97This 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... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9781349341559
SciFier: $62.97The 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: $62.97This 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... -
The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness L. Hubner 9780230007246
SciFier: $62.97Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of... -
Hollywood Films about Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect by R. Chennault
SciFier: $62.97What 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 ,... -
Passionate Love and Popular Cinema: Romance and Film Genre Erica Todd 9781137295378
SciFier: $62.97This 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... -
Landscape Allegory in Cinema: From Wilderness to Wasteland D. Melbye 9780230104075
SciFier: $62.97This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780312229917
SciFier: $124.61A 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... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780333754122
SciFier: $124.61A 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... -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9780230298927
SciFier: $62.97Exploring 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: $62.97The 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: $60.29SciFier: $47.15From 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... -
Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film M. Flanagan 9780230202962
SciFier: $124.61Martin 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... -
National Identity in Global Cinema: How Movies Explain the World C. Celli 9781349291649
SciFier: $62.97When themes of historical and cultural identity appear and repeat in popular film, it is possible to see the real pulse of a nation and comprehend a people, their culture and their history. National... -
Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image John Mullarkey 9780230002470
SciFier: $62.97This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Zizek, Deleuze and... -
The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond S. Glynn 9780230392229
SciFier: $62.97The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse A. Hoskins 9780230229020
SciFier: $62.97The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
SciFier: $62.97Undertaking 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,... -
British Gothic Cinema B. Forshaw 9781137300317
SciFier: $56.27Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field,... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9780230282773
SciFier: $62.97Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
SciFier: $62.97The 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... -
The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction Kevin Paul Smith 9780230500488
SciFier: $62.97Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to...