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Science Fiction and the Theatre Ralph Willingham 9780313289514
SciFier: $108.41Willingham presents a historical survey of science fiction drama and focusses particularly on the history of attempts to stage science fiction. Little attention has been given to science fiction... -
Space and Beyond by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: $108.41Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about the true nature of space, and critical reconsiderations of... -
Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies Sharon Packer, MD 9780275972431
SciFier: $108.41Cinema-invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed-primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian... -
The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies Robert Myers 9780313224935
SciFier: $72.27Robert E. Myers has assembled a collection of essays which explore aspects of the relationship between science fiction and philosophy. Contributing authors focus on significant issues, questions, and... -
Cinema and Life Development by Thomas Peake
SciFier: $86.17Peake uses prevailing and emerging models of life-span development along with examples from Cinema to animate psychological understanding and application.The use of film offers powerful opportunities... -
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth George Clark 9780313308451
SciFier: $126.98Although Tolkien's literary works have, over the past few decades, attracted a considerable and varied body of criticism, much of this material is inaccessible, unreflective, and repetitive. Most... -
Not Just for Children by Harold E. Hinds
SciFier: $109.10This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the popular... -
Eros in the Mind's Eye by Donald Palumbo
SciFier: $108.41This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to... -
No Cure for the Future by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: $86.17Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau provided... -
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy Gary Westfahl 9780313320644
SciFier: $86.17Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other... -
The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night--Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts James Craig Holte 9780313309335
SciFier: $108.41Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. As a result, vampire lore is extremely diverse. So too,... -
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 M. Keith Booker 9780313318733
SciFier: $126.98The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to... -
Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Gary Westfahl 9780313317057
SciFier: $86.17A pioneering scholarly examination of the rich and fascinating fields of science fiction and fantasy art, this book stimulates scholarly interest in these areas by offering both surveys of the entire... -
State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film Nicholas Ruddick 9780313278532
SciFier: $126.98This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic... -
Radical Visions by Glenn Man
SciFier: $108.41Radical Visions discusses an important period in American film history: Films such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, and Taxi Driver challenged... -
The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film by Samuel J. Umland
SciFier: $108.41This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories:... -
Bound to Bond by Mark Rubinfeld
SciFier: $108.41Bound to Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy looks at gender roles in a unique way--by examining what the last thirty years of romantic comedy films have argued, reflected, and... -
Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture Kelli S. Burns 9780313356889
SciFier: $61.15This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip.With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez... -
Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: $86.17Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313246500Author Wes D. GehringFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint -
The Cowboy Way by Robert J. Higgs
SciFier: $109.10Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River, Shane, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, Wyatt Earp, and Dances with Wolves, this work examines traditional leadership theories as... -
Sam Shepard and the American Theatre Les A. Wade 9780313289446
SciFier: $108.41No dramatist in the recent history of the American theatre has gained more celebrity than Sam Shepard. Exploring a career that includes fifty stage and screen plays, four books of nondramatic... -
Saints and Shrews by Karen M. Stoddard
SciFier: $86.17Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233913Author Karen M. StoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint -
American Dark Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: $108.41From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and... -
Populism and the Capra Legacy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: $86.17Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers... -
Imps of the Perverse by Michael Saunders
SciFier: $86.17Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: $108.41Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Tarzan and Tradition by Erling B. Holtsmark
SciFier: $86.17This book is a study of Burrough's first six Tarzan books, revealing intriguing parallels between Tarzan's story and the sagas of the heroes of ancient Greece and Rome.Book InformationISBN... -
Devouring Whirlwind by Will H Rockett
SciFier: $108.41As the popularity of the genre increases and special effects are pushed to greater extremes of terror and cruelty, more and more people have begun to wonder, what is the attraction of horror films?... -
Outsider Features by Richard K. Ferncase
SciFier: $86.17In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's... -
Songs of Love and Death by Michael Sevastakis
SciFier: $108.41This book examines eleven horror films in-depth and their relationships to Romantic Gothic literary conventions--mainly, but not solely, found in works dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth... -
Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar Barbara Morris 9780313292453
SciFier: $108.41The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The... -
Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
SciFier: $86.17Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured... -
Film Feminisms by Mary C. Gentile
SciFier: $86.17Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorntile /f Mary /i C.Book InformationISBN 9780313244070Author Mary C. GentileFormat Hard -
Personality Comedians as Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: $108.41The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comics are usually identified with a specific comedic shtick, physical or visual humor, and their underdog... -
Noir, Now and Then: Film Noir Originals and Remakes (1944-1999) Ronald Schwartz 9780313308932
SciFier: $108.41This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949556
SciFier: $52.81By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780275958015
SciFier: $52.81Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and... -
Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures by Carlo Testa
SciFier: $108.41The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of... -
Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform by Ying Zhu
SciFier: $108.41The political economy and culture of Chinese cinema during the era of China's prolonged economic reform has not until now been examined in detail. Ying Zhu's new and comprehensive study examines the... -
The First Female Stars by David W. Menefee
SciFier: $72.27The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era rediscovers the fascinating lives and pioneering achievements of 15 women who dared to venture into early motion pictures, an industry dominated by...