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Cinema and Life Development by Thomas Peake
SciFier: £61.99Peake 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... -
The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies Robert Myers 9780313224935
SciFier: £51.99Robert 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... -
Science Fiction and the Theatre Ralph Willingham 9780313289514
SciFier: £78.49Willingham 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: £78.49Although 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... -
Eros in the Mind's Eye by Donald Palumbo
SciFier: £78.49This 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: £61.99Speculations 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: £61.99Science 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... -
Film Feminisms by Mary C. Gentile
SciFier: £61.99Apologies 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 HardbackPage Count 182Imprint... -
Personality Comedians as Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49The 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... -
Populism and the Capra Legacy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £61.99Traditionally 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... -
Noir, Now and Then: Film Noir Originals and Remakes (1944-1999) Ronald Schwartz 9780313308932
SciFier: £78.49This 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... -
Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture Kelli S. Burns 9780313356889
SciFier: £43.99This 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... -
Devouring Whirlwind by Will H Rockett
SciFier: £77.99As 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?... -
Radical Visions by Glenn Man
SciFier: £78.49Radical 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... -
Sam Shepard and the American Theatre Les A. Wade 9780313289446
SciFier: £78.49No 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... -
Sam Shepard and the American Theatre Les A. Wade 9780275945848
SciFier: £36.99No 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: £61.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233913Author Karen M. StoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Imps of the Perverse by Michael Saunders
SciFier: £61.99Hollywood 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... -
American Dark Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49From 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... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £78.49Although 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... -
Not Just for Children by Harold E. Hinds
SciFier: £78.49This 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... -
Tarzan and Tradition by Erling B. Holtsmark
SciFier: £61.99This 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... -
Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £61.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313246500Author Wes D. GehringFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Outsider Features by Richard K. Ferncase
SciFier: £61.99In 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... -
The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film by Samuel J. Umland
SciFier: £77.99This 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:... -
Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
SciFier: £61.99Motion 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... -
Bound to Bond by Mark Rubinfeld
SciFier: £78.49Bound 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... -
Parody as Film Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview... -
Master Space by Barbara Bowman
SciFier: £43.99This is a unique study of the use of cinematic space by four important directors in American cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s: Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, and William Wyler... -
Songs of Love and Death by Michael Sevastakis
SciFier: £78.49This 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: £78.49The 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... -
The Cowboy Way by Robert J. Higgs
SciFier: £78.49Analyzing 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... -
Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema Barbara Quart 9780275929626
SciFier: £68.49Quart here extends her previous writings on what she terms `the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking. Quart addresses American, Western European, and Eastern European... -
Current Research in Film by Bruce Austin
SciFier: £78.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913199Author Bruce AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936624
SciFier: £37.99Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949556
SciFier: £37.99By 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... -
The First Female Stars by David W. Menefee
SciFier: £51.99The 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... -
The Road to Comedy by Donald McCaffrey
SciFier: £46.99Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780275983963
SciFier: £51.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Onscreen and Undercover by Wesley Britton
SciFier: £77.99Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics,...