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The 21st Century in 100 Games Aditya Deshbandhu (University of Exeter, UK) 9781032218236
SciFier: £35.93The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century through 100 games that were announced, launched, and... -
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences S. V. Srinivas 9781032793672
SciFier: £39.39Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in... -
Fashion, Popular Culture and Political Economy Nirupama Singh Dar 9780367331207
SciFier: £41.56This book delves into the intricate interplay of political, economic, and philosophic forces that have shaped popular culture, fashion, social movements and societies. Exploring the developments of... -
Hindi Cinema and Pakistan: Screening the Idea and the Reality Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi, India) 9781032845197
SciFier: £40.26Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the... -
Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment Anirban Bhattacharjee 9781032849560
SciFier: £40.26Notwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemporary readers: how do we relate to something over... -
Superheroes in Indian Comics: Deliberations from Anthropology Roma Chatterji (Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India) 9781041003694
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26There is a prevailing sense that commercial superhero comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry. It is the hallowed graphic novel, with its auteur/author, for which serious work is... -
A Poet's Ashram: Rabindranath Tagore's Experimental Community in Colonial India Sukalyan Chanda (Gushkara Mahavidyalaya, India) 9781032987668
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The remarkably creative life Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lived has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the founder of an experimental ashram community remains... -
Nordic Speculative Fiction: Research, Theory, and Practise Jyrki Korpua 9781032910475
SciFier: £38.36This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar... -
New Left Comics: Revolution, Socialism and International Solidarity in Swedish Comics Robert Aman (Linkoeping University, Sweden) 9781032972466
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Why does Johan Vilde testify about Sweden's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade? Why do the young Stockholm sons, Stefan and Sacho, in Mystiska 2:an discuss class society and commercialism... -
The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa Merve Tabur 9781041097174
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter and... -
Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century Laura Cristina Fernandez 9781032148311
SciFier: £40.26Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru,... -
Digital Culture Unplugged: Probing the Native Cyborg's Multiple Locations Nalini Rajan 9781138380240
SciFier: £22.89This volume explores the ways in which contemporary society negotiates digital technologies and media in South Asia. It focuses on cyber-religion, the notion of self-formation and digital technology,... -
Digital Culture Unplugged: Probing the Native Cyborg's Multiple Locations Nalini Rajan 9780415445450
SciFier: £93.00This edited volume is an exploration of the many different ways in which contemporary society negotiates digital technologies and media in South Asia. It especially focuses on cyber-religion, the... -
Indian Sari: Sartoria and Semiotics Vaibbhavi Pruthviraj Ranavaade (Chitkara University, Punjab, India) 9781032553412
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26The sari has remained an essential part of culture, tradition and fashion in South Asia and India through many centuries. This book examines the variety of meanings which it carries as a symbol of... -
Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices Ralf Kauranen 9781032184579
SciFier: £40.26The volume: * offers a multidisciplinary perspective to the manifold entanglements of comics and migration, examining both individual works of comic art and examples of applied uses of comics and... -
Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous Mithuraaj Dhusiya (Department of English, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India) 9780367345198
SciFier: £46.33This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in India. It uncovers some unique and diverse themes that these films deal with, including the fear of the unknown, the supernatural,... -
Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics Harriet E.H. Earle 9781032480879
SciFier: £42.861. This volume brings together original scholarship on comics that are potentially not receiving the scholarly attention they deserve due to their lack of English translation or that have been... -
Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns Pablo Gomez-Munoz (Faculty of Arts, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) 9780367759063
SciFier: £40.26Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel,... -
Filming the Line of Control: The Indo-Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens Meenakshi Bharat 9780367273149
SciFier: £42.86Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change Stephanie Burridge 9780367748760
SciFier: £43.73This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various... -
The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook Jiaren Wang 9781032072166
SciFier: £35.061) This is a comprehensive volume discussing various facets of one of the highest grossing Chinese science fiction film ever made, 'The Wandering Earth'.2) This translated volume provides step by... -
Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era Amy Matthewson 9780367460990
SciFier: £43.731) This is the first comprehensive study on Punch's representation of China and the Chinese during the Victorian era. 2) With rich archival sources, it shows the legacies of political cartoons by... -
Sculpting the Middle Class: History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha Deepa Sreenivas 9780367176600
SciFier: £42.86This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic... -
Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India Kaustav Chakraborty 9780367554248
SciFier: £42.86This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which... -
The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India: 1960-1997 Sudha Tiwari (UPES, Dehradun, India) 9781032371276
SciFier: £40.26This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices articulating themselves as cultural policy. It... -
Salaam Bollywood: Representations and interpretations Vikrant Kishore 9780367177089
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £42.86This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India's cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative,... -
India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC Region: History, Popular Culture and Heritage Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai (MIT World Peace University, Pune) 9780367568023
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £42.86This book examines the historical and socio-cultural connections across the SAARC region, with a special focus on the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. It investigates hitherto unexplored... -
Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials Urvashi Kuhad 9780367527761
SciFier: £42.86Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were different from the way it is? It often challenges the real, builds on imagination,... -
The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right Pramod K. Nayar 9780367626822
SciFier: £50.66This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world, from India to South Africa, Sarajevo to... -
Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India: Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media Monika Mehta 9780367344719
SciFier: £47.20This volume points to the limits of models such as regional, national, and transnational, and develops 'network' as a conceptual category to study cinemas of India. Through grounded and... -
Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India Roma Chatterji (Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India) 9780367272876
SciFier: £39.39This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the... -
Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Dance in Australia Stephanie Burridge 9781138660083
SciFier: £51.36This, the fourth book in the series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists... -
Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry: Globalizing Pakistani Identity Dina Khdair 9780367266806
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £36.30This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and "Otherness". Analysing the career profiles of three crossover... -
Folk Theatres of North India: Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference Karan Singh (Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) 9781032176383
SciFier: £42.86This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical,... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367784270
SciFier: £42.86This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book... -
Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality Yogesh Snehi (School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India) 9780367730147
SciFier: £42.86This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an... -
Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India Raminder Kaur (Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK) 9781138358683
SciFier: £43.73This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture... -
Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication Dev Nath Pathak (South Asian University, New Delhi, India) 9780367277642
SciFier: £43.56This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of... -
Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanislaw Lem Agnieszka Gajewska 9780367428730
SciFier: £43.73This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors... -
Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts MK Raghavendra 9780367677510
SciFier: £42.86This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions from which it derives its influences. It...