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Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored Jonathan Wroot 9783319636788
SciFier: £103.38This volume brings together writing on the topic of home media, and in particular releases described as appealing to 'cult' fans and audiences. Despite popular assumptions to the contrary, the... -
Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch: Industry, Collaboration, and Filmmaking Wieland Schwanebeck 9783319600079
SciFier: £103.22This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock's own films yet which cannot be limited to the realm of... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319567280
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319859866
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £91.28This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille... -
The Literary Life of Pictures by Michele Cometa
SciFier: £92.99This book offers a theory of ekphrasis-the literary description of an artwork-from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783319778471
SciFier: £71.49This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783319690803
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £104.49This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama: Pause, Rewind, Record JP Kelly 9783319631172
SciFier: £93.49This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and... -
Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse Stephen Joyce 9783319939513
SciFier: £67.49This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has... -
Who Wrote Citizen Kane? by Warren Buckland
SciFier: £111.25This book offers a solution to one of film history's major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles' and Herman J. Mankiewicz's contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It... -
Screen Production Research by Craig Batty
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £28.49Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice... -
EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema by Paul Moody
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49This book is the first of its kind to trace the development of one of the largest and most important companies in British cinema history, EMI Films. From 1969 to its eventual demise in 1986, EMI... -
Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work Natalie Wreyford 9783319957319
SciFier: £72.49This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters. Drawing on interviews with screenwriters and those that employ them, Natalie Wreyford provides a... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783319728407
SciFier: £93.49This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783319905051
SciFier: £95.28This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319513843
SciFier: £111.29This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319846361
SciFier: £111.13This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
Humour as Politics by Nicholas Holm
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic... -
Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space Geo Takach 9783319820996
SciFier: £61.99This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for... -
Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space Geo Takach 9783319404325
SciFier: £94.84This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for... -
Woman in Lars von Trier's Cinema, 1996-2014 by Ahmed Elbeshlawy
SciFier: £24.49This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier's distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier's cinema beyond... -
Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama R. Barton Palmer 9783319822204
SciFier: £72.49This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with... -
Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama R. Barton Palmer 9783319409276
SciFier: £104.34This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with... -
Jean-Luc Godard's Political Filmmaking Irmgard Emmelhainz 9783319720944
SciFier: £112.42This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present. The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard's work abandoned... -
3D Cinematic Aesthetics and Storytelling Yong Liu 9783319727417
SciFier: £67.49This book argues that 3D films are becoming more sophisticated in utilising stereoscopic effects for storytelling purposes. Since Avatar (2009), we have seen a 3D revival marked by its integration... -
Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences: Abrazos Electronicos in Four Global Cities Catherine L. Benamou 9783031115295
SciFier: £112.99This book is based on a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the transmission, production, and reception of Spanish- and Portuguese-language television in four global cities with expanding Latinx... -
The Guantanamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi by Alexandra S. Moore
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.78Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider's view of artmaking in Guantanamo, the world's most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been... -
Gothic Hauntology by Joakim Wrethed
SciFier: £102.99This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a... -
Italian Contemporary Screen Performers by Luca Barra
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and... -
Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics by Dragos Manea
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary... -
European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms, and Production Christopher Meir 9783031421815
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £107.99This collection examines the impact of streaming platforms on European cinema. It is structured from three distinct points-of-view: the policy issues related to streaming platforms, equally at the... -
Gothic War on Terror by Danel Olson
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99After 9/11, the world felt the "shock and awe" of the War on Terror. But that war also exploded inside novels, films, comics, and gaming. Danel Olson investigates why the paranormal, ghostly, and... -
Music in Films about the Shoah by Elias Berner
SciFier: £111.37This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of the 20th century. Musicology has seen an increasing... -
Data and Doctor Doom by Mark Hibbett
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £42.25This book defines a straightforward way to analyse fictional characters through data. It shows how a data-led approach can produce rich analyses of characters, their surrounding storyworlds, and... -
Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman
SciFier: £102.99This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen by Sanja Garic-Komnenic
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £98.99Bosnian Literature on Stage and Screen aims to reconcile theoretical approaches with theatrical and cinematic practices by examining two adaptations based on works by the Bosnian author Mesa... -
The Grotesque Modernist Body: Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing David Cruickshank 9783031543456
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £90.49The Grotesque Modernist Body explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the... -
Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films Kyung Moon Hwang 9783031272677
SciFier: £110.08This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu ("Korean Wave") period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have... -
African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage Sheila Petty 9783031885891
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.15This open access book investigates how flows of knowledge that arise from the African continent travel and are transformed through new contexts of presentation and engagement in new locations... -
Culture Wars and Horror Movies by Noelia Gregorio-Fernandez
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £98.99In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this polarized society in their representation of...