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Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema Malek Khouri 9780802093882
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £31.02As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of... -
Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.50Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids... -
Film Narratology by Peter Verstraten
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £22.93Most modern studies of narrative tend to focus predominantly on literature with only some reference to film. In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while... -
Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries Jim Leach 9780802047328
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £44.56Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board... -
Marco Bellocchio by Clodagh Brook
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.50Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781442646155
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £36.59In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices... -
The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1 by Don Beecher
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £76.72Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights... -
Exhibiting the German Past by Peter M. McIsaac
RRP: £49.00SciFier: £39.68While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently... -
Enchanted Eloquence - Fairy Tales by Seventeenth Century French Women Writers by Lewis C. Seifert
SciFier: £41.20This is a superb book on all levels. The translations of the tales are excellent. The research is impeccable. The introduction and notes are highly informative. Most important, Lewis Seifert and... -
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz Millicent Marcus 9780802091895
SciFier: £41.84The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to... -
The Girl from God's Country by Kay Armatage
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £31.72In The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from... -
Schooling in Modernity by Paola Bonifazio
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.08Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight... -
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s by David L. Pike
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £49.24Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a... -
Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe Doris Baltruschat 9781442626836
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £27.83Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics... -
Confessional Cinema by Jorge Perez
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.26In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Perez interrogates the assumption that... -
The Sopranos by Franco Ricci
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.93Often hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-industrial, post-ethnic America. In The Sopranos:... -
Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.72On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781487520267
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.37In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices... -
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography Sarah Brophy 9781442616097
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.08From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today's image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual... -
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod by Michael Syrimis
RRP: £73.00SciFier: £58.01The emergence of cinema as a predominant form of mass entertainment in the 1910s inspired intellectuals to rethink their definitions of art. The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces... -
Fashion by Alexandra Palmer
SciFier: £44.49How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile,' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural... -
Behind the Jester's Mask by Raymond Morris
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.01The editorial cartoon, a daily diversion for millions of Canadians, strikes most of its readers as irreverent, outspoken, iconoclastic. The reality, as Raymond Morris demonstrates, is more complex... -
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography Sarah Brophy 9781442646605
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £48.45From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today's image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual... -
The Art of Subtraction by Bruno Lessard
RRP: £51.00SciFier: £41.37The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact... -
Pasolini by Stefania Benini
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £43.66Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini... -
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.37The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his... -
Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film by Wyndham Wise
SciFier: £36.49Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film is the most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed... -
In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 Gary Evans 9780802068330
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £29.32One of the cornerstones of Canadian culture, the National Film Board has throughout its history mirrored the social issues that preoccupy Canadians. Gary Evans traces the development of the postwar... -
The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2 by Don Beecher
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £65.18Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights... -
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution Sherine Hamdy 9781487593476
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.59Anna is the daughter of an American couple working in Cairo. Layla is the daughter of the doorman in Anna's apartment building. Together they strike up an unlikely friendship that is put to the test... -
Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries Jim Leach 9780802082992
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £26.08Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board... -
The Homesteaders by Robert J.C. Stead
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £26.08When Robert Stead's novel The Homesteaders first appeared in serial form in 1916, it was introduced as 'the kind of fiction Canadian authors ought to write,' and the Canadian public agreed. By 1922,... -
One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema George Melnyk 9780802084446
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £31.72With its beginnings rooted in the languages and cultures of the French and English, Canadian cinema has, over time, become more representative, reflecting the interests and aspirations of Canada's... -
Flaunting by Amanda Bailey
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.45In the early modern period, the theatrical stage offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment and aesthetic pleasure. It also fulfilled an important cultural function by displaying modes of... -
Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese Robert Casillo 9780802094032
SciFier: £46.49Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three... -
Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese Robert Casillo 9780802091130
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £66.48Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three... -
The Canadian Horror Film by Gina Freitag
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.93From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and Andre... -
Images at War: Illustrated Periodicals and Constructed Nations Michele Martin 9781487558703
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.72Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Michele Martin's Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals published in France, Germany, England, and... -
Things That Art by Lochlann Jain
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.74Lochlann Jain's debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between words and images, Jain's whimsical compositions may... -
Donald Shebib's 'Goin' Down the Road' by Geoff Pevere
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.67Since its release in July 1970, Donald Shebib's low-budget road movie about displaced Maritimers in Toronto has become one of the most celebrated Canadian movies ever made. In this study of Goin'...