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Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons by Ace Reid
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or... -
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops,... -
The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning... -
Homegrown by Alan Schaefer
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock... -
Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege... -
Feminism, Film, Fascism by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310854
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.46El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311622
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311615
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.34No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
Israeli Cinema by Miri Talmon
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
Spanish Film Under Franco by Virginia Higginbotham
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.29Although less well known than its much-admired counterparts in Peru and Bolivia, highland Ecuadorian weaving is an Andean tradition that has relationships with these more southern areas. A world... -
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Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons Ace Reid 9780292770973 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £6.70Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the physical content of the graphic frame has often been ignored or relegated to the... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)... -
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting Jill Chamberlain 9781477303733
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a... -
From Walt to Woodstock by Douglas Brode
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become... -
Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age Claudia Springer 9780292776975
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic... -
Driving Visions by David Laderman
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide... -
Selznick's Vision by Alan David Vertrees
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer... -
Veni, Vidi, Video by Frederick Wasser
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many... -
Cinema of Solitude by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented... -
Cinema and Painting by Angela Dalle Vacche
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new... -
Experimental Latin American Cinema by Cynthia Tompkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films-by nationality, by era, or by technique-here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above,... -
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.19The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon... -
John Wayne's World by Russell Meeuf
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35In a film career that spanned five decades, John Wayne became a U.S. icon of heroic individualism and rugged masculinity. His widespread popularity, however, was not limited to the United States: he... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310847
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics Linda Mizejewski 9781477307601
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten... -
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 by Gerald Horne
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This... -
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich by Sabine Hake
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions,... -
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV Diana Adesola Mafe 9781477315231
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades... -
The Solaris Effect by Steven Dillon
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's ... -
The New Latin American Cinema by Zuzana M. Pick
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Vina del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Peter Lev
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however,... -
Understanding Indian Movies by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,... -
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As...