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Marco Bellocchio by Clodagh Brook
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Marco 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... -
Film Narratology by Peter Verstraten
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £22.56Most 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... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781442646155
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £36.11In 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... -
Enchanted Eloquence - Fairy Tales by Seventeenth Century French Women Writers by Lewis C. Seifert
SciFier: £40.79This 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... -
The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1 by Don Beecher
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £75.94Renowned 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... -
Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Since 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... -
Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries Jim Leach 9780802047328
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £44.03Beginning 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... -
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz Millicent Marcus 9780802091895
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.30The 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... -
Exhibiting the German Past by Peter M. McIsaac
RRP: £49.00SciFier: £39.19While 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... -
Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema Malek Khouri 9780802093882
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £30.59As 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... -
Schooling in Modernity by Paola Bonifazio
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £25.68Between 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... -
Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe Doris Baltruschat 9781442626836
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £27.43Independent 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... -
The Girl from God's Country by Kay Armatage
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £31.29In 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... -
The Sopranos by Franco Ricci
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Often 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:... -
Confessional Cinema by Jorge Perez
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £44.73In 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... -
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s by David L. Pike
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £48.68Award-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... -
Char Davies's Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality Laurie McRobert 9780802090942
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £40.78In this first book-length study of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Char Davies, Laurie McRobert examines the digital installations Osmose and Ephemere in the context of Davies' artistic... -
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World David L. Pike 9781442612402
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.98Award-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... -
Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.34On 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: £21.01In 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: £25.68From 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... -
Italian Neorealist Cinema by Christopher Wagstaff
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £32.86The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence... -
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod by Michael Syrimis
RRP: £73.00SciFier: £57.38The 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... -
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution Sherine Hamdy 9781487593476
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.13Anna 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: £25.68Beginning 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: £25.68When 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,... -
Flaunting by Amanda Bailey
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.12In 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... -
One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema George Melnyk 9780802084446
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £31.29With 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... -
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01The 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... -
Pasolini by Stefania Benini
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £43.14Poet, 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... -
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography Sarah Brophy 9781442646605
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £47.89From 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: £40.86The 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... -
Behind the Jester's Mask by Raymond Morris
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £18.67The 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... -
Fashion by Alexandra Palmer
SciFier: £43.99How 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... -
Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture Graziella Parati 9781442626720
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.30In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a... -
Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema Carlo Testa 9780802084750
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.00The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at... -
Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film by Wyndham Wise
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £25.68Take 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... -
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture by Jonathan Edmondson
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.10Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson... -
The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2 by Don Beecher
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £64.29Renowned 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... -
In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 Gary Evans 9780802068330
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £28.91One 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...