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Bram Stoker Carol A Senf 9780708323854
RRP: $125.95SciFier: $115.62This study of Bram Stoker focuses on Stoker as a Gothic writer. Identified with Dracula, Stoker is largely responsible for taking the Gothic away from medieval castles and placing it at the center of... -
Bram Stoker Carol A Senf 9780708323069
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $54.43This study of Bram Stoker focuses on Stoker as a Gothic writer. Identified with Dracula, Stoker is largely responsible for taking the Gothic away from medieval castles and placing it at the centre of... -
Acting Wales: Stars of Stage and Screen Peter Stead 9780708316238
SciFier: $12.66This work examines the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture developed in which both chapels and schools encouraged recitations and performances. Each chapter... -
Catalan Cartoons by Rhiannon McGlade
RRP: $114.50SciFier: $105.32In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humour in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical... -
Australian Gothic by Jonathan Rayner
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $158.42The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their Gothic... -
Videogames and Horror by Dawn Stobbart
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $54.43Videogames are full of horrors - and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame... -
Ramsey Campbell by Keith M. C. O'Sullivan
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $144.57This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within... -
John Ormond's Organic Mosaic by Kieron Smith
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $45.96John Ormond was a poet and documentary filmmaker from Swansea, south Wales. His early poetry was published while he was a student in the 1940s and, upon graduation, Ormond moved to work as a... -
Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes by Maite Conde
RRP: $114.50SciFier: $106.78Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes (1916-77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema... -
Remaking Brazil: Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Tatiana Signorelli Heise 9780708325087
RRP: $34.35SciFier: $33.18This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.About the AuthorDr Tatiana Signorelli Heise is a... -
Body Gothic by Xavier Aldana Reyes
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $158.54The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that... -
Queer for Fear by Heather O. Petrocelli
RRP: $137.40SciFier: $126.98Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and... -
The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television John Kirk 9780708318133
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $52.65An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a... -
The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television John Kirk 9780708321904
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $29.06Challenges the suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary analysis. This work examines how the lives and experiences of working-class people have changed, and how these changes have... -
Theatre and the Macabre by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $54.43The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and... -
Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Bridget M. Marshall
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $158.54Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a... -
Horror in Classical Literature by Edmund P. Cueva
SciFier: $158.54No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, previously published books have neglected... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture by Miranda Corcoran
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $54.11In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage by Stuart Green
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $76.39This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the... -
Charlotte Dacre: The Passions by Jennifer L. Airey
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $158.54Countess Appollonia Zulmer - beautiful, rich, and popular - can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar. Interested only in submissive, uneducated and unworldly women, Wiemar... -
Horror and Comics by Barbara Chamberlin
SciFier: $158.54This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures,... -
Games of Terror by Vera Dika
SciFier: $158.54This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the... -
Cyfaredd y Cysgodion by Gwenno Ffrancon
RRP: $11.43SciFier: $11.06The main films discussed in detail are Y Chwarelwr, Yr Etifeddiaeth, Noson Lawen, Today We Live, Eastern Valley, Our Country, The Three Weird Sisters, The Citadel, The Proud Valley, How Green was My... -
Dion Boucicault by Matthew Knight
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $158.54Almost fifty years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, Dion Boucicault staged The Vampire, a three-act play that thrilled London audiences as well as Queen Victoria. The production boasted innovations... -
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales Megan DeVirgilis 9781837721689
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $158.54This book exposes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hispanic authors broke from European and American Gothic models to contend with their own anxieties over modernity and rising first-wave feminisms... -
Folk Horror: New Global Pathways Dawn Keetley 9781786839794
RRP: $114.50SciFier: $54.43While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also... -
Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters by Valerie Grace Derbyshire
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $133.83In The Foresters, Elizabeth Gunning offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature, including clandestine marriages; tyrannous fathers; encounters with banditti; mysterious... -
Phantoms of Kernow by Joan Passey
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.25As the storm booms out in the bay and the waves smash against the rocks, the masts of a cursed and spectral vessel are drawing near. As the mists roll over Bodmin moor, the moonlight reveals a night... -
An Indigo Summer by Ellie Evelyn Orrell
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $27.14'There is a certain feeling - standing between rows of richly dyed blue cloth - that you are within an enclave of protection, that within this ocean you can feel calm; a separation from the outside... -
Enchanted Wales: Myth and Magic in Welsh Storytelling Miranda Aldhouse-Green 9781915279194
RRP: $25.17SciFier: $19.90The magical world of Welsh mythology deserves to be better known outside its homeland, with its cast of heroes and tricksters, animals that can talk and change shape, and magicians and witches who... -
Cornish Horrors by Joan Passey
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.25A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods... -
The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts by Delyth Badder
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $27.37Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night. Whether these tales are based on true events,... -
Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition Bram Stoker 9780393679205
RRP: $25.17SciFier: $23.91This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel, published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897 and chosen by the editors in order to give readers-insofar as such a thing is...