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  • The Film Handbook

    by Mark de Valk, Sarah Arnold ...
    Series series Media Practice
    The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today’s ‘digital film’ productions. It reflects on how critical analysis’ of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will best aid student creativity.The Film Handbook offers practical guidance on a range of traditional and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Screening the Tortured Body

    The Cinema as Scaffold

    Edited by Mark de Valk ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment ‘for transgressions ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Cruelty

    A Reckoning

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Contemporary Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Eaglestone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Action Movies

    The Cinema of Striking Back

    by Harvey O'Brien ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Steven Spielberg and Philosophy

    We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book

    by Dean A. Kowalski ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg's complex body of work." —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A BiographyFew directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conspiracy Culture

    From Kennedy to The X Files

    by Dr Peter Knight, Peter Knight ...
    Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    by Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The wounds of nations

    Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity

    by Linnie Blake ...
    The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Horror after 9/11

    World of Fear, Cinema of Terror

    Edited by Aviva Briefel, Sam J. Miller ...
    Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box-office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming darker, more disturbing, and increasingly apocalyptic. Why has horror suddenly become more popular, and what does this say about us? ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Barthes' Mythologies Today

    Readings of Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Pete Bennett, Julian McDougall ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the "new ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD