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  • Transnational Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Steven Rawle ...
    This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how film production has moved beyond clear national boundaries to become a product of border crossing finance and creative personnel. This ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Language of Film

    by Steven Rawle, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Partners in suspense

    Critical essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly ...
    This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection examines the working relationship between the pair and the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • In Our Words

    Personal Accounts of Living with Non-Epileptic Seizures

    Edited by Markus Reuber, MD, PhD, FRCP, Gregg Rawlings, Steven C Schachter ...
    Series series The Brainstorms Series
    Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) can cause blackouts, collapses, involuntary movements, loss of memory and have major impact on quality of life. Whereas epilepsy is caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain, PNES are psychological-based responses to triggers inside or outside the body that are perceived as threatening by the person affected. PNES are poorly understood by the ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Philosophy and Film

    Bridging Divides

    Edited by Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva, Steven S. Gouveia ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent philosophers of film including Noël Carroll, Chris Falzon, Deborah Knight, Paisley Livingston, Robert ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema

    Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance

    by Jane Hanley, Steven Edward Rawle, Ugur Baloglu, Yildiz Derya Birincioglu, Özlem Oguzhan, Gül Yasartürk ...
    Series series Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
    Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema discusses how cinema, particularly Hollywood, impacts the cultural identities we construct for ourselves in order to make sense of who we are in the world. The politics of representation in cinema influence the boundaries of ethnic and racial characteristics and invent cultural and symbolic meanings that create a conventional image throughout the world. The ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Non-Epileptic Seizures in Our Experience

    Accounts of Healthcare Professionals

    by Steven C. Schachter, MD ...
    To an outside observer, Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) look like epileptic seizures. The manifestations of PNES include collapses, impaired consciousness, and seizure-related injuries. However, unlike epileptic seizures, which are the result of abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, most PNES are an automatic psychological response to a trigger perceived as threatening. Not least ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • It's All in Your Head

    Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness

    by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...
    A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine operation Pauline lost all the strength in her legs. Shortly afterwards, convulsions started. But Pauline’s tests are normal: her symptoms seem to have no physical cause ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Theory of Adaptation

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Diaper-Free Before 3

    The Healthier Way to Toilet Train and Help Your Child Out of Diapers Sooner

    by Jill Lekovic M.D. ...
    Conventional wisdom tells parents that they should delay potty training to toddler age, and only after seeing signs of readiness. But is that really the best way?In Diaper-Free Before 3, Dr. Jill Lekovic presents the new case that early training--beginning as early as nine months olds--is most natural, healthy, and beneficial for your child, based on medical evidence. By incoporating the potty ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD