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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman by Will Brooker 9781848852808
Booksplease Price: $35.93Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises", Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. Brooker's close... -
Fans: The Mirror of Consumption Cornel Sandvoss (University of Surrey) 9780745629735
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89In Fans: The Mirror of Consumption Cornel Sandvoss explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. The scope of the book is impressive - he looks not... -
The Changing Spaces of Television Acting: From Studio Realism to Location Realism in BBC Television Drama by Richard Hewett 9781526148636
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. By examining changing acting styles from distinct eras of television production -... -
Design for Doctor Who: Vision and Revision in Science Fiction Television Piers D. Britton (University of Redlands, Southern California, USA) 9781472984159
Booksplease Price: $37.22The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in... -
Only at Comic-Con: Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity by Erin Hanna 9780813594705
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $25.44When the San Diego Comic-Con was founded in 1970, it provided an exclusive space where fans, dealers, collectors, and industry professionals could come together to celebrate their love of comics and... -
Design for Doctor Who: Vision and Revision in Screen SF by Piers D. Britton 9781350116870
Booksplease Price: $110.27The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in... -
Screen Comedy and Online Audiences Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore 9780367869700
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $56.95The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
Booksplease Price: $62.44The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality by Jessica Balanzategui 9789463726344
Booksplease Price: $165.61Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates... -
Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities by Carrielynn D Reinhard 9781498552585
Booksplease Price: $48.27Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification by K. Egan 9781349333059
Booksplease Price: $62.44The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
Celebrity Sean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia) 9780415527446
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of... -
The Horror Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781517917821
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.33A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes-fear, dread, and disgust-are ones we typically seek to avoid, so... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $88.79Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture by Lucy Bennett 9781501339547
Booksplease Price: $50.48Split into four sections, Seeing Fans analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media through a diverse range of perspectives. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan... -
The Horror Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781517917814
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $117.00A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes-fear, dread, and disgust-are ones we typically seek to avoid, so... -
High Theory/Low Culture by M. Brottman 9781403966414
Booksplease Price: $59.70In High Theory/Low Culture , Brottman uses the tools of 'high' cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sport, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9781526135698
Booksplease Price: $30.37Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Mediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked Communities Line Nybro Petersen 9781138545861
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01Addressing fans' digital practices, this book places fans' play at the centre of a networked mainstream culture that seems to increasingly cater to, amalgamate with and adapt to fans' mediatized play... -
The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism by 9781032339054
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates, questions and controversies of tourism in... -
The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia by Dr Richard Mills 9781501383199
Booksplease Price: $44.94Sex, death and nostalgia are among the impulses driving Beatles fandom: the metaphorical death of the Beatles after their break-up in 1970 has fueled the progressive nostalgia of fan conventions for... -
Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture by Dr. Mark Duffett 9781441166937
Booksplease Price: $44.07Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. A range... -
Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation by Dr. Paul Booth 9781350185630
Booksplease Price: $33.05Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. ... -
Promotional Screen Industries Paul Grainge 9780415831666
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09From the trailers and promos that surround film and television to the ads and brand videos that are sought out and shared, promotional media have become a central part of contemporary screen life... -
Entering the Multiverse: Perspectives on Alternate Universes and Parallel Worlds Paul Booth 9781032770116
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $48.30Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has portaled into the mainstream... -
Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom by David Church 9780748699100
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $117.26Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this... -
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Reading "CSI": Television Under the Microscope by Allen Michael
Booksplease Price: $30.71This is what we know, this is the truth: CSI is a global television phenomenon. It began in 2000 with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", a dark procedural drama about forensic science set within the... -
Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives by Caroline Bainbridge
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $45.72Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from... -
Post-Object Fandom: Television, Identity and Self-narrative by Rebecca Williams 9781501319983
Booksplease Price: $52.09Fandom is generally viewed as an integral part of everyday life which impacts upon how we form emotional bonds with ourselves and others in a modern, mediated world. Whilst it is inevitable for... -
Dominion by Peter McLean 9780857666116
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Enter Don Drake, diabolist and semi-reformed hitman, and an almost-fallen angel called Trixie. When the Matriarch tells Don that Rotman is actually the archdemon Bianakith, he knows this is going to... -
Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan Rafal Zaborowski 9789462985599
Booksplease Price: $169.26What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital... -
Radiophilia Dr. Carolyn Birdsall (Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781501374968
Booksplease Price: $38.58A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of... -
Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music by Dr. Mark Duffett 9781501313370
Booksplease Price: $133.01Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than... -
Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare 9781498503792
Booksplease Price: $157.83The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been... -
A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s by Jeanette R. Malkin 9781350211957
Booksplease Price: $43.20The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical... -
The Media Studies Toolkit by Michael Z. Newman
Booksplease Price: $52.53In this critical primer, Michael Z. Newman introduces newcomers to the key concepts, issues, and vocabulary of media studies. Across ten chapters, Newman examines topics from text and audience to... -
Cinema and Brexit: The Politics of Popular English Film by Neil Archer 9781350274341
Booksplease Price: $45.16Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of 'culturally English cinema'... -
When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift 9781529436440
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38The extraordinary speculative novel of past, present and future, by the Clarke Award-shortlisted author of THE CORAL BONES.Decades from now, two women sit beside a campfire and reflect on their life... -
Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley 9781837860753
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.59In January 2314, Rowena Savalas - a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet - stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the... -
Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics by Jeffrey Sconce 9780822339533
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $98.22Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture's ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film...