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Popular Music Ethnographies: Practices, Places and Identities by Sarah Raine 9781835952146
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £39.16This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians,... -
Who's Who in Research: Media Studies by Intellect Books
RRP: £105.95Booksplease Price: £60.96This volume of Who's Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect's subject area of Media Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and... -
World Film Locations: San Francisco by Scott Jordan Harris
Booksplease Price: £19.55An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticised and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust, at once a site of devastation caused by 1906 earthquake but... -
Fan Phenomena: James Bond Claire Hines (Solent University) 9781783205172
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64The mere hint recently that British actor Idris Elba might take up the mantle of James Bond in future instalments of the film franchise was a major international news story - a testament to the... -
New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past by Alistair Fox
Booksplease Price: £26.06New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features... -
Bergson and Durational Performance: (Re)Ma(r)king Time by James Layton
RRP: £99.95Booksplease Price: £95.71The book contributes to performance analysis, philosophy and Bergson studies. Using 'durational' performances, the author demonstrates new insights into Bergson's philosophy alongside key theorists... -
Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films Susan Felleman 9781783202508
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible by Chris Dumas
Booksplease Price: £31.20Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
Theatre in Passing: Searching for New Amsterdam: 2 by Elena Siemens
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £47.61This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing once again on Michel... -
World Film Locations: Shanghai John Berra (Renmin University of China) 9781783201990
Booksplease Price: £24.74Celebrating Shanghai's rich cinematic history, the films covered here represent a lengthy time period, from the first Golden Age of Chinese Cinema in the 1930s to the city's status as an... -
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland Bob Nowlan 9781783203949
Booksplease Price: £49.58Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically... -
The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia by Tyson Mitman
Booksplease Price: £31.28The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban... -
Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland by Katarzyna Marciniak
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.27This title features stunning photos augmented by J. Hoberman's preface and Katarzyna Marciniak's essays. This powerful presentation of photographs of Poland from the late 1980s to the present depicts... -
Red Sun and Merlin Unchained David Rudkin 9781841504278
Booksplease Price: £29.42Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most acknowledged yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the... -
Sonic Multiplicities: Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image by Yiu Fai Chow
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £51.83Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire... -
Queer Cinema in Europe Robin Griffiths 9781841500799
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £28.36This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of... -
Fan Phenomena: Star Wars Mika Elovaara (University of North Carolina Wilmington) 9781783200221
Booksplease Price: £24.74In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success... -
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the Medium Rosemary Cohane Erpf 9781789385571
Booksplease Price: £39.93This book is the first to explore, in depth, major painters of the period and the factors that shaped their art. Accessible to both art novice and specialist, it is written in jargon-free, readable... -
Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks Franck Boulegue 9781783200245
Booksplease Price: £24.74David Lynch and Mark Frost's television series Twin Peaks debuted in April 1990 and by June of 1991 had been cancelled. Yet the impact of this surreal, unsettling show - ostensibly about the search... -
World Film Locations: Liverpool by Jez Conolly
Booksplease Price: £24.74Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing... -
Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor by Iain Ellis
Booksplease Price: £20.08Humour, as much as any other trait, defines British cultural identity. It is 'crucial in the English sense of nation,' argues humour scholar Andy Medhurst; 'To be properly English you must have a... -
World Film Locations: Marseilles by Marcelline Block
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64As France's oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s,... -
Politics in Contemporary European Cinema: Histories, Borders, Diasporas by Mike Wayne
Booksplease Price: £31.20How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of... -
Canadian Wetlands: Places and People by Rob Giblett
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £47.61In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and... -
From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics: Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides Divina Frau-Meigs 9781841506753
Booksplease Price: £29.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841506753Author Divina Frau-MeigsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
New Irish Storytellers: Narrative Strategies in Film by Diog O'Connell
Booksplease Price: £24.74With the success of such films as the Oscar winner Once, Irish film has been getting well-deserved international attention recently. New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and... -
Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space by Megan Lewis
Booksplease Price: £35.32Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South... -
Imaging the City: Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations by Steve Hawley
Booksplease Price: £35.02Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we... -
Robert Frank's 'The Americans': The Art of Documentary Photography by Jonathan Day
Booksplease Price: £38.06In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The... -
International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear by Danny Shipka
Booksplease Price: £35.12Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together... -
Multisensory Film Experience: A Cognitive Model of Experiental Film Aesthetics by Luis Rocha Antunes
Booksplease Price: £35.12When the lights dim in a movie theatre and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a multisensory experience. Moving beyond the... -
World Film Locations Madrid by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Booksplease Price: £24.74World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era... -
From Child Art to Visual Language of Youth: New Models and Tools for Assessment of Learning and Creation in Art Education by Andrea Karpati
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £52.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841506241Author Andrea KarpatiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Visual Cultures by James Elkins
Booksplease Price: £28.47Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and... -
Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain by Kari Kallioniemi
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £52.13English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II - and it served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about... -
Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Volume 2 by Russ Bestley
Booksplease Price: £35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789383379Author Russ BestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil by Natalia Pinazza
Booksplease Price: £59.36Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD... -
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey by Dominic Johnson
Booksplease Price: £38.13Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits... -
The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices across Europe by Emma Duester
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789383409Author Emma DuesterFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Sergei Paradjanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Joshua First 9781783207091
Booksplease Price: £24.74Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema - yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture...