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Mothering for Schooling Alison Griffith 9780415950541
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what... -
Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film Alison Griffiths 9780231192583
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £94.51From In Borneo, the Land of the Head-Hunters to The Epic of Everest to Camping Among the Indians, the early twentieth century was the heyday of expedition filmmaking. As new technologies transformed... -
Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film by Alison Griffiths 9780231192590
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21From In Borneo, the Land of the Head-Hunters to The Epic of Everest to Camping Among the Indians, the early twentieth century was the heyday of expedition filmmaking. As new technologies transformed... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America by Alison Griffiths
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture by Alison Griffiths
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.58The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161060
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £98.48A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View by Alison Griffiths 9780231129886
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £98.48From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture by Alison Griffiths 9780231116978
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.51The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
Dressing In Feathers: The Construction Of The Indian In American Popular Culture by S. Elizabeth Bird
Booksplease Price: £55.84One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the... -
Cold War, 50th Anniversary by Roy MacSkimming 9781778400261
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46"A thorough, evocative, exciting account of what happened that September ... MacSkimming's control of the story and his feel for character ... give it a new electricity."-The Globe and Mail Relive... -
Residual Media by Charles R. Acland 9780816644728
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31In a society that breathlessly awaits "the new" in every medium, what happens to last year's new? Ample critical energy has gone into the study of new media, genres, and communities. But what becomes... -
Simply Institutional Ethnography: Creating a Sociology for People by Dorothy E. Smith
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the... -
The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece 9780190689360
Booksplease Price: £32.53Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive movie palace to the intimate streamlined theater, movie theaters became... -
The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece 9780190689353
Booksplease Price: £104.74Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive movie palace to the intimate streamlined theater, movie theaters became... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany by Scott Curtis 9780231134026
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.58Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology... -
Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel by Jeffrey Ruoff
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of... -
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Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel by Jeffrey Ruoff 9780822337010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £19.45Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of... -
Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory by Jorg Schweinitz 9780231151498
Booksplease Price: £31.66Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliche, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's... -
Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film by Jennifer Lynn Peterson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations... -
Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible by Richard Baxstrom 9780823268245
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of... -
Useful Cinema by Charles R. Acland
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Useful Cinema by Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £84.99By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice James Leo Cahill 9780367675691
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms,...