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Presbyopia by Allan Cameron 9780956056030
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84"My sight if fades and fading faded forms reveals; ageing looks beyond its age to shrivelled centuries beyond decades." The presbyopic poet cannot focus on "the self as subject", but only on what is... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises... -
Things Written Randomly in Doubt by Allan Cameron 9781908251275
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.81A work in three parts, Things Written starts with aphorisms in "How Not to Be a Ruminant", shifts to essays in "Weights and Counterweights", and concludes with poetry in "By the Metre". Some... -
A Woman's War against Progress by Allan Cameron 9781913212353
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84In 1916 a young woman, Rahvaema, leaves the forest community where she grew up, and sets off for a century-long adventure whose struggles and sufferings she could never have imagined. She becomes a... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron 9781349303038
Booksplease Price: £97.69Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
The Disfigured Screen: Matter and Media in Horror Cinema by Allan Cameron
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474419192Author Allan CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Fear in the World by Corrado Alvaro
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Corrado Alvaro's Fear in the World was published a decade before Orwell's 1984, but is not well known outside Italy, perhaps because of the timing of the publication just before the Second World War... -
Visceral Screens: Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema Allan Cameron 9781399511247
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation Demonstrates how a range of different... -
Cinico: Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum Allan Cameron 9781908251985
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £7.22The narrator is an urbane, cynical and egocentric Italian journalist with little interest in the truth, though not as shabby as his companion, a professor of politics. The journalist meets people... -
The Huguenots of France; or, the Times of Henry Iv. by the Author of Ilverton Rectory, Allan Cameron, Evelyn Percival, Etc. by None 9781425516444
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425516444Author NoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
Booksplease Price: £97.89Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.52"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has... -
Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty Martine Beugnet 9781474407144
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.85Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognisable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronised line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not... -
Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty by Martine Beugnet 9781474407120
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £95.05Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not... -
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero 9780520297210
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.98The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the... -
Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects by Marc Olivier
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie's prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In... -
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero 9780520239432
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.08The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional... -
Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis by Karen Beckman 9780822347088
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.84Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro GonzAlez INArritu and Ousmane SembEne have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle... -
Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis by Karen Beckman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Ousmane Sembene have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle... -
Making Sense of Mind-Game Films: Narrative Complexity, Embodiment, and the Senses by Dr. Simin Nina Littschwager 9781501376276
Booksplease Price: £36.04Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source... -
A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling by Dr. Eleftheria Thanouli 9781501393075
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.14In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International... -
A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling by Dr. Eleftheria Thanouli 9781501393068
Booksplease Price: £102.21In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International... -
Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography by Alfonso Scirocco 9780691115405
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882)...