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  • The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film

    Affect Theory's Other

    by Pansy Duncan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship currently emerging under the rubric of "affect theory" may be unexpectedly enriched by an encounter with the field that has become its critical ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Green Thread

    Dialogues with the Vegetal World

    by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

    by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, Michael Cramer, Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, Paul Coates, Pansy Duncan, Naoki Yamamoto0, Mercedes Vazquez1, Alvin K. Wong2, Dan Hassler-Forest3, Mike Wayne4, Fredric Jameson5 ...
    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Screening the Posthuman

    by Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry ...
    From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner

    by Matthew Flisfeder ...
    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism, Flisfeder provides a valuable guide for both students and scholars interested in learning ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Uncommon Cultures

    Popular Culture and Post-Modernism

    by Jim Collins ...
    Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

    Was $41.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Screen Stories

    Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement

    by Carl Plantinga ...
    The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we convey on screens, or what author Carl Plantinga calls 'screen stories,' are one powerful and pervasive means by which we communicate with each ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Understand Postmodernism: Teach Yourself

    by Glenn Ward ...
    Understand Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to this sometimes challenging domain. Using contemporary examples to further your understanding, it takes a broad look at theorists in a range of disciplines. Whether you're encountering postmodernism for the first time, or you need a quick reference to support your studies, this guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key ideas in this ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD