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  • Fantastic Spaces

    Irish Cinema and the Supernatural

    by Matthew J. Fee, Path to Open ...
    Series series Path to Open
    While the connection between Ireland and the otherworldly has long been a staple of literature and the arts, it finds its most consistent and compelling expression in the medium of cinema. In the first comprehensive scholarly study of the fantastic in Irish film, Fantastic Spaces explores how the spatial dimensions of supernatural phenomena in Irish cinema interpret and engage with the dynamic ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Parfit

    A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Horror

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction

    by Dr Mark Bould ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Return of the Monstrous-Feminine

    Feminist New Wave Cinema

    by Barbara Creed ...
    This follow-up to the classic text of The Monstrous-Feminine analyses those contemporary films which explore social justice issues such as women’s equality, violence against women, queer relationships, race and the plight of the planet and its multi-species.Examining a new movement – termed by Creed as Feminist New Wave Cinema – The Return of the Monstrous-Feminine explores a significant change ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Cultural Significance of the Child Star

    by Jane Catherine O'Connor ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O’Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in contemporary society. Drawing on current debates about the commercialisation and sexualisation of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Irish Children's Literature and Culture

    New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

    Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Valerie Coghlan ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Body Gothic

    Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film

    by Xavier Aldana Reyes ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin McDonagh

    A Casebook

    Edited by Richard Rankin Russell ...
    Series series Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
    This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in the West End, culminating in an Olivier Award for the The Pillowman and an Academy Award for his short ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Television Aesthetics and Style

    Edited by Steven Peacock, Professor Jason Jacobs ...
    Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our viewing experience. This significant new work redresses a vital gap in Television Studies by engaging ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Don't Look Now

    British Cinema in the 1970s

    Edited by Paul Newland ...
    Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD