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The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 28.95The term ?science fiction? has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History : provides... more...
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00Using an up-to-date understanding of Camus' philosophy as a theoretical frame, this work engages the long history of Theatre of the Absurd criticism, performance histories and reviews, the genre of the parable, philosophy, and performance studies, ultimately arguing against a strictly absurd and existential reading and, instead, positions such work... more...
Italian Cinema
Oldcastle Books 2010; US$ 5.82From the unbridled sensuality of the orgy scenes in silent Italian cinema, through a topless Sophia Loren in a 1950s historical epic and the image of Silvana Mangano, her skirt provocatively tucked into her underwear, in the neo-realist classic Bitter Rice, to the erotic obsessions of Fellini and the more cerebral but still passion-centred movies... more...
Bilder machen Sieger - Sieger machen Bilder
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 47.99The 7.56 Report
The Text Publishing Company 2011; US$ 23.95The inimitable John Clarke is back with another hilarious collection of the highs and lows in Australian politics. Here are the interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 7.30 Report, from 2003 to 2006. more...
Practical Dreamers
Coach House Books 2004; US$ 20.95'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' ? Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but narrowcast? Not theatres around the world showing the same globalized pictures, but instead a local circumstance, a movie so particular,... more...









