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  • Masks in Horror Cinema

    Eyes Without Faces

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rape-Revenge Films

    A Critical Study, 2d ed.

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Women Make Horror

    Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

    by Alison Peirse, Alicia Kozma, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Martha Shearer, Katia Houde, Tosha R. Taylor, Dahlia Schweitzer, Laura Mee, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Maddison McGillvray0, Molly Kim1, Donna McRae2, Erin Harrington3, Lindsey Decker4, Valeria Villegas Lindvall5, Janice Loreck6, Amy C. Chambers7, Sonia Lupher8 ...
    Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSSWinner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-FictionFinalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionRunner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards“But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Giallo Canvas

    Art, Excess and Horror Cinema

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious killers, whisky bottles and poetically overinflated titles. A growing field of English-language giallo studies has focused on aspects of production, distribution and reception. This volume explores an overlooked yet prevalent element in some of the best ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Bloody Women

    Women Directors of Horror

    by Aislinn Clarke, Ashlee Blackwell, Anna Bogutskaya, Amy Harris, Brian Hauser, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Ernest Mathijs, Eve O’Dea, Kate R. Robertson, Iris Robinson0, Shelby Shukaliak1, Erica Tortolani2, Dan Vena3, Patrick Woodstock4, Victoria McCollum6, James Francis Jr.7 ...
    Series series Critical Conversations in Horror Studies
    Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Ms. 45

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Series series Cultographies
    Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis. At its heart lies two figures: Ferrara himself, and the movie's star, the iconic Zoe Lund, who would ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Misfit Children

    An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings

    by Jessica Balanzategui, Daniel Butler, Danette DiMarco, Julian Gill-Peterson, Ann Gonzalez, Stephen Hartman, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Mark Heimermann, Naja Later, Craig Martin, Sean Moreland, Derek Newman-Stille, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, Christopher Parkes, Andrew Pump, Awo Abena Amoa Sarpong, Maria Schwenk, De-Valera N.Y.M Botchway ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Ms. 45

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Series series Cultographies
    Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis. At its heart lies two figures: Ferrara himself, and the movie's star, the iconic Zoe Lund, who would ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation

    MICCAI 2021 Challenge, KiTS 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, September 27, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Nicholas Heller, Fabian Isensee, Darya Trofimova, Resha Tejpaul, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Christopher Weight ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the Second International Challenge on Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation, KiTS 2021, which was held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021. The challenge took place virtually on September 27, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 21 contributions presented were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation

    MICCAI 2023 Challenge, KiTS 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8, 2023, Proceedings

    Edited by Nicholas Heller, Andrew Wood, Fabian Isensee, Tim Rädsch, Resha Teipaul, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Christopher Weight ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the Third International Challenge on Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation, KiTS 2023, which was held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023. The challenge took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on October 8, 2023.The 22 contributions presented in this book were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Deep Generative Models, and Data Augmentation, Labelling, and Imperfections

    First Workshop, DGM4MICCAI 2021, and First Workshop, DALI 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, October 1, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Sandy Engelhardt, Ilkay Oksuz, Dajiang Zhu, Yixuan Yuan, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Nicholas Heller, Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Hien Nguyen, Raphael Sznitman, Yuan Xue ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First MICCAI Workshop on Deep Generative Models, DG4MICCAI 2021, and the First MICCAI Workshop on Data Augmentation, Labelling, and Imperfections, DALI 2021, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2021, in October 2021. The workshops were planned to take place in Strasbourg, France, but were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.DG4MICCAI 2021 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD