Film, TV & Music

This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power, community...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332949Author Justin HumphreysFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor Media

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734154641Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksSeries The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster...

From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world What we watch, create, upload, follow, subscribe to and share matters - It reveals more about ourselves...

In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy...

A Must-Have for Gone With the Wind Fans! From Margaret Mitchell's tattered manuscript to the film's seventy-fifth anniversary, this book is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Gone With the Wind-the book, the movie, and the phenomenon that continues...

A prolific social critic, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. His works reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B movies, soap operas, comic books, and contemporary politics. His...

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolutionary emotion." In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the...

What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960270Author Robert WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957664920Author Ron EnglishFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 1172g

The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing her movie, TV and stage work, as well as her drive to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952495021Author Ricky MargolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Wunderfunkmaschine LLCPublisher Wunderfunkmaschine LLCSeries How the Hell... Do I Get My...

Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city of Paris from 1957 to the present day. The book...

Founded in Florence, Italy, as a luggage brand and equestrian outfitter in 1921, Gucci has evolved into one of the world's most celebrated fashion houses - synonymous with classic design, elegance, luxury and quality. This book, beautifully illustrated...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

Since 2018, Katharina Cibulka and her team have been mounting handembroidered scaffold nets on wellfrequented, prominent construction sites, making use of sociopolitical messages to prompt passersby to join in the discussions. A sentence that begins with...

First Published in 1982, Japanese Ikat Weaving offers a professional approach to the subject, presented with great clarity and precision. Japanese Ikat weaving, also known as Kasuri, is the technique by which lengths of yarn are tied and dyed before...

Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. Through the use of numerous original examples, the reader learns to shape ideas into well-developed scripts. It addresses the...

Artist and photographer Rudi Molacek has assembled, with an artist's eye, an idiosyncratic collection of more than 300 Tibetan carpets, rugs, mats, seat-, bench- and saddle-covers. Between the 15th and the 20th centuries they were woven for both sacred...

A captivating visual exploration of fashion and modern style as seen through the eyes of artists across the globe. Ever since the emergence of the seasonal fashion industry in the nineteenth century, artists have been engaging with fashion's impact,...

Guy Ben Ner makes a lot out of very little, radically integrating both himself and his private surroundings into his work. His family's apartment in Tel Aviv serves as a film location for the video artist, as do the aisles of a furniture store. In these...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041255Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as merely fantastic or unreal. In her in-depth...

Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens of anime and its transnational fandom, Jinying Li...

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an...

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos-using your smartphone.Whether you're a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don't need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training...

Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to...

This is a revised second edition of the best-selling book which incorporates new and additional material on the majority of the objects as well as an expanded glossary which will be of interest to both collector and scholar. The first edition was...

Influential designer Harris Reed explores the world of gender-defying fashion in this richly illustrated monograph. In Fluid, revolutionary fashion designer Harris Reed introduces the world to a new era in fluid fashion. At the centre of Reed's...

What is your role? Learn how to establish expectations and needs specific to the project and team. How do you establish a vision? Learn how to better define and communicate creative topics such as a cohesive character performance and animation style...

The Muse of Coding gives students and experienced programmers a way to see coding as an art and themselves as artists whose personal views, experiences and ways of thinking can make their programs better for themselves and their users.This book shows in...

Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista ValliA gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn's lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris she loved most, illustrated with vivid photographs, and...

The Origins of Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga and Firewatch and other incredible Indie video games! Video games have grown exponentially in recent years and have captured the hearts of millions thanks to the success of titles...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739750985Author Peap TarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Soi BooksPublisher Soi BooksWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 146mm * 110mm * 8mm

The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual culture. Since its inception in 2017 the series, a neo-noir thriller set in Berlin in the final years of the...

First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought so many changes both inside Hollywood and throughout the...

Hone your skills every step of the way with short tutorials and editable rigs that accompany each chapter. (17+ rigs!!).Read "Tina's 10 Rules of Rigging" and build the foundational knowledge needed to successfully rig your characters.Visit the companion...