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Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 9780816677979
RRP: £21.99£19.59Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly's... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9780719096471
RRP: £85.00£60.91Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can be read as an original and coherent project: to make a... -
University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus Curtis Marez 9780520304581
RRP: £25.00£19.99From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. Even more... -
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production Tina Mai Chen (University of Manitoba, Canada) 9780415514644
RRP: £39.99£35.37This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of... -
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention David C. L. Lim (Open University Malaysia) 9780415626187
RRP: £53.99£47.10This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also... -
The Construction of Drawings and Movies: Models for Architectural Design and Analysis Thomas Forget 9780415898409
RRP: £54.99£48.33The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks... -
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown 9780415899413
RRP: £46.99£41.23The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this... -
Media Authorship Cynthia Chris 9780415699433
RRP: £39.99£33.51Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the... -
How to Cheat in After Effects Chad Perkins (Adobe Certified Instructor, Renton, WA, USA) 9780415661065
RRP: £45.99£32.89Get the most from the most widely used application in the postproduction field! Gain the insider tips you need to compose eye-catching, imaginative Adobe After Effects projects quickly and effectively. In How to Cheat in After Effects, Second Edition... -
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration Rocio G. Davis 9780415835916
RRP: £36.99£32.85This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are... -
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema Hilary Radner 9780415895880
RRP: £44.99£39.56Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with... -
Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Silke Arnold-de Simine 9780367716592
RRP: £39.99£35.37Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a model for understanding individual identity, the idea of... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367784270
RRP: £39.99£35.37This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state... -
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 Richard Abel 9780253046468
RRP: £29.99£27.35Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing,... -
Early Cinema in Asia Nick Deocampo 9780253025364
RRP: £83.00£72.87Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering... -
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos Lilya Kaganovsky 9780253040299
RRP: £70.00£61.69Beginning with Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these... -
Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door Michael T. Martin 9780253031754
RRP: £50.00£44.32Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253025593
RRP: £66.00£57.89A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day's Night... -
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 Richard Abel 9780253046451
RRP: £66.00£58.29Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing,... -
Early Cinema in Asia Nick Deocampo 9780253025548
RRP: £33.00£29.91Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering... -
Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium Rachael Stoeltje 9780253027023
RRP: £35.00£31.61The art and science of audiovisual preservation and access has evolved at breakneck speed in the digital age. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is organized by the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations and brings experts from around... -
Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology: Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer 9780253043948
RRP: £83.00£73.27In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain... -
Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic Mieke Bal 9780300229110
RRP: £50.00£42.92In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation,... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169608
RRP: £88.00£69.50Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India."... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
RRP: £88.00£69.50By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: £113.00£89.70There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: £35.00£28.99There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the... -
Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao Michael Lucken 9780231172929
RRP: £55.00£43.83The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170727
RRP: £88.00£69.50Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political... -
Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema Todd Berliner 9780190658755
RRP: £64.00£40.49Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in... -
Harry Potter: The Character Vault Jody Revenson 9780062407443
£27.23Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062407443Author Jody RevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Transmedia Frictions: The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities Marsha Kinder 9780520383029
RRP: £42.00£37.05Apologies 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,... -
From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition, Third Revised Edition Giovanna Fossati 9789463725002
£45.67In From Grain to Pixel, Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, Fossati poses significant... -
Hito Steyerl: This is the future Adelina Vlas 9783791359274
RRP: £29.99£21.68Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Steyerl's large-scale works-Hell Yeah We Fuck Die (2016), ExtraSpaceCraft (2016), and Liquidity Inc. (2014)-as... -
Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger Rene Morales 9783791356877
RRP: £42.50£30.84The book features stills from numerous works spanning more than 20 years of creative production, as well as essays on Friedman's oeuvre and an extended interview with the artist. Friedman is known for works that combine precise craftsmanship with... -
Steven D. Lavine. Failure is What It's All About: A Life Devoted to Leadership in the Arts Joern Jacob Rohwer 9783422981553
RRP: £29.50£26.79Walt Disney's vision for an art school located before the gates of Los Angeles became a reality: Opened 50 years ago, the California Institute of the Arts had long been in crisis, before Steven D. Lavine led it to financial prosperity and international... -
Christmas Nightmare Jean-Marie Donat 9782374950167
RRP: £13.99£13.57According to folktales, ads, and toy stores, Santa Claus is always portly and joyous. But is it really true? What if Santa Claus has a hidden face, far removed from the cheery Christmas spirit? From the 30's to the 70's, this incredible gift book offers... -
RESET THE APPARATUS!: A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art Edgar Lissel 9783110630688
RRP: £29.50£27.81The book illustrates that supposedly outmoded, analog practices in contemporary photographic and cinematic art not only have maximum actuality, but also critical potential. Using the example of artists' practices that are motivated by the idea of the... -
Apocalypse Cinema Stephen Prince 9781978819849
RRP: £16.99£15.42Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out entirely, while others envision humans as an endangered... -
If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 1-3: Tony Cokes Natasha Hoare (Curator of Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art) 9781912685523
RRP: £29.00£21.02Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685523Author Natasha HoareFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonSeries Goldsmiths...