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The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes
RRP: $15.10SciFier: $13.78The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought... -
The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out Wayne Byrne 9780231185356
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $37.91The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director's entire oeuvre, addressing and analyzing themes such as identity,... -
Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman 9780231144643
SciFier: $168.89America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: $213.57SciFier: $205.88There 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... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170734
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.21Hermann 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... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161060
SciFier: $180.70A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169639
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $39.86Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231179201
RRP: $166.32SciFier: $135.46From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of... -
Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context Carol Vernallis 9780231117999
RRP: $60.48SciFier: $57.57Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: $179.55SciFier: $178.25Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $47.12Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration Thomas Doherty 9780231143592
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $48.44From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.21Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
Brazilian Cinema by Randal Johnson
RRP: $66.15SciFier: $61.99From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $47.12The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215053
RRP: $41.58SciFier: $40.16Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215046
RRP: $173.88SciFier: $153.32Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Terroir of Whiskey: A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place Rob Arnold 9780231194594
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $27.80Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers... -
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World Sidney Perkowitz 9780231142816
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $35.32Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and... -
The Cinema of Jonathan Demme: Champion of the Soul Louis Black 9780231223522
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $52.33Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148702
SciFier: $204.74It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu 9780231191838
SciFier: $28.58Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188708
RRP: $166.32SciFier: $135.46Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of... -
The Stardom Film by Karen McNally
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $30.03Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177863
RRP: $37.80SciFier: $32.62The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
SciFier: $166.66In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177870
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $27.39The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169608
SciFier: $166.66Bollywood 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... -
DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World Israel Rosenfield 9780231142717
SciFier: $33.81With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the... -
Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory Marianne DeKoven 9780231152839
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.21Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162203
SciFier: $178.25Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $47.12Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: $178.25Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.21Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Danger: Diabolik Leon Hunt 9780231182812
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $22.79Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157698
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $47.12Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: $203.42Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
George Gallup in Hollywood Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame) 9780231121330
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.21George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
Designing Women by Lucy Fischer
RRP: $66.15SciFier: $57.57Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the... -
Reflexivity in Film and Culture by Robert Stam
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $54.62Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of...