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Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: $56.92SciFier: $48.65Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Pursuits of Happiness by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $35.19During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. Their female protagonists were strong, independent,... -
The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $43.02SciFier: $34.04Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films-as well as his fresh look at Godard,... -
The Downward Journey or The Tyrant. Zeus Catechized. Zeus Rants. The Dream or The Cock. Prometheus. Icaromenippus or The Sky-man. Timon or The Misanthrope. Charon or The Inspectors. Philosophies for Sale by Lucian
SciFier: $34.81Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Pious Fashion by Liz Bucar
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $24.31Who says you can't be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through the way they dress. Headscarves can be modest or bold,... -
Cahiers du Cinema: 1: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave Jim Hillier 9780674090613
SciFier: $43.02Cahiers du Cinema is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings, in English translation, is long overdue.The selections in this... -
Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I-II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I-II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium Lucian 9780674997707
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $30.98Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than... -
The Military-Entertainment Complex by Tim Lenoir
RRP: $52.75SciFier: $45.36With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their... -
Cahiers du Cinema: 1: The 1960s (1960-1968): New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood Jim Hillier 9780674090651
SciFier: $52.82In the turbulent sixties, the provocative French film journal Cahiers du Cinema was at its most influential and controversial. The first successes of the New Wave by major Cahiers contributors such... -
Roman History, Volume IV: Books 41-45 Dio Cassius 9780674990739
SciFier: $34.79A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
SciFier: $34.79A charming Greek romance narrated by its hero.Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century AD. Of his life nothing is known,... -
Storytelling in Film and Television by Kristin Thompson
RRP: $43.02SciFier: $37.60Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of... -
Storytelling in the New Hollywood by Kristin Thompson
SciFier: $60.58In a book as entertaining as it is enlightening, Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily... -
The Passing of Peregrinus. The Runaways. Toxaris or Friendship. The Dance. Lexiphanes. The Eunuch. Astrology. The Mistaken Critic. The Parliament of the Gods. The Tyrannicide. Disowned by Lucian
SciFier: $34.79Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia by Hesiod
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been... -
Republic of Images by Alan Williams
RRP: $61.09SciFier: $52.95Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895-the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris-to the... -
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume II by Apuleius
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73A beguiling tale of mistaken transformation.In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful... -
Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes by Longus
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $34.26Two racy Greek romances.In Longus' ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their... -
The Virtual Life of Film D. N. Rodowick 9780674026988
RRP: $52.82SciFier: $45.86As almost (or, truly, virtually) every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely... -
The Economy of Prestige by James F. ENGLISH
RRP: $37.46SciFier: $31.94This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as... -
The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments by Hesiod
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been... -
The Emergence of Cinematic Time by Mary Ann Doane
RRP: $54.14SciFier: $42.74Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from... -
Earth Gods: Writings from before the War Taras Prokhasko 9780674291171
RRP: $23.56SciFier: $18.47Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine's most prominent contemporary writers. Collected here for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet... -
Earth Gods: Writings from before the War Taras Prokhasko 9780674291164
RRP: $47.19SciFier: $36.78Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine's most prominent contemporary writers. Collected here for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet... -
The Fairest of Them All by Maria Tatar
RRP: $23.56SciFier: $21.04"With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting."-Gregory Maguire,... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: $30.51SciFier: $26.08The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
Liner Notes for the Revolution by Daphne A. Brooks
RRP: $29.12SciFier: $21.53Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of FameWinner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles AwardWinner of the MAAH... -
Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres Dal Yong Jin 9780674291324
RRP: $29.12SciFier: $25.41Webtoons-a form of comic that are typically published digitally in chapter form-are the latest manifestation of the Korean Wave of popular culture that has increasingly caught on across the globe,... -
Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres Dal Yong Jin 9780674291317
RRP: $52.75SciFier: $45.36Webtoons-a form of comic that are typically published digitally in chapter form-are the latest manifestation of the Korean Wave of popular culture that has increasingly caught on across the globe,... -
Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion Daisy Yan Du 9780674297531
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $33.15Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation,... -
Argonautica Valerius Flaccus 9780674993167
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73The Roman epic retelling of the quest for the golden fleece.Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Latin poet who flourished in the period ca. AD 70-90, composed in smooth and sometimes obscure style an incomplete... -
Works: v. 6 Lucian 9780674994744
SciFier: $34.79Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Works: v. 7 Lucian 9780674994751
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Writing on the Wall by Karen B. Stern
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $34.33What ancient graffiti reveals about the everyday lives of Jews in the Greek and Roman worldFew direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing... -
Soloecista Lucius or the Assorted Amores Halcyon Demosthenes: v. 8 Lucian 9780674994768
SciFier: $34.79Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Imago Dei by Jaroslav Pelikan
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $56.43In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son,... -
Roman History: v.9 Cassius Cocceianus Dio 9780674991965
SciFier: $34.79A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of ... -
Hellenistic Collection by J. L. Lightfoot
SciFier: $34.79A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond.This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Cos through Alexander of... -
The Library, Volume II by Apollodorus
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.73Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the ... -
The Library, Volume I by Apollodorus
SciFier: $34.79Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the...