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The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384361
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $44.71The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life by Janet Kraynak
RRP: $116.60SciFier: $97.69Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520301252
RRP: $89.04SciFier: $82.66This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520356924
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $155.80This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the... -
Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View Patrick Ellis 9780520355484
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to... -
Roberto Rossellini Peter Brunette 9780520359376
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381476
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply... -
Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea Hieyoon Kim 9780520394377
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the... -
Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture Kathleen Loock 9780520375772
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $47.78From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of... -
To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World Yiman Wang 9780520346321
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Between 1919 and 1961,... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397187
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $44.71When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415676
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $45.03Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a... -
Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 Jose Miguel Palacios 9780520410237
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction... -
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. Josslyn Jeanine Luckett 9780520402140
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $47.78Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375802
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380097
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology Eric Dienstfrey 9780520379541
RRP: $150.52SciFier: $140.34Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been... -
Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher EducationA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397170
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $140.09When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated... -
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. Josslyn Jeanine Luckett 9780520402133
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375819
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $61.27Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
One Reel a Week Fred J. Balshofer 9780520336193
RRP: $72.08SciFier: $67.82This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings Hugh Kenner 9780520357464
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $154.74Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,... -
Film and Its Techniques Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520358058
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $154.74In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore... -
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Rejane, Mistinguett Prof. Victoria Duckett 9780520382114
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the forefront of the... -
Roberto Rossellini Peter Brunette 9780520308336
RRP: $89.04SciFier: $82.66This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative... -
Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Tahirih Motazedian 9780520382152
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity-so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key... -
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology Eric Dienstfrey 9780520379558
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $45.03Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been... -
Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror Kartik Nair 9780520392281
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $44.71In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the... -
Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780520390355
RRP: $150.52SciFier: $139.92In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381520
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $157.09We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381544
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $45.03We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
Sirens of Modernity by Samhita Sunya
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic... -
Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films Joyce E. Jesionowski 9780520318502
RRP: $72.08SciFier: $67.82This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380080
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381469
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply... -
Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Tahirih Motazedian 9780520382169
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity-so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key... -
Mobile Hollywood by Kevin Sanson
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and... -
Rated A by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, India's... -
Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea Hieyoon Kim 9780520417366
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $138.61A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the...