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That's Not Funny by Matt Sienkiewicz
RRP: $29.19SciFier: $25.05A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate... -
Ecocinema Theory and Practice Stephen Rust 9780415899437
SciFier: $66.80Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical... -
Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies
SciFier: $35.70Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not... -
Post-classical Hollywood by Barry Langford
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $36.18At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945... -
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age John Alberti 9780814344910
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $97.98Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an... -
Television Goes to the Movies Jonathan Gray 9781138476448
SciFier: $52.35Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented... -
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781350240902
SciFier: $147.21Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual... -
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781350240940
SciFier: $44.47Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475126
RRP: $58.38SciFier: $55.93From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214049
SciFier: $149.27Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven... -
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age John Alberti 9780814342862
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $31.26Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $31.36In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Berlin School Glossary by Roger F. Cook
SciFier: $52.54Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin... -
Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture Hester Baer (Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Maryland, USA, University of Maryland, USA) 9781350370067
SciFier: $110.23The popular German streaming series Babylon Berlin-a neo-noir thriller set in the final years of the Weimar Republic-builds on the fascination with 1920s Berlin as a centre of political and economic... -
The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto, Innis College) 9780231213592
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $27.09From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive processes. The film industry of Hollywood,... -
Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media Seung-hoon Jeong 9781138843639
SciFier: $60.78In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214056
SciFier: $38.49Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven... -
Unbecoming Cinema by David H. Fleming
RRP: $123.64SciFier: $122.49Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a... -
Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store Daniel Herbert 9780520279636
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.32Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital... -
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film Robert P. Kolker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland) 9780190678036
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $29.87Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some... -
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV: The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen Loren-Paul Caplin (Columbia University; NYU Tisch; Hofstra University, USA) 9780367256869
SciFier: $43.91Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern... -
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film Robert P. Kolker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland) 9780190678029
RRP: $156.38SciFier: $132.04Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some... -
Shivers Down Your Spine by Alison Griffiths
SciFier: $133.13From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a... -
Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema Dr. Paul Kerr (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501336751
SciFier: $143.16Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side... -
Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 9781517906313
RRP: $123.71SciFier: $99.32A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $42.52There 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... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353744
RRP: $123.71SciFier: $107.07In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353881
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $31.36In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: $157.07SciFier: $151.41There 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... -
Cinema Derrida by Tyson Stewart
RRP: $99.11SciFier: $90.34Cinema Derrida charts Jacques Derrida's collaborations and appearances in film, video, and television beginning with 1983's Ghost Dance (dir. Ken McMullen, West Germany/UK) and ending with 2002's... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: $127.87SciFier: $111.01The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store Daniel Herbert 9780520279612
RRP: $82.01SciFier: $75.05Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital... -
Reel Women by Jane Sloan
SciFier: $130.65In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken... -
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) Cristina Fernandez 9780063114302
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $13.09A romantic coming-of-age story about growing up, falling in love, and surviving life-all set in the world of superheroes-from debut author Cristina Fernandez, proving that you don't need a superpower... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
SciFier: $32.37The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 9781517906320
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $24.88A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of... -
Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature Susan Smith, University of Sunderland, UK (University of Sunderland, UK) 9781501354915
SciFier: $51.42This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Pixar's first feature-length... -
The Magician's Daughter by H. G. Parry
OrbitRRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.08A WORLD OF WONDER AND MIRACLES UNFURLS IN THIS TIMELESS COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY'That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic. It's an absolute... -
Horrifying Children by Lauren Stephenson (York St. John University, UK)
SciFier: $136.21Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography. There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of... -
Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand P. Limbrick 9780230102644
SciFier: $65.32Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and...