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RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born Richard B. Jewell 9780520271791
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $65.24One of the "Big Five" studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane" to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But... -
Redefining Black Film by Mark A. Reid
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $52.65Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered 'black films'? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between... -
The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised edition by Robert L. Carringer
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $35.43Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307797
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $48.30Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood Cari Beauchamp 9780520214927
RRP: $61.83SciFier: $53.56Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images Sara Blair 9780691172224
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $68.15How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images Sara Blair 9780691202877
RRP: $50.38SciFier: $43.44How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation Brooke Belisle 9780520393851
RRP: $162.59SciFier: $132.48In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of... -
Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation Brooke Belisle 9780520393868
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $48.30In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of... -
![Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic Barbara Klinger 9780520296473](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/154155/155342/9780520296473__22681.1684944761.jpg?c=1 "Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic Barbara Klinger 9780520296473")
Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic Barbara Klinger 9780520296473
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $45.94Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals,... -
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Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic Barbara Klinger 9780520296459
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $151.32Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals,... -
Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780520390362
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $53.88In 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... -
Artists Respond by Melissa Ho
RRP: $132.82SciFier: $125.33How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and... -
Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema Christina Klein 9780520296503
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $54.39South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational... -
Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries John Thornton Caldwell 9780520388987
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $151.32John Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case... -
Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries John Thornton Caldwell 9780520388970
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $49.90John Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case... -
Hollywood Made in China Aynne Kokas 9780520294028
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $51.27China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an... -
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 9780520295056
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an... -
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 9780520295049
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $169.69The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an... -
Ecotopia: (40th Anniversary Ed.) Ernest Callenbach 9781597142939
RRP: $27.46SciFier: $19.67Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ecotopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship,... -
Togo Takes the Lead: Heroic Sled Dog of the Alaska Serum Run Bruce Berglund 9781398251595
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $16.76In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one big problem... it was... -
Patron Sniffs Out Danger: Heroic Bomb-Detecting Dog of Ukraine Bruce Berglund 9781398257115
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $16.76When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, many cities were destroyed and left in ruins. Among the rubble were many dangerous, unexploded bombs and mines. But thanks to the hard work of a well-trained Jack... -
The Complete Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $33.94Published in hardcover for the first time in forty years, two classics of environmental science fiction "One of the most important utopian novels of the twentieth century that still has very... -
Sergeant Reckless Braves the Battlefield: Heroic Korean War Horse Bruce Berglund 9781398251571
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $16.76In 1952, the United States was heavily involved in the Korean War. When members of the US Marine Corps brought a horse to join in the war effort, little did they know that a hero would soon emerge... -
Corporal Wojtek Supplies the Troops: Heroic Bear of World War II Bruce Berglund 9781398257108
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $16.76During World War II, when a group of Polish soldiers found an orphaned bear cub, they eagerly took him in as their pet and named him Wojtek. As the young bear grew, he became friends with the... -
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations: Part Three: 1984-2013 Jean-Pierre Filiu 9781910593455
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $23.95In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. cover the tumultuous period that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ended... -
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea John Plotz (Mandel Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University) 9780192847881
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $42.02A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age... -
Outside: Stories by Barry Lopez Barry Lopez 9781595343192
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $29.17The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our... -
The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations by Monika Wozniak (Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature, Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Rome 'La Sapienza')
SciFier: $262.96The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his historical novel Quo vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero. The novel's vivid and...