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New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 9781501372728
SciFier: $67.82As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts,... -
Crisis of Transcendence: A Theology of Digital Art and Culture J. Sage Elwell 9780739141083
SciFier: $207.74From the Internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels-it is a fundamental... -
Ambient Television by Anna McCarthy
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $47.83Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times... -
Hammer Goes to Hell: The House of Horror's Unmade Films Kieran Foster (Assistant Professor) 9781474496667
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $39.60This book utilises never seen before materials held in the Hammer Script Archive to present a new perspective on one of the most famous British production studios of all time. While many studies of... -
Exploring Visual Culture by Matthew Rampley
RRP: $65.72SciFier: $64.21An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023217
SciFier: $61.12The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance by Ken McMullen
SciFier: $72.06Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Film, Nihilism and the Restoration of Belief by Darren Ambrose
SciFier: $31.14Despite the cliches which govern much of its current forms, the cinema continues to have a vital political and aesthetic significance. Our commitment to, and our sincerity towards, our ways of being... -
Contemporary art rooted in urban culture by Moniker.art
RRP: $212.00SciFier: $146.47Moniker mon*ick*er / [ mon-i-ker ] a person's name, especially a nickname or alias. "In the street art world everyone is equal and they don't wait for official approval. They are artists in every... -
The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History William E.B. Verrone 9780786459100
RRP: $84.78SciFier: $73.52Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films,... -
The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television's Shocking Cartoon Series Leslie Stratyner 9780786443079
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $28.85No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central's South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben... -
Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema Shellie McMurdo 9781474482080
RRP: $180.20SciFier: $169.58Connects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary America Explores how the most visually recognisable... -
What People Do with Images
SciFier: $131.42Rejecting broad-brush definitions of post-revolutionary art, What People Do with Images provides a nuanced account of artistic practice in Iran and its diaspora during the first part of the... -
The Stardom Film by Karen McNally
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $33.69Since 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 Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination Ryan Jay Friedman 9780813593593
RRP: $63.58SciFier: $51.13Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious... -
Indian Movie Entrepreneurship: Not just song and dance Rajeev Kamineni (University of South Australia) 9781138393813
SciFier: $96.38One of the world's most prolific creative industries, the Indian movie industryhas received scant attention for its spirit of enterprise. Indian Movie Entrepreneurshipaddresses this omission.For many... -
Subversive Spanish Cinema by Dr Fiona Noble (Durham University, UK)
SciFier: $72.06A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Performance functions as a diversion from unsavoury... -
Transnational Australian Cinema: Ethics in the Asian Diasporas Olivia Khoo 9781498511063
SciFier: $110.22To date, there has been little sustained attention given to the historical cinema relations between Australia and Asia. This is a significant omission given Australia's geo-political position and the... -
Permutations: A Well World Anthology S. P, Somtow 9781647101039
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $26.92Permutations: A Well World Anthology revives Jack L. Chalker's legendary series, bringing together exceptional talent to extend its universe. This collection, authorized by Chalker's estate, gathers... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis (City University of New York, USA.) 9781839026201
SciFier: $228.75Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1927's silent The... -
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future Kathe Hicks Albrecht (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA) 9781501349324
SciFier: $208.80What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551258
SciFier: $75.01They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
The Promise of the Child Tom Toner 9781473211377
GollanczRRP: $27.54SciFier: $9.07'among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years' TOR.COMAn extraordinarily inventive and hugely original SF novel that charts a compelling vision of a future and spins... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance: The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri Ken McMullen 9781783482689
SciFier: $177.00Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 Coleen Scott 9781138742260
RRP: $108.10SciFier: $96.84The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 is the first volume to inclusively document burlesque costume from its birth in the 1860's through the global burlesque movement in 2018. This lushly illustrated... -
Jennifer Lopez: A Biography Kathleen A. Tracy 9780313355158
SciFier: $78.42One of Hollywood's first openly Latin stars, Jennifer Lopez has held fast to her New York Bronx roots, while rising above them to become the highest paid Latina actress in history. Her expansive body... -
The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination Ryan Jay Friedman 9780813593609
RRP: $262.88SciFier: $209.27Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious... -
Bigger Than Blockbusters by James Roman
SciFier: $135.66Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger... -
100 Greatest Video Game Franchises Robert Mejia 9781442278141
SciFier: $101.74Video games take players on a trip through ancient battlefields, to mythic worlds, and across galaxies. They provide players with a way to try on new identities and acquire vast superpowers. Video... -
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics Ariel Heryanto 9780415572705
SciFier: $98.22This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the... -
Legacies of Indigenous Resistance by Anne Brewster
RRP: $141.09SciFier: $128.24This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who... -
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor by Joseph J. Darowski
RRP: $180.20SciFier: $152.19First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975, however, it found new popularity... -
Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual Astrid Ensslin 9781138243217
SciFier: $92.71This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online... -
Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Lilian Chee 9781138549043
SciFier: $103.73Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political... -
V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film James R. Keller 9780786434671
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers' film ""V for Vendetta"" represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller 9781847884138
RRP: $76.30SciFier: $63.58The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Channel 4 and the British Film Industry, 1982-1998 Laura Mayne 9781474437288
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $37.88This monograph offers the first ever comprehensive study of Channel 4's film production, distribution and broadcasting activities and represents a significant contribution to British cinema and... -
Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation: New Art, Fashion and Architecture Valerie Steele 9780847849673
RRP: $212.00SciFier: $162.50The more than eighty collaborators featured in this book comprise an A to Z of Vuitton s creative collaborations, especially from the last decade, with significant chapters devoted to the work of... -
The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman David LaRocca 9780813176215
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $61.03From the Academy Award--winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award--nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), writer Charlie Kaufman... -
A Darkness at Sethanon Raymond E. Feist 9780007509119
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $17.43The triumphant finale to the Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist's first classic, bestselling fantasy trilogy The battle may be over, but war is coming... The Kingdom forces may...