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Science Fiction Audiences by Henry Jenkins
SciFier: £37.66Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired... -
The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto, Innis College) 9780231213592
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.49From 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,... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9780230111622
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180870
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.99The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come Francesco Casetti 9780231172431
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781137404138
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £93.49Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
Gods in the Bazaar by Kajri Jain
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.53Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art," the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180863
SciFier: £94.31The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302730
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £32.80Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity in the Margins of Europe PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) 9781501319969
SciFier: £40.99Cyprus, the idyllic "island of Aphrodite," is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production. Constandinides and... -
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781350240940
SciFier: £31.99Drawing 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... -
Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138844520
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302723
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.68Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9781137290090
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
Repair: Sustainable Design Futures Markus Berger 9781032154077
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.79A collection of timely new scholarship, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the... -
Celluloid War Memorials by Mark Connelly
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781349487226
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £77.99Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9780230579699
SciFier: £95.21A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto, Innis College) 9780231213585
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £81.12From 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,... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478002925
SciFier: £22.56In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of... -
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions Isaac Vincent Joslin 9780896803305
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.34An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre... -
Street Art Santiago Chile Lord K2 9780764349270
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £25.39Santiago, with its deeply evolved and extremely active underground graffiti scene, bursts at the seams with an abundance of eye-popping, jaw-dropping murals. Stencil graffiti artist Lord K2 documents... -
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 Nora Stone (, Birmingham-Southern College) 9780197557297
SciFier: £91.79Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independent film movement, support from public and cable... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Robert J. Corber 9780822319641
SciFier: £22.56Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Unicorn on a Roll: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure Dana Simpson 9781449470760
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.43One year has passed since Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond, accidentally hit a unicorn in the face, and was granted a single wish-which she used to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils,... -
Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory David Greven 9780190214173
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £37.49Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Robert J. Corber 9780822319566 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £29.97Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions Isaac Vincent Joslin 9780896803299
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre... -
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.99Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for... -
Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US 'High-End' Series Dr. Max Sexton (University of Surrey, UK) 9781501375965
SciFier: £33.99Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US 'High-end' Series investigates new categories of high-end drama and explores the appeal of programmes from Netflix, Sky Atlantic/HBO,... -
Post-Catastrophe Film: Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster Stephen Lee Naish (Independent Scholar, Canada) 9781835952917
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.12Why can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances? This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called 'post-catastrophe' is emerging that displays narratives ... -
The Lighthouse Witches C.J. Cooke 9780008455446
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51Don't miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . 'Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of reality with a magical realism that will... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478001348
SciFier: £92.98In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of... -
Traveling Music Videos Dr. Tomas Jirsa (Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature and Media Studies, Palacky University, Czechia) 9781501397998
SciFier: £97.99Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural... -
Traveling Music Videos Dr. Tomas Jirsa (Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature and Media Studies, Palacky University, Czechia) 9781501398032
SciFier: £30.99Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural... -
Post-Catastrophe Film: Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster Stephen Lee Naish (Independent Scholar, Canada) 9781835952832
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £90.35Why can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances? This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called 'post-catastrophe' is emerging that displays narratives ... -
Doctor Foster: The Scripts by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South... -
Fashion Design for Living Alison Gwilt (Reader in Fashion and Sustainability, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9780415717724
SciFier: £42.86Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments...