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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358404
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £76.13In 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... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56In 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... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A 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... -
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) 9780231180863
SciFier: £95.42The 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... -
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: £10.96Contemporary 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 ... -
Doctor Foster: The Scripts by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.32Mike 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... -
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 Nora Stone (, Birmingham-Southern College) 9780197557303
SciFier: £23.48Since 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... -
Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean by F. Laviosa
SciFier: £46.99This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a... -
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... -
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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... -
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 ... -
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: £25.04Santiago, 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... -
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... -
Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds Jenna Ng 9781441104489
SciFier: £41.99In this groundbreaking collection, Dr. Jenna Ng brings together academics and award-winning artists and machinima makers to explore the fascinating combination of cinema, animation and games in... -
The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema by Christian Rogowski (Customer)
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £24.49New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited... -
Nazis and the Cinema Susan Tegel 9781847250001
SciFier: £66.79Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, which inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this clearly, with... -
Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present Gustavo Procopio Furtado (Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University) 9780190867041
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £82.49Winner of the 2020 Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association. This book examines the vibrant field of documentary... -
This Is Not a Copy: Writing at the Iterative Turn Kaja Marczewska 9781501357336
SciFier: £36.99In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic 'copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction and plagiarizing to become a norm in... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 9780816693160
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
Get out by Jordan Peele
RRP: £17.50SciFier: £12.66Jordan Peele's powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859289
SciFier: £86.95Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts David McGowan 9781477317433
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.20A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century,...