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The Seventies by Shelton Waldrep
SciFier: $75.29The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William Franke
SciFier: $114.18This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema Ben Bollig 9781835537183
RRP: $61.69SciFier: $59.02From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252043178
RRP: $170.17SciFier: $135.11Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world,... -
Scoring Transcendence by Kutter Callaway
RRP: $56.01SciFier: $34.61Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has... -
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir Dan Flory (Montana State University) 9780271033457
SciFier: $84.13In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir... -
Dis-Orienting Rhythms by Sanjay Sharma
SciFier: $57.95Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. One of the first... -
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231204422
RRP: $218.79SciFier: $176.36Winner, 2023 SFRA Book Award, Science Fiction Research AssociationA new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172813
RRP: $52.36SciFier: $43.74By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and... -
Beyond Bagpuss by Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
SciFier: $62.72Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry Jade L. Miller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 9781844576913
SciFier: $70.67Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning... -
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico L. Podalsky 9780230109551
SciFier: $87.87This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this... -
Beowulf Revelations: The Forgotten Anglo-Saxon King George Jones 9781068567025
RRP: $24.29SciFier: $18.79The Beowulf Manuscript, an ancient document housed in the British Museum, has been the subject of extensive study and translation by literary giants such as JRR Tolkien and Seamus Heaney. With new... -
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico L. Podalsky 9781349292233
SciFier: $87.87This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this... -
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece Octavia E. Butler 9781472258229
RRP: $18.68SciFier: $17.22**MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+**Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK... -
Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts Mary Shelley 9781624669125
RRP: $31.77SciFier: $24.53"In this new edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , David Wootton's Introduction gives the reader both a clear and gripping account of the biographical circumstances that led to the novel's writing... -
Psycho in the Shower by Philip J. Skerry (Independent Scholar/ retired Professor, USA)
SciFier: $54.21This is a brilliant study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from "Psycho". Every other chapter is an extended interview with someone who either worked on the original film or Gus van Sant's... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema Gonul Donmez-Colin (Independent scholar, France) 9781138657694
SciFier: $104.46The first critical and analytical dictionary of Turkish Cinema, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish cinema from its beginnings to the present day.Addressing the lacuna in scholarly... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
SciFier: $164.90By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and... -
The Gendered Screen by Brenda Austin-Smith
SciFier: $67.30This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers... -
Medicine by Jean-Noel Fabiani
SciFier: $34.95In the Middle Ages, surgery was performed by barbers, owing to their skill with sharp instruments. In the mid-19th century, a "grand exhibition" of the effects of laughing gas inadvertently led to... -
The Question Mark Muriel Jaeger 9780712352987
RRP: $16.81SciFier: $11.93In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set out to explore `The Question Mark' of what a future society might look like if human nature were... -
Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives Robert Petersen 9780313363306
SciFier: $89.74This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that... -
Kimono by Anna Jackson
RRP: $74.80SciFier: $56.72Shortlisted for the Textile Society of America's R.L. Shep Award 2020. The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded... -
The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever Nick Hall 9780813587202
RRP: $56.08SciFier: $46.54From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the... -
Sing Musicals: A History Of Singapore Musical Theatre Kenneth Lyen (Rainbow Centre, Singapore) 9789811279508
RRP: $121.55SciFier: $110.44This is the first book documenting the history of the Singapore musical. It aims not only to portray what the Singapore theatre scene was like in the past, but also how the stories and language used... -
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television M. Stewart 9781349457502
SciFier: $87.87Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and... -
Cinema at the Shore by Fiona Handyside
RRP: $97.24SciFier: $88.81From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to Francois Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are... -
New Model Army by Adam Roberts
GollanczSciFier: $34.11Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war - a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the world's first truly democratic army to take on the British army... -
The Path of the Dalai Lama by Tom Taylor
RRP: $37.40SciFier: $26.11The 14th Dalai Lama, renowned as a moral leader and spiritual teacher worldwide, is famous as a peacemaker yet stands as an unwavering fighter for the freedom of the Tibetan people, and above all,... -
Performing for the Don: Theaters of Faith in the Trump Era Hank Willenbrink 9781032303079
RRP: $89.74SciFier: $81.78This volume examines the intersection of political power and religion during the presidency of Donald Trump through an examination of performance.This study begins with an examination of white... -
The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual Albert R. Spencer 9781666942774
RRP: $158.95SciFier: $135.54The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual explores how role-playing games (RPGs) serve as immersive laboratories for exploring identity, ideology, and self-discovery. By weaving... -
The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors by Barry Monush
SciFier: $139.30For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen... -
Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology Marcus Milwright 9781474409193
RRP: $54.21SciFier: $46.73Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But what do we know about the skilled artisans who... -
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale Darryl Sterk 9781032236391
SciFier: $81.78Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the... -
Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices Andrew Knight-Hill 9780367271466
SciFier: $94.73Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both... -
Street Art by Simon Armstrong
RRP: $31.77SciFier: $20.55Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its... -
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema by Mauro Giori
SciFier: $174.83This book is the first to establish the relevance of same-sex desires, pleasures and anxieties in the cinema of post-war Italy. It explores cinematic representations of homosexuality and their... -
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology Roger Hillman 9780253217547
SciFier: $35.14"Hillman's groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing." -Klaus Phillips, Hollins UniversityUnsettling... -
Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960 Charles Tepperman 9780520279858
RRP: $149.60SciFier: $123.57From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and...