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Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps J. P. Telotte (Professor of Film and Media Studies, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190949655
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £82.49What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp... -
Exploding Fashion by Alistair O'Neill
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £32.80Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With over 200 illustrations, it 'explodes' designs by 6 game-changing... -
American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s by Keith Dallas
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £36.19The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Keith... -
Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art Timothy Murray 9780415157896
SciFier: £44.60In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between... -
Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image Rachel Moseley 9780859890779
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.74This book explores the history of Cornwall's picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark books. Drawing on art history to... -
Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image Rachel Moseley 9780859893589
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £68.49This book explores the history of Cornwall's picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark books. Drawing on art history to... -
Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City Sidney Gottlieb (Sacred Heart University, Connecticut) 9780521545198
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.85Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £27.08Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
Textiles on Film Becky Peterson (University of New Mexico, USA) 9781350026551
SciFier: £90.41The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scene are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and develop mood and character as dress and decor. A much-needed examination of the... -
Mobile Hollywood by Kevin Sanson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and... -
Coming Attractions by Robert J. Stoller
SciFier: £28.99What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can we learn about our culture's sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this... -
Disney Discourse by Eric Smoodin
SciFier: £41.13Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an... -
Begotten by Kate Cherrell
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61In this neo-Victorian novel set in the fictional county of Duncain, spiritualism impacts an Anglo-Irish family. Following the death of her father, Alice Crofton returns to her family s crumbling... -
Klossowski Pasolini Gurrola: A Genealogy of Late Surrealist Film Theory Michael Newell Witte (Lecturer, California State University, Northridge) 9781399558747
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.78Beginning with an exploration of Klossowski's unconventional approach to literary and philosophical production, Michael Newell Witte traces the international impact that Klossowski and his cohorts in... -
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) by Nathaniel Greenberg
SciFier: £92.99In the wake of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt's future Nobel laureate in literature devoted himself exclusively to writing for film. The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib... -
The Bipolar Express by David Coleman
SciFier: £62.99In the past few decades, awareness of bipolar disorder has significantly increased, but understanding of the condition remains vague for most of the general public. Though the term itself is... -
Something Different About Dad by Kirsti Evans
SciFier: £18.08There's something different about Dad. He gets upset when we're even a minute late for dinner, he is angry at noisy family gatherings, and he really likes talking about buses. He is also always on... -
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Vol. 2: Doctormania Cavan Scott 9781785861109
Titan BooksRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.38When the Ninth Doctor lands on Gharusa in search of a secret from Captain Jack's missing past, the last thing he, Jack, and Rose expect to find is the Doctor's face plastered all over the planet's... -
Surrealism and the Gothic: Castles of the Interior Neil Matheson 9780367735890
SciFier: £43.73Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergence of surrealism and at key moments in its subsequent development as an art and... -
Gaming as Culture by J. Patrick Williams
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Perhaps the fastest growing facet of American popular culture, the video game industry is Hollywood's premier rival in the entertainment business. But stacks of new releases for gaming enthusiasts... -
Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film by Susan Larson (University of Kentucky)
SciFier: £31.15This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition by George Orwell
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £6.95First published in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of... -
The Animated Dad by Lorin Shahinian
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £40.36The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Young viewers are exposed to the incapable and... -
The Art of Color Categorization by Kyoko Hidaka
SciFier: £92.99From Newton's prism spectroscopy to modern color science, the study of color has been rooted in the categorization of colors. Building upon this foundation, this book aims to explore the rich and... -
Madchen in Uniform by Barbara Mennel
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play,... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9781349332373
SciFier: £46.99This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so... -
Global and Local Televangelism P. Thomas 9780230348103
SciFier: £46.99An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and... -
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[Grid< >Matrix] by Sabine Eckmann
SciFier: £12.40Shaping everyday landscapes from cities to factories, the grid - an arrangement of individual elements along perpendicular lines - has been a basic structure of modern life. The matrix, in contrast,... -
The Little Book of Balenciaga by Emmanuelle Dirix
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83'Haute couture is like an orchestra, whose conductor is Balenciaga. We other couturiers are the musicians and we follow the direction he gives' - Christian DiorThe godfather of conceptual design, a... -
Chanel. The Allure of Makeup by Natasha A Fraser
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £86.35The first book dedicated to Chanel makeup, published in collaboration with Chanel to celebrate the house's inspiring story of makeup creation which began in 1924. In 1924 Gabrielle Chanel launched... -
Immortal Engines by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: £89.49These nineteen original essays seek to recontextualize the subject of immortality, examining its influence as an ancient human aspiration while at the same time considering new scientific advances... -
Nana & Kaoru: Black Label, Volume 1 by Ryuta Amazume
Denpa BooksRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Meet Nana and her grumpy, virgin childhood friend Kaoru. These two share a secret that they couldn't possible reveal to anyone else: their special "breathers" they use to unwind. During a summer... -
The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics Jan Baetens 9781477332504
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.91How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics. As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of... -
The Role-Playing Society: Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs Andrew Byers 9780786498833
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose origins, characteristics, cultures and player experiences have been well... -
The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games by Patrick Hickey, Jr.
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Prior to the arrival of the Sega Genesis, video games were still largely considered "kid stuff," but with a far more mature and eclectic range of titles, and an understanding of what gamers wanted,... -
Carbide Tipped Pens by Ben Bova
SciFier: £15.19In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as lsaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and... -
Clash of the Totems and the Catastrophe of Callistus by Yonnie Garber
SciFier: £13.19Alone you can make a change, but together we make a difference. Join Ellery in her second year at the Quinton Earth Science School as one by one, another friend goes missing - lost without a trace... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic,... -
Secondhand Daylight by Eugen Bacon
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Something is happening to Green. He is an ordinary guy, time-jumping forward at a startling, uncontainable rate. He is grappling to understand his present; his relationship is wholly tattered; his...