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Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image Rachel Moseley 9780859893589
RRP: $159.00SciFier: $145.20This 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: $33.90SciFier: $33.60Roberto 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: $57.41Fight 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: $191.67The 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: $63.60SciFier: $52.85A 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: $61.46What 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: $87.20Hirohito 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: $33.90SciFier: $24.61In 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: $201.40SciFier: $186.09Beginning 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... -
Broken Stars Ken Liu 9781788548120
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.41A new anthology of Chinese short-fiction by award winning author Ken Liu. Here are sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking SFF writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken... -
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Fiaz Rafiq
SciFier: $40.09Arnold Schwarzenegger - a bodybuilder-turned-real-estate mogul who turned an undefeated streak at the Mr Olympia contest into an astonishing film career and eight years as the governor of California... -
We Have Some Notes...: The Insider's Guide to Notes, Script Editing and Development Venetia Hawkes (The National Film & Television School, UK.) 9781839025495
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $34.66From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical... -
Azzi In Between by Sarah Garland
RRP: $19.06SciFier: $14.25Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language,... -
Ready Player Two by Shira Chess
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $37.95Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of... -
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit Carmen Maria Machado 9781800814523
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $19.04'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you... -
We Have Some Notes...: The Insider's Guide to Notes, Script Editing and Development Venetia Hawkes (The National Film & Television School, UK.) 9781839025501
SciFier: $156.54From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical... -
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures: Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) 9781350436633
SciFier: $179.69This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork... -
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) by Nathaniel Greenberg
SciFier: $197.14In 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: $133.54In 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: $38.33There'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... -
The Role-Playing Society: Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs Andrew Byers 9780786498833
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Since 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: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Prior 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: $32.20In 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: $27.96Alone 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Mehboob 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: $29.66SciFier: $20.84Something 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... -
Movie Movements by James Clarke
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $8.37Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of... -
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy Rami Kimchi 9780253063427
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $33.98A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a... -
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures Natalija Majsova 9781793609311
SciFier: $197.14This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521114837
SciFier: $86.69Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: $57.22During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back earned huge sums for the studios. At the same time,... -
The Napoleon of Notting Hill G K Chesterton 9780241698631
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.07London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an... -
Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia Esha Niyogi De 9780252088285
RRP: $52.98SciFier: $42.89Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this... -
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie 9781454959533
RRP: $14.82SciFier: $14.25Age range 8 to 12All children except one grow up.In 1904, Peter Pan first flew across a London stage and into the bedroom of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling. Ever since, this perpetual youth has... -
Yves Saint Laurent: Style Icon by Dan Jones
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $25.95Yves Saint Laurent's enduring impact on fashion and culture is explored through 70 of the fashion house's iconic pieces. Joining the house of Dior at the age of just 18, it was obvious that this... -
Patchwork by Kate Evans
RRP: $42.40SciFier: $40.11In the later years of her life, Jane Austen created a quilt. Acclaimed graphic novelist Kate Evans takes the fabrics of this patchwork coverlet and uses them to illustrate a beautiful, brilliantly... -
Rory and the Balloon Bicycles by Louisa MacDougall
RRP: $14.82SciFier: $11.02Rory the dragon and his best friend Flora share a love of flying andbicycles, so they are shocked when they discover a mountain ofdiscarded bikes, and appalled when they realise that rust from... -
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide Julian Koch 9781399558211
RRP: $201.40SciFier: $185.69Documentaries are the most common film genre representing genocide and thus significantly shape public understanding of the subject. Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging... -
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction Patricia Aufderheide (University Professor of Communication Studies, University Professor of Communication Studies, American University) 9780197798263
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $19.06Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this Very Short Introduction, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively,... -
Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments Paul M. Farber 9780876333105
SciFier: $43.23An exploration of the impact and cultural significance of the legendary Rocky statue located at the foot of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's steps Fifty years after the premiere of the original Rocky...