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Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation Maya Balakirsky Katz 9780813577012
RRP: $166.16SciFier: $133.21In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some... -
The Thin Red Line David Davies 9780415773652
SciFier: $42.33The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during... -
Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600 Bethan Bide 9781350232440
SciFier: $45.88Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother's wardrobe is an... -
New Shoes by Chris Raschka
SciFier: $18.20Two-time Caldecott Medalist and New York Times-bestselling picture book creator Chris Raschka pays tribute to one of the most quintessential events of childhood-getting new shoes-in this boldly... -
Beyond Bagpuss by Chris Pallant (University of Greenwich, UK)
SciFier: $135.92Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, The Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Wild Renaissance: New Paradigms in Art, Ecology, and Philosophy Guillaume Loge (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) 9781835950555
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $30.98A Renaissance is underway. It can be seen as a response to environmental, societal and ethical issues so acute that human survival is in question. Artistic, philosophical and political, it builds on... -
Phoenix by Professor Brad Prager (Series Editor)
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $23.95Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold's film to date. Christian Petzold's... -
Alternative Comedy by Oliver Double (University of Kent, UK)
RRP: $40.19SciFier: $36.97In the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up. Contemporary critics talked about it... -
Postcolonial Cinema Studies Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 9780415782296
SciFier: $52.78This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is... -
Cold War Femme by Robert J. Corber
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $27.11In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared... -
Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard Nathan Andersen 9780415742122
SciFier: $52.78Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of... -
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion Kate Fletcher (Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UK) 9781138232266
RRP: $75.03SciFier: $67.88The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant... -
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art Margot Bouman (The New School, New York, USA) 9781350114562
SciFier: $129.48In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning... -
Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media Seung-hoon Jeong 9781138843639
SciFier: $60.92In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent... -
Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture by Marcel Danesi
SciFier: $131.98The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files,... -
Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $23.99For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell,... -
Costume in Performance by Donatella Barbieri (Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion, UK)
SciFier: $50.24Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding... -
Killing and Dying Adrian Tomine 9780571325153
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $11.28In his first full length work since Shortcomings in 2007, Adrian Tomine has produced another unforgettable collection of stories and characters: 'Amber Sweet' shows the disastrous impact of mistaken... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306929
RRP: $56.28SciFier: $52.25Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head Eliot Borenstein 9781501767821
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $39.65Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the... -
Introduction to Game Development by James R. Parker
RRP: $57.55SciFier: $41.38This book will guide you through the basic game development process, covering game development topics including graphics, sound, artificial intelligence, animation, game engines, Web-based games, etc... -
The World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman
RRP: $60.30SciFier: $46.99A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the... -
Werner Herzog: Interviews Eric Ames 9781617039683
RRP: $146.06SciFier: $136.67Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these,... -
Lewis Milestone by Harlow Robinson
RRP: $42.88SciFier: $41.31This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent... -
Adultery and the Female Star by Edward Gallafent
SciFier: $125.28This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films. It avoids the near-impossible challenge of writing about... -
Life in the Present by Liz Climo
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40Known for her charming animal illustrations that are "guaranteed to make you smile" (Good Housekeeping), internationally bestselling author and illustrator Liz Climo is back with a new collection of... -
Queer Youth and Media Cultures Christopher Pullen 9781137383549
SciFier: $125.28This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context... -
Queer Youth and Media Cultures Christopher Pullen 9781349480562
SciFier: $124.61This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context... -
National Mythologies in Central European TV Series by Jan Culik
SciFier: $154.39This is the first ever international comparative study of the mythologies which popular TV series in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania -- made before and after the fall of... -
Spanish Queer Cinema by Chris Perriam
SciFier: $124.63This title examines filmmaking, festivals, queer lives and cultures in Spain since 1998. Since the Catalan government passed the first of Spain's regional governmental laws on same-sex partnership in... -
Imagined China by Wang Haizhou
SciFier: $53.95This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the... -
Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900-1950 Maria Cristina C. Mabrey 9781032004303
RRP: $58.95SciFier: $53.95The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified... -
Iron Sunrise Charles Stross 9781841493367
OrbitSciFier: $31.48When the planet of New Moscow was brutally destroyed, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit: the neighbouring system of trade rival New Dresden. But New Dresden... -
Coming Out by Kyle Frackman (Customer)
SciFier: $30.00Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality. It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a... -
Cinema and Soft Power by Stephanie Dennison
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $29.60Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas Examines the implications for global film culture of the apparent shift in power relations... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head Eliot Borenstein 9781501769368
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $20.80Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the... -
Renaissance Splendor by Elizabeth Cleland
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $36.64Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of... -
Australian Genre Film Kelly McWilliam 9780367755263
SciFier: $53.95Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in... -
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema by Murray Leeder
SciFier: $36.17This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted" medium... -
Dennis Hopper by Nick Dawson
RRP: $87.10SciFier: $58.20The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late...