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After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176927
SciFier: £114.58Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170727
SciFier: £88.18Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus (c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc) 9780231138253
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £26.23All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157681
SciFier: £95.01Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160988
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176538
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174992
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.54Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics Julie A. Turnock 9780231163538
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.09Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the... -
Cinema in the Digital Age Nicholas Rombes 9780231167543
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into... -
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film by Robin Wood
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood, well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and... -
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film Adam Lowenstein 9780231132466
SciFier: £94.31In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156752
SciFier: £30.59The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
Attack of the Leading Ladies by Rhona Berenstein
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes... -
Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology by Philip Rosen
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject... -
Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231215640
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215497
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order Jonathan Buchsbaum 9780231170673
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.76In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady... -
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s Sarah Street 9780231179829
SciFier: £95.01The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222587
SciFier: £18.97By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation Paul W. Kahn 9780231164399
SciFier: £21.24Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith-remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu 9780231191838
SciFier: £15.12Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188708
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of... -
The Stardom Film by Karen McNally
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.89Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177863
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
SciFier: £88.18In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177870
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.35The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169608
SciFier: £88.18Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and... -
DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World Israel Rosenfield 9780231142717
SciFier: £18.29With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the... -
Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory Marianne DeKoven 9780231152839
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162203
SciFier: £94.31Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: £94.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Danger: Diabolik Leon Hunt 9780231182812
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157698
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
George Gallup in Hollywood Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame) 9780231121330
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
Designing Women by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the... -
Film Sound: Theory and Practice Elisabeth Weis 9780231056373
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £32.91This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from...