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Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age Laura Isabel Serna 9780822356530
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate Mexico's cinemas, many of its cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United... -
Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In Pretend We're Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent... -
Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition Bhaskar Sarkar 9780822344117
SciFier: £40.99What remains of the "national" when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm... -
The Soul of Anime by Ian Condry
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.59In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with... -
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318460
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.93Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In... -
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 Matthew B. Karush 9780822352648
SciFier: £34.99In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's... -
The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Daisuke Miyao 9780822354079
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.51In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino... -
![Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical Steven Cohan 9780822335573 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575076/646835/9780822335573__38529.1721652780.jpg?c=1 "Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical Steven Cohan 9780822335573 [USED COPY]")
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical Steven Cohan 9780822335573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £11.40With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made... -
![Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320555 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601484/673252/9780822320555__56424.1721839636.gif?c=1 "Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320555 [USED COPY]")
Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320555 [USED COPY]
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £45.04Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works... -
Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract Yomi Braester 9780822347231
SciFier: £39.79Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822360025
SciFier: £20.23In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478005094
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.36From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called "otaku" develop intense fan relationships with "cute girl" characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary... -
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Ivone Margulies 9780822317234
SciFier: £28.99Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one... -
Bound by Law? by Keith Aoki
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822359593
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £81.01In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.46Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond... -
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329398
SciFier: £23.26The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
Tomorrowing Terry Bisson 9781478026457
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.58For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular "This Month in History" column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events, four a month, each... -
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339694
SciFier: £39.99While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth... -
Ambient Television by Anna McCarthy
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times... -
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 by Noel Burch
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: £26.58Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822351016
SciFier: £22.56"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other... -
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy by Zhen Ni
SciFier: £22.79After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other... -
The Cinema of Economic Miracles by Angelo Restivo
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that... -
![Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575074/646833/9780822323549__83607.1721652778.jpg?c=1 "Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]")
Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £35.01Savage Theory articulates the powerful mythology of cinema as the premier medium for magic in modern times. Envisioning the cinema as a form of magical ritual that possesses the power to enliven,... -
![The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575078/646837/9780822329121__93268.1721652782.jpg?c=1 "The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]")
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £13.46The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
![Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575372/647131/9780822333579__91623.1721653085.jpg?c=1 "Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]")
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £14.58In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
![Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575377/647136/9780822337751__90224.1721653090.jpg?c=1 "Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]")
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £9.87In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the... -
![Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601488/673256/9780822323037__22241.1721839641.jpg?c=1 "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]")
Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £22.77In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Timothy D. Taylor 9780822349464
SciFier: £26.38This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478029274
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £79.32Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video... -
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478006299
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called "otaku" develop intense fan relationships with "cute girl" characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary... -
On Chantal Akerman by Patricia White
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.05The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture, Akerman is... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356400
SciFier: £105.83Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313861
SciFier: £22.56In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to... -
Regarding Frank Capra by Eric Smoodin
SciFier: £35.19In this innovative historical examination of the American movie audience, Eric Smoodin focuses on reactions to the films of Frank Capra. Best known for his Hollywood features-including It Happened... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X Feng 9780822329961
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Working Like a Homosexual by Matthew Tinkcom
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,...