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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: £23.19After 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,... -
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean
SciFier: £28.13A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates... -
Tomorrowing Terry Bisson 9781478030683
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.86For 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... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353744
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £77.03In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822350880
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85"[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... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema Kristen Whissel 9780822355748
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect... -
Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £16.89In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Zhen Zhang 9780822340744
SciFier: £26.38Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353881
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age Laura Isabel Serna 9780822356417
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £70.66In 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... -
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Kristin Ross 9780822341925
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers... -
![Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575075/646834/9780822332855__65869.1721652779.jpg?c=1 "Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]")
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £107.00SciFier: £13.28Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his... -
Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction Scott Bukatman 9780822313403
SciFier: £41.59Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity-referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television... -
The Beautiful Generation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards,... -
Gods in the Bazaar by Kajri Jain
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.53Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art," the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822343127
SciFier: £26.58One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English,... -
The Passion of Ingmar Bergman by Frank Gado
SciFier: £41.79Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays-an uncommon practice in the film industry-and for this practice... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon Joseph Tobin 9780822332503
SciFier: £92.28Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a... -
Vanishing Women by Karen Redrobe
SciFier: £22.56With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman...