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The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel Scott Russell Sanders 9780253045874
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are... -
Flash Flaherty by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.48Flash Flaherty, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people's history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an... -
Reading Bataille Now by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his... -
The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema Kaja Silverman 9780253204745
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01" . . . a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential." -Stephen Heath"An... -
Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts by Katrina Daly Thompson
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015754
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
When Comedy Goes Wrong Christopher J. Gilbert (Assumption University) 9780253072511
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12It's time to look at what is not so funny about funny business. While conventional wisdom has it that humor embodies a spirit of renewal and humility, a new, dispirited form of comedy has begun to... -
African Cinema by Manthia Diawara
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." -Robert Stam "Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments... -
The Films of Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer 9780253205421
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as is... -
John Ford Made Westerns by Gaylyn Studlar
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015716
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.58In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play Thomas P. Oates 9780253014993
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of... -
Dictionary of African Filmmakers by Roy Armes
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £44.53Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary... -
Trash: African Cinema from Below Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253007513
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have... -
Indiana University Cinema by Brittany D. Friesner
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.42In its first ten years, a small Midwestern cinema has attracted some of the most intriguing and groundbreaking filmmakers from around the world, screened the best in arthouse and repertory films, and... -
Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability Patricia White 9780253213457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"White writes with considerable flair, and her arguments are always interesting . . ." -Choice"Uncovering a massive trove of what she calls 'lesbian representability'-images of lesbian desire, love... -
Ancient Tales in Modern Japan by Fanny Hagin Mayer
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.80Ancient Tales in Modern Japan makes available for the first time in English a unique collection of Japanese folk tales. More than half of these tales have never before been translated. Fanny Hagin... -
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play Thomas P. Oates 9780253015020
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of... -
When Comedy Goes Wrong Christopher J. Gilbert (Assumption University) 9780253072528
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88It's time to look at what is not so funny about funny business. While conventional wisdom has it that humor embodies a spirit of renewal and humility, a new, dispirited form of comedy has begun to... -
Playing with Religion in Digital Games Heidi A. Campbell 9780253012531
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and... -
Nonfiction Film by Richard Barsam
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major... -
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties Steve Cohan 9780253211279
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily... -
Turbulence and Flow in Film by Yvette Biro
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Little attention has been paid to the temporal aspect of filmmaking. Turbulence and Flow in Film describes how pace and rhythm create meaning and how film gains its fullness through the flow of... -
Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Tania Modleski 9780253203953
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Exploring various forms of contemporary mass art and culture, from rock-'n'-roll music to "slasher" films, from women's romances to "retro" fashion style, these innovative and politically engaged... -
Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -Semiotica" . . . Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -Voice Literary... -
Hollywood Gamers by Robert Alan Brookey
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.05For years, major film studios have licensed products related to their most popular films; video game spin-offs have become an important part of these licensing practices. Where blockbuster films are... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts David S. Heineman 9780253017154
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema Judith Mayne 9780253206060
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45"[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -SubStance" . . . this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's... -
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany by Gail Finney
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age-the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates,... -
Bogolan by Victoria L. Rovine
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Focusing on a single Malian textile identified variously as bogolanfini, bogolan, or mudcloth, Victoria L. Rovine traces the dramatic technical and stylistic innovations that have transformed the... -
Playing with Religion in Digital Games Heidi A. Campbell 9780253012449
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £53.60Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts David S. Heineman 9780253017109
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
Cinema in a Democratic South Africa by Lucia Saks
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £11.97Lucia Saks uses South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. She examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation... -
Focus on African Films by Francoise Pfaff
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958 Colin Crisp 9780253016959
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each... -
Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games Jennifer Malkowski 9780253026477
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043467
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.58In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043474
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the... -
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East by Roy Armes
SciFier: £36.99In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by more than 250 filmmakers, and short and... -
The Geopolitical Aesthetic by Fredric R. Jameson
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling . . . distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." -The San Francisco Bay GuardianTaking...