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Selznick's Vision by Alan David Vertrees
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer... -
Weird Yet Strange by Danny Garrett
RRP: $36.07SciFier: $28.02Weird Yet Strange is a collection of the music art created by Danny Garrett from the '70s and '80s in Austin, Texas, including artwork for Armadillo World Headquarters, Antone's, Willie Nelson,... -
Texas Monsters by Anne Paradis
SciFier: $12.19Do you know Texas? The Lone Star State attracts people from all over the world-even little monsters! Did you know that? Monsters are masters of camouflage who can easily hide in plain sight... -
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen Yosefa Loshitzky 9780292747241
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.732002 - A Choice Outstanding Academic Book The struggle to forge a collective national identity at the expense of competing plural identities has preoccupied Israeli society since the founding of the... -
Veni, Vidi, Video by Frederick Wasser
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many... -
Latino Images in Film by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady-these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century... -
Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America Blanton Museum of Art 9781477323977
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $44.332023 Honorable Mention, Jonathan Brown Award, Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA)Painted Cloth explores the production, meaning, and representation of garments used in civil and religious settings... -
A Vampire in Texas by Aaron Abilene
SciFier: $35.43Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223065296Author Aaron AbileneFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint -
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops,... -
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $33.62The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon... -
Dreams and Ideas (Volume 3): The Artistry of Costume Designer Winn Morton Myra Walker 9781574419993
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $40.85Dreams and Ideas celebrates the legacy of American theatrical designer John Winniford "Winn" Morton (1928-2022), a Texan who made his way to New York to begin a stellar career that lasted from when... -
Glasnost-Soviet Cinema Responds by Nicholas Galichenko
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet... -
Feminism, Film, Fascism by Susan E. Linville
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to... -
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes by Margot Blum Schevill
RRP: $51.43SciFier: $44.59In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and... -
That Texas Blood, Volume 2 by Chris Condon
Image ComicsRRP: $20.84SciFier: $14.54A recent string of violent events leads Sheriff Joe Bob Coates down the long and winding road of memory to a dark night in September 1981 that saw a boy killed, a girl missing, and a dangerous cult... -
The Pool by Texas Scream Team
SciFier: $8.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798392972470Author Texas Scream TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good... -
That Texas Blood, Volume 3 by Chris Condon
Image ComicsRRP: $20.84SciFier: $14.54As a winter storm looms over Ambrose County in January of 1992, a local woman's body is discovered and believed to be the latest victim of a horrifying West Texas serial murderer known as The Red... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $27.05From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)... -
Texas Lightning by Caroline Clemmons
SciFier: $11.38Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986339452Author Caroline ClemmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence Michael Kackman (University Of Texas @ Austin, Austin, Tx,USA University Of Texas at Austin, USA University Of Texas @ Austin, USA The University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9780415992237
SciFier: $54.75From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text,... -
Indie, Inc. by Alisa Perren
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.30During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Shakespeare in Love earned substantial sums at the box office along with extensive... -
Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television by Ben Brady
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73From All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy Award-winning "Best Picture" of 1929-1930, to Dances with Wolves, the 1991 winner, many of Hollywood's most popular and enduring movies have been... -
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by David William Foster
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian... -
On Story-Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films by Barbara Morgan
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." -Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the... -
That Texas Blood, Volume 1 by Chris Condon
Image ComicsSciFier: $12.50After an explosive confrontation over a casserole dish, Joe Bob Coates begins to question his effectiveness as Sheriff of Ambrose County, Texas. Matters only get worse as Los Angeles-based writer... -
The Monkey on Frida's Shoulder Catherine Barrera 9780875659541
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $25.95The Monkey on Frida's Shoulder is an imaginative re-telling of the life of Frida Kahlo, seen through the eyes of her house pet Nat-a talking spider monkey with a taste for linguistics, haute couture,... -
Best Tales of Texas Ghosts by Docia Schultz Williams
SciFier: $21.95Renowned storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books-Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas, Phantoms of the Plains, Ghosts Along the... -
Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.41Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphee makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $32.71No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $43.49Although less well known than its much-admired counterparts in Peru and Bolivia, highland Ecuadorian weaving is an Andean tradition that has relationships with these more southern areas. A world... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the physical content of the graphic frame has often been ignored or relegated to the... -
Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV by Kathryn Norberg
RRP: $52.75SciFier: $44.59Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories... -
Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood by Andrew A. Erish
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know today. Active from 1896 to 1938, William N. Selig was... -
The Solaris Effect by Steven Dillon
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's ... -
Generation Multiplex by Timothy Shary
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $28.02Generation Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine's Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social... -
The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $20.54Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching...