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Soviet Spectatorship: Observing the Body in Physical and Visual Culture Samuel Goff (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781350411203
SciFier: $43.08What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers these questions through an in depth... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany Scott Curtis 9780231134026
SciFier: $150.58Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520254565
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520256729
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $102.15Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
Experiential Spectatorship: Immersion, Participation, and Play During Times of Deep Mediatization William W. Lewis 9781032505077
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Experiential Spectatorship offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with(in) a variety of contemporary media. Using a broad-based perspective, this media includes participatory theatre, video... -
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship Jinhee Choi (King's College London, UK) 9780415821254
RRP: $236.30SciFier: $211.10This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators'... -
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship Jinhee Choi (King's College London, UK) 9781138233850
RRP: $63.93SciFier: $58.38This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators'... -
Michael Heath's The Battle for Britain: Collections of 135 surreal and hilarious cartoons by the prolific British cartoonist, illustrator and cartoon editor of The Spectator. Michael Heath 9781925642087
RRP: $37.46SciFier: $25.48The 21st century has most cartoonists stumped. How on earth do you satirise these crazy times? Michael Heath, almost alone among his peers, has succeeded. His uncanny ability to spot emerging trends... -
The Routledge Companion to American Film History Pamela Robertson Wojcik (University of Notre Dame, USA) 9781032610283
SciFier: $322.29Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore American film history from a fresh perspective.Comprising an introduction and 34 chapters written... -
Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image Tamsin Wilton 9780415107259
RRP: $59.76SciFier: $54.75Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women... -
Fields of Vision by Leslie Devereaux
RRP: $40.31SciFier: $38.93Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, "Fields of... -
Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image Tamsin Wilton 9780415107242
RRP: $239.07SciFier: $214.52Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women... -
Moving Viewers by Carl Plantinga
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In "Moving Viewers", Carl Plantinga explores this question... -
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory D. N. Rodowick 9780415726764
SciFier: $213.25This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and... -
Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger 9780415575263
SciFier: $214.52Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women's... -
Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger 9780415575287
SciFier: $76.45Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women's... -
Memory and Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant P. Lombardo 9780230241718
SciFier: $65.32Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo... -
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781137525031
SciFier: $65.32The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies,... -
Film and the Imagined Image Sarah Cooper (King's College London) 9781474452793
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $29.37Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452793Author Sarah CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Memory and Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant P. Lombardo 9781349317431
SciFier: $65.32Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo... -
The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9780415084604
SciFier: $53.56Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for... -
Film and the Imagined Image by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: $128.01This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage... -
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230612327
SciFier: $65.32The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies,... -
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory D. N. Rodowick 9781138997813
SciFier: $63.19This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and... -
The Pulse in Cinema: The Aesthetics of Horror Sharon Jane Mee 9781474475853
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to... -
The Pulse in Cinema by Sharon Mee
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $116.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474475846Author Sharon MeeFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice Shweta Kishore 9781399525671
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian... -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695881
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $24.88In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695843
RRP: $123.71SciFier: $99.32In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130199
RRP: $181.46SciFier: $164.70For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130182
RRP: $46.57SciFier: $43.77For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
Warning Shadows by Professor Anjeana K. Hans (Contributor)
SciFier: $30.50A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison's... -
Picturegoers by Luke McKernan
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included... -
Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media Alexander N. Howe 9781501308628
SciFier: $56.98Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of the District of Columbia. The works gathered examine a... -
Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the Atlas Daniele Dottorini 9781666941999
SciFier: $136.21This book establishes a starting point toward a theory of the anachronism of cinematic images through an exploration of existing films, theories, and discourses concerning the temporality of images... -
Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema by Janice Loreck
SciFier: $108.41Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art... -
Nazi Film Melodrama by Laura Heins
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $28.38Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: $32.96Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: $137.61SciFier: $91.56Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
A Companion to Spanish Cinema by Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA)
RRP: $52.75SciFier: $51.71A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic,...