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Breakout by Richard Stark
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £14.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226508207Author Richard StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Dirty Money by Richard Stark
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £14.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226486154Author Richard StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Woven Histories by Lynne Cooke
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £45.55Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles. Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven... -
Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion Elizabeth L. Krause 9780226558073
SciFier: £24.16The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic... -
Network Aesthetics Patrick Jagoda 9780226346519
SciFier: £24.16The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain... -
Network Aesthetics Patrick Jagoda 9780226346489
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £97.74The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain... -
Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion Elizabeth L. Krause 9780226557915
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £96.93The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic... -
Possessed by Stefan Andriopoulos
SciFier: £40.38Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics... -
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 Nicholas Gebhardt 9780226448558
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.24If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying... -
The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) Errol Morris 9780226922683
SciFier: £27.95In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated... -
The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) Errol Morris 9780226922690
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.47Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth. In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book... -
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema Sangita Gopal 9780226304267
SciFier: £26.04Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in... -
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture Stefano Bloch 9780226493589
SciFier: £21.34"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers... -
Producing Local Color by Diane Grams
SciFier: £45.86In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local... -
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Paul Henley 9780226327143
RRP: £102.00SciFier: £101.14Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred... -
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Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Edward Castronova 9780226096278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £1.01From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages... -
Tall Tale America by Walter Blair
SciFier: £27.63"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall... -
Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America Steven J. Tepper 9780226792873
SciFier: £32.73In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it... -
Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America Steven J. Tepper 9780226792866
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £95.36In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it... -
Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade Winnie Wong 9780226024899
SciFier: £39.76In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces, producing an... -
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema Sangita Gopal 9780226304250
SciFier: £95.77Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in... -
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies Violaine Roussel 9780226486802
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.24Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or... -
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies Violaine Roussel 9780226486949
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £23.48Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or... -
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art Andrew V. Uroskie 9780226842998
SciFier: £28.90Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White... -
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Paul Henley 9780226327150
SciFier: £41.08Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred... -
Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Edward Castronova 9780226096278
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.99From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages... -
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780226816449
RRP: £48.00SciFier: £41.90A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety,... -
Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking David Bordwell 9780226066981
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £80.21David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with... -
Before Mickey - The Animated Film 1898-1928 by Donald Crafton
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £18.00This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur... -
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun by Roger Ebert
SciFier: £17.58A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert-with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb-achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed... -
Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking David Bordwell 9780226066998
SciFier: £24.16David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with... -
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 Dominic Janes 9780226358642
SciFier: £35.60"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a... -
Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary by Donna Kornhaber
SciFier: £32.48In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats--an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering... -
Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification John Lennon 9780226815695
SciFier: £27.95This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict-important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy... -
Herzog by Ebert by Roger Ebert
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £19.52Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the... -
Comics & Media by Hillary L. Chute
SciFier: £14.98The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success - and that new prominence has led to increasing interest within the academy as... -
Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory Allen Feldman 9780226277332
SciFier: £26.74In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric,... -
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870 1930 Nicholas Gebhardt 9780226448695
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £23.80If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying... -
Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era Russ Castronovo 9780226096285
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.94The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty... -
The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture David Bordwell 9780226352176
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.24Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable...