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Brutal Vision by Karl Schoonover
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that... -
Recording Reality, Desiring the Real by Elizabeth Cowie
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth... -
Tales from Grimm by Wanda Gag
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $22.64Renowned children's book author Wanda Gag presents these classic Grimm tales, accompanied by whimsical illustrations. Drawing on her peasant heritage and childlike sense of wonder, Gag translated the... -
Andy Kaufman by Florian Keller
SciFier: $52.47When Andy Kaufman succumbed suddenly to lung cancer in 1984, some of his fans believed that his death was yet another elaborate prank. Over the previous decade, Kaufman had achieved improbable fame... -
Shadows, Specters, Shards by Jeffrey Skoller
SciFier: $53.30Avant-garde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history. Jeffrey Skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avant-garde films more... -
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $25.00When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and... -
Swedish Folktales And Legends Lone Thygesen Blecher 9780816645756
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $23.53A unique collection of Sweden's most charming folktalesSwedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from... -
Garbo by Barry Paris
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $29.26The only complete biography of the screen legend-now in paperback for the first time!Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and... -
Cine-Ethnography by Jean Rouch
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $35.15One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion... -
Brain Is The Screen by Gregory Flaxman
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83The first broad-ranging collection on Deleuze's essential works on cinema. In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuze's books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are... -
Bronze Screen by Rosa Linda Fregoso
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $27.93"Born in East LA","La Bamba", "American Me" and "Zoot Suit" are all recent films by and about chicanos. In this study, the author offers an explanation of the cultural significance of these and other... -
Vampire Lectures by Laurence A. Rickels
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $31.22A wild and wide-ranging "psycho-history" of the vampire.A wild and wide-ranging "psycho-history" of the vampire.Bela Lugosi may-as the eighties gothic rock band Bauhaus sang-be dead, but the vampire... -
Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover Denise Mann 9780816645411
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $33.83Hollywood Independents explores the crucial period from 1948 to 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Denise Mann examines... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687169
RRP: $45.34SciFier: $36.78The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher A. Paul 9781517900410
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $33.83An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy's negative contribution to video game culture-and what can be done about it Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation... -
What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilem Flusser 9781517913663
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $25.00An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the... -
True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales Sigrid Undset 9780816678280
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $22.06A selection of Norwegian folktales chosen by Sigrid Undset, True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales is based on the classic folklore collected by Pieter Christian Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe. These... -
No More Nice Girls by Ellen Willis
SciFier: $55.28With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: "a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of... -
Beginning to See the Light by Ellen Willis
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 9780816693160
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
Celebrity and Power by P. David Marshall
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $32.36Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to... -
What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilem Flusser 9781517913656
RRP: $124.74SciFier: $80.68An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the... -
Magnetic North by Jenny Lion
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $34.81Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637799Author Jenny LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies Alan Dale 9780816636570
RRP: $105.84SciFier: $84.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636570Author Alan DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Coproducing Asia by Stephanie DeBoer
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie... -
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 9780816667376
SciFier: $137.63In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting... -
Players and Their Pets by Mia Consalvo
SciFier: $46.23In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women,... -
Mayor of the Universe by Lorna Landvik
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $24.29A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum-or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his... -
Mechademia 6 by Frenchy Lunning
SciFier: $53.69Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing dojinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations,... -
Tender Comrades by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $39.24More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection... -
The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 9781517909758
RRP: $168.21SciFier: $135.04A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask... -
Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 9780816685233
RRP: $187.11SciFier: $148.59Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema Animation and technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn flipbooks to stop-motion... -
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams by Christopher Bolton
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $29.26Since the end of the Second World War-and particularly over the last decade-Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its... -
The Stars by Edgar Morin
SciFier: $26.55Worshipped as heroes, treated as gods, movie stars are more than objects of admiration. A star's influence touches on every aspect of ordinary life, dictating taste in fashion, lifestyle, and desire... -
Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling
RRP: $47.16SciFier: $35.80Sergio Leone is a singular figure among Italian filmmakers of the postwar years; his films grow in reputation year after year. Groundbreaking westerns such as his Dollars trilogy and the... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray 9780816634026
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $33.83In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video Glen M. Mimura 9780816648313
SciFier: $49.12An interpretive history of Asian American independent media since the 1960sAsian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that... -
Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany Jennifer Fay 9780816647453
SciFier: $51.05In the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, Germans found themselves receiving instruction from their American occupiers. It was not a conventional education. In their effort to... -
Database Aesthetics by Victoria Vesna
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how... -
Film Nation by Robert Burgoyne
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $30.90Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the country's origins by competing geopolitical...