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Magnetic North by Jenny Lion
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.42Apologies 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: £56.00SciFier: £44.81Apologies 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: £21.99SciFier: £17.90East 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: £72.82In 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: £24.46In 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: £12.99SciFier: £12.85A 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: £28.41Manga 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: £25.99SciFier: £20.76More 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: £89.00SciFier: £71.45A 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: £99.00SciFier: £78.62Reshapes 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: £17.99SciFier: £15.48Since 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: £14.05Worshipped 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: £24.95SciFier: £18.94Sergio 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: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In 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: £25.99An 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: £25.99In 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: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Database 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: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Events 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... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687152
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £78.62The 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,"... -
Mechademia 10 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11-the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises-and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken... -
Mechademia 1 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture-primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion-has exploded... -
Piotr Szyhalski by Diane Mullin
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £28.04The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist The artistic practice of Piotr Szyhalski encompasses an impressive array of media and genres: from poster design to... -
Neither God nor Master by Brian Price
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L'Argent (1983), has long been... -
From Light to Byte: Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 9780816677627
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate... -
Tales from a Finnish Tupa by James Cloyd Bowman
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.27Back in print.First published in 1936, this book presents tales of magic like "The Mouse Bride" and "Antti and the Wizard's Prophecy," droll stories such as "The Pig-Headed Wife," and fables from the... -
Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.34In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying... -
Line Of Sight by Paul Arthur
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35For three decades, Paul Arthur has been a leading observer and critic as well as a direct participant in America's avant-garde cinema. In A Line of Sight, he provides a sweeping new account of the... -
Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 9780816685295
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Reshapes 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... -
Small Nation, Global Cinema by Mette Hjort
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international film market, Mette... -
Lulu In Hollywood by Louise Brooks
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637317Author Louise BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.82Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film... -
Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture Lisa Cartwright 9780816622900
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of... -
Gameplay Mode by Patrick Crogan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for... -
How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.45In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the... -
The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05In The Genius of the System, Thomas Schatz recalls Hollywood's Golden Age from the 1920s until the dawn of television in the late 1940s, when quality films were produced swiftly and cost efficiently... -
The Quay Brothers by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely... -
Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog Eric Ames 9780816677641
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly... -
Art Labor, Sex Politics by Siona Wilson
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a... -
Anime's Media Mix by Marc Steinberg
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural... -
Directed By Allen Smithee by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816635344Author Jeremy BraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Minnesota...