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The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $41.20SciFier: $33.85Over 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... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $58.81Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning... -
Homegrown by Alan Schaefer
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $46.17Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock... -
Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington
RRP: $52.65SciFier: $42.75Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege... -
Feminism, Film, Fascism by Susan E. Linville
RRP: $36.62SciFier: $30.30German 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... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310854
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $44.56El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311622
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $40.99Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311615
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $127.97Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $53.45No 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... -
Israeli Cinema by Miri Talmon
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $53.27With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $53.27Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
Spanish Film Under Franco by Virginia Higginbotham
RRP: $36.62SciFier: $30.30How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $71.65Although 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... -
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Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons Ace Reid 9780292770973 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $15.34Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $37.44Theories 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... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: $52.65SciFier: $44.56From 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)... -
Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America Blanton Museum of Art 9781477323977
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $70.052023 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... -
On Story-The Golden Ages of Television by Maya Perez
RRP: $36.62SciFier: $30.30"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... -
On Story-Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films by Barbara Morgan
RRP: $36.62SciFier: $30.30"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... -
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism by Richard A. Gordon
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $39.20A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon's Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released... -
Latino Images in Film by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $39.20The 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... -
American Films of the 70s by Peter Lev
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $37.44While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation,... -
Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477310687
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477309773
RRP: $169.46SciFier: $135.20Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema Todd Berliner 9780292722798
RRP: $103.05SciFier: $86.13In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as... -
Generation Multiplex by Timothy Shary
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $46.17Generation 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... -
Performing Piety by Karin van Nieuwkerk
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $48.11In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and... -
Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film Sergio de la Mora 9780292712973
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $37.44After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: $36.62SciFier: $30.30Writing 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... -
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film Martha McCaughey 9780292752511
RRP: $52.65SciFier: $42.75When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's... -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $37.44Steven 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... -
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV Diana Adesola Mafe 9781477315224
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $127.97When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades... -
Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $23.75Robert 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... -
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement by Jorge Santos, Jr.
RRP: $169.46SciFier: $135.20Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $48.11Though 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... -
Indie, Inc. by Alisa Perren
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56During 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... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56More 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 Making of Gone With The Wind by Steve Wilson
RRP: $103.05SciFier: $91.14Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives... -
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes by Margot Blum Schevill
RRP: $84.73SciFier: $73.46In 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...