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Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture Eric Herhuth 9780520292567
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of... -
The Talkies by Donald Crafton
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £34.18The Talkies offers readers a rare look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. Donald Crafton presents a panoramic... -
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £28.98"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary" is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages Martha Bayless 9781350440777
SciFier: £31.38Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the... -
Krumpkin's Christmas Switch (Red's Rainbow) Red 9781802638592
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64It's time for a SECRET CHRISTMAS SWITCH! They just hope that Santa doesn't find out...! Santa needs lots of helpers to do his job. The reindeer pull the sleigh, the elves wrap the presents, and... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader Edward Lamberti 9781474444002
SciFier: £97.54Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a... -
Performing Mixed Reality Steve Benford (Professor of Collaborative Computing and Head of the School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham) 9780262546508
SciFier: £43.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546508Author Steve BenfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Photography Theory James Elkins 9780415977838
SciFier: £39.39Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers,... -
New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality Anna Everett 9780415939966
SciFier: £37.66The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from... -
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture Heather Addison 9780415762427
SciFier: £54.14This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing... -
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien J R R Tolkien 9780063417052
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £22.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063417052Author J R R TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader Edward Lamberti 9781474444019
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £23.76Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three... -
Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University) 9780190843137
SciFier: £91.71From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of... -
Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University) 9780190843144
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £27.68From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of... -
The Location of Culture Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University, USA) 9780415336390
SciFier: £21.36Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520241527
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520284463
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Among early Hollywood's most renowned film makers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has... -
Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine Kathryn Ramey 9780240823966
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £40.65Become a master in the influential, diverse, and highly innovative field of experimental filmmaking. Harness the little-known techniques and subtle aesthetics required for this imagination-driven art... -
Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520237117
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender Grayson Lee White 9781513139333
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24A memoir about what it's like when they think you're their daughter, but you know you're their son. For as long as he could remember, Grayson has known he is a boy, not a girl. While... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change Stephanie Burridge 9780367748760
SciFier: £42.00This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various... -
Chanteuse in the City by Kelley Conway
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life,... -
Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific Larissa Hjorth 9780415535892
SciFier: £45.46This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production... -
Craft Notes for Animators: A Perspective on a 21st Century Career Ed Hooks 9781138854345
SciFier: £36.79If Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry's infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward... -
Live Fast, Die Young by Lawrence Frascella
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £18.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296182Author Lawrence FrascellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender Grayson Lee White 9781513141770
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.34A memoir about what it's like when they think you're their daughter, but you know you're their son. For as long as he could remember, Grayson has known he is a boy, not a girl. While... -
Italian National Cinema Pierre Sorlin 9780415116985
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.79From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study... -
Music Rights Unveiled: A Filmmaker's Guide to Music Rights and Licensing Brooke Wentz 9781138673311
SciFier: £39.39Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and... -
Sounding New Media by Frances Dyson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Sounding New Media" examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion Vit Sisler 9780367889920
SciFier: £43.73Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve... -
Routledge Handbook of Street Culture Jeffrey Ross 9780367559533
SciFier: £46.33Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge... -
Directing by Simon Usher (Author)
SciFier: £12.74"Simon Usher is one of the most clear headed thinkers about theatre in this country. He taps onto a well of experience spanning four decades with grace and ferocious honesty. He writes with precision... -
Paik's Virtual Archive by Hanna B. Holling
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £46.08In Paik's Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Holling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions... -
Marxism Beyond Marxism Saree Makdisi 9780415914437
SciFier: £37.66These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished... -
In Other Los Angeleses by Meiling Cheng
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £24.49Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as... -
Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520267084
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
Shard Cinema by Evan Calder Williams
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284357
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Superheroes and Identities Mel Gibson 9780367738938
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Superheroes have been the major genre to emerge from comics and graphic novels, saturating popular culture with images of muscular men and sexy women. A major aspect of this genre is identity in the...