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The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers Gary Lee Downey 9780415920223
SciFier: £50.66Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents... -
Postmortems from Game Developer by Austin Grossman
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £34.30The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the... -
D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews Keith Beattie 9781496857927
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.26This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925-2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made... -
Discovering Birmingham by Jonathan Berg
RRP: £8.00SciFier: £7.53Discovering Birmingham is the perfect guide to England's vibrant second city. From its beginnings as a medieval market town to its rise as a world centre of manufacturing, this book explores how... -
Continuity Supervisor Avril Rowlands 9780240516134
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £47.69The Continuity Supervisor is a practical guide to the basics of continuity, designed to be of use both to the newcomer and those more experienced. Formerly titled 'The Continuity Handbook: a guide... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520241183
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £42.78Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Making Great Games: An Insider's Guide to Designing and Developing the World's Greatest Games Michael Wyman 9780240812854
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £37.63Join videogame industry veteran Michael Thornton Wyman on a series of detailed, behind-the-scenes tours with the teams that have made some of the most popular and critically acclaimed videogames of... -
Hollywood by Blaise Cendrars
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.56Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". Already a well-known poet, Cendrars was a celebrity journalist... -
The Passion of Montgomery Clift by Amy Lawrence
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93From his 1948 film debut in "Red River" through such classics as "The Heiress", "A Place in the Sun", and "From Here to Eternity", Montgomery Clift exemplified a new masculinity and - leading the way... -
Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics Pedro Moura 9781032450056
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.An international team of authors... -
Pulp Empire: A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Paul S Hirsch 9780226350554
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.29In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and... -
Cut `n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music Dick Hebdige 9780415058759
SciFier: £34.99First published in 1987. This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture.About the AuthorDick HebdigeBook InformationISBN... -
Children's Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World Olga Nieuwenhuys 9780415097512
SciFier: £22.04Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical... -
Chinese Film Stars Mary Farquhar 9780415690270
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period... -
Beyond the Soundtrack by Daniel Ira Goldmark
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of... -
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 Jennifer Wild 9780520279889
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.99The first decades of the twentieth century were pivotal for the historical and formal relationships between early cinema and Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and Dada. To examine these... -
Elaine May Elizabeth Alsop 9780252088582
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director's... -
Net Zero: The ABCs of Fashion Sustainability Tyler Elizabeth Bell 9781761452857
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.24Net Zero: The ABCs of Fashion Sustainability breaks down the complex world of fashion sustainability into a digestible A-to-Z guide, covering key terms, concepts, and actions that shape a more... -
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472073726
SciFier: £65.16This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
Production Management for Television Leslie Mitchell 9780415424813
SciFier: £29.86Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible... -
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice by Camille C Baker
SciFier: £41.13This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
SciFier: £46.16This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and... -
Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune Amanda Howell 9780367866563
SciFier: £41.13Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen-or heard-before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film... -
Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year Catherine Jurca 9780520233706
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £51.60In "Hollywood 1938", Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars... -
Fashion Writing by Josephine Collins
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £15.42Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or... -
Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition by Andrew Horton
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09'We need good screenwriters who understand character'. Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard... -
Mustang: Translating Willful Youth Elif Akcali 9780367543846
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.05This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Erguven's debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with... -
Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema Gaylyn Studlar 9780520274242
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult... -
Children's Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World Olga Nieuwenhuys 9780415097505
SciFier: £47.03Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical... -
Screenwriting for a Global Market by Andrew Horton
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Cinema is a truly global phenomenon and screenwriters who limit their ambitions to Hollywood can unnecessarily limit their careers. This book, loaded with information on every page, provides the... -
Of Reels, Romance and Retakes: Social Narratives of Cinema in Odisha Sanjoy Patnaik 9781032511320
SciFier: £42.00Of Reels, Romance and Retakes carries the reader on a fascinating journey into the genesis, evolution and reception of Odia cinema. Telling the story of its quiet emergence in 1936, the book goes on... -
Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Paul S Hirsch 9780226829463
SciFier: £22.27Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most... -
A Great Big Girl Like Me by Victoria Sturtevant
SciFier: £104.80In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At... -
Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation John Ellis 9780415574198
SciFier: £37.66Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences.Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday... -
Sixguns and Society by Will Wright
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the... -
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew Maggie Bullock 9780063042650
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063042650Author Maggie BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Animation Writing and Development by Jean Wright
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.14The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters, developing a television... -
The Lost Jungle by Guy Barefoot
SciFier: £106.74The main question addressed in this book: why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention? The sound serial was extremely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, with serials made... -
Scenes of Instruction by Dana Polan
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival... -
The River Spirit by Lucy Strange
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.15Trapped within the oppresive warrens of the city's chimneys, young sweeper Tom longs for fresh air and freedom in this atmospheric and ghostly tale from Lucy Strange. ...