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Five Stalks of Grain Adrian Lysenko 9781773853758
RRP: $45.27SciFier: $35.29In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding... -
Mechademia 1 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $25.00After 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... -
Anthony Minghella by Mario Falsetto
RRP: $56.61SciFier: $36.78Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every... -
Anthony Minghella: Interviews Mario Falsetto 9781617038204
RRP: $80.33SciFier: $51.84Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every... -
Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games Without Frontiers - War Without Tears A. Jahn-Sudmann 9780230545441
RRP: $226.78SciFier: $197.28Internationally renowned media and literature scholars, social scientists, game designers and artists explore the cultural potential of computer games in this rich anthology, which introduces the... -
Tales of Wonder Mark Twain 9780803294523
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $32.30Mark Twain's unsettling imagination and passionate curiosity roamed far and wide-racing across microscopic worlds and interstellar voids, leaping ahead to fearful futures, and speculating on dazzling... -
Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre 9781032685366
SciFier: $105.58The creations of female animation filmmakers are recognized all over the world while being, paradoxically, unknown to the general public. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National... -
Neil Jordan by Carole Zucker
RRP: $80.33SciFier: $51.84These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the... -
The Right to Play Oneself by Thomas Waugh
SciFier: $58.04The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter... -
Film Studies: A Global Introduction Glyn Davis 9781405859189
SciFier: $130.33Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and... -
Mechademia 6 by Frenchy Lunning
SciFier: $53.64Manga 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,... -
Mechademia 8 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $32.22Known as the "Walt Disney of Japan" it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices Catherine Russell 9780822370574
SciFier: $42.64In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
Schooling in Modernity by Paola Bonifazio
RRP: $60.48SciFier: $48.54Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight... -
Conversations with Gus Van Sant by Mario Falsetto
SciFier: $98.26One of the most talented and imaginative artists of independent cinema, Gus Van Sant established himself with a number of important movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning with Mala... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices Catherine Russell 9780822370451
SciFier: $174.41In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
Indigenous Media Arts in Canada by Dana Claxton
RRP: $73.62SciFier: $62.11Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices. Humans... -
Indian Art Cinema and its Cultural Elites Jyotika Virdi (University of Windsor, Canada) 9781350452961
SciFier: $180.85Repositioning Indian art cinema as a genre that articulated an elite, middle-class social imaginary, Indian Art Cinema and its Cultural Elites examines the form's contentious position within Indian... -
Okay, Universe by Valerie Plante
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $28.92Valerie Plante stood up to the patriarchal power system of her city, took down an incumbent, and became the first woman elected Mayor of Montreal. Her origin story comes alive in Okay, Universe. This... -
The Multilingual Screen: New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference Tijana Mamula (John Cabot University, Italy) 9781501302879
SciFier: $73.69The Multilingual Screen is the first edited volume to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the place of multilingualism in cinema, investigating the ways in which linguistic difference and exchange... -
The Making of Alternative Cinema Mario Falsetto 9780275994587
SciFier: $56.68The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended primarily... -
Fifty Key Video Games Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada) 9781032053608
SciFier: $52.90- The first book dedicated to exploring key video games from the 1970s to present day. - Provides a highly accessible overview of the history of video games from PONG, Pac-Man and Tetris to... -
Anime's Media Mix by Marc Steinberg
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83In 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... -
A History of Competitive Gaming Lu Zhouxiang 9780367559625
SciFier: $76.09Competitive gaming, or esports - referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players - began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one... -
My Mad Hair Day by Nathalie Dion
RRP: $26.44SciFier: $19.77Thanks to her wild head of hair, Malie gets all tangled up with an unexpected cast of characters in this funny, stylish twist of a tall tale. Malie is a little girl with huge, uncontrollable hair... -
Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415590983
SciFier: $72.82In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place:How does it select its objects of study and its methods of... -
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin Magdalena Buchczyk (CARMAH, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9781350226739
SciFier: $191.70Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on... -
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin Magdalena Buchczyk (CARMAH, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9781350226777
SciFier: $58.57Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on... -
Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG Rachael Hutchinson 9781793643568
SciFier: $71.80Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well... -
A Century in 16mm: The Remaking of Cinema Gregory A. Waller (Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University) 9780197687178
SciFier: $64.56When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies... -
A Century in 16mm: The Remaking of Cinema Gregory A. Waller (Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University) 9780197687161
SciFier: $216.56When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies... -
The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith Lynne Hume 9780857853615
SciFier: $61.35From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity,... -
Playback - A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames PhD Alex Wade (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781501341847
SciFier: $71.80Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time... -
Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play Judd Ruggill 9780415828284
SciFier: $94.12Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles,... -
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited Professor Catherine Russell 9781441133274
SciFier: $60.46Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated... -
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures Masha Salazkina 9780253052032
RRP: $60.48SciFier: $48.54For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique... -
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures Masha Salazkina 9780253052025
RRP: $179.55SciFier: $143.89For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique... -
Superhero Ethics by Travis Smith
RRP: $26.44SciFier: $24.95Whether in comic books or on movie screens, superhero stories are where many people first encounter questions about how they should conduct their lives. Although these outlandish figures-in their... -
Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider Aaron A. Reed (Independent Scholar, USA) 9781501385827
SciFier: $66.13The genre of adventure games is frequently overlooked. Lacking the constantly-evolving graphics and graphic violence of their counterparts in first-person and third-person shooters or role-playing... -
Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games Dr. Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA) 9781628927436
SciFier: $60.46The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance. At a time when streaming television finds millions of viewers, video games garner billions of dollars, and social media grows ever more intense,...