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Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract Yomi Braester 9780822347231
SciFier: $89.29Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence... -
![Plays, Movies, and Critics Jody McAuliffe 9780822314042 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/845769/1608828/9780822314042__40585.1787940595.jpg?c=1 "Plays, Movies, and Critics Jody McAuliffe 9780822314042 [USED COPY]")
Plays, Movies, and Critics Jody McAuliffe 9780822314042 [USED COPY]
RRP: $215.26SciFier: $89.06This exceptional collection explores the mutual concerns of dramatic theater, film, and those who comment on them. Plays, Movies, and Critics opens with an original play by Don DeLillo. In the form... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822360025
SciFier: $46.33In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478005094
RRP: $203.81SciFier: $163.41From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called "otaku" develop intense fan relationships with "cute girl" characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary... -
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Ivone Margulies 9780822317234
SciFier: $65.93Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one... -
Bound by Law? by Keith Aoki
RRP: $41.20SciFier: $33.85A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822359593
RRP: $190.07SciFier: $185.51In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $44.56Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond... -
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329398
SciFier: $53.27The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
Tomorrowing Terry Bisson 9781478026457
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $129.57For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular "This Month in History" column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events, four a month, each... -
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339694
SciFier: $58.81While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth... -
Ambient Television by Anna McCarthy
RRP: $52.65SciFier: $51.66Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times... -
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 by Noel Burch
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $46.33In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: $217.55SciFier: $189.38By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: $60.87Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822351016
SciFier: $51.66"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other... -
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy by Zhen Ni
SciFier: $51.27After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other... -
The Cinema of Economic Miracles by Angelo Restivo
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $46.33The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that... -
![Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575074/646833/9780822323549__83607.1721652778.jpg?c=1 "Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]")
Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $80.17Savage Theory articulates the powerful mythology of cinema as the premier medium for magic in modern times. Envisioning the cinema as a form of magical ritual that possesses the power to enliven,... -
![The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575078/646837/9780822329121__93268.1721652782.jpg?c=1 "The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]")
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]
RRP: $222.13SciFier: $30.82The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
![Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575372/647131/9780822333579__91623.1721653085.jpg?c=1 "Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]")
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: $222.13SciFier: $33.39In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
![Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575377/647136/9780822337751__90224.1721653090.jpg?c=1 "Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]")
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]
RRP: $222.13SciFier: $22.60In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the... -
![Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601488/673256/9780822323037__22241.1721839641.jpg?c=1 "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]")
Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $210.68SciFier: $52.14In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Timothy D. Taylor 9780822349464
SciFier: $60.41This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478029274
RRP: $219.84SciFier: $181.64Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film Arthur Knight 9780822329633
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $60.41From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary Fran Martin 9780822346807
RRP: $61.81SciFier: $51.66Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478001348
SciFier: $212.92In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356523
SciFier: $54.94Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Yvonne Welbon 9780822370710
SciFier: $211.32From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Yvonne Welbon 9780822370864
SciFier: $51.66From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its... -
Empty Moments by Leo Charney
SciFier: $46.33In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"-the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic,... -
The Apartment Plot by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
SciFier: $53.27Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for stories in... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3 by Hamid Naficy
SciFier: $51.66Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and... -
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 Matthew B. Karush 9780822352433
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $172.09In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's... -
Soundtrack Available by Arthur Knight
RRP: $61.81SciFier: $60.41From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music... -
![Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575077/646836/9780822323617__00760.1721652781.jpg?c=1 "Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]")
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]
RRP: $206.10SciFier: $77.56In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender... -
![Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575351/647110/9780822323501__73492.1721653065.jpg?c=1 "Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]")
Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $215.26SciFier: $29.06Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids' Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural... -
![The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575373/647132/9780822323587__73560.1721653086.jpg?c=1 "The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]")
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]
RRP: $203.81SciFier: $47.31Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working... -
![Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575375/647134/9780822336006__02013.1721653088.jpg?c=1 "Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]")
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]
RRP: $226.71SciFier: $35.04For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet...