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Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.37Robert 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... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Though 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... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.53No 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... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.29Although 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... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Theories 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... -
Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents Isabella Campagnol 9780896728295
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.99Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with... -
Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood by Andrew A. Erish
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know today. Active from 1896 to 1938, William N. Selig was... -
Managing Costume Collections: An Essential Primer Louise Coffey-Webb 9780896729575
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.79Managing Costume Collections offers systematic approaches to organization, accessibility, record keeping, safety, and a host of other stewardship concerns related to managing costume collections of... -
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism by Richard A. Gordon
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12A 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... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Writing 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... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46More 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 Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Over 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: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Since 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... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.45Authoring 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... -
Amazigh Arts in Morocco by Cynthia Becker
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate... -
Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow by Scott Higgins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64Like Dorothy waking up over the rainbow in the Land of Oz, Hollywood discovered a vivid new world of color in the 1930s. The introduction of three-color Technicolor technology in 1932 gave... -
Mouse Morality by Annalee R. Ward
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.232004 - Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award - The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the... -
Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology Daniel Dinello 9780292709867
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.01Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be... -
Experimental Latin American Cinema by Cynthia Tompkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films-by nationality, by era, or by technique-here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above,... -
Managing Costume Collections: An Essential Primer Louise Coffey-Webb 9780896729568
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £27.43Managing Costume Collections offers systematic approaches to organization, accessibility, record keeping, safety, and a host of other stewardship concerns related to managing costume collections of... -
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23From a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in... -
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Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films Rosa Linda Fregoso 9780292725256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £7.01Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state... -
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich by Sabine Hake
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions,... -
Left of Hollywood by Chris Robe
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood... -
Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households Marian Ann Montgomery 9781682830420
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £20.93Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In the second quarter of the twentieth century, these... -
Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories by Jim Gramon
SciFier: £15.39Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny... -
Faith and the Texas Lawyer by Carra Copelin
SciFier: £10.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537354637Author Carra CopelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint -
Legendary Texas Storytellers by Jim Gramon
SciFier: £15.39Storytelling is alive and well in Texas! Let storyteller and biographer Jim Gramon give you a personal introduction to some of his legendary storytelling friends.Book InformationISBN... -
From Walt to Woodstock by Douglas Brode
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become... -
American Films of the 70s by Peter Lev
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35While 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,... -
Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film Sergio de la Mora 9780292712973
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35After 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... -
Ghost Stories of Texas by Jo-Anne Christensen
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.60Along with its Wild West spirit, geographical diversity, dramatic history and sheer size, Texas contains a wealth of spine-tingling stories of the supernatural. Enjoy tales of Texas hauntings from... -
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As... -
Israeli Cinema by Miri Talmon
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26With 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... -
A Perfect Fit by Gabriel Goldstein
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £44.67Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store-and you'll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture... -
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America by Julianne Burton
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Since the late 1960s, films from Latin America have won widening audiences in North America and Europe. Until now, no single book has offered an introduction to the diverse personalities and... -
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 by Gerald Horne
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This... -
Knock It Off by Sara B. Marcketti
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £20.21The intersection of women's fashion and big business in the US has always been a compelling study across social strata. The ready-to-wear apparel industry thrives on creating a presumably original... -
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young women have... -
Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Women 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...