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Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always... -
Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image John David Rhodes 9780816665174
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.78Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film,... -
Chroma: A Book of Color Derek Jarman 9780816665938
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.49Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and... -
The Right to Play Oneself by Thomas Waugh
SciFier: £30.76The 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... -
Noir Anxiety by Kelly Oliver
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816641109Author Kelly OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 9780816698226
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black... -
Framed by Judith Mayne
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816634576Author Judith MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Resolutions by Michael Renov
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.42This text provides an account of video art, and activism, practice and theory. The follow-up to a project conducted by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), this volume comprises original... -
Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II Cristina Giorcelli 9780816678075
SciFier: £29.59Clothing may not make the man (or woman), but it helps. How clothing as a vestige and artifact and as transmitter of identity moves from one use to another, from one fantasy to another fad, from one... -
Cinema 2 by Gilles Deleuze
SciFier: £24.30Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816616770Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Couching Resistance by Janet Walker
SciFier: £27.61In Couching Resistance, Janet Walker examines professional and popular literature published between World War II and the mid-1960's to develop a picture of psychiatry's ambivalent response to women... -
Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film Merrill Schleier 9780816642823
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.37Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as... -
Cuban Cinema Michael Chanan 9780816634248
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.82The earliest films made in Cuba-newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before... -
Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City Ranjani Mazumdar 9780816649426
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban... -
The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet Paul Young 9780816635993
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.12By the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood, formerly the one and only dream factory, found itself facing a host of media rivals for the public's attention. In the 1980s, another competitor... -
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde Joan Hawkins 9780816634149
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Explores what horror movies tell us about issues of taste.Even before Jean-Luc Godard and other members of the French New Wave championed Hollywood B movies, aesthetes and cineasts relished the raw... -
Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors' Labor Danae Clark 9780816625451
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Actors' screen images have too often stolen the focus of attention from their behind-the-scenes working conditions. In Negotiating Hollywood, Danae Clark begins to fill this gap in film history by... -
Cinema Approaching Reality by Victor Fan
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.83In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong... -
Don't Count Your Chicks by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45This delightful storybook by the incomparable d'Aulaires, based on a poem by Hans Christian Andersen, will charm a whole new generation of little readers Don't count your chickens before they hatch,... -
Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky 9780816643912
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to... -
Mechademia 9: Origins Frenchy Lunning 9780816695355
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This... -
Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds by Maitland McDonagh
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Italian filmmaker Dario Argento's horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero-psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best... -
Simultaneous Worlds by Jennifer L. Feeley
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang's pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells... -
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 9780816677979
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in news media and popular culture,... -
Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst 9780816677665
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states... -
Speculative Blackness by Andre M. Carrington
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In Speculative Blackness, Andre M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction-including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures-to... -
Through Amateur Eyes by Frances Guerin
SciFier: £31.04We have seen the films of professionals and propagandists celebrate Adolf Hitler, his SS henchmen, and the Nazi Party. But what of the documentary films and photographs of amateurs, soldiers, and... -
American Pietas by Ruby C. Tapia
SciFier: £25.94In American Pietas, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing... -
Tactical Media by Rita Raley
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests,... -
Nauman Reiterated by Janet Kraynak
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Bruce Nauman has been a force in the art world since the early 1960s with his challenging audio and video installations, photographic art, neon art, and sculptures. However, until now there has been... -
Scenes of Projection by Jill H. Casid
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of... -
Flying Funny by Dudley Riggs
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.56Dudley Riggs didn't have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a... -
Scenarios II by Werner Herzog
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78The second in a series: the master filmmaker's prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsOn the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: "With this kind of... -
Necromedia Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695713
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
Awakening the Eye by George Kouvaros
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank's daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys... -
Brutal Vision by Karl Schoonover
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that... -
Recording Reality, Desiring the Real by Elizabeth Cowie
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth... -
Tales from Grimm by Wanda Gag
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.98Renowned children's book author Wanda Gag presents these classic Grimm tales, accompanied by whimsical illustrations. Drawing on her peasant heritage and childlike sense of wonder, Gag translated the... -
Andy Kaufman by Florian Keller
SciFier: £27.76When Andy Kaufman succumbed suddenly to lung cancer in 1984, some of his fans believed that his death was yet another elaborate prank. Over the previous decade, Kaufman had achieved improbable fame... -
Shadows, Specters, Shards by Jeffrey Skoller
SciFier: £28.20Avant-garde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history. Jeffrey Skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avant-garde films more...