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Touch by Laura U. Marks
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital. In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and... -
Troll Magic by Theodor Kittelsen
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness... -
Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies Alan Dale 9780816636587
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636587Author Alan DaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Visible Nations by Chon A. Noriega
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633487Author Chon A. NoriegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser 9781517900632
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years... -
Extravagances by Cristina Giorcelli
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.67In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
A Culture of Light by Frances Guerin
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Cinema is a medium of light. And during Weimar Germany's advance to technological modernity, light - particularly the representational possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the... -
Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 Anne Morey 9780816637331
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12An innovative approach to the relationship between filmmaking and society during Hollywood's golden ageThe 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom... -
Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 Anne Morey 9780816637324
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £47.19An innovative approach to the relationship between filmmaking and society during Hollywood's golden ageThe 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom... -
Narrative Mortality by Catherine Russell
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Analyzes New Wave cinema from a postmodern perspective.What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s... -
French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism Peter J. Bloom 9780816646296
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.60Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter... -
Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema Mark Betz 9780816640362
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studiesExamining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to... -
Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema Ismail Xavier 9780816626779
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Examines the centrality of Cinema Novo to filmmaking in Brazil."A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of... -
The Anime Machine by Thomas Lamarre
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated... -
Mechademia 7 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Lines of Sight-the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and... -
Scenarios by Werner Herzog
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like uninvited guests, like burglars in the middle of the... -
Queer Game Studies by Bonnie Ruberg
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Video games have developed into a rich, growing field at many top universities, but they have rarely been considered from a queer perspective. Immersion in new worlds, video games seem to offer the... -
Gaming by Alexander R. Galloway
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there... -
The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Paul Stephens 9780816694396
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £58.16Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of... -
World Projects by Markus Krajewski
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects... -
Split Screen Korea by Steven Chung
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Shin Sang-ok (1926-2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and... -
White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiro 9780816645848
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable... -
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
SciFier: £14.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816665945Author Derek JarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Resolutions 3 by Ming-Yuen S. Ma
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Resolutions 3 explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. It is the third volume in a series composed of Resolution: A Critique of... -
Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America George Kouvaros 9780816647477
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles... -
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s Kathy O'Dell 9780816628872
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Kathy O'Dell argues that the growth of masochistic performance during the 1970s must be seen in the context of society's response to the Vietnam War and contemporaneous changes in theories of... -
All about Almodovar by Brad Epps
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the... -
remixthebook by Mark Amerika
SciFier: £21.87Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries... -
The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Paul Stephens 9780816694419
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of... -
Necromedia Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695706
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £57.46In 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... -
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...