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Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture by Jill Twark (Royalty Account)
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.67Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world. ... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9780415726801
SciFier: £76.14This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 9780816693160
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
Amacio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil: After Cinema Novo E. Bueno 9781349435999
SciFier: £46.99Amacio Mazzaropi's work is a unique instance in Brazilian culture - as an artist not connected with the subsidized film industry, he developed a singular voice and represents a segment of the... -
Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America Philip Yenawine 9780814793510
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £23.26A collection of intensive discussions about the role of visual arts in public life The past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal... -
Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Murray Smith 9780198822752
SciFier: £33.46In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences,... -
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet Paul Julian Smith 9780719075179
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital... -
Remapping World Cinema - Identity, Culture, and Politics in Film Stephanie Dennison 9781904764632
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.08Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764632Author Stephanie DennisonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350440760
SciFier: £31.38Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205911
SciFier: £113.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205928
SciFier: £37.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity by Professor Mary Harlow (University of Leicester, UK)
SciFier: £33.54Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the... -
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780226726656
SciFier: £24.16Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
![Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Edward Castronova 9780226096278 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/582343/654116/9780226096278__75831.1721749616.jpg?c=1 "Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Edward Castronova 9780226096278 [USED COPY]")
Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Edward Castronova 9780226096278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £1.01From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages... -
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Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World Brian McNair 9780415339131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £0.88With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship... -
Schizoanalysis and Visual Cultures: Deleuze Studies Volume 5.2 Phillip Roberts 9780748646371
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Film criticism has always been about more than aesthetics, and by staging an encounter between Deleuze's cinema project and his schizoanalysis work with Felix Guattari this volume attempts to open... -
Sacred Desire: A Journey Through Indian Culture and Yoga Anoop Rajan 9798281035736
SciFier: £5.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798281035736Author Anoop RajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Food and Culture: Readings through Fictions, Memoirs and Histories Gigy J. Alex 9781803747811
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.49Food, being a great mnemonic, nourishes, sustains, and elevates human experiences. It is deeply intertwined with one's identity, culture, community, and history. Be it a humble family recipe or a... -
Danger: Diabolik Leon Hunt 9780231182812
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant... -
Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics Paolo Silvio Harald Favero 9781350029880
SciFier: £111.37Image-Making-India explores the evolving meaning of images in a digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India. Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in... -
Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Late Bronze Age and Archaic Period by Gabriella Longhitano
SciFier: £43.98Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment. Besides a practical function, textiles played a crucial role in... -
Color World Culture: American Indian Art, Pre-Columbian Art Swarna Mitra 9781514269701
SciFier: £11.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514269701Author Swarna MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing... -
East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue Chi-Yun Shin 9781780760094
SciFier: £24.99Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong... -
Game Dev Stories Volume 1: Interviews About Game Development and Culture David L. Craddock 9781032059051
SciFier: £39.23a collection of interviews from renowned author, David L. CraddockAbout the AuthorDavid L. Craddock writes fiction, nonfiction, and grocery lists. He is the author of over a dozen nonfiction books... -
Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 David L. Craddock 9781032066776
RRP: £74.99SciFier: £70.11Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddock as he explores all corners of the video game... -
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s Noel Brown 9781399508070
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32A cultural history of the contemporary Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story to The Lego Movie Examines critically a range of prominent contemporary Hollywood animated features Reveals the... -
The Language of Film by Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar (Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University, UK)
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £29.80An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around... -
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 9780719095740
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the UK's oldest and most important government-supported cultural institutions. From a modest start in the 1930s it grew rapidly after the war to encompass... -
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon Regina M Marchi 9781978821644
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £48.76Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed... -
Shakespeare and Geek Culture by Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, USA)
SciFier: £29.18From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture... -
Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture Liesbeth Francois 9789462704022
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.81Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our... -
Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong 9780813551210
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.00Movies, stars, auteurs, critics, and the sheer excitement of cinema come together in film festivals as quintessential constellations of art, business, and glamour. Yet, how well do we actually... -
Nazi Occultism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christian Theology in the Video Game Series Wolfenstein by Frank G. Bosman
SciFier: £87.99The critically acclaimed if controversial game series Wolfenstein is famous for its inclusion of historical objects and figures from the realm of Nazi Occultism, including the Swastika, the Spear of... -
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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1 Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 9781648279195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £8.84Also known as MDZS, the blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired comics, animation, and the live-action series The Untamed! This historical fantasy tale of two powerful men who... -
Film History and Screen Culture in and beyond Greater China Lin Feng (University of Leicester) 9781032458151
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten... -
After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image Julia Vassilieva (Monash University, Australia) 9780415845939
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of 'bad taste'... -
Guyana And Its People: The Official Book on Guyana - Heritage, Culture, History and Unity Unscripted Chic 9781069415011
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £17.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781069415011Author Unscripted ChicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint UnscriptedchicPublisher... -
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday (University of Strathclyde, UK) 9780415157193
SciFier: £42.70An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in... -
Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus Jeffrey A. Brown 9780367663629
SciFier: £42.00Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in America and globally, and how the fictional Dark... -
Color World Culture: American Indian Art & Pre-Columbian Art Swarna Mitra 9798693105058
RRP: £15.73SciFier: £10.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798693105058Author Swarna MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher...