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Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games by John David Funge
SciFier: $142.73Learn to make games that are more fun and engaging! Building on fundamental principles of Artificial Intelligence, Funge explains how to create Non-Player Characters (NPCs) with progressively more... -
Global esports: Transformation of Cultural Perceptions of Competitive Gaming Dr. Dal Yong Jin (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781501369254
SciFier: $64.24Global esports explores the recent surge of esports in the global scene and comprehensively discusses people's understanding of this spectacle. By historicizing and institutionalizing esports, the... -
Civil Servants on the Silver Screen: Hollywood's Depiction of Government and Bureaucrats Michelle C. Pautz 9781498539142
SciFier: $79.36In the movies, government often finds itself in a variety of roles from villain to supporting cast, and rarely, if ever, the hero. A frequent component of that role is the bureaucracy and as... -
The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel Deborah Martin 9780719090349
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since... -
Descriptive Analysis of Sound and Silence in the Audiovisual Translations of American and Japanese Movies: How Silence and Sound Shape Cultural Perception in Film Translation Reito Adachi 9781599427294
RRP: $37.71SciFier: $35.42Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599427294Author Reito AdachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema Robert Geal 9781032027760
SciFier: $81.01This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... -
Exposing the Film Apparatus by Giovanna Fossati
SciFier: $91.67Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and... -
Lucky Penny by Aimee Lucido
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $17.41Do we need a charm to get good luck? Or do we make it for ourselves?Penny Posner knows everything there is to know about good luck. Every day she wears her lucky bracelet on her wrist, her lucky... -
The Lifted Veil George Eliot 9781513270401
SciFier: $7.54Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he's unable to avoid the dark turn of his own life. What many consider a gift, he sees as a curse that has destroyed his... -
The Baddest Wolf of All? by David Sherrin
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $19.77He's back. But is he badder than ever?Although he sometimes doubts himself, everyone around Wolf expects him to be BIG and, especially, BAD. Deciding to live up to his name and get really, really... -
Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781350439610
SciFier: $108.85The past is fixed - what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise... -
Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781350439627
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $31.77The past is fixed - what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise... -
Australian Film Festivals by Kirsten Stevens
SciFier: $156.85This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in... -
Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space Stephen Barber 9781861891273
SciFier: $36.42In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected Cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of... -
Ravishing by Eshani Surya
SciFier: $40.05Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802164681Author Eshani SuryaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
RRP: $18.88SciFier: $18.13"This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction."-Publishers Weekly, starred review In the tradition of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities,... -
Seeing the Bigger Picture by David A. Schultz
RRP: $217.26SciFier: $197.49Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the political dilemmas and debates shaping our world. Reviewing... -
Champions of Illusion by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik
RRP: $49.14SciFier: $35.27In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from their Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Whether it's false motion,... -
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm 9781529953176
RRP: $35.89SciFier: $26.91'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate'Utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling... may very well take its place among the best sci-fi novels of the century so far.'... -
The Art and Craft of Motion Picture Editing Michael Hoggan 9780367568764
SciFier: $67.91This book explains the broader context of what the art and craft of motion picture editing entails, framing the creative acts of editing within an overall view of the production process and... -
Composing Audiovisually: Perspectives on audiovisual practices and relationships Louise Harris 9780367346911
SciFier: $76.09What does the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink have in common with Norman McLaren's Synchromy? Or with audiovisual sculpture? Or contemporary music video? Composing Audiovisually interrogates how the... -
Celebrity by Chris Rojek
SciFier: $44.81In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a... -
Sensations of History by James J. Hodge
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $37.48A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history What does it mean to live in an era of emerging digital technologies? Are computers really as antihistorical as... -
The Nickel Was for the Movies: Film in the Novel from Pirandello to Puig Gavriel Moses 9780520079434
RRP: $100.17SciFier: $93.54The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human... -
Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media Seung-hoon Jeong 9781138843639
SciFier: $85.92In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781618118363
RRP: $200.32SciFier: $197.47How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781644691120
RRP: $60.46SciFier: $43.98How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
Bad Girls and Sick Boys by Linda S. Kauffman
RRP: $51.03SciFier: $44.07Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art,... -
The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri
Titan BooksRRP: $18.88SciFier: $13.31Four friends have a pact: to meet up on the same day every year in their small hometown in southern Italy. Art, the charismatic leader of the group, has always been adamant about the pact. But this... -
A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $24.08A man hunts for lost knowledge in a future society that's reverted to a primitive tribal state in this novel by the author of Way Station. More than a thousand years have passed since humankind... -
Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games Fernand Gobet 9780415655651
SciFier: $105.58Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a... -
Artificial Intelligence in Games Paul Roberts 9781032033228
SciFier: $103.95All the topics that a professional AI programmer needs are covered withinEach topic is accompanied by an example game, where the reader simply adds their own code and see the effects their changes... -
The Cinema Ideal: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator Harriet E. Margolis 9781138988897
SciFier: $87.24This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the... -
The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait Olivia Gruber Florek 9781644532850
RRP: $64.26SciFier: $54.81Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and... -
Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives Maike Sarah Reinerth 9780367876609
SciFier: $81.01Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in... -
Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media James Dalby 9780367680602
SciFier: $76.09This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new... -
The Steel Seraglio by Mike Carey
RRP: $41.49SciFier: $33.62"A confident One Thousand and One Nights for our present . . . Furious pop entertainment--full of sex, passion, violence, and magic." - Slant magazine This is the story of the legendary City of... -
Illusion in Cultural Practice: Productive Deceptions Katharina Rein (University of Potsdam, Germany) 9781032036311
SciFier: $76.09This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live inThis... -
Protective Armor Engineering Design Magdi El Messiry 9781771887878
RRP: $247.59SciFier: $223.44There is increasing interest in the area of protective vests, either for protection against bullets or protection from the most realistic threats within domestic frontline operations: edged weapon,... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496823328
RRP: $47.16SciFier: $36.78In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the...