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The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and... -
Swedish Folktales And Legends Lone Thygesen Blecher 9780816645756
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.45A unique collection of Sweden's most charming folktalesSwedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from... -
Garbo by Barry Paris
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.48The only complete biography of the screen legend-now in paperback for the first time!Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and... -
Cine-Ethnography by Jean Rouch
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion... -
Brain Is The Screen by Gregory Flaxman
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90The first broad-ranging collection on Deleuze's essential works on cinema. In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuze's books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are... -
Bronze Screen by Rosa Linda Fregoso
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78"Born in East LA","La Bamba", "American Me" and "Zoot Suit" are all recent films by and about chicanos. In this study, the author offers an explanation of the cultural significance of these and other... -
Vampire Lectures by Laurence A. Rickels
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.52A wild and wide-ranging "psycho-history" of the vampire.A wild and wide-ranging "psycho-history" of the vampire.Bela Lugosi may-as the eighties gothic rock band Bauhaus sang-be dead, but the vampire... -
Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover Denise Mann 9780816645411
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Hollywood Independents explores the crucial period from 1948 to 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Denise Mann examines... -
Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Leshu Torchin 9780816676231
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the... -
Kill the Overseer! by Sarah Juliet Lauro
SciFier: £9.28Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games-and the trouble with making history playableKill the Overseer! profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and... -
The Sacred Era by Aramaki Yoshio
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part... -
All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John O Maoilearca 9780816697359
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruelle, standard forms of philosophy continue to... -
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson by Robert Hofler
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.93Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many... -
Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 9780816690992
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a... -
Noise Channels by Peter Krapp
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative... -
The Troll With No Heart in His Body and Other Tales of Trolls from Norway by Lise Lunge-Larsen
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.71Born and raised in Norway, Lise Lunge-Larsen, known to many as "the Troll Lady," met her first troll at the age of three, and the experience shaped her understanding of the natural world as a place... -
Self-Projection by Linda Haverty Rugg
SciFier: £29.23In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, Francois Truffaut called for a new era in which films would "resemble the person who made" them and be "even more personal"... -
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher A. Paul 9781517900403
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.45An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy's negative contribution to video game culture-and what can be done about it Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation... -
Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity David S. Roh 9780816695782
SciFier: £29.19What is the cultural value of illegal works that violate the copyrights of popular fiction? Why do they persist despite clear and stringent intellectual property laws? Drawing on the disciplines of... -
Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 9780816690961
RRP: £78.00SciFier: £62.20Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a... -
Yellow Future by Jane Chi Hyun Park
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with... -
Screens by Kate Mondloch
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Media screens-film, video, and computer screens-have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along... -
Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst 9780816677672
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states... -
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 9780816667383
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting... -
Out of Time by Todd McGowan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates... -
The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation Sharon Willis 9780816692859
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The civil rights struggle was convulsing the nation, its violence broadcast into every living room. Against this fraught background, Sidney Poitier emerged as an image of dignity, discipline, and... -
Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 9780816695744
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical... -
Artificial Kingdom by Celeste Olalquiaga
SciFier: £25.96From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace, Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kitsch and what kitsch tells us about the conflicts... -
White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiro 9780816645855
SciFier: £29.81Little 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... -
d'Aulaires' Book of Norwegian Folktales by Ingri d'Aulaire
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.37From the authors who wrote and illustrated Ola, Leif the Lucky, and Children of the Northlights comes their collection of Norwegian folktales. First printed in 1938, this selection of timeless... -
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same by Amy Herzog
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt... -
The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 9781517909765
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask... -
Love Rules by Mark Garrett Cooper
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637539Author Mark Garrett CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Emile De Antonio by Douglas Kellner
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.82Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633647Author Douglas KellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser 9781517900625
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £57.46Co-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... -
Cinema Babel by Abe Mark Nornes
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The original foreign film-its sights and sounds-is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text or... -
At Full Speed by Esther Yau
SciFier: £32.06Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816632350Author Esther YauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend by Reimund Kvideland
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.48An entertaining collection of over 400 folk tales of legends, stories, and magic. Translated from the original Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, this highly acclaimed work is perfect for bedside or... -
Branded Eye by Jenaro Talens
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.67In "The Branded Eye", Talens elevates the discussion of the intellectual and artistic movement of 1920s surrealism and Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" to a new level of sophistication. To approach... -
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Akira Mizuta Lippit 9780816646111
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life, the "avisual"...