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Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context Carol Vernallis 9780231117999
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.59Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.31Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration Thomas Doherty 9780231143592
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156745
SciFier: £107.63The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
Brazilian Cinema by Randal Johnson
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.80From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning... -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales Keller Kimbrough 9780231184472
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.89Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215053
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £21.25Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215046
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £81.12Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Terroir of Whiskey: A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place Rob Arnold 9780231194594
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.71Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers... -
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World Sidney Perkowitz 9780231142816
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £18.99Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and... -
The Cinema of Jonathan Demme: Champion of the Soul Louis Black 9780231223522
SciFier: £25.07Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148702
SciFier: £108.33It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? Joseph McBride 9780231186445
SciFier: £81.12Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games Joost van Dreunen 9780231197526
SciFier: £19.99What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint... -
Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing Justin Remes (Iowa State University) 9780231189309
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.34Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves Klein's invisible paintings, from the "silent" music of John Cage to... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? Joseph McBride 9780231186452
SciFier: £18.99Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
What Made Pistachio Nuts? by Henry Jenkins
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.54Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180863
SciFier: £94.31The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180870
SciFier: £29.09The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema Michael Zryd 9780231201575
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Hollis Frampton was an American filmmaker, photographer, and theorist who bridged the experimental film and contemporary art worlds in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for avant-garde films including... -
Dr. No: The First James Bond Film James Chapman 9780231204927
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £74.82When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205771
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204590
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.81Paul Thomas Anderson's evolution from a brash, self-anointed "Indiewood" auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195690
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.96Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers... -
Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Christian Metz 9780231173674
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the... -
Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image Rosalind Galt 9780231153478
SciFier: £30.59Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional... -
Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram Mike Chasar (Willamette University) 9780231188951
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.54It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new... -
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231204422
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31Winner, 2023 SFRA Book Award, Science Fiction Research AssociationA new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture... -
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231180238
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.76A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism,... -
Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram Mike Chasar (Willamette University) 9780231188944
SciFier: £88.18It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new... -
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231180221
SciFier: £107.63A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism,... -
Dr. No: The First James Bond Film James Chapman 9780231204934
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been... -
Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman Barry Keith Grant 9780231206235
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Frederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums;... -
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style Russell Kilbourn 9780231189934
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2016), has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century... -
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231204439
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China's new era, speaking to a... -
People's Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels Tom Comitta 9780231219273
SciFier: £68.48What do Americans truly want in a novel? What would it look like if their preferences and aversions materialized in book form? In People's Choice Literature, Tom Comitta has taken up this challenge,... -
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204583
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £81.12Paul Thomas Anderson's evolution from a brash, self-anointed "Indiewood" auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent...