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Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, Contexts Dan North 9781844575176
SciFier: $48.64As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. ... -
Private Dancer by Kimberly Dean
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.80Torn between two worlds, Alicia struggles to find a way to walk with her faith, but still dance with sin. When Alicia gets caught in the conflict between her... -
As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World 7 (manga) by Natsumi Inoue
Kodansha AmericaRRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08It's brains over brawn in this new isekai adventure! One day when leaving work, a salaryman dies and is reborn in another world as the weak child of the noble Louvent family. Using his "appraisal"... -
The McGurk Universe by K.J. Donnelly
SciFier: $157.06This book reconsiders audiovisual culture through a focus on human perception, with recourse to ideas derived from recent neuroscience. It proceeds from the assumption that rather than simply working... -
Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodovar, von Trier, and Winterbottom Brian Michael Goss 9781433101342
RRP: $34.89SciFier: $32.65Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom. With extensive background... -
Driving off the Map Sharon MacFarlane 9780888821928
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $16.81A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker. These are a few of... -
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies Violaine Roussel 9780226486802
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $110.14Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or... -
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies Violaine Roussel 9780226486949
RRP: $36.14SciFier: $32.64Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or... -
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation Marina Hassapopoulou 9781517915216
RRP: $137.61SciFier: $109.28Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic Vartan P. Messier 9780815637783
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $68.87Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
Communism's Public Sphere by Kyrill Kunakhovich
RRP: $54.21SciFier: $50.19Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art:... -
Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom by Lin Feng
SciFier: $129.28As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Chow's transnational and trans-regional star persona as... -
She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (Light Novel) Vol. 5 by Ryusen Hirotsugu
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: $19.45SciFier: $13.71To trace Soul Howl's trail to the Celestial Ruins, Mira must travel by transcontinental railroad. Although the three-story behemoth shocks her at first, she finds herself more and more excited to... -
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration Rocio G. Davis 9780415835916
SciFier: $53.56This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783319905051
SciFier: $129.26This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
Wayward Feeling by Helene Strauss
RRP: $63.94SciFier: $51.30Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783030080297
SciFier: $79.22This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self Marco Bohr 9780367592202
SciFier: $60.78This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that... -
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation Marina Hassapopoulou 9781517915223
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive... -
The Besieged Ego: Doppelgangers and Split Identity Onscreen Caroline Ruddell (Lecturer, Brunel University) 9781399569576
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 9 by Dora Osborne
SciFier: $136.90Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353881
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $31.36In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge Alison Landsberg 9780231165754
SciFier: $32.72Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353744
RRP: $123.71SciFier: $107.07In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo by Drew Weing
SciFier: $11.43Charles just moved to Echo City, and some of his new neighbours give him the creeps. They sneak into his room, steal his toys, and occasionally, they try to eat him. The place is teeming with... -
Three Stories About Ghosts by Martin Hall
RebellionRRP: $12.50SciFier: $8.51Three standalone novellas, telling three chilling ghost stories, by three of the finest new voices in fiction.A full-time medium and part-time cook is recruited by the nightmarish Boneman to hunt... -
The Literary Life of Pictures by Michele Cometa
SciFier: $129.26This book offers a theory of ekphrasis-the literary description of an artwork-from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical... -
In Deeper Waters F.T. Lukens 9781398521445
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34Forbidden magic, high-seas adventure and love . . . the perfect LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author F. T. Lukens is here! Perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Daughter of... -
Masked: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity in Fashion and Popular Culture Laini Burton 9781350236165
SciFier: $132.04What is a mask? A disguise or a means of protection? Laini Burton's comprehensive examination of masking in Western culture explores the mask as an enduring tool of personal, political and social... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: $166.79SciFier: $157.06Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse... -
Eco-Theory and Annihilation Dr Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA) 9781501376610
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $20.21Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and povides discrete examples of how... -
The Last Best Quest Ever F.T. Lukens 9781398547322
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $9.97A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother's life in this cosy young adult romantasy full of mythical creatures by the New York... -
Blade Runner Scott Bukatman 9781844575220
SciFier: $15.78Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk... -
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his... -
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence by Douglas Mulliken (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa)
SciFier: $44.47This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century's distinctly political filmmakers... -
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication Aidan McGarry 9781041187141
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and... -
Tactical Media by Rita Raley
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $20.54Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests,... -
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence by Douglas Mulliken
SciFier: $136.21This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century's distinctly political filmmakers... -
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader Ian Wilkie 9780367175948
SciFier: $55.73The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.The Reader illustrates... -
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom) 9780367650704
SciFier: $55.96Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film,...