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Japanese Ikat Weaving: The Techniques of Kasuri Jun Tomita 9781032642819
RRP: $67.82SciFier: $63.30First Published in 1982, Japanese Ikat Weaving offers a professional approach to the subject, presented with great clarity and precision. Japanese Ikat weaving, also known as Kasuri, is the technique... -
The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama Jieun Kiaer 9781032258461
SciFier: $85.35The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where food culture and language intersect, revealing how each dish communicates beyond... -
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter W. Rea (NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
RRP: $84.78SciFier: $79.39Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Sixth Edition is the definitive book on producing and directing short films for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold... -
Creating Experimental Documentary Films: Theory and Practice Beyond Convention Pablo Frasconi 9781041043768
RRP: $78.42SciFier: $72.53This book explores the continued development and practice of experimental documentary film making with evolving trends in still photography, visual arts, journalism, installation art, docudrama,... -
A History of English Costume Iris Brooke 9781032915166
RRP: $72.06SciFier: $66.97Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent... -
Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology Gabriel Menotti 9781041183143
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus... -
Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media Deniz Bayrakdar 9781041185031
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Migration in the 21st century is one of the pre-eminent issues of our present historical moment, a phenomenon that has acquired new urgency with accelerating climate change, civil wars, and growing... -
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects Senta Siewert 9781041184065
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned... -
A History of English Costume Iris Brooke 9781032915111
SciFier: $129.45Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent... -
Beyond the Screen: The Future of Television and Advertising Frank A. Aycock 9781041037873
RRP: $78.42SciFier: $72.48Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, providing professional producers with key insights and pathways to adapt and... -
Minor Platforms in Videogame History Benjamin Nicoll 9781041182900
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next. It is also a history of platforms and communities that never quite made it; that struggled to make their... -
Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema: Politics, Histories and Cultural Value Rachel Johnson 9781041179337
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivals' construction of dominant ideas about art cinema. Film festivals are... -
Moscow Graffiti: Language and Subculture John Bushnell (Northwestern University, USA) 9781032885766
RRP: $220.46SciFier: $198.64First Published in 1990, Moscow Graffiti is a unique and unprecedented look at the graffiti that began to appear for the first time on the walls of Moscow and other Soviet cities in the late 1970s... -
Complete Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm 9780415285964
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $40.96The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the... -
Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Benoit Turquety 9781041177913
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European... -
Images of Occupation in Dutch Film: Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War Wendy Burke 9781041181248
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore depictions of that period in films made a generation... -
Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth Tiago Luca 9781041184256
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Spivak 9780415910019
SciFier: $85.35Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established... -
Cultural Studies - Vol. 12.4: The Institutionalization of Cultural Studies Ted Striphas 9780415184281
SciFier: $48.53This special issue looks at the increasing presence of Cultural Studies as a discipline within academia. The debate about it's relevance still rages and is commented on in these pages. Also includes... -
Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City Sabina Andron 9781032597515
SciFier: $85.35This book explores the ownersheir authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city.Includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface... -
Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics Todd Debreceni 9781032246826
SciFier: $135.89With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in what has become an industry "bible." In addition to... -
Motion Picture and Video Lighting Blain Brown 9781032370347
SciFier: $119.36- Explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but why. - In-depth coverage of light and color theory, latest technology and... -
Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History Benoit Turquety 9781041181491
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But... -
Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era Gina Marchetti 9781041190738
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $94.19Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William Franke
SciFier: $129.45This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $82.00What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism Rafael Carrion-Arias 9781032423159
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of... -
Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games Maurice W. Suckling 9781032416915
SciFier: $101.68James Dunnigan's memorable phrase serves as the first part of a title for this book, where it seeks to be applicable not just to analog wargames, but also to board games exploring non-expressly... -
Olonkho: Nurgun Botur the Swift Platon Oyunski 9781041183716
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends - one of the longest being 'Nurgun Botur the Swift' consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published... -
Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France Anais Nony 9781041184003
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology. Video art and video... -
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans Ana Grgic 9781041178408
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural... -
A Reader on International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays Tilman Baumgartel 9781041175100
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and... -
Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998) Gaik Cheng Khoo 9781041186427
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories... -
Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India Roos Gerritsen 9781041181484
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are... -
Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema Katharina Loew 9781041186526
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special... -
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences S. V. Srinivas 9781032793672
SciFier: $83.51Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in... -
Contemporary Post-Production: Create, Cut, Collaborate, Color, Deliver Melanie La Rosa 9781032640037
SciFier: $85.35Contemporary Post-Production is an engaging and insightful guide through the often fraught and stressful phase of post-production. It brings the art and craft of editing to life, describes... -
Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology Julia Vassilieva 9781041176176
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined... -
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community Maria Velez-Serna 9781041178842
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other... -
Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan Rafal Zaborowski 9781041183211
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $92.71What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital...