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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film Jigna Desai 9780415966849
SciFier: $205.86Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai... -
Japanese Culture Through Videogames Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) 9780367728151
SciFier: $59.76Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and... -
Documentary for the Small Screen Paul Kriwaczek 9780240514727
RRP: $96.47SciFier: $95.74Film and video have grown to be as significant in our time as books, newspapers and magazines. Documentary film-making is fast becoming as important and useful a skill as the ability to write well... -
The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths David Harvey 9780008184810
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $11.01Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. ... -
South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, l915-l994 Timothy Barnard 9780824045746
SciFier: $125.56First Published in 1996. This text looks at the cinema from the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Presented by country and date... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781349501854
SciFier: $124.61Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
Of Solids and Surds by Samuel R Delany
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $17.39In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction "Delany's prismatic output is among the most... -
The Cinema in France: After the New Wave Jill Forbes 9780333414309
SciFier: $60.29This major study of the contemporary French cinema includes a survey of the French film industry, chapters on major genres such as political and documentary cinema, women's cinema, comedy, the... -
Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film Jigna Desai 9780415966856
SciFier: $52.78Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and... -
Textiles of China and Central Asia by Mariachiara Gasparini
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $69.53This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features objects never before published and of a caliber... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis (City University of New York, USA.) 9781839026195
RRP: $40.19SciFier: $39.84Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1927's silent The... -
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 9781517916275
RRP: $132.66SciFier: $105.35Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens... -
Drawn to Sound by Rebecca Coyle
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $32.15Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films has blossomed. But music and sound are often marginalized, despite the significance of music, voice... -
Gonzo: Hunter S.Thompson Biography by Will Bingley
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $13.25Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet,... -
Film Firsts by Ethan Alter
SciFier: $71.01This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future. ... -
Moonlight by Maria Flood
SciFier: $27.24This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of... -
100 Greatest Video Game Characters by Jaime Banks
SciFier: $64.31Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge... -
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia Ian Aitken 9781474431965
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781349515646
SciFier: $62.97This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much Murray Pomerance 9781844579556
SciFier: $15.69Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9780415726580
SciFier: $241.68Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Bone Orchard: Tenement by Jeff Lemire
Image ComicsRRP: $48.23SciFier: $34.12From the Eisner-winning creative team behind GIDEON FALLS and PRIMORDIAL, comes the most significant and essential project yet in the bold and ambitious new shared horror universe of THE BONE ORCHARD... -
The Memoirs of Charlotte Papendiek (1765-1840): Court, Musical and Artistic Life in the Time of King George III by Michael Kassler
SciFier: $241.68Mrs Papendiek's Memoirs record events at court from 1761 - when the future Queen Charlotte came to England to marry King George - until 1792. The Papendieks knew many musicians, including John... -
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 9781517916282
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $26.08Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444132
SciFier: $131.64As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern - transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781403921789
SciFier: $139.35This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
Australian Gothic by Jonathan Rayner
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $91.78The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their Gothic... -
Reveal and Conceal by Andrea B. Rugh
SciFier: $60.02This book is an exciting study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. The author analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals... -
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! -: AO-, Vol. 5 (manga) Tsuyoshi Fujitaka 9781975368463
Yen PressRRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Yogiri and Tomochika continue on their way through the Tower of the Trial in hopes of escaping before it comes to light that Yogiri has not only killed the Dark God, but has also started to do... -
More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form Barry Atkins 9780719063657
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $20.98The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: $63.25Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Off the Wall by Dilys E. Blum
RRP: $50.25SciFier: $46.24Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete... -
Richard Widmark: A Bio-Bibliography Kim R. Holston 9780313264801
SciFier: $124.61This bio-bibliography is the first book to examine the life and career of one of Hollywood's most durable leading men, Richard Widmark. Though never considered in the same star category as Burt... -
Dressed for War by Nina Edwards
SciFier: $76.37Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015716
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $75.82In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance Lisa B. Y. Calvente 9781783485062
SciFier: $69.67What is the significance of the visual representation of revolution? How is history articulated through public images? How can these images communicate new histories of struggle? Imprints of... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015754
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $27.11In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
Salvation from Cinema: The Medium is the Message Crystal Downing 9781138913943
RRP: $62.97SciFier: $57.43Salvation from Cinema offers something new to the burgeoning field of "religion and film": the religious significance of film technique. Discussing the history of both cinematic devices and film... -
From the Films of Harry Potter: 100 Objects: The Most Iconic Props from the Movies by Jody Revenson
RRP: $53.60SciFier: $39.77Harry Potter in 100 Objects presents a host of incredible props, artefacts and set items from the legendary Harry Potter movies. Through colourful photography and insider facts from the creators of...