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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... -
Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema Michael Zryd 9780231201568
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31Hollis 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... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195683
SciFier: £81.12Today, 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... -
Eric Rohmer: A Biography Antoine de Baecque 9780231175593
SciFier: £26.37The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric... -
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China Jie Li (Harvard University) 9780231206273
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile... -
Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith 9780231186940
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £74.82In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively... -
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine Sam B. Girgus 9780231147651
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195935
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
The Contemporary Superhero Film by Terence McSweeney
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.24Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has... -
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Emanuel Levy 9780231152778
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £21.25Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine Sam B. Girgus 9780231147644
SciFier: £94.31In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive... -
Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema Maggie Hennefeld 9780231213295
SciFier: £25.07Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate-or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal,... -
Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema Maggie Hennefeld 9780231213288
SciFier: £94.31Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate-or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal,... -
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Emanuel Levy 9780231152761
SciFier: £81.82Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of... -
Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith 9780231186957
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively... -
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China Jie Li (Harvard University) 9780231206266
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185882
SciFier: £81.12Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
Conversations Ai Weiwei 9780231197397
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.12Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185899
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.06Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
Conversations Ai Weiwei 9780231197380
SciFier: £55.51Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and... -
Napoleon's Closet: The Emperor, the Priest, and the Men Who Invented Modern Fashion Margaret Waller (Pomona College) 9780231164344
SciFier: £69.26Why do the most powerful men in the West wear sober, understated attire? Until the "Great Masculine Renunciation" in the eighteenth century, luxurious and often flamboyant clothing signaled social... -
The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture Erika Balsom 9780231221320
SciFier: £81.00Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207287
SciFier: £94.31In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema William Carroll 9780231204378
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In 1968, Suzuki Seijun-a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast-was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207294
SciFier: £24.93In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema William Carroll 9780231204361
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31In 1968, Suzuki Seijun-a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast-was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known... -
The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture Erika Balsom 9780231221337
SciFier: £21.24Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against... -
Lars von Trier Beyond Depression: Contexts and Collaborations Professor Linda Badley 9780231191524
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £60.98Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start-but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011),... -
After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy Charity Scribner 9780231168649
SciFier: £46.13Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including... -
Lars von Trier Beyond Depression: Contexts and Collaborations Professor Linda Badley 9780231191531
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start-but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011),... -
The Membranes: A Novel Ari Larissa Heinrich 9780231195713
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.49It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201049
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In... -
The Membranes: A Novel Ari Larissa Heinrich 9780231195706
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.38It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate... -
Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things Mark C. Taylor (Chair and Professor, Columbia University) 9780231198219
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.89Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial?Science fiction has long imagined a... -
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar Yury Tynyanov 9780231193870
SciFier: £18.97The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy... -
Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things Mark C. Taylor (Chair and Professor, Columbia University) 9780231198202
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £60.98Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial?Science fiction has long imagined a... -
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar Yury Tynyanov 9780231193863
SciFier: £75.52The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201339
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has...