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Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: $61.86SciFier: $50.00The 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: $76.14This 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: $114.22SciFier: $104.08Protestors 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: $42.82SciFier: $35.18Tactical 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: $233.22This 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: $95.41The 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: $95.82Border 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,... -
So This Is Ever After F.T. Lukens 9781398521414
RRP: $21.40SciFier: $15.99Three months to find your true love, save the kingdom and secure the throne. It's all a breeze from here, right? WRONG! Dive into LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author F. T... -
Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories Roger Whitson 9780367872717
SciFier: $108.19Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold... -
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems Ingrid Loschek 9781847883667
SciFier: $83.28When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on... -
Microdystopias by Asbjorn Gronstad
SciFier: $197.52This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday-of microdystopias-and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in... -
Corporate Imaginations by Mari Dumett
RRP: $130.90SciFier: $111.10The first extended study of the renowned artists' collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group's emergence on three continents from 1962 to 1978, and its complexities, contradictions,... -
Eco-Theory and Annihilation Dr Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University, USA) 9781501376627
RRP: $130.90SciFier: $127.93Eco-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... -
Art World City by Joanna Grabski
RRP: $76.16SciFier: $64.21Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn... -
Animate(d) Architecture: A Spatial Investigation of the Moving Image Vahid Vahdat 9781805966760
RRP: $85.66SciFier: $81.49At their peak, architectural marvels such as the Sagrada Familia, the Tower of London, the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, and the Eiffel tower, had a combined annual visit of almost 16.4 million people... -
Mapping the Rockumentary by Gunnar Iversen
RRP: $61.86SciFier: $58.05Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies Provides... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder
SciFier: $58.05The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster by Anthea Taylor
SciFier: $64.24In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction:... -
Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade Christine Sprengler (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History, Western University) 9780190067342
SciFier: $271.03The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires,... -
Visceral Screens by Allan Cameron
RRP: $49.96SciFier: $48.36Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation Demonstrates how a range of different... -
Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade A. Flibbert 9781403983800
SciFier: $111.84Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing... -
Monstrosity, Identity and Music by Professor or Dr. Alexis Luko
RRP: $69.00SciFier: $59.48Taking Mary Shelley's novel as its point of departure, this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only survived but thrived over 200 years of media history, in music, film,... -
Young Originals by Rebecca Jumper Matheson
RRP: $97.46SciFier: $71.26In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing... -
Performing Live Comedy by Dr. Chris Ritchie
SciFier: $64.24Performing Live Comedy is for anyone who has ever thought about getting up onstage and being funny or for those who have already started. It offers a breakdown of the process of live comedy and... -
Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade Christine Sprengler 9780190067359
SciFier: $65.88The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires,... -
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism Tom Idema 9780367664657
SciFier: $104.08Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction... -
Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The Challenge to Public Service Patricia Holland 9780230282377
SciFier: $111.84Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were... -
African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media Matthias Krings 9780253016256
RRP: $157.08SciFier: $125.45Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of... -
Gameplay Mode by Patrick Crogan
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $42.60From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for... -
Playful Classics by Dr Juliette Harrisson (Newman University, UK)
SciFier: $221.32This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity - an understudied research area within classical reception studies - that can shed light on current... -
Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images Mariachiara Gasparini 9780824888435
RRP: $49.96SciFier: $42.60In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture... -
Sensations of History by James J. Hodge
RRP: $49.96SciFier: $47.20A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history What does it mean to live in an era of emerging digital technologies? Are computers really as antihistorical as... -
Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History, and Empire Professor Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA) 9781441198075
SciFier: $76.14Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains... -
The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking Alicia Kozma 9781496841001
RRP: $68.90SciFier: $53.69The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture Alison Griffiths 9780231116961
SciFier: $257.83The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 9781517911584
RRP: $211.82SciFier: $170.05How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as... -
Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work Aparna Sharma 9781349484157
SciFier: $111.84This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and... -
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle Lina Khatib 9781848852815
SciFier: $209.42Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing... -
The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking Alicia Kozma 9781496840998
SciFier: $242.74The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was... -
Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
RRP: $21.40SciFier: $15.99Magic rivals. A deadly secret. An inconvenient crush. What could possibly go wrong? A perfect LGBT+ romantic fantasy for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Margaret Rogerson and Adam Silvera! Edison Rooker is...