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American Pietas by Ruby C. Tapia
SciFier: $36.00In American Pietas, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing... -
Fantasies of Singledom: Living in the Cultural Imaginary of Single Femininity Kate Gilchrist 9781666966893
SciFier: $115.36This book examines the representation of the single woman in contemporary popular culture from the UK, US, and Europe, and places it in juxtaposition to the experience and self-narratives of single... -
Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and Histories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition Farrah Freibert (Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts, Southern Illinois University) 9781399537131
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $115.50Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained tracks how women and gay male entrepreneurs were central to the production, distribution and exhibition of adult media in and adjacent to Los Angeles County, and how... -
Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture Graziella Parati 9781442626720
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $33.78In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a... -
Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition Mette Kramer (Independent Scholar, Denmark) 9798765113134
SciFier: $43.08Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "feminine".The author uses attachment theory... -
On Kubrick James Naremore 9781844571420
SciFier: $55.16On Kubrick is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, "Fear and Desire" (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of "A.I., Artificial Intelligence"... -
The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand by Kristopher Imbrigotta
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $57.67"Pohlmann's study of Muller's media presence is one of the few English-language books on this important postwar dramatist in the past two decades. Embedded in a discussion of avant-garde aesthetics... -
Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children's Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games Sara Grimes 9781442615564
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.60Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children's commercial digital play spaces over the past two decades. It argues that children's... -
Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR by Phil Powrie
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $20.54Despite the long history of music in film, its serious academic study is still a relatively recent development and therefore comprises a limited body of work. The contributors to this book, drawn... -
Wool: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) Hugh Howey 9781804940822
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.11NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.'Thrilling,... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350227224
SciFier: $48.64Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural... -
Electronic String Art: Rhythmic Mathematics Stephen Erfle (Dickinson College/International Business and Management) 9781032515175
SciFier: $155.76FeaturesReaders are able to drill-down on images in order to understand why they work using short (1 to 2 page) stand-alone sectionso Sections are lessons that were created so that they could be... -
Overweight and Obesity in America's Children: Causes, Consequences, Solutions by Amy B. B. Jordan
SciFier: $113.97For the past several years, researchers have been examining possible causes of the rise in of childhood overweight and obesity in the U.S. Now at near-epidemic proportions, the time has come to... -
Arab Animation: Images of Identity Omar Sayfo 9781474479493
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $33.90Explores how Arab animations have been deeply engaged in the making and remaking of religious and political identities The first in-depth study of the institutional and infrastructural background... -
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Wool: (Silo Trilogy 1) Hugh Howey 9781804940822 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $6.12NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.'Thrilling,... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350045552
SciFier: $158.45Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural... -
The Switch Justina Robson 9780575134065
GollanczRRP: $6.94SciFier: $4.63This groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors is a thrilling mix of science, magic and politics.In Harmony, only model citizens are welcome.A perfect society must be... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.38Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have... -
World Film Locations: Toronto Tom Ue (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781783201952
RRP: $33.29SciFier: $30.94Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life. A city on the move, it demands... -
European Cinemas in the Television Age by Graham Roberts
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $42.10European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television's impact on the... -
So This Is Ever After F.T. Lukens 9781534496866
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $19.89Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it...and to stay alive.Arek... -
The Switch Justina Robson 9780575134072
GollanczRRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20This groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors is a thrilling mix of science, magic and politics.In Harmony, only model citizens are welcome.A perfect society must be... -
The Manga Guide To Physiology Etsuro Tanaka 9781593274405
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $23.12Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology... -
The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue Shumeet Baluja 9780691169675
SciFier: $32.72What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: $72.27Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
The Thousand Steps Helen Brain 9781946395245
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.53On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in South Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believing--as do all the other... -
Lock In John Scalzi 9780575134355
GollanczRRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.08Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. 4% suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in... -
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India's New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 9781138319721
SciFier: $66.58This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically... -
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation Steven T. Brown 9780230606210
SciFier: $65.32This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last... -
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 9781513267609
RRP: $9.72SciFier: $7.62Chivalry (1909) is a fascinating collection of tales that draw inspiration from the popular chronicles of medieval Europe. Author James Branch Cabell immerses his reader into this distant world ,... -
The Hollywood Trust by Kia Afra
SciFier: $143.85As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the studio system. These producer-distributor trade... -
Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave by Brian Blomerth
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $28.34A visual biography of the infamous ketamine researcher John C. Lilly.Since 2019, graphic novelist Brian Blomerth's stunningly original comix histories have combined detailed research and riotous... -
Warner Bros. by Mark Vieira
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $35.47In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid... -
Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress by Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $124.88Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed... -
John Ford Made Westerns by Gaylyn Studlar
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was... -
Selling Science Fiction Cinema by J. P. Telotte
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $42.52How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition,... -
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky 9780814766897
RRP: $97.30SciFier: $53.78Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already... -
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky 9780814766903
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $31.36Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already... -
Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter J. E. Smyth 9780231215282
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.52A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the...