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Audiences by Ian Christie
SciFier: $87.29This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest... -
Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom
SciFier: $65.61Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the... -
Fellini by Jaap Guldemond
SciFier: $66.58"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." This beautifully designed volume taps into the sources of Federico Fellini's baroque imagination bringing the... -
From Grain to Pixel by Giovanna Fossati
RRP: $62.48SciFier: $58.16In From Grain to Pixel, Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization... -
Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media by Madelon Hoedt
SciFier: $155.76Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to... -
Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) by Marco Grosoli
SciFier: $84.08In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for Cahiers du Cinema launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is... -
Screens by Dominique Chateau
SciFier: $65.61We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a... -
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives Cosetta Saba 9789089642912
SciFier: $101.09This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this... -
Museums in a Digital Culture by Legene
SciFier: $154.79The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage... -
Conversations with Christian Metz by Warren Buckland
SciFier: $115.08From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: Essais sur la signifi cation au cinema, tome1 et 2; Langage et cinema; Le signifiant... -
Playful Identities by Michiel de Lange
SciFier: $65.61In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema Margo Shohl Rosen 9789089642837
SciFier: $85.61One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on... -
Feminisms by Laura Mulvey
SciFier: $65.61This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself... -
Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy Sybille Kramer 9789462983083
SciFier: $65.61This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Kramer uses... -
The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion Lars de Wildt 9789463729864
SciFier: $154.79Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such... -
Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate Annette Foerster 9789462989955
SciFier: $116.50This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Foerster presents a careful... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: $96.48Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for... -
Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema Henri de Corinth 9789048562671
SciFier: $154.79Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the... -
Create or Die by Stephen Lee Naish
SciFier: $53.56Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who... -
The Cinema of Urban Crisis by Lawrence Webb
SciFier: $101.09In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory. At the same... -
Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren Patricia Pisters 9789462982383
SciFier: $65.61Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks... -
Studying Film with Andre Bazin by Blandine Joret
SciFier: $68.79The impact of French film critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his... -
Cinema Against Spectacle by Jean-Louis Comolli
SciFier: $115.63Jean-Louis Comolli's six-part essay Technique and Ideologyhad a revolutionary effect on film theory and history when it first appeared in Cahiers du Cinema in 1971. In 2009, Comolli revisited his... -
The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority Mattias Frey 9789089647177
SciFier: $84.08Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about... -
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling by Joleen Blom
SciFier: $154.79Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in... -
Exposing the Film Apparatus by Giovanna Fossati
SciFier: $67.42Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and... -
Transnational Play by Anne-Marie Schleiner
SciFier: $154.79Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside... -
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch Nonie May 9789048562336
RRP: $173.74SciFier: $154.79The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These... -
Images of Dutchness by Sarah Dellmann
SciFier: $66.58Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but... -
Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games Anne-Marie Schleiner 9781041189893
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside... -
Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful Legene 9781041183204
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage... -
The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Film Editing and Technological Change Marc Furstenau 9781041187134
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage. It is commonly argued that the changes to the technical apparatus of... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9781041189244
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $61.76The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential... -
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character Joleen Blom 9781041190219
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in... -
Monstrosity in Games and Play: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Monstrous in Contemporary Cultures Sarah Stang 9781041183068
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the monstrosity hidden within... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859241
SciFier: $128.01Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859258
SciFier: $33.90Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Melies to Motion Capture Martin Lefebvre 9781041186533
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $61.76Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have... -
Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $40.30While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: $61.76While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s,...