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Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom
SciFier: €56.17Whether 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: €57.00"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... -
Audiences by Ian Christie
SciFier: €74.73This 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... -
From Grain to Pixel by Giovanna Fossati
RRP: €53.49SciFier: €49.79In 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: €133.35Despite 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: €71.98In 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: €56.17We 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... -
Museums in a Digital Culture by Legene
SciFier: €132.52The 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... -
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives Cosetta Saba 9789089642912
SciFier: €86.55This 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... -
Conversations with Christian Metz by Warren Buckland
SciFier: €98.52From 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: €56.17In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary... -
Feminisms by Laura Mulvey
SciFier: €56.17This 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... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema Margo Shohl Rosen 9789089642837
SciFier: €73.29One 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... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: €82.60Since 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: €132.52Andrzej 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... -
Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy Sybille Kramer 9789462983083
SciFier: €56.17This 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: €132.52Young 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... -
Create or Die by Stephen Lee Naish
SciFier: €45.85Dennis 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... -
Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate Annette Foerster 9789462989955
SciFier: €99.73This 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... -
The Cinema of Urban Crisis by Lawrence Webb
SciFier: €86.55In 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: €56.17Louis 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... -
The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority Mattias Frey 9789089647177
SciFier: €71.98Film 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: €132.52Characters 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... -
Studying Film with Andre Bazin by Blandine Joret
SciFier: €58.89The 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: €97.81Jean-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... -
Exposing the Film Apparatus by Giovanna Fossati
SciFier: €57.72Film 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: €132.52Transnational 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... -
Images of Dutchness by Sarah Dellmann
SciFier: €57.00Why 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... -
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch Nonie May 9789048562336
RRP: €148.74SciFier: €132.52The 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... -
Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games Anne-Marie Schleiner 9781041189893
RRP: €57.11SciFier: €52.04Transnational 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: €57.11SciFier: €52.04The 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: €57.11SciFier: €52.04Tracing 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: €57.11SciFier: €52.87The 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: €57.11SciFier: €52.04Characters 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: €57.11SciFier: €52.04Monsters 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: €109.59Transgressive 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: €29.02Transgressive 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... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: €52.87While 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,... -
Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Melies to Motion Capture Martin Lefebvre 9781041186533
RRP: €57.11SciFier: €52.87Since 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... -
German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 Thomas Elsaesser 9780415709279
RRP: €51.16SciFier: €46.87In German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory...