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Improvising Cinema by Gilles Mouellic
SciFier: €132.53Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression... -
Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom
SciFier: €54.10Whether 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... -
Audiences by Ian Christie
RRP: €72.53SciFier: €71.64This 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... -
Fellini by Jaap Guldemond
SciFier: €54.93"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: €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... -
A Revolution for the Screen by Paul Cuff
SciFier: €138.80Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time,... -
Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media by Madelon Hoedt
SciFier: €128.16Despite 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... -
Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media by Jason Lee
SciFier: €132.53This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin... -
Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
SciFier: €156.40This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth... -
Hands on Film by Barry Monahan
SciFier: €138.80Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers... -
Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) by Marco Grosoli
SciFier: €69.60In 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: €54.10We 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... -
Digital China by Jessica Imbach
SciFier: €139.63Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this... -
The Digital Image and Reality by Daniel Strutt
SciFier: €132.53The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophers since Plato and Aristotle have sought to understand the complex influence of... -
Performing Moving Images by Senta Siewert
SciFier: €132.53Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned... -
Museums in a Digital Culture by Legene
RRP: €114.24SciFier: €93.66The 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 Global Protest by Aidan McGarry
SciFier: €138.80Protestors 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... -
Movie Circuits by Gabriel Menotti
SciFier: €132.53Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus... -
Cinema's Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement Saige Walton 9789089649515
SciFier: €139.63In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema... -
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema by Gerald Sim
SciFier: €138.80Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark... -
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives Cosetta Saba 9789089642912
SciFier: €82.38This 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... -
Hollywood is Everywhere by Melis Behlil
SciFier: €132.53Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster... -
Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism by Bruce Williams
SciFier: €132.53Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europe's most isolated country during the Cold War era, communist Albania had already been cut off from the West... -
The American Southern Gothic on Screen by Karen Horsley
SciFier: €132.53The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the... -
Conversations with Christian Metz by Warren Buckland
SciFier: €93.76From 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... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9789462986510
SciFier: €133.36The 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... -
Post-war Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960 by Mats Bjoerkin
SciFier: €132.53During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and... -
Feminisms by Laura Mulvey
SciFier: €54.10This 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... -
Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream by Elena Pollacchi
SciFier: €132.53This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the... -
Playful Identities by Michiel de Lange
SciFier: €54.10In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary... -
Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan Rafal Zaborowski 9789462985599
SciFier: €132.53What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital... -
Monstrosity in Games and Play by Sarah Stang
SciFier: €155.16Monsters 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... -
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts by Raymond Watkins
SciFier: €138.80The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema Margo Shohl Rosen 9789089642837
SciFier: €66.63One 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... -
Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape by Teresa Hera
SciFier: €132.53The evolution of the game industry and changes in the advertising landscape in recent years have led to a keen interest of marketers in using digital games for advertising purposes. However, despite... -
Beyond the Essay Film by Julia Vassilieva
SciFier: €132.53In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined... -
Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate Annette Foerster 9789462989955
RRP: €98.71SciFier: €95.58This 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: €79.48Since 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
RRP: €127.33SciFier: €127.13Andrzej 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 9789089647412
SciFier: €137.24This 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...