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The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073622
SciFier: £108.33Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073639
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.60Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States Chris Lamb 9780231130677
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174985
SciFier: £88.18Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.38After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China's new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176521
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
SciFier: £94.31Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
SciFier: £101.27Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934)... -
Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman 9780231166034
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.11William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the... -
Melodrama and Modernity by Ben Singer
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and... -
Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete Paula Amad 9780231135016
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.80Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157162
SciFier: £94.31Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157179
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161329
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
The Voice in Cinema by Michel Chion
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.06How can a voice whose source is never seen-such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho-have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail... -
Film, a Sound Art Michel Chion 9780231137775
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.59French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes,... -
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility Rey Chow (Duke University) 9780231133333
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining... -
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir Patrick Keating (Assistant Professor, Trinity University) 9780231149037
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing... -
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past Peter Rollins 9780231112239
SciFier: £36.53American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214049
SciFier: £107.39Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven... -
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemunden 9780231166782
SciFier: £94.31Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia,... -
Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity James Lastra 9780231115179
SciFier: £23.54Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of... -
Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary Jonathan Kahana 9780231142076
SciFier: £30.59Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148719
SciFier: £29.89It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu 9780231191838
SciFier: £15.12Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188708
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of... -
The Stardom Film by Karen McNally
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.89Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177863
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
SciFier: £88.18In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its... -
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael Mann 9780231177870
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.49The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169608
SciFier: £88.18Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and... -
DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World Israel Rosenfield 9780231142717
SciFier: £17.89With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the... -
Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory Marianne DeKoven 9780231152839
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162203
SciFier: £94.31Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: £94.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Danger: Diabolik Leon Hunt 9780231182812
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157698
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay...