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Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge Joseph McBride 9780231201469
SciFier: $218.95The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161077
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $54.64A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169622
RRP: $192.36SciFier: $156.91Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Michael Z. Newman 9780231169516
SciFier: $27.62Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188715
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $53.56Arguably 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... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182416
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $53.56In 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... -
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176934
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.41Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus (c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc) 9780231138246
RRP: $96.18SciFier: $83.65All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff... -
Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory Marianne DeKoven 9780231152822
SciFier: $215.97Why 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... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231179218
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $53.91From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162210
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $54.64Maya 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... -
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration Thomas Doherty 9780231143585
SciFier: $217.57From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little... -
Picturing Japaneseness by Darrell William Davis
RRP: $73.28SciFier: $62.77Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new... -
Projections of War by Thomas Doherty
SciFier: $71.43Thomas Doherty reveals how and why Hollywood marshaled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort and interprets the cultural meanings and enduring legacies of the motion picture record of... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany Scott Curtis 9780231134026
SciFier: $248.08Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony Richard Allen 9780231135757
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $57.09Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen... -
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema Rey Chow (Duke University) 9780231076838
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $53.56Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of... -
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies by Chris Straayer
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $59.01Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers... -
The Sounds of Commerce by Jeff Smith
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry... -
Differences in the Dark by Michael Gilmore
RRP: $114.50SciFier: $80.68George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American... -
China on Screen: Cinema and Nation Christopher Berry (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Goldsmiths College) 9780231137072
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque 9780231156516
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $70.05Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony Richard Allen 9780231135740
SciFier: $217.57Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215503
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.41Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Special Effects by Michele Pierson
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $53.56Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood... -
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic Blake Atwood 9780231178174
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $57.09It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted... -
Kingly Splendor by Allison R. Miller
RRP: $125.95SciFier: $103.92The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era's funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as... -
Weimar Cinema by Noah Isenberg (Book Review Editor, Film Quarterly)
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $57.41Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars... -
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema Rick Warner 9780231212700
RRP: $267.93SciFier: $215.97Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred... -
Cinema of Paradox by Evelyn Ehrlich
RRP: $155.72SciFier: $127.12From 1940 to 1944 the French cinema thrived both economically and artistically under the Nazi occupation. Despite the harsh and grim conditions of defeat, the French film industry produced many good... -
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Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s Sarah Street 9780231179829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $201.52SciFier: $39.94The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and... -
From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film David Robinson (Book Review Editor, Scotsman) 9780231103398
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09Film critic David Robinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of moving images precluding any notion of plot development or drama; and as a fledgling dramatic... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214056
SciFier: $63.41Radley 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... -
New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel Elizabeth Weber 9780231203470
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $48.30One of China's first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as... -
Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System Katherine Fusco 9780231220910
SciFier: $201.66We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver... -
The Cinema of Jonathan Demme: Champion of the Soul Louis Black 9780231223515
SciFier: $215.97Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222570
SciFier: $171.15By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
The Shining by Kevin Donnelly
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $27.62Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is an esteemed member of the twentieth century's pantheon of outstanding films while also perhaps being the director's most accessible film. It is a rarity in... -
The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Andre Gaudreault 9780231173575
RRP: $64.12SciFier: $62.54Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double... -
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong 9780231183383
SciFier: $156.91The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers...