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Lore of an Adirondack County by Edith E. Cutting
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.29"My family lives in the Adirondacks, a section of New York State that has been favorable to the preservation of folklore. With a common background in England and America for life in a small... -
Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945 Su Yun Kim 9781501751882
RRP: £47.00SciFier: £39.28In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers,... -
Lyric as Comedy by Calista McRae
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £37.70A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric... -
Stalin's Final Films by Claire Knight
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £39.19Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship... -
The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention Garrett Stewart 9781501761393
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £94.56In The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the... -
Professor at Large by John Cleese
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90And now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty... -
Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture Amanda Shubert 9781501784941
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies - magic lanterns,... -
The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention Garrett Stewart 9781501761409
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £14.92In The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the... -
Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture Amanda Shubert 9781501783678
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £95.26A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies - magic lanterns,... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head Eliot Borenstein 9781501767821
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.79Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head Eliot Borenstein 9781501769368
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the... -
Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location Ipek A. Celik Rappas 9781501779978
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £94.56Filming in European Cities explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. Ipek A. Celik Rappas accounts the rising demand for original and affordable locations for screen projects... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9781501713620
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.68During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9780801445996
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £94.56During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Communism's Public Sphere by Kyrill Kunakhovich
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £36.11Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art:... -
Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley Katharine Judson 9780875805818
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.23Collected almost 100 years ago, these legends, tales and myths represent the diversity and richness of American Indian cultures from around the Great Lakes, the Midwest, and the Mississippi River... -
Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America Jonathan Kirshner 9780801451348
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £95.86Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system,... -
European Cinema by Elizabeth Ezra (, Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Stirling)
SciFier: £46.94European Cinema is the first book to provide overviews of key movements in European film history, from the inception of the medium in 1895 to the present. This text includes accessible... -
The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen Julie Anne Cassiday 9780875802664
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £36.03Attempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the Bolsheviks staged show trials-legal trials that incorporated theatrical elements such as coached defendants, memorized scripts for... -
God Head by Leonard Cline
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.37Lavished with praise at the time of its 1925 publication, Leonard Cline's phantasmagoric God Head is being republished so a new generation of readers can marvel at its dark magic. Cline's mesmerizing... -
Gideon's Revolution by Brian Carso
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.37It's 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon's Revolution is about to begin. General... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746536
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.46A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746529
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £95.49A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video... -
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas Sangjoon Lee 9781041185253
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £44.43This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of... -
The Cinema of Globalization by Tom Zaniello
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £24.89Tom Zaniello's fascinating new guide to films about globalization-its origins, its relationship with colonialism, neocolonialism, the growth of migratory labor, and movements to counter or protest...