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American Game Studies Patrick Jagoda 9781478017257
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.60Contributors to this issue examine the role of video games in American culture, approaching games through the lenses of transpacific studies, queer historiography, cultural history, critical race and... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478002925
SciFier: £22.56In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358404
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £76.13In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter Colin Milburn 9780822357438
SciFier: £26.38In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and... -
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire Katherine Frank 9780822329725
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the... -
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico Anne Rubenstein 9780822321088
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books-which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £86.55For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323945
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.12In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender... -
Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323716
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids' Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Robert J. Corber 9780822319641
SciFier: £22.56Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
![Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575045/646804/9780822318538__99049.1721652749.jpg?c=1 "Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]")
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £18.83Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In... -
![Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339588 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575380/647139/9780822339588__28873.1721653093.jpg?c=1 "Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339588 [USED COPY]")
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339588 [USED COPY]
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £13.10While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth... -
![Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition Bhaskar Sarkar 9780822343936 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575381/647140/9780822343936__50128.1721653094.jpg?c=1 "Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition Bhaskar Sarkar 9780822343936 [USED COPY]")
Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition Bhaskar Sarkar 9780822343936 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £44.34What remains of the "national" when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm... -
![Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320692 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601485/673253/9780822320692__76622.1721839637.jpg?c=1 "Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320692 [USED COPY]")
Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320692 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £5.38Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works... -
![Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico Anne Rubenstein 9780822321088 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601487/673255/9780822321088__86334.1721839640.jpg?c=1 "Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico Anne Rubenstein 9780822321088 [USED COPY]")
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico Anne Rubenstein 9780822321088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £12.25In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books-which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary... -
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Kristin Ross 9780822341758
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £67.47Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure by Joseph Tobin
SciFier: £34.59Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a... -
D-Passage: The Digital Way Minh-ha T. Trinh 9780822355250
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85D-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Taking as grounding forces her feature film Night Passage and installation L'Autre marche... -
Kurosawa by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.71The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically... -
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico Anne Rubenstein 9780822321415
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books-which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter Colin Milburn 9780822357292
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £86.55In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336389
SciFier: £26.38For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2 by Hamid Naficy
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.38Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1 by Hamid Naficy
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.93Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and... -
The Black Body in Ecstasy by Jennifer C. Nash
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how... -
Cold War Femme by Robert J. Corber
SciFier: £31.99In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £77.73Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working... -
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! by Eric Schaefer
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.71Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves "in trouble" comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first... -
Chick Flicks by B. Ruby Rich
SciFier: £27.79If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Zhen Zhang 9780822340539
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £86.55Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban... -
![Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575382/647141/9780822343943__36906.1721653095.jpg?c=1 "Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]")
Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £23.19Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In... -
![The New American Cinema Jon Lewis 9780822320876 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601486/673254/9780822320876__11800.1721839639.gif?c=1 "The New American Cinema Jon Lewis 9780822320876 [USED COPY]")
The New American Cinema Jon Lewis 9780822320876 [USED COPY]
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £31.17This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822342908
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £86.55One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English,... -
Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation Marsha Kinder 9780822319382
SciFier: £40.79In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's... -
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography Jennifer C. Nash 9780822356059
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £67.47In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822360025
SciFier: £20.23In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478005094
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.36From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called "otaku" develop intense fan relationships with "cute girl" characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary... -
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Ivone Margulies 9780822317234
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.67Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one... -
Bound by Law? by Keith Aoki
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822359593
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £81.01In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,...