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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... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478001348
SciFier: £92.98In 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... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356523
SciFier: £23.99Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Yvonne Welbon 9780822370710
SciFier: £92.28From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Yvonne Welbon 9780822370864
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.89From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its... -
Empty Moments by Leo Charney
SciFier: £20.23In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"-the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic,... -
The Apartment Plot by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
SciFier: £23.26Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for stories in... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3 by Hamid Naficy
SciFier: £35.19Hamid 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... -
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 Matthew B. Karush 9780822352433
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £75.15In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's... -
Soundtrack Available by Arthur Knight
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £26.38From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music... -
![Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575077/646836/9780822323617__00760.1721652781.jpg?c=1 "Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]")
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323617 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £33.87In 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 9780822323501 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575351/647110/9780822323501__73492.1721653065.jpg?c=1 "Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]")
Kids' Media Culture Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £12.69Television 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... -
![The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575373/647132/9780822323587__73560.1721653086.jpg?c=1 "The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]")
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £20.66Memories 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... -
![Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575375/647134/9780822336006__02013.1721653088.jpg?c=1 "Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]")
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £15.30For 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... -
![Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Priya Jaikumar 9780822337805 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575378/647137/9780822337805__92158.1721653091.jpg?c=1 "Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Priya Jaikumar 9780822337805 [USED COPY]")
Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Priya Jaikumar 9780822337805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £10.94How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and... -
![In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313809 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601481/673249/9780822313809__83252.1721839633.jpg?c=1 "In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313809 [USED COPY]")
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313809 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £10.20In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to... -
![Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601489/673257/9780822329831__07700.1721839642.jpg?c=1 "Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]")
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £11.42This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822350095
SciFier: £40.79By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A Gerstner 9780822337638
SciFier: £36.39In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478032649
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.37Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video... -
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction Larry McCaffery 9780822311683
SciFier: £41.19The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery... -
Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars Jane M. Gaines 9780822312994
SciFier: £32.19Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm-the concept of classical Hollywood cinema-that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure by Joseph Tobin
SciFier: £34.99Initially 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...