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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... -
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478006299
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67From 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... -
On Chantal Akerman by Patricia White
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.05The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture, Akerman is... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356400
SciFier: £105.83Animating 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... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In 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... -
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313861
SciFier: £22.56In 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... -
Regarding Frank Capra by Eric Smoodin
SciFier: £34.79In this innovative historical examination of the American movie audience, Eric Smoodin focuses on reactions to the films of Frank Capra. Best known for his Hollywood features-including It Happened... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X Feng 9780822329961
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56This 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... -
Working Like a Homosexual by Matthew Tinkcom
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,... -
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean
SciFier: £28.13A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates... -
Tomorrowing Terry Bisson 9781478030683
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.67For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular "This Month in History" column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events, four a month, each... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353744
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £77.03In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822350880
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema Kristen Whissel 9780822355748
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect... -
Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam
SciFier: £27.39In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Zhen Zhang 9780822340744
SciFier: £26.38Since 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... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353881
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because... -
Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age Laura Isabel Serna 9780822356417
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £70.66In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate Mexico's cinemas, many of its cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United... -
Displaced Allegories by Negar Mottahedeh
SciFier: £20.23Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran's film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men. This... -
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Kristin Ross 9780822341925
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Masculine 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... -
![Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575075/646834/9780822332855__65869.1721652779.jpg?c=1 "Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]")
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £107.00SciFier: £13.28Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his... -
Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction Scott Bukatman 9780822313403
SciFier: £40.79Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity-referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television... -
The Beautiful Generation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards,... -
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...