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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... -
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
SciFier: £28.79Through 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,... -
Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.46Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond... -
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329398
SciFier: £23.26The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
Tomorrowing Terry Bisson 9781478026457
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.58For 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... -
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339694
SciFier: £39.59While 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... -
Ambient Television by Anna McCarthy
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times... -
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 by Noel Burch
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.70By 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... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: £26.58Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822351016
SciFier: £22.56"[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... -
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy by Zhen Ni
SciFier: £22.79After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other... -
The Cinema of Economic Miracles by Angelo Restivo
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that... -
![Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575074/646833/9780822323549__83607.1721652778.jpg?c=1 "Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]")
Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £35.01Savage Theory articulates the powerful mythology of cinema as the premier medium for magic in modern times. Envisioning the cinema as a form of magical ritual that possesses the power to enliven,... -
![The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575078/646837/9780822329121__93268.1721652782.jpg?c=1 "The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]")
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329121 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £13.46The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
![Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575372/647131/9780822333579__91623.1721653085.jpg?c=1 "Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]")
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £14.58In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
![Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575377/647136/9780822337751__90224.1721653090.jpg?c=1 "Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]")
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner 9780822337751 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £9.87In 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... -
![Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/601488/673256/9780822323037__22241.1721839641.jpg?c=1 "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]")
Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Linda Mizejewski 9780822323037 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £22.77In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture-as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Timothy D. Taylor 9780822349464
SciFier: £26.38This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478029274
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £79.32Settler 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... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure by Joseph Tobin
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56Initially 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...