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Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822360025
SciFier: $27.11In 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,... -
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life Colin Milburn 9781478001348
SciFier: $124.59In 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... -
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Ivone Margulies 9780822317234
SciFier: $39.11Through 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... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $27.11In 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... -
Bound by Law? by Keith Aoki
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $19.81A 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... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making Yvonne Welbon 9780822370864
SciFier: $30.23From 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... -
Working Like a Homosexual by Matthew Tinkcom
SciFier: $28.66What 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,... -
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity William Mazzarella 9780822353744
RRP: $119.26SciFier: $103.22In 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... -
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Daisuke Miyao 9780822339694
SciFier: $34.41While 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... -
The Apartment Plot by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
SciFier: $31.17Rethinking 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... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema Kristen Whissel 9780822355748
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $98.96By 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... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3 by Hamid Naficy
SciFier: $30.23Hamid 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... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: $127.30SciFier: $110.82By 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: $35.62Film 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... -
![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: $119.26SciFier: $27.68Memories 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... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Timothy D. Taylor 9780822349464
SciFier: $35.35This 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... -
Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A Gerstner 9780822337638
SciFier: $48.76In 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... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film Arthur Knight 9780822329633
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $35.35From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
![No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman 9780822333593 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/846026/1609085/9780822333593__52867.1787941027.jpg?c=1 "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman 9780822333593 [USED COPY]")
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman 9780822333593 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $28.78In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure by Joseph Tobin
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $30.23Initially 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... -
Gods in the Bazaar by Kajri Jain
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $28.85Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art," the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822343127
SciFier: $35.62One 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,... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter Colin Milburn 9780822357438
SciFier: $35.35In 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... -
D-Passage: The Digital Way Minh-ha T. Trinh 9780822355250
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $98.96D-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... -
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire Katherine Frank 9780822329725
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $27.01Based 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... -
The Passion of Ingmar Bergman by Frank Gado
SciFier: $56.00Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays-an uncommon practice in the film industry-and for this practice... -
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323945
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $22.94In 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... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema Kristen Whissel 9780822355885
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $27.11By 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... -
The Black Body in Ecstasy by Jennifer C. Nash
SciFier: $36.43In 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... -
The Soul of Anime by Ian Condry
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $23.17In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with... -
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318460
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $28.05Blending 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... -
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 Matthew B. Karush 9780822352648
SciFier: $46.89In 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... -
The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Daisuke Miyao 9780822354079
RRP: $127.30SciFier: $110.56In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film Arthur Knight 9780822329350
RRP: $125.96SciFier: $104.16From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Kurosawa by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $29.09The 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... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon Joseph Tobin 9780822332503
SciFier: $123.66Initially 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... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006
RRP: $132.66SciFier: $115.98For 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... -
Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age Laura Isabel Serna 9780822356530
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $25.02In 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... -
Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $22.94In Pretend We're Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587
RRP: $119.26SciFier: $104.16Memories 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...