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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Patrick W. Galbraith 9781478006299
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $35.29From 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: $16.99SciFier: $15.21The 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: $200.02Animating 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: $45.34SciFier: $38.23In 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: $42.64In 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: $65.75In 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: $43.45SciFier: $42.64This 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: $39.67SciFier: $38.23What 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: $53.17A 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: $24.55SciFier: $22.06For 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: $168.21SciFier: $145.59In 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: $160.65SciFier: $139.58"[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: $160.65SciFier: $139.58By 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
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $31.92In 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: $49.86Since 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: $43.45SciFier: $42.64In 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: $168.21SciFier: $133.55In 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... -
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Kristin Ross 9780822341925
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Masculine 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: $202.23SciFier: $25.10Over 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: $77.47Scott 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: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Since 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
RRP: $43.45SciFier: $42.64Initially 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... -
Kurosawa by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $41.03The 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: $39.67SciFier: $38.23In 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: $187.11SciFier: $163.58In 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: $49.86For 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: $52.90SciFier: $49.86Hamid 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: $47.23SciFier: $39.56Hamid 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: $39.67SciFier: $32.36In 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
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $38.23In 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: $168.21SciFier: $146.91Memories 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: $49.12SciFier: $41.03Unashamed 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: $49.86If 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... -
![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: $183.33SciFier: $43.83Known 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: $185.22SciFier: $58.91This 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... -
Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation Marsha Kinder 9780822319382
SciFier: $77.47In 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: $160.65SciFier: $127.52In 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... -
American Game Studies Patrick Jagoda 9781478017257
RRP: $20.77SciFier: $18.14Contributors 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: $42.64In 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: $179.55SciFier: $143.89In 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...