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Picturing Japaneseness by Darrell William Davis
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.41Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new... -
Brazilian Cinema by Randal Johnson
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.80From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning... -
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies by Chris Straayer
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.77Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers... -
What Made Pistachio Nuts? by Henry Jenkins
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.54Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and... -
Melodrama and Modernity by Ben Singer
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and... -
Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity James Lastra 9780231115179
SciFier: £23.54Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of... -
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film by Robin Wood
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood, well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture Alison Griffiths 9780231116961
SciFier: £108.33The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture Alison Griffiths 9780231116978
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.46The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
The Sounds of Commerce by Jeff Smith
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry... -
Attack of the Leading Ladies by Rhona Berenstein
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes... -
The Impossible David Lynch Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) 9780231139557
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £22.66Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222587
SciFier: £18.97By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165068
SciFier: £101.27Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156752
SciFier: £30.59The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222570
SciFier: £74.74By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics Julie A. Turnock 9780231163521
SciFier: £101.27Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the... -
Film, a Sound Art Michel Chion 9780231137768
SciFier: £108.33French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes,... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073639
SciFier: £30.00Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Film, a Sound Art Michel Chion 9780231137775
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.59French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes,... -
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir Patrick Keating (Assistant Professor, Trinity University) 9780231149037
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing... -
Projections of War by Thomas Doherty
SciFier: £31.21Thomas Doherty reveals how and why Hollywood marshaled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort and interprets the cultural meanings and enduring legacies of the motion picture record of... -
China on Screen: Cinema and Nation Christopher Berry (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Goldsmiths College) 9780231137072
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156745
SciFier: £107.63The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160988
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's... -
Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image Rosalind Galt 9780231153478
SciFier: £30.59Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional... -
George Gallup in Hollywood Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame) 9780231121330
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073622
SciFier: £108.33Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
SciFier: £94.31Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160995
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161329
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany Scott Curtis 9780231134026
SciFier: £108.33Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161060
SciFier: £95.61A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176927
SciFier: £114.58Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility Rey Chow (Duke University) 9780231133333
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining... -
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176934
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
Special Effects by Michele Pierson
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood...