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Struggles for Representation by Phyllis Rauch Klotman
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60Struggles for Representation examines over 300 non-fiction films by more than 150 African American film/videomakers and includes an extensive filmography, bibliography, and excerpts from interviews... -
Directed by Dorothy Arzner Judith Mayne 9780253208965
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career-her work as a... -
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780253206817
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01". . . a valuable and important book . . ." -The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryRepresenting Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice... -
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism by Patricia Erens
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art... -
Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars by Juan A. Suarez
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.93"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture... -
Nothing Is a Cure: A Graphic Novel Jeff Horwat 9781950066070
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950066070Author Jeff HorwatFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher... -
Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition by Thomas Allen Nelson
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic... -
Melodrama and Meaning by Barbara Klinger
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.12Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema-academia, the film industry,... -
Blurred Boundaries by Bill Nichols
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film,... -
Reel Families by Patricia R. Zimmermann
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount... -
Cinema and Development in West Africa James E. Genova 9780253010025
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from... -
Rethinking African Cultural Production Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253015976
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume... -
African Fashion, Global Style by Victoria L. Rovine
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.98African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces... -
Rethinking African Cultural Production Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253016003
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume... -
African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media Matthias Krings 9780253016256
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of... -
Cinema and Development in West Africa James E. Genova 9780253010087
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from... -
African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media Matthias Krings 9780253016294
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of... -
Art World City by Joanna Grabski
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.98Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn... -
With a Crooked Stick-The Films of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green
SciFier: £25.79With a "crooked stick," filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) sought to hit a "straight lick" by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or "uplift," for African Americans. A theme in... -
Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with... -
Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films Vlad Dima 9780253024268
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his... -
Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media Claudia Costa Pederson 9780253054487
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white,... -
Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media Claudia Costa Pederson 9780253054494
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white,... -
Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media Maria San Filippo 9780253052117
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these... -
Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition Russell Hoban 9780253212344
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.09"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy...Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and-this matters most-intensely ponderable." -Benjamin... -
Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films Vlad Dima 9780253024213
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his... -
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray 9780253214386
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural StudiesRobert B. RayForeword by James NaremoreChallenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies.In the 1920s, when film criticism... -
Breaking the Frame by Inez Hedges
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist... -
Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media Maria San Filippo 9780253052124
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.38Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253025593
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
Provenance and Early Cinema Joanne Bernardi 9780253052995
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £28.20Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing... -
The Analysis of Film by Raymond Bellour
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"No serious student of film should miss the great work collected in this volume."-W. A. Vincent, Choice"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes... -
Elegies for Uncanny Girls by Jennifer Colville
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.45Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- and wise-eyed, mysterious girls leave their... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253026101
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian M. Keathley
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees is in part a history of cinephilia, in part an attempt to recapture the spirit of cinephilia for the discipline of film studies, and in part an... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis 9780253223388
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. ... -
Contemporary African Fashion Suzanne Gott 9780253222565
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothing as a marker of ethnic identity, life stages,... -
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis 9780253356536
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. ... -
The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel Scott Russell Sanders 9780253045874
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are...