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An Auteurist History of Film by Charles Silver
RRP: $42.08SciFier: $30.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709777Author Charles SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Douglas Fairbanks by Alistair Cooke
RRP: $18.70SciFier: $13.73This now classic portrait of Douglas Fairbanks - the swashbuckling original King of Hollywood - was first published in 1940. Long out of print and hard to find, Alistair Cooke's posthumous biography... -
Aernout Mik by Laurence Kardish
RRP: $31.70SciFier: $22.83Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling, unsettling, peculiar and plausible. The artist designs... -
Drawn to MoMA by Alex Halberstadt
RRP: $65.45SciFier: $45.31Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451674Author Alex HalberstadtFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Never Alone by Paola Antonelli
RRP: $65.45SciFier: $44.00Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451414Author Paola AntonelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Tim Burton by Ron Magliozzi
RRP: $35.44SciFier: $25.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870707605Author Ron MagliozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Hope Is of a Different Color - From the Global South to the Lodz Film School by Magda Lipska
SciFier: $45.18The history of film students from the Global South who studied in Poland during the Cold War. As Poland's second-largest city, Lodz was a hub for international students who studied in Poland from... -
Famous Works of Art-And How They Got That Way by John Nici
SciFier: $45.16In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her... -
Thinking About Exhibitions Bruce W. Ferguson 9780415115902
SciFier: $74.48An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions,... -
Museum Movies by Haidee Wasson
RRP: $56.10SciFier: $53.28Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art... -
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design Fleur Watson (Architecture Victoria | Open House Melbourne, Australia) 9781138492738
SciFier: $65.56The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on... -
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama Lewis Carroll 9780141197302
RRP: $56.10SciFier: $40.60Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of... -
Warhol-isms by Andy Warhol
RRP: $24.29SciFier: $22.55A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artistOne of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he... -
The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 Eileen Bowser 9780520085343
RRP: $65.45SciFier: $56.96Eileen Bowser chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. The effect of the... -
Creating Experimental Documentary Films: Theory and Practice Beyond Convention Pablo Frasconi 9781041043768
SciFier: $70.42This book explores the continued development and practice of experimental documentary film making with evolving trends in still photography, visual arts, journalism, installation art, docudrama,... -
The Films of Bill Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive Bernd Herzogenrath 9781041187851
RRP: $89.74SciFier: $81.78Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the... -
OBEY: Supply and Demand Shepard Fairey 9780847861729
RRP: $93.50SciFier: $76.84Shepard Fairey s first comprehensive monograph brought back into print, which chronicles his early art school days, his viral Andre the Giant has a Posse sticker campaign in the 1990s, the creation... -
Anni Albers by Anni Albers
RRP: $41.05SciFier: $35.51Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband,... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin by David Mayer
RRP: $31.77SciFier: $23.82Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in 1905, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time. Until now,... -
Chanel by Jean Leymarie
RRP: $112.20SciFier: $87.12When Jean Leymarie's monograph on Coco Chanel was originally published in 1989, he was known primarily as a curator and modern art historian, both in his native France and abroad. Bringing his... -
If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It Lil Miss Hot Mess 9780762475339
RRP: $28.03SciFier: $19.56If you're a drag queen and you know it, let it show by winking, shaking your bum, laughing real big, twirling around, and more! Join a cast of fabulous drag queens as you sing along to the tune of... -
David Claerbout by David Claerbout
RRP: $121.55SciFier: $81.46The long-awaited monumental monograph on the work of David Claerbout. In a conversation with Jonathan Pouthier, curator of the cinema programme of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou... -
One Black Cat by Robie Rogge
RRP: $16.81SciFier: $12.16Conjure up the perfect Halloween read with this 3D novelty board book that's shaped like a black cat!Black cat sets out on Halloween in the dark, without being seen. One black cat is out on... -
Titus Kaphar by Titus Kaphar
RRP: $215.05SciFier: $164.15This book provides a behind-the-scenes view of the debut feature film, Exhibiting Forgiveness, by renowned artist and director, Titus Kaphar. The film follows Tarrell, a successful Black painter, who... -
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish Lil Miss Hot Mess 9780762467655
RRP: $29.90SciFier: $21.71The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this... -
Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States Anthony Slide 9780786408368
RRP: $41.12SciFier: $35.92This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed... -
Talkin' With Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin Steve Fagin 9780822320692 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.60SciFier: $10.06Steve 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... -
Unravel by Lotte Johnson
RRP: $84.15SciFier: $66.72The transformative power of contemporary textiles is the subject of this exhibition catalog that examines how and why textile has been a fertile medium for artists to question regimes of power and... -
Leo Villareal: Coding Light Molly Donovan 9781580936538
RRP: $112.11SciFier: $79.21An expansive monograph of work by acclaimed contemporary artist Leo Villareal, known for his monumental installations employing light and computer technology Transforming pixels using the zeroes and... -
Dior By Yuriko Takagi Yuriko Takagi 9780847874248
RRP: $140.25SciFier: $102.27An important addition to the library of leading artistic photographers working to interpret the fashion house s oeuvre. Takagi is an icon of Japanese fashion photography, with an artistic practice... -
Positions K8 Hardy 9781917651752
RRP: $121.55SciFier: $118.43Multimedia artist K8 Hardy uses photography in her Position Series (2007-12) to explore identity as performance and construction. Hardy used herself, her sister, and mannequins, styled in eclectic... -
Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
SciFier: $136.49Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did... -
Tiger Slayer by Ruby Lal
SciFier: $29.55More than four centuries ago in India, a Muslim woman ruled a magnificent empire: Nur Jahan, whose name means "light of the world." Nur led troops into battle atop an elephant, hunted tigers,... -
The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films With a Foreword by Sir John Akomfrah Ashley Clark 9781529438253
RRP: $65.45SciFier: $44.00The World of Black Film is an entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe, from to the early days of cinema to now. Starting... -
Rashomon by Donald Richie
RRP: $57.97SciFier: $44.86Rashomon is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's films, the winner of the 1951 Venice Festival prize and the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1952. It features Toshiru... -
Keiichi Tanaami by Keiichi Tanaami
RRP: $108.46SciFier: $80.02The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Keiichi Tanaami's kaleidoscopic oeuvre, which merges Japanese postwar culture and American-style comics with a genre-defining artistic output... -
Sara Berman's Closet Maira Kalman 9780062846402
RRP: $37.40SciFier: $30.132018 National Jewish Book Award FinalistMaira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, and Alex Kalman, the designer, curator, writer, and... -
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World Dan Ackerman 9781610396110
RRP: $41.14SciFier: $28.74The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop itTetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer,... -
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey, Film historian and screenwriter, UK (film historian and screenwriter, UK)
RRP: $24.29SciFier: $19.99George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the... -
Rosa Barba Stuart Comer 9781838668853
RRP: $74.71SciFier: $53.22The first comprehensive monograph on visual artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working today Rosa Barba is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial...