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Reconfigure by Epredator
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £11.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781518772849Author EpredatorFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint -
Reconfiguring the Portrait by Abraham Geil
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £88.18Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media Extends the domain of portraiture to include not just painting, photography, and film but also... -
Screen Space Reconfigured Susanne Saether 9781041185819
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £44.43Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as... -
The Voynich Portal: Reconfiguring the Coding Error David Lane 9781257932900
RRP: £9.27SciFier: £8.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781257932900Author David LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint -
Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde Sara A. Potter 9781683404408
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literatureIn this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to... -
Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde Sara A. Potter 9781683404323
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £55.88Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literatureIn this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to... -
Reconfiguring the Portrait Abraham Geil (Senior Lecturer in the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam) 9781399525084
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in... -
The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the 'Genuinely' Religious Film Dr Sheila J. Nayar (Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA) 9781472533029
SciFier: £40.99For more than half a century now, scholars have debated over what comprises a 'genuinely' religious film-one that evinces an 'authentic' manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholars do so by... -
Aesthetics of the Virtual Roberto Diodato 9781438444369
SciFier: £25.36Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective... -
Cont3xt by Epredator
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523647750Author EpredatorFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint -
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... -
Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography Natalie Edwards 9780803236318
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers,... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481847
SciFier: £93.01Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s... -
The Talent Management of Indie Authorship by Andrew Stubbs-Lacy
SciFier: £78.60This book explores the role that talent intermediaries, including talent agents, talent managers and producers, play in packaging, marketing and selling screen media products, services and brands by... -
Classics and Comics George Kovacs (, Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario) 9780199734184
SciFier: £83.04Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the... -
Classics and Comics George Kovacs (, Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario) 9780199734191
SciFier: £50.16Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the... -
Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film Laura Wilson 9781349573103
SciFier: £46.99Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes... -
Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, Law Monica Lopez Lerma 9781474442053
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of twenty-first-century Spain. What senses do these frames... -
Gender in French Banlieue Cinema by Marzia Caporale
SciFier: £87.99This edited volume investigates the reconfiguration of gender in French banlieue cinema, interrogating whether the films produced over the last two decades provide new and viable models of resistance... -
Introducing Feminism by Cathia Jenainati
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.62The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated... -
Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films Paulo de Medeiros 9781803744025
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £36.99The filmography representing the 'Portuguese Orient' during the Estado Novo (1933-1974) is scarce and late, employing a simplified Luso- tropicalist rhetoric that repeatedly actualises the myth of a... -
Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Goffredo Polizzi 9781835537237
SciFier: £31.56Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and... -
The Latin American Road Movie Veronica Garibotto 9781137590350
SciFier: £103.24This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the... -
The Latin American Road Movie Veronica Garibotto 9781349954889
SciFier: £106.99This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the... -
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide Cathia Jenainati 9781848311213 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.82The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated... -
Counter-Realism: Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism Tamara Trodd 9781526190215
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99Counter-Realism: Art and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism is an ambitious and original study of key works of film and video art made since 2008 by leading contemporary artists, including... -
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen S. Craig 9780230103849
SciFier: £46.99Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema by Matilda Mroz
SciFier: £112.06This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional... -
Playing American by Soeren Schoppmeier
RRP: £68.50SciFier: £50.58Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and... -
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same by Amy Herzog
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt... -
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen S. Craig 9781349288236
SciFier: £46.99Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In... -
From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World: The Transfiguration of a Franchise Cassie Brummitt 9781399548182
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £75.90The Harry Potter franchise is not confined to just the page or the screen, but has been and continues to be reimagined and reconfigured through a number of extratextual products, texts, and... -
Migrant Form: Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray Gaurav Majumdar 9781433105036
RRP: £69.70SciFier: £62.99Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the... -
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives Peng Hsiao-yen 9780367209278
SciFier: £46.33Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of... -
Women and Home in Cinema by Louise Radinger Field
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £98.99This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers... -
Marine Hugonnier by Marine Hugonnier
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £27.63The volume, dedicated to Marine Hugonnier (Paris, 1969), filmmaker and contemporary artist, presents a selection of works representative of her artistic approach since her beginnings in 1998. At the... -
Cinema at the Shore by Fiona Handyside
RRP: £52.00SciFier: £47.49From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to Francois Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are... -
World Film Locations: Havana by Ann Marie Stock (College of William and Mary, USA)
SciFier: £24.44Havana is among the world's leading cinematic locales. In films made beyond the island as well as those created by local cineastes, Havana is depicted as a vibrant Caribbean city. The quantity and... -
Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Priya Jaikumar 9780822337805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £10.94How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and...