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Twelve-Cent Archie: New edition with full color illustrations Bart Beaty 9780813590462
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
Twelve-Cent Archie: New edition with full color illustrations Bart Beaty 9780813590455
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $34.60For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
Costume, Makeup, and Hair Adrienne L. McLean 9780813571515
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $33.78Movie buffs and film scholars alike often overlook the importance of makeup artists, hair stylists, and costumers. With precious few but notable exceptions, creative workers in these fields have... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564951
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $31.96There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single... -
For the Love of Pleasure by Lauren Rabinovitz
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $33.35"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the... -
Black Magic by Krin Gabbard
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $34.04Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly... -
Acting for America by Robert Eberwein
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $38.13A captivating cast of 1980s power and talent--John Candy, Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Lange, Steve Martin,... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564081
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers... -
Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813553771
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $38.13Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film." Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM,... -
Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States Michelle Ann Abate 9781978840690
RRP: $86.18SciFier: $68.87Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978840690Author Michelle Ann AbateFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Rutgers University... -
Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse S. Trimble 9780813593654
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what,... -
Cinema Today by Elena Oumano
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36Imagine attending a fascinating film forum among a distinguished and varied panel of cinema legends. An afternoon or evening where contemporary filmmakers from around the world--Kazakhstan, Turkey,... -
A Short History of Film, Fourth Edition Wheeler Winston Dixon 9781978837676
RRP: $133.44SciFier: $109.28This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Succinct yet... -
A Short History of Film, Fourth Edition Wheeler Winston Dixon 9781978837669
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $41.41This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Succinct yet... -
Laughing Mad by Bambi Haggins
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $33.35Winner of the 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed for black... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $138.182017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $34.602017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Screening Genders by Robert Eberwein
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $33.35Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551258
SciFier: $49.82They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
Shining in Shadows by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564098
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $138.18In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers... -
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s Sean Griffin 9780813549637
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $135.87Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561066
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.74Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others... -
Smoothing the Jew: Abie the Agent and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era Jeffrey A Marx 9781978836341
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978836341Author Jeffrey A MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher... -
Wonder Woman: New edition with full color illustrations Noah Berlatsky 9780813590431
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $34.60William Marston was an unusual man-a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder... -
Wonder Woman: New edition with full color illustrations Noah Berlatsky 9780813590448
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21William Marston was an unusual man-a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder... -
Film as Argument: The Secret to Feature Film Storytelling Darren Paul Fisher 9781978841147
RRP: $133.44SciFier: $109.28If you've picked up this book, it's most likely that you have an interest in movies over-and-above the typical audience member. Perhaps a screenwriter, producer or director looking to improve your... -
Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation Maya Balakirsky Katz 9780813576626
RRP: $50.04SciFier: $42.38In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some... -
The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema Peter Stanfield 9780813572987
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $34.60Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of... -
Twelve-Cent Archie Bart Beaty 9780813563855
RRP: $123.71SciFier: $104.93Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813563855Author Bart BeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher... -
Screenwriting by Andrew Horton
SciFier: $46.29Screenwriters often joke that "no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay." Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the "green... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Kathryn Kalinak 9780813564265
SciFier: $45.29Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Even during the so-called "silent era," motion pictures were regularly accompanied by live music, lectures, and sound effects... -
Producing by Jon Lewis
SciFier: $44.15Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and... -
Editing and Special/Visual Effects by Charlie Keil
SciFier: $40.56Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle... -
Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation Maya Balakirsky Katz 9780813577012
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $138.18In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some... -
The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture Paul Wells 9780813544151
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $32.44Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto. The... -
Pretty People by Anna Everett
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551241
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media Anne Rothe 9780813551289
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $93.12In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure-characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core... -
Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse S. Trimble 9780813593647
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $33.53Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what,...