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Twelve-Cent Archie: New edition with full color illustrations Bart Beaty 9780813590462
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $140.31For 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: $35.70For 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: $34.60Movie 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... -
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... -
The Horse Who Drank the Sky by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $34.86What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches,... -
New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780813551722
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish... -
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,... -
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 Laura Horak 9780813574820
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.132016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz... -
Cinema Today by Elena Oumano
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.44Imagine 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,... -
The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics Liam Burke 9780813597164
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise,... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $141.282017 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... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Kathryn Kalinak 9780813564265
SciFier: $45.18Sound 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... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.702017 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... -
American Cinema 1890-1909 by Andre Gaudreault
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.70At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment.The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of... -
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... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561073
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $127.17Hidden 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... -
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,... -
Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology H. Bruce Franklin 9780813521527
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $36.82Winner of the 2008 American Studies Association's Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize "for lifetime of achievement and service" This selection of unusual storeis by important American... -
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art Frances Gateward 9780813572338
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.74Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by... -
The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema Peter Stanfield 9780813572987
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.70Explosive! 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... -
Editing and Special/Visual Effects by Charlie Keil
SciFier: $40.46Most 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... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572536
SciFier: $57.39What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
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... -
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s Sean Griffin 9780813549644
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.13Humphrey 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... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551241
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $140.31They 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... -
Film Talk by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $34.60What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit The Grudge? What is it like to... -
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... -
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... -
Maximum Movies-Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson Peter Stanfield 9780813550626
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $38.38In the words of Richard Maltby . . . "Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds and the piece of cultural history their intersections provoked." One of these worlds... -
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 -
Francois Truffaut and Friends by Robert Stam
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $33.35One of Francois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were... -
Producing by Jon Lewis
SciFier: $44.19Of 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... -
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 9780813551258
SciFier: $49.73They 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... -
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements Jun Okada 9780813565026
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $128.56The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In... -
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 < -
Wonder Woman: New edition with full color illustrations Noah Berlatsky 9780813590431
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.70William 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... -
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art Frances Gateward 9780813572345
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $128.56Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by...