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Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship Nora Gilbert 9780804795319
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £14.92Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been... -
Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies Celine Shimizu 9780804773010
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This... -
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Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies Celine Shimizu 9780804773010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £5.52Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This... -
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary Marie-Jose Mondzain 9780804741002
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £85.19The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy... -
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling Jared Gardner 9780804771474
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form... -
The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Dorothea E. von Mucke 9780804738606
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary... -
The Beauty of the Real by Mick LaSalle
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.99Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent-a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck,... -
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Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £13.88The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
Vanishing Streets by J. M. Tyree
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £11.07Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing... -
Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema Rae Beth Gordon 9780804738941
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry... -
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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Dorothea E. von Mucke 9780804738590 [USED COPY]
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £14.74The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary... -
Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship Nora Gilbert 9780804784207
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £72.25Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been... -
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary Marie-Jose Mondzain 9780804741019
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy... -
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling Jared Gardner 9780804771467
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form... -
Dolores del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade Linda B. Hall 9780804799461
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.93Dolores del Rio's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her... -
Dolores del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade Linda B. Hall 9780804784078
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £86.55Dolores del Rio's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her... -
Law on the Screen by Austin Sarat
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.75The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important... -
The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Dorothea E. von Mucke 9780804738590
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £92.28The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell Colin Davis 9780804763073
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
Goodbye, My Havana by Anna Veltfort
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35An eyewitness account of idealism, self-discovery, and loss under one of the twentieth-century's most repressive political regimes Set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest... -
The Off-Screen by Eyal Peretz
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting... -
Negative Media: Erasureand the Limits of Retention Ella Klik 9781503645264
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.99In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of... -
Negative Media: Erasureand the Limits of Retention Ella Klik 9781503639768
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £78.62In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of... -
Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives Laila Shereen Sakr 9781503630994
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics-one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an... -
Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives Laila Shereen Sakr 9781503635883
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics-one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an... -
Undesirables by Aomar Boum
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and... -
Race in the Machine by Quincy Thomas Stewart
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £13.81An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically... -
Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film Karen Fang 9781503600706
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and... -
Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film Karen Fang 9780804798914
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and... -
Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas Poshek Fu 9780804745185
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and... -
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Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas Poshek Fu 9780804745178 [USED COPY]
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £26.79Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and... -
The Cold War and Asian Cinemas Poshek Fu 9781032176208
SciFier: £42.86This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas' complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local... -
Time Travel Short Stories by David Wittenberg
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82From H.G.Wells to Edward Page Mitchell, stories of travelling back and forth in time have brought us ancient and future civilisations, terrifying visions and cautionary tales. In the wake of our... -
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume I Matthew Kaiser 9781516521142
SciFier: £84.99This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era... -
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume II by Matthew Kaiser
SciFier: £84.99This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era... -
Global Storytelling, vol. 5, no. 1: Digital Narratives in Transnational Circulation: Power, Vulnerability, and Creative Possibility Jun Lei 9781607859529
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £14.71Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images, housed at the Academy of Film and published by Michigan Publishing, is an open access, peer-reviewed international and interdisciplinary...