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Discognition Steven Shaviro 9781910924068
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $19.77What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens,... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $35.29In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $20.77SciFier: $15.16Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new... -
Digital Music Videos Steven Shaviro 9780813579535
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $30.26Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. As these videos... -
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9781501388552
SciFier: $185.20Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular... -
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9781501388569
SciFier: $51.11Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular... -
Neptune Frost: Movies Minute by Minute Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro (DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA) 9798765161913
SciFier: $117.16A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeyman's and Saul Williams' film, Neptune Frost (2021).This book traces the complex structure of the film, working through its rich tapestry of images and... -
Neptune Frost: Movies Minute by Minute Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro (DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA) 9798765161906
SciFier: $39.24A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeyman's and Saul Williams' film, Neptune Frost (2021).This book traces the complex structure of the film, working through its rich tapestry of images and... -
Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect Janice Baker 9780367193065
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion-exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, 'rational' museum of... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551241
RRP: $234.36SciFier: $190.78They 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... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551258
SciFier: $66.87They 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... -
Phallos by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: $28.26SciFier: $24.99Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859425
SciFier: $174.05Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859432
SciFier: $46.10Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
Film and Television After 9/11 by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: $79.29SciFier: $47.04In Film and Television after 9/11, twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of... -
Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter Aaron Kerner 9781399501101
RRP: $170.10SciFier: $158.93Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical Discusses the ways in which the cinematic elicits... -
The Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women's Cinema and Continental Philosophy Caroline Godart 9781783486557
SciFier: $98.26The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference... -
The Morph-Image by Steen Ledet Christiansen
SciFier: $175.75In The Morph-Image: The Subjunctive Synthesis of Time, Steen Ledet Christiansen argues for a new model of digital cinema that draws on Deleuzian and Whiteheadian insights into time and the future... -
Michael Bay Lutz Koepnick 9780252083204
RRP: $32.11SciFier: $27.93If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to... -
Michael Bay Lutz Koepnick 9780252041556
RRP: $171.99SciFier: $136.55If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to... -
Cinema in the Digital Age Nicholas Rombes 9780231167543
RRP: $166.32SciFier: $135.46Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into... -
Zombie Theory: A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro 9781517900915
RRP: $45.34SciFier: $39.24Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost... -
Zombie Theory: A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro 9781517900908
RRP: $187.11SciFier: $151.05Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost... -
Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813553771
RRP: $62.37SciFier: $51.84Death 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,... -
Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise Vincent Haddad 9781517919559
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $124.49How media production and fan play interact to shape the aesthetics of a global anime franchiseSince its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative... -
Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell
RRP: $52.90SciFier: $49.20The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en... -
Traveling Music Videos Dr. Tomas Jirsa (Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature and Media Studies, Palacky University, Czechia) 9781501397998
SciFier: $185.20Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural... -
Traveling Music Videos Dr. Tomas Jirsa (Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature and Media Studies, Palacky University, Czechia) 9781501398032
SciFier: $58.57Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural... -
Biopunk Dystopias by Lars Schmeink
SciFier: $90.74An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174985
SciFier: $166.66Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174992
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $44.49Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859296
SciFier: $46.10Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859289
SciFier: $174.05Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814342008
RRP: $60.39SciFier: $54.79The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors... -
Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media Gina Arnold (Evergreen State College, USA) 9781501313912
SciFier: $60.46This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music... -
Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics Professor Carol Vernallis (Stanford University, USA) 9781501341007
SciFier: $69.91Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of...