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Cartooning Texas
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $22.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890965603Format PaperbackImprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas -
Texas Roadkill Volume 3: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Er Bills 9781948318433
RRP: $19.45SciFier: $14.16Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948318433Author Er BillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint -
10 Little Monsters Visit Texas by Trish Madson
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.1410 little Monsters feelin' a little recklessTake a trip to the great state of Texas.10 Little Monsters they can't wait'Cause monsters love the Lone Star State!From the Alamo to the Rio Grand and off... -
Texas Chili? Oh My! by Patricia Vermillion
RRP: $26.34SciFier: $21.53Texas Chili? Oh My! is a retelling of the beloved fairy tale The Three Little Pigs-Texas style! Meet Bluebonnet, Mockingbird, and Sweet Olive, three little armadillos, as they leave Mamadillo's home... -
Texas Horror: A collection of short stories, based in Texas by a Texas Author Libbi Rickman 9798264010842
RRP: $13.30SciFier: $12.84Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798264010842Author Libbi RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: $109.81SciFier: $87.43Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.70Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning... -
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics Linda Mizejewski 9781477307601
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten... -
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 by Gerald Horne
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This... -
The Romance of Lust Anonymous 9781800601895
SciFier: $20.14Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800601895Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $32.44No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
The Solaris Effect by Steven Dillon
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's ... -
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes by Margot Blum Schevill
RRP: $51.43SciFier: $44.59In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $43.49Although less well known than its much-admired counterparts in Peru and Bolivia, highland Ecuadorian weaving is an Andean tradition that has relationships with these more southern areas. A world... -
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by David William Foster
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian... -
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America by Julianne Burton
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Since the late 1960s, films from Latin America have won widening audiences in North America and Europe. Until now, no single book has offered an introduction to the diverse personalities and... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Peter Lev
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however,... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the physical content of the graphic frame has often been ignored or relegated to the... -
Understanding Indian Movies by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,... -
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny by Susan E. Linville
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As... -
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops,... -
Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television by Ben Brady
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73From All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy Award-winning "Best Picture" of 1929-1930, to Dances with Wolves, the 1991 winner, many of Hollywood's most popular and enduring movies have been... -
Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $25.95Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege... -
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film Martha McCaughey 9780292752511
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $25.95When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's... -
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich by Sabine Hake
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $25.95Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions,... -
Anthem Ayn Rand 9781800605367
SciFier: $15.97Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800605367Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint -
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement by Jorge Santos, Jr.
RRP: $102.86SciFier: $82.07Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and... -
Indie, Inc. by Alisa Perren
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.30During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Shakespeare in Love earned substantial sums at the box office along with extensive... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.60Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
The New Latin American Cinema by Zuzana M. Pick
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Vina del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American... -
Spanish Film Under Franco by Virginia Higginbotham
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting... -
Homegrown by Alan Schaefer
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $28.02Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock... -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good... -
Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.41Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphee makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310854
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $27.05El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311622
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311615
RRP: $97.30SciFier: $77.67Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social...