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This Gaming Life by Jim Rossignol
SciFier: $52.13This book offers an insider's view of online games and how they change us. 'In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a videogame. It was... -
Tempest: Geometries of Play Prof. Judd Ethan Ruggill 9780472052691
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of... -
Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse Joanna Page 9780472053100
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of... -
Silent Hill by Bernard Perron
RRP: $46.53SciFier: $44.22Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the... -
Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds William Sims Bainbridge 9780472053285
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $59.32Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtualworlds connected with popular science fiction-specifically, with StarWars and Star Trek-that have been inhabited for over a decade... -
Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon Matthew Bernstein 9780472051038
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80For more than twenty years, Michael Moore has transformed himself from a marginal filmmaker into a cultural icon, unofficial spokesperson for liberals and the Left. American conservatives constantly... -
Mex-Cine: Mexican Filmmaking, Production and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century Frederick Luis Aldama 9780472071937
SciFier: $187.43Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of... -
Rediscovering Korean Cinema Sangjoon Lee 9780472074297
SciFier: $183.72South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the... -
The Fixed Period Anthony Trollope 9780472064489
RRP: $38.05SciFier: $36.76The complete text of this work is available for the first time, with corrections from the original manuscript.Book InformationISBN 9780472064489Author Anthony TrollopeFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds William Sims Bainbridge 9780472073283
SciFier: $197.75Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtualworlds connected with popular science fiction-specifically, with StarWars and Star Trek-that have been inhabited for over a decade... -
My Life as a Filmmaker Satsuo Yamamoto 9780472073337
SciFier: $156.27In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company... -
Rediscovering Korean Cinema Sangjoon Lee 9780472054299
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $75.92South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the... -
My Life as a Filmmaker Satsuo Yamamoto 9780472053339
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company... -
Fascination with Fiber by Marie A. Gile
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $37.63Fascination with Fiber focuses on the forces that have kept the craft of handweaving alive in Michigan and throughout the country: individuals, organizations, and communities enlivened through... -
Rudolf Arnheim by Rudolf Arnheim
SciFier: $150.50Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472108596Author Rudolf ArnheimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State Sheryl James 9780472051748
RRP: $33.81SciFier: $33.03Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two... -
Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw Peggy Shaw 9780472034147
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $46.07Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned... -
The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s Elizabeth Otto 9780472051045
RRP: $65.61SciFier: $64.55Images of flappers, garconnes, Modern Girls, neue Frauen, and trampky-all embodiments of the dashing New Woman-symbolized an expanded public role for women from the suffragist era through the dawn of... -
Mex-Cine: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century Frederick Luis Aldama 9780472051939
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80Mex-Cine offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of... -
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen Henry Carl Bial 9780472069088
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $42.34The history of the American entertainment industry and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Jews have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their... -
Full Metal Jhacket by Matthew Derby
RRP: $31.69SciFier: $31.19Two boys discover that the title of their stop-motion animated film about Vietnam has been taken by director Stanley Kubrick. A 150-year-old woman on the run from the government is tracked down by... -
In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema Ipek A. Celik 9780472072729
SciFier: $174.98Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, "bogus" asylum seekers... -
Myst and Riven by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $42.34Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni is a close analysis of two... -
Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film Janet Mason Ellerby 9780472052639
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $59.32Embroidering the Scarlet A discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations... -
Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film Janet Mason Ellerby 9780472072637
SciFier: $204.58Embroidering the Scarlet A discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations... -
That Was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification and the New Germany Leonie Naughton 9780472088881
SciFier: $81.94Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472088881Author Leonie NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Slayers and Their Vampires by Bruce McClelland
SciFier: $185.95The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer"A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations."-Adam Morton, author of On Evil"From the... -
DOOM: SCARYDARKFAST Dan Pinchbeck 9780472051915
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80In December 1993, gaming changed forever. id Software's seminal shooter DOOM was released, and it shook the foundations of the medium. Daniel Pinchbeck brings together the complete story of DOOM for... -
Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games 9780472050925
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $46.07This title presents a new look at digital gaming and the aesthetics of play. ""Play Redux"" is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on... -
Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance Brian Eugenio Herrera 9780472052646
RRP: $57.13SciFier: $53.53Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity... -
Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance Brian Eugenio Herrera 9780472072644
SciFier: $176.30Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity... -
Play Redux by David Myers
SciFier: $125.00"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through... -
Tempest by Judd Ethan Ruggill
SciFier: $119.02Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of... -
Science Fiction in Argentina by Joanna Page
SciFier: $135.64It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of... -
In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema Ipek A. Celik 9780472052721
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $66.86Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, "bogus" asylum seekers... -
Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead Bruce McClelland 9780472069231
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $42.34The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer"A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations."-Adam Morton, author of On Evil"From the... -
Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death Sarah O'Brien 9780472056255
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $42.34Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies... -
Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death Sarah O'Brien 9780472076253
SciFier: $136.32Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies... -
Corpse Crusaders: The Zombie in American Comics Chera Kee 9780472056859
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $49.80In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books-zombies... -
Corpse Crusaders: The Zombie in American Comics Chera Kee 9780472076857
SciFier: $146.09In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books-zombies...