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Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375802
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380097
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology Eric Dienstfrey 9780520379541
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $92.02Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been... -
Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher EducationA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397170
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $91.85When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated... -
Undead by Karen Redrobe
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Undead examines the visual... -
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. Josslyn Jeanine Luckett 9780520402133
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $103.26Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306929
RRP: $58.38SciFier: $54.20Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520358270
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
World Socialist Cinema by Masha Salazkina
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $35.63A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious... -
Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films Joyce E. Jesionowski 9780520362673
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375819
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
One Reel a Week Fred J. Balshofer 9780520336193
RRP: $47.26SciFier: $44.47This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings Hugh Kenner 9780520357464
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,... -
Film and Its Techniques Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520358058
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore... -
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Rejane, Mistinguett Prof. Victoria Duckett 9780520382114
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the forefront of the... -
Roberto Rossellini Peter Brunette 9780520308336
RRP: $58.38SciFier: $54.20This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative... -
Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Tahirih Motazedian 9780520382152
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity-so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key... -
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology Eric Dienstfrey 9780520379558
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.33Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been... -
Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror Kartik Nair 9780520392281
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.45In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the... -
Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture Kathleen Loock 9780520375765
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $80.41From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of... -
Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780520390355
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $91.74In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical... -
Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China Chenshu Zhou 9780520343399
SciFier: $34.85At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film... -
Film and Its Techniques Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306516
RRP: $63.94SciFier: $53.31In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore... -
At the Edges of Sleep by Jean Ma
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384354
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings Hugh Kenner 9780520305878
RRP: $47.26SciFier: $44.47Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,... -
One Reel a Week Fred J. Balshofer 9780520372429
SciFier: $101.46This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View Patrick Ellis 9780520355491
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to... -
Maverick Movies by Daniel Herbert
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Maverick Movies tells the... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415669
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.82Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a... -
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema Prof. Deborah A. Starr 9780520366206
SciFier: $34.85A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an... -
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384361
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.52The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can... -
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life by Janet Kraynak
RRP: $76.45SciFier: $64.05Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520301252
RRP: $58.38SciFier: $54.20This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520356924
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $102.15This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the... -
Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View Patrick Ellis 9780520355484
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to... -
Roberto Rossellini Peter Brunette 9780520359376
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381476
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply... -
Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea Hieyoon Kim 9780520394377
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the...