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The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 9780520384361
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.28The 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: €65.45SciFier: €54.84Digitization 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: €49.98SciFier: €46.40This 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: €95.20SciFier: €87.45This 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: €95.20SciFier: €77.80In 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: €95.20SciFier: €77.80This 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67This 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A 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... -
Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture Kathleen Loock 9780520375772
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €26.82From 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... -
To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World Yiman Wang 9780520346321
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A 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. Between 1919 and 1961,... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397187
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.10When 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... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415676
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.28Leftist 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... -
Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 Jose Miguel Palacios 9780520410237
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction... -
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. Josslyn Jeanine Luckett 9780520402140
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €26.82Toward 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... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375802
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80Adaptation 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67When 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: €84.49SciFier: €78.78Surround 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67One 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: €95.20SciFier: €78.64When 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... -
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. Josslyn Jeanine Luckett 9780520402133
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80Toward 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... -
Film and Its Techniques Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306516
RRP: €54.74SciFier: €45.64In 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A 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: €95.20SciFier: €77.80The 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: €40.46SciFier: €38.07Creator 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: €86.86This 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: €35.70SciFier: €29.67In 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: €35.70SciFier: €27.54A 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: €95.20SciFier: €77.75Leftist 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... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381520
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €88.18We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381544
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.28We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
Sirens of Modernity by Samhita Sunya
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic... -
Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films Joyce E. Jesionowski 9780520318502
RRP: €40.46SciFier: €38.07This 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... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380080
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80When 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... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381469
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80This 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... -
Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Tahirih Motazedian 9780520382169
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67Key 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... -
Mobile Hollywood by Kevin Sanson
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A 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. Contemporary film and... -
Rated A by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67A 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 the 1990s, India's... -
Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea Hieyoon Kim 9780520417366
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80A 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... -
Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973 Jose Miguel Palacios 9780520402409
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.10After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306929
RRP: €49.98SciFier: €46.40Originally 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...