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VAS: An Opera in Flatland: A Novel. By Steve Tomasula. Art and Design by Stephen Farrell. Steve Tomasula 9780226807409
SciFier: £28.84This book aims to demonstrate how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are. VAS combines a variety of... -
The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics after Television Erica Levin 9780226821955
SciFier: £26.04A fascinating look at artistic experiments with televisual forms. Following the integration of television into the fabric of American life in the 1950s, experimental artists of the 1960s began to... -
Between Film and Screen by Garrett Stewart
SciFier: £41.08Photography might be called the lost cause of cinema, gone in projection and too soon forgotten. But what is the mysterious region between photography and narrative cinema, between the photogram - a... -
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India Lee Siegel 9780226756875
SciFier: £38.21Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys... -
Fools Are Everywhere by Beatrice K. Otto
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £29.44In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. These quick-witted, quirky characters crop up... -
Convergence by Jack Fuller
SciFier: £24.16"A brilliant achievement. . . .Like the best work of Greene and Le Carre, it is more than genre fiction; it is literature. . . .[Convergence] is the most plausible, and perhaps the best spy novel... -
The Memory of Elephants by Boman Desai
SciFier: £24.16Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spent with her. The machine malfunctions, propelling... -
Projecting the Shadow by Janice Hocker Rushing
SciFier: £28.90Part human, part machine, the cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film and a cultural icon emblematic of an emergent postmodern mythology. Using the cyborg film as a point... -
Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema S. Craig Watkins 9780226874890
SciFier: £23.22In this text, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the important developments in the recent history of black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films". The work... -
Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us? Noah Wardrip-Fruin 9780226840697
SciFier: £13.81Can a game take care of us? And do we want it to?Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020-just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their... -
Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? Anastasia Salter 9780226840666
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £90.80What makes a real game? Who is a gamer? And what type of play do we value? On the surface, the 2015 game Undertale didn't seem like much, supported by fan funding and with minimalist retro graphics... -
Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema S. Craig Watkins 9780226874883
SciFier: £80.13This is an examination of two episodes in the recent history of black film - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "hood" films such as "Boyz N the Hood" and "Menace II Society". This... -
Occupy - Three Inquiries in Disobedience W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226042749
SciFier: £15.69Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T... -
Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade Robert S. Nelson 9780226571584
SciFier: £32.73How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To... -
High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market Stuart Plattner 9780226670843
SciFier: £28.90How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?To answer this question,... -
Canvases and Careers by Harrison C. White
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £20.99In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present... -
Ancestral Connections by Howard Morphy (Australian National University)
SciFier: £43.25Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu-an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land-and... -
It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture Vanessa R. Schwartz 9780226742434
SciFier: £32.48The recent history of cultural exchange between France and the United States would appear to be defined by "freedom fries" and boycotts against Beaujolais - or, on the other side of the Atlantic, by... -
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds Gary Alan Fine 9780226249445
SciFier: £32.73This classic study still provides one of the most astute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine... -
Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? Anastasia Salter 9780226830803
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £13.80What makes a real game? Who is a gamer? And what type of play do we value? On the surface, the 2015 game Undertale didn't seem like much, supported by fan funding and with minimalist retro graphics... -
The Hidden Game of Football: A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics Bob Carroll 9780226825861
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.25The 1988 cult classic behind football's data analytics revolution, now back in print with a new foreword and preface. Data analytics have revolutionized football. With play sheets informed by... -
Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator Luigi Pirandello 9780226669823
SciFier: £18.51Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian... -
Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator Luigi Pirandello 9780226669816
SciFier: £51.09Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian... -
The Comic Mind by Gerald Mast
SciFier: £34.39Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole-its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and... -
Folktales of India by Brenda E. F. Beck
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £21.99Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales... -
Folktales of Ireland by Sean O'Sullivan
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £18.00Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775487
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.99The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
Theater after Film by Professor Martin Harries
SciFier: £24.16A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II. In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues that after 1945, as cinema became omnipresent in popular culture, theater had... -
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937 Zhang Zhen 9780226982380
SciFier: £41.08Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775463
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £60.46The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite; and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
The Attractions of the Moving Image by Tom Gunning
SciFier: £31.51An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have... -
The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics after Television Erica Levin 9780226821917
SciFier: £98.52A fascinating look at artistic experiments with televisual forms. Following the integration of television into the fabric of American life in the 1950s, experimental artists of the 1960s began to... -
Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style as Philosophy Robert B. Pippin 9780226845043
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £23.98A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity. Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in... -
LeRoy Neiman by Travis Vogan
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.40The untold story of an American hustler who upset the art world and became a pop culture icon, cutting a swath across twentieth-century history and culture. LeRoy Neiman-the cigar-smoking and... -
Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet Mike Ashley 9780226575087
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £16.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226575087Author Mike AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher... -
Dirty Money by Richard Stark
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £14.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226486154Author Richard StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago... -
Breakout by Richard Stark
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £15.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226508207Author Richard StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago... -
Woven Histories by Lynne Cooke
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £44.59Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles. Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven... -
Possessed by Stefan Andriopoulos
SciFier: £40.38Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics... -
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 Nicholas Gebhardt 9780226448558
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.24If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying...