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Database Aesthetics by Victoria Vesna
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how... -
Film Nation by Robert Burgoyne
SciFier: $36.13Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked since the country's origins by competing geopolitical... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687152
RRP: $133.44SciFier: $109.28The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
Mechademia 10 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11-the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises-and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken... -
Mechademia 1 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture-primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion-has exploded... -
Piotr Szyhalski by Diane Mullin
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $39.03The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist The artistic practice of Piotr Szyhalski encompasses an impressive array of media and genres: from poster design to... -
Neither God nor Master by Brian Price
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L'Argent (1983), has long been... -
From Light to Byte: Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 9780816677627
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate... -
Tales from a Finnish Tupa by James Cloyd Bowman
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $17.04Back in print.First published in 1936, this book presents tales of magic like "The Mouse Bride" and "Antti and the Wizard's Prophecy," droll stories such as "The Pig-Headed Wife," and fables from the... -
Line Of Sight by Paul Arthur
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73For three decades, Paul Arthur has been a leading observer and critic as well as a direct participant in America's avant-garde cinema. In A Line of Sight, he provides a sweeping new account of the... -
Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 9780816685295
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema Animation and technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn flipbooks to stop-motion... -
Small Nation, Global Cinema by Mette Hjort
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international film market, Mette... -
Lulu In Hollywood by Louise Brooks
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637317Author Louise BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.77Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film... -
Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture Lisa Cartwright 9780816622900
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $22.73Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of... -
Gameplay Mode by Patrick Crogan
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for... -
How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $17.31In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the... -
Our Own Image by Barry Barclay
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $20.54Acclaimed Maori filmmaker Barry Barclay's Our Own Image relates the experiences of making his documentaries and his critically acclaimed feature-length film Ngati (1987), widely credited as the first... -
The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $23.70In The Genius of the System, Thomas Schatz recalls Hollywood's Golden Age from the 1920s until the dawn of television in the late 1940s, when quality films were produced swiftly and cost efficiently... -
The Quay Brothers by Suzanne Buchan
SciFier: $43.51This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely... -
Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog Eric Ames 9780816677641
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly... -
Art Labor, Sex Politics by Siona Wilson
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a... -
Anime's Media Mix by Marc Steinberg
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88In Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural... -
Directed By Allen Smithee by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816635344Author Jeremy BraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Touch by Laura U. Marks
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital. In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and... -
Troll Magic by Theodor Kittelsen
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $20.54A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness... -
Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies Alan Dale 9780816636587
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636587Author Alan DaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Visible Nations by Chon A. Noriega
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633487Author Chon A. NoriegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser 9781517900632
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years... -
Extravagances by Cristina Giorcelli
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $25.95In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
A Culture of Light by Frances Guerin
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80Cinema is a medium of light. And during Weimar Germany's advance to technological modernity, light - particularly the representational possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the... -
Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 Anne Morey 9780816637331
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80An innovative approach to the relationship between filmmaking and society during Hollywood's golden ageThe 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom... -
Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 Anne Morey 9780816637324
RRP: $80.62SciFier: $65.59An innovative approach to the relationship between filmmaking and society during Hollywood's golden ageThe 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom... -
Narrative Mortality by Catherine Russell
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $23.80Analyzes New Wave cinema from a postmodern perspective.What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s... -
French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism Peter J. Bloom 9780816646296
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $25.85Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter... -
Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema Mark Betz 9780816640362
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $24.88A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studiesExamining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to... -
Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema Ismail Xavier 9780816626779
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $24.88Examines the centrality of Cinema Novo to filmmaking in Brazil."A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of... -
The Anime Machine by Thomas Lamarre
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $23.70Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated... -
Mechademia 7 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73Lines of Sight-the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and...