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Database Aesthetics by Victoria Vesna
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Database 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
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Events 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: £96.00SciFier: £78.62The 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: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Mechademia 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23After 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: £31.00SciFier: £28.13The 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: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The 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: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Cinema 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: £12.99SciFier: £12.27Back 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... -
Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.48In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying... -
Line Of Sight by Paul Arthur
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35For 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: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Reshapes 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: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Small 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637317Author Louise BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.82Until 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: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Moving 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... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687169
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The 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,"... -
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher A. Paul 9781517900410
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy's negative contribution to video game culture-and what can be done about it Video games have brought entertainment, education, and innovation... -
What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilem Flusser 9781517913663
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the... -
True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales Sigrid Undset 9780816678280
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.67A selection of Norwegian folktales chosen by Sigrid Undset, True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales is based on the classic folklore collected by Pieter Christian Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe. These... -
No More Nice Girls by Ellen Willis
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.99With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: "a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of... -
Beginning to See the Light by Ellen Willis
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 9780816693160
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
Celebrity and Power by P. David Marshall
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to... -
What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilem Flusser 9781517913656
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £42.69An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the... -
Magnetic North by Jenny Lion
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.42Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637799Author Jenny LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies Alan Dale 9780816636570
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £44.81Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636570Author Alan DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher... -
Coproducing Asia by Stephanie DeBoer
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie... -
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 9780816667376
SciFier: £73.56In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting... -
Players and Their Pets by Mia Consalvo
SciFier: £24.46In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women,... -
Mayor of the Universe by Lorna Landvik
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.85A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum-or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his... -
Mechademia 6 by Frenchy Lunning
SciFier: £28.41Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing dojinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations,... -
Tender Comrades by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £20.76More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection... -
The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 9781517909758
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.45A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask... -
Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 9780816685233
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62Reshapes 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... -
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams by Christopher Bolton
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.48Since the end of the Second World War-and particularly over the last decade-Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its... -
The Stars by Edgar Morin
SciFier: £14.05Worshipped as heroes, treated as gods, movie stars are more than objects of admiration. A star's influence touches on every aspect of ordinary life, dictating taste in fashion, lifestyle, and desire... -
Sergio Leone by Christopher Frayling
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £18.39Sergio Leone is a singular figure among Italian filmmakers of the postwar years; his films grow in reputation year after year. Groundbreaking westerns such as his Dollars trilogy and the... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray 9780816634026
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video Glen M. Mimura 9780816648313
SciFier: £25.99An interpretive history of Asian American independent media since the 1960sAsian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that...