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Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: $167.48SciFier: $133.35Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons by Ace Reid
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or... -
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops,... -
The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $31.33Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode
RRP: $65.72SciFier: $54.44Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning... -
Homegrown by Alan Schaefer
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $42.74Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock... -
Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $39.58Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege... -
Feminism, Film, Fascism by Susan E. Linville
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310854
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $41.26El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311622
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $37.95Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Mark Heimermann 9781477311615
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $118.47Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $49.88No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
Israeli Cinema by Miri Talmon
RRP: $59.34SciFier: $49.31With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: $59.34SciFier: $49.71Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
Spanish Film Under Franco by Virginia Higginbotham
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their... -
Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador by Ann Pollard Rowe
RRP: $74.20SciFier: $66.33Although less well known than its much-admired counterparts in Peru and Bolivia, highland Ecuadorian weaving is an Andean tradition that has relationships with these more southern areas. A world... -
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Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons Ace Reid 9780292770973 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $14.20Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or... -
Pretty Pictures by C. S. Tashiro
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the physical content of the graphic frame has often been ignored or relegated to the... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $41.26From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting... -
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film Martha McCaughey 9780292752511
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $39.58When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's... -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good... -
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV Diana Adesola Mafe 9781477315224
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $118.47When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades... -
Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $21.98Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphee makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's... -
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement by Jorge Santos, Jr.
RRP: $156.88SciFier: $125.16Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $44.54Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and... -
Indie, Inc. by Alisa Perren
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $41.64During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Shakespeare in Love earned substantial sums at the box office along with extensive... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $41.26More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social... -
The Making of Gone With The Wind by Steve Wilson
RRP: $95.40SciFier: $83.97Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives... -
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes by Margot Blum Schevill
RRP: $78.44SciFier: $68.01In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and... -
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05From a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in... -
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by David William Foster
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $28.05"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian... -
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America by Julianne Burton
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $41.26Since the late 1960s, films from Latin America have won widening audiences in North America and Europe. Until now, no single book has offered an introduction to the diverse personalities and... -
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Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films Rosa Linda Fregoso 9780292725256 [USED COPY]
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $14.86Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state... -
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting Jill Chamberlain 9781477303733
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $31.69Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a... -
From Walt to Woodstock by Douglas Brode
RRP: $48.74SciFier: $39.58With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become... -
Driving Visions by David Laderman
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $44.54From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide... -
Selznick's Vision by Alan David Vertrees
RRP: $59.34SciFier: $47.83Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer... -
Veni, Vidi, Video by Frederick Wasser
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many... -
Cinema of Solitude by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented...