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Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal 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: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Winner, 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Austin 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,... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Since 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: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Before 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: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Sound 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23German 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: £19.99SciFier: £19.46El 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: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Comics 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: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Comics 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... -
Israeli Cinema by Miri Talmon
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26With 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: £27.99SciFier: £23.45Authoring 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23How 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: £35.00SciFier: £31.29Although 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: £19.99SciFier: £6.70Winner, 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: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Theories 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: £22.99SciFier: £19.46From 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)... -
Comfort and Glory: Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center Katherine Jean Adams 9781477309186
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £52.25Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illuminate many areas of American life, such as... -
The Shaman's Mirror: Visionary Art of the Huichol Hope MacLean 9780292728769
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.45Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Writing 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... -
Using Life by Ahmed Naji
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader... -
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film Martha McCaughey 9780292752511
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67When 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: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Steven 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: £70.00SciFier: £55.88When 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: £12.99SciFier: £10.37Robert 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: £74.00SciFier: £59.04Winner, 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: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Though 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: £23.99SciFier: £19.64During 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: £23.99SciFier: £19.46More 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: £45.00SciFier: £39.61Gone 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: £37.00SciFier: £32.08In 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23From 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: £15.99SciFier: £13.23"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: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Since 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: £25.99SciFier: £7.01Filmmaker 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... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314524
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26Ideal 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... -
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Mark Gallagher 9780292762077
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur... -
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics Linda Mizejewski 9780292756915
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.61Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten... -
Amazigh Arts in Morocco by Cynthia Becker
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.18In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate... -
Making Faces, Playing God by Thomas Morawetz
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £26.38Wearing a mask-putting on another face-embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores...