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Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by Andreea Marinescu
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $63.58Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raul Ruiz.Most widely known for his filmic productions, Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) was a highly prolific, erudite, and innovative artist, whose work is located at... -
From Tinseltown to Bordertown by Celestino Deleyto
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $63.58Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the... -
Red Alert by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and filmshare important connections concerning... -
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films by Walter Raubicheck
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323267Author Walter RaubicheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Wayne State University... -
Light Motives by Randall Halle
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $63.58Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of films like ""Das Boot"" (1981), ""The Never-Ending Story"" (1984) ""Run Lola Run"" (1998) and recent... -
There She Goes by Corinn Columpar
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22Following in the footsteps of the filmmakers whose work it features-including Miranda July, Janie Geiser, Tracey Moffatt, Sally Potter, Cindy Sherman, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sadie Benning, Agnes Varda,... -
Cinema at the Periphery by Dina Iordanova
RRP: $67.73SciFier: $42.89This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to... -
Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters by Nir Cohen
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $49.80A cultural history of gay filmmaking in Israel that explores its role in the rise of gay consciousness over the past three decades.Book InformationISBN 9780814334782Author Nir CohenFormat... -
Framing Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $59.34In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $21.73Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his... -
Essay'd 3 by Matthew Piper
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $43.44Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of Detroit artists.Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists is the third volume in a series of collections that present short, illustrated essays about artists... -
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order by James Peterson
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $39.58Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814324578Author James PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Wayne State University... -
Parables of the Posthuman by Jonathan Boulter
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular... -
Cinema and History by Marc Ferro
RRP: $57.13SciFier: $49.80Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814319055Author Marc FerroFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher... -
Reading the Bromance by Michael DeAngelis
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys... -
South Korean Golden Age Melodrama by Kathleen McHugh
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with vibrant local production of high-quality films. Characterized by its stunning melodramas, this ""Golden Age"" of... -
Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $52.98While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is... -
Appetites and Anxieties by Cynthia Baron
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular... -
Queer Mexico by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: $76.21SciFier: $61.46Explores the rich and varied LGBT cinema and television of Mexico since the new millennium.Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television since 2000 provides critical analysis of both mainstream and independent... -
Sayles Talk by Diane Carson
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $51.92His name is synonymous with ""independent film,"" and for more than twenty-five years filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American... -
Film and Risk by Mette Hjort
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814334638Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher... -
The Last Laugh by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $71.97SciFier: $59.34For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But... -
The Politics of Magic by Qinna Shen
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814345429
RRP: $182.32SciFier: $153.68Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Vincente Minnelli by Joe McElhaney
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $63.58This book offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of Vincente Minnelli, one of American cinema's central filmmakers.Widely known for innovative films like ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", ""An American... -
Queer Enchantments by Anne E. Duggan
RRP: $67.73SciFier: $52.98To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy colour schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation... -
Erotic Infidelities by Kimberly J. Lau
RRP: $67.73SciFier: $52.98In the thirty-five years since the publication of The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of criticism. Yet none has addressed the ways her fairy... -
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones by Nancy L. Canepa
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $68.88The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid... -
To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa Isabel Balseiro 9780814330012
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $51.92With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. This collection offers an exploration of a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both... -
Transnational Cinema in a Global North by Andrew Nestingen
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $63.58Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on such auteurs as Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman. Recent work has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the... -
More than a Method by Cynthia L. Baron
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $47.83Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary... -
Cinema and Community by Moya Luckett
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $63.58Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet... -
Before the Crash by Mark Wolf
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium's golden age.Book InformationISBN 9780814334508Author Mark WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Im Kwon-Taek by David E. James
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $57.22Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making... -
Christophe Honore by David A. Gerstner
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside... -
Britton on Film
RRP: $95.29SciFier: $65.91For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are... -
Mother Goose Refigured by Christine A. Jones
RRP: $67.73SciFier: $52.98Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passe ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales produced by learned French... -
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakolevich Propp by Sibelan Forrester
RRP: $78.33SciFier: $50.96Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's... -
24 by John McCullough
SciFier: $43.44For eight seasons between 2001 and 2010, Fox's 24 garnered critical accolades and became one of the most watched and discussed shows in primetime. In an innovative premise, the show's hour-long... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: $43.44In January 2004, Showtime debuted The L Word, the first prime-time commercial drama to centre around lesbian characters. Over the course of six seasons, the show depicted the lives and loves of an...