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Ai in the Movies Paula Murphy 9781474448598
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.61AI in the Movies analyses film representations of artificial intelligence, from their first emergence in the 1950s up to 2020. These strong or general artificial intelligences take different forms:... -
Game Production: Prototyping and Producing Your Board Game Geoffrey Engelstein 9780367527747
SciFier: £45.46Description:Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design. While there are many... -
Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool Deirdre O'Neill 9780367887308
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge... -
Secret Violences by Slawomir Maslon (University of Silesia, Poland)
SciFier: £30.99Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure. Unlike his famous... -
Konohana Kitan, Volume 7 by Sakuya Amano
TokyopopRRP: £11.95SciFier: £8.60The foxes who work at Konohanatei come from many different places and many different families with different expectations. Although she once longed to be a shrine maiden like her sister Hiiragi,... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174310
SciFier: £42.00Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Indie Reframed by Linda Badley
SciFier: £93.01With the consolidation of 'indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction,... -
Dictionary Of Japanese Particles by Sue A. Kawashima
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £14.72For English-speaking students of Japanese, particles are perhaps the most difficult aspect of the language to learn. It would be no exaggeration to say that, for most people, they can never be... -
Let's Learn Kanji: An Introduction To Radicals, Components And 250 Very Basic Kanji by Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £20.46Everyone agrees that it is possible to learn to speak Japanese in a reasonable amount of time, but no one has ever said that about reading and writing it. It is widely held that spoken and written... -
Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films: Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay David Greenberg 9780367687694
SciFier: £31.59Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a... -
John Ford Brian Spittles 9780582424043
SciFier: £40.36This text explores the major movies through discussion of their themes and techniques and reveals how much Ford was concerned with the very issues that are central to us today: gender, race, the... -
The Dave Walker Guide to the Church by Dave Walker
SciFier: £9.99The topics include such subjects as What Your Pew Says About You, When to Stand Up For a Hymn, Flags on Church Towers, The Dangers of Arriving Too Early or too Late, and other uneventful aspects of... -
Pathfinder RPG: Battlecry! Special Edition (P2) Logan Bonner 9781640786929
PaizoRRP: £75.99SciFier: £51.88Report for Duty! When diplomacy between nations fails and neither side backs down, war is the inevitable result. From border skirmishes to large-scale invasions, conflict comes in many forms-the... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller (London College of Fashion, UK) 9781847884145
SciFier: £113.99The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla 9781474400107
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver... -
Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study Jason Barr 9781476666372
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81As video gaming and video gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. In this examination of how video gaming and... -
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such... -
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Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £1.29This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present Shoshana-Rose Marzel (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel) 9781472529343
SciFier: £29.99Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: £36.99The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252080180
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252038594
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film Randall Clark 9781138964051
SciFier: £45.46Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term... -
Ozu's Tokyo Story David Desser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521484350
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.85Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural... -
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College, USA) 9781405193030
SciFier: £30.99Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship... -
Roger Ebert's Book of Film by Roger Ebert
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £50.49For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking... -
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Torchwood: Slow Decay Andy Lane 9780563486558 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.49'The twenty-first century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready.' Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller 9781847884138
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Fetish Style Frenchy Lunning (Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA) 9781847885708
SciFier: £35.99Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures. Presenting the world of subcultural fetish... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundingly relevant to our modern lives. His writings on... -
The Art of the Comic Book by Robert C. Harvey
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.26In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the comic book as a potent form of narrative art. He... -
Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic Mieke Bal 9780300229110
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £44.86In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in... -
A Cast Of Friends by Bill Hanna
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the... -
Catalan Cartoons by Rhiannon McGlade
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £45.99In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humour in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical... -
Carole Lombard by Robert Matzen
SciFier: £87.99Carole Lombard was among the most commercially successfuly and admired film personalities in Hollywood in the 1930s. Carole Lombard includes a biography which brings to life this vivacious,... -
Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s Steven Rybin 9781978818316
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.40Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also... -
Video Field Production and Editing Ronald J. Compesi (San Francisco State University, USA) 9781138584563
RRP: £71.99SciFier: £70.82In the eighth, revised edition of this book, Ronald J. Compesi offers a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the aesthetics of small-scale, single-camera video production in field environments,... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9780815392385
SciFier: £117.75Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781789387834
SciFier: £29.20Copenhagen has long been celebrated for its unique fashion, design, innovation, and sustainability practices, and yet there has never been a comprehensive history of Copenhagen fashion and its... -
Production Safety for Film, Television and Video Robin Small (Senior Lecturer in Television, Media Department, University of Huddersfield. Runs production safety courses for the Independent TV Training Association.) 9780240515311
RRP: £71.99SciFier: £68.81Covering all aspects of production safety, this is an invaluable reference guide for the independent programme maker, freelancer, manager, producer, tutor and student filmmaker. Robin Small...