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Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception Sukhmani Khorana 9781138243255
SciFier: £28.13Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic... -
Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception Sukhmani Khorana 9780415630924
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £94.82Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic... -
Film and Redemption by David Rankin
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors - Clint Eastwood, Martin... -
Ozu's Tokyo Story David Desser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521482042
RRP: £74.99SciFier: £70.22Ozu'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... -
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... -
The Divers' Game Jesse Ball 9781783785872
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.31A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be... -
Graffiti South Africa by Cale Waddacor
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £32.73In a visual feast, hundreds of vibrant images showcase the work of South Africa's most influential graffiti artists, which will entertain and inspire graffiti enthusiasts and art fanatics all over... -
Georgia Through Its Folktales - With translations by Ketevan Kalandadze illustrations by Miranda Gray by Michael Berman
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59'Everything shifts in the Caucasus, blown by some of the strongest winds on earth. Even the ground moves, splintered by fault lines. In early Georgian myths, it is said that when the mountains were... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 2: Characters in Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740907
SciFier: £55.44Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Characters in Animation focuses on characters and their application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers various technical aspects of... -
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,... -
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... -
Ingmar Bergman: An Enduring Legacy Erik Hedling 9789198557701
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to... -
Studying Comics and Graphic Novels by Karin Kukkonen (University of Turku, Finland)
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £21.15This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout... -
Breaking Bad and Dignity: Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama Elliott Logan 9781137513724
SciFier: £46.99An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around... -
Lucky Luke 21 - The 20th Cavalry by Morris & Goscinny
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.64The Cheyenne are convinced that newly-arrived settlers have been killing the buffalo they traditionally depend on. When the Native Americans surround the 20th Cavalry's fort, Lucky Luke realises that... -
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.52Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic... -
Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne by Madelon Hoedt
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSoftware released the bleak Gothic horror Bloodborne in... -
2021 Lost Children by Stephane Betbeder
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97It's 2021. Detroit has seceded from the United States and its citizens are under the control of a madman with extraordinary abilities. The only hope of retaking the city lies with four superpowered... -
Capitalism: A Graphic Guide Dan Cryan 9781785785146
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.16Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage wars and even conduct personal relationships. From... -
The Art of the Tea Towel: 100 of the best designs Marnie Fogg 9781849945028
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94A visual history of tea towel design, from the 1950s to today. Both practical and beautiful, the tea towel has over the last century established itself firmly as an essential piece of domestic design... -
Hollywood Studio Production Techniques by Winnie Wong
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £26.08This book provides the in-depth information, exercises, and worksheets that will provide readers with the tools to become successful, enlightened filmmakers. Most novices are unaware of the... -
Diviner Beverly Davis 9780310718383
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.24For years, tales ofDRAGONSfrom another world kidnapping and enslaving humans have been circulating in Jason Masters' world, while for a slave girl named Koren, the stories of a human world seem pure... -
The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.09Disch traces Sci-Fi's phenomenal growth from the supernatural tales of Edgar Allen Poe to the utopian dreams and technological nightmares of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, to today when it has become a... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781349441204
SciFier: £113.01Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
The Valentino Mystique by Allan R. Ellenberger
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The circumstances surrounding the death of legendary star Rudolph Valentino have been a constant source of fascination for admirers worldwide. This work examines every aspect of his passing,... -
Food in the Movies, 2d ed. by Steve Zimmerman
SciFier: £32.13Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part it has been treated with about as much respect as movie extras: it's always been there on the screen but... -
A Sense of Community by Ann-Gee Lee
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Television's Community follows the shenanigans of a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional community college students: Jeff Winger, a former lawyer; Britta Perry, a feminist; Abed Nadir,... -
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide Dan Cryan 9781848310551
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.37Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships... -
Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £13.37Achingly human auto-bio comics that extract big laughs from the small moments. Cartoonist Keiler Roberts quit making comics. Or did she? Preparing to Bite, her latest collection of all-new,... -
Horror Noir by Paul Meehan
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's most popular genres: horror and film noir. The influence of 1930s- and 1940s-era horror films on...