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Cities Beyond Crisis: Race, Affect, and Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century Iberia Catalina Iannone 9780826507327
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £29.09In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, identifying how this event catalyzed a protracted... -
Sebastian P.D. Cacek 9781787586888
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12"Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The... -
Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played Jonathan A. Grubb (Professor at Georgis Souther University, USA.) 9781032388038
SciFier: £37.66Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video... -
Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.58Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women. This book steers... -
Sebastian P.D. Cacek 9781787586864
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.19"Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The... -
Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales)
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £49.99James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the... -
Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played Jonathan A. Grubb (Professor at Georgis Souther University, USA.) 9781032388090
SciFier: £138.66Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video... -
Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry Jade L. Miller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 9781844576913
SciFier: £37.79Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning... -
Soul's Asylum by Derek E. Pearson
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.74"Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the... -
Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350265127
SciFier: £31.99Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is... -
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete Srimati Mukherjee (Temple University, USA) 9781138120952
RRP: £145.00SciFier: £143.07Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private... -
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema Nicoleta Bazgan 9781835532270
SciFier: £33.35Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city... -
Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far) by Robert C. Sickels
SciFier: £87.99While the work of Sofia Coppola has often been dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far): Anxious and... -
American Scream by Cynthia True
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world,... -
Fedor Khitruk: A Look at Soviet Animation through the Work of One Master Laura Pontieri 9781032058795
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.62This book is a first and long-awaited study of the directorial work of the animation master Fedor Khitruk (1917-2012), an artist who formed in the tradition of classical cel animation only to break... -
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 Ray Zone 9780813124612
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.30Though it may come as a surprise to both cinema lovers and industry professionals who believe that 3-D film was born in the early 1950s, stereoscopic cinema actually began in 1838, more than 100... -
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino Emily Leider 9780571218196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.87Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive... -
Framework by Tom Stempel
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text... -
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete Srimati Mukherjee (Temple University, USA) 9781138615786
SciFier: £44.60Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private... -
Campus Life in the Movies by John E. Conklin
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. In the... -
History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia) 9780415328272
SciFier: £138.66Can films be used as historical evidence? Do historical films make good or bad history? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama?Written from an international perspective,... -
Jesus of Hollywood Adele Reinhartz (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University) 9780195146967
SciFier: £36.49Since the advent of cinema, Jesus has frequently been found in our movie houses and on our television screens. Biblical scholar Adele Reinhartz provides the first comprehensive study of the... -
Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity Asher Seidel 9780739123294
SciFier: £44.99Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the possibility of increasing the physiological and psychological capacities of humans to the point that they are no longer biologically,... -
The World of Banksy by Alessandra Mattanza
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.55This vibrant 3-volume set explores Banksy's iconic works through the lens of some of his most powerful symbols-rats, monkeys, and children. Whether he's protesting war, challenging societal norms,... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781349488438
SciFier: £46.99As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
Dark Lover by Emily Leider
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.31Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £38.68What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
The Fall of Arthur J. R. R. Tolkien 9780007557301
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of... -
Colour Revolution by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.43Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The... -
Morgoth's Ring by Christopher Tolkien
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.02The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. After The Lord of the Rings was at last... -
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
SciFier: £36.99With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
Naked Ambition by Kaya Mar
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.40Attentive observers of the past ten years of British politics may not have heard of Kaya Mar, but chances are they will have seen one of his pictures - at a rally, or in an agency photograph... -
World Film Locations: Florence by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
SciFier: £24.60Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations:... -
Gaming as Culture by J. Patrick Williams
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Perhaps the fastest growing facet of American popular culture, the video game industry is Hollywood's premier rival in the entertainment business. But stacks of new releases for gaming enthusiasts... -
Selected Stories by E.M. Forster
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.44Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E.M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to his stories as 'fantasies' and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in... -
British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services Prof Paul Mackenzie 9781852855864
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £31.98The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War, when film became a critically important medium for influencing mass opinion. Feature films about the forces, such as... -
A Firing Offense: A Novel David Ignatius 9780393346282
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.19When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting... -
The Art of Color Categorization by Kyoko Hidaka
SciFier: £92.99From Newton's prism spectroscopy to modern color science, the study of color has been rooted in the categorization of colors. Building upon this foundation, this book aims to explore the rich and... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781137408884
SciFier: £46.99As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
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Giles The Collection 2018 Bill Turnbull 9780600629566 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.13A perfect gift guaranteed to make dads and granddads chuckle on Christmas morning, this official Giles book, with a foreword by Bill Turnbull, is a great addition to the classic Giles collection...