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History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia) 9780415328289
SciFier: £37.66Can 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,... -
African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema Norma Manatu 9780786414314
SciFier: £30.19The representation of African American women is an important issue in the overall study of how women are portrayed in film, and has received serious attention in recent years. Traditionally, "women... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306929
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £38.99Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520358270
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
The Magic Mooncat by Lois Fenn
SciFier: £9.99It is September 1941 and nine-year-old Hannah Flynn is about to leave her native Hull and become one of that illustrious number known as 'them townies'. Standing at the station, with few possessions... -
Sylvie Sylvie Kantorovitz 9781406398618
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.75In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her. Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the head teacher and her home is... -
Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 Colin Shindler (Cambridge University, UK) 9781138971905
SciFier: £43.73A historian's view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry, this book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak... -
Hollywood North by Mike Gasher
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £25.68British Columbia is celebrated as Canada's principal centre of audiovisual production. Its billion-dollar industry trails behind only California and New York, the most well-established film... -
That Can Be Arranged by Huda Fahmy
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.11Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her... -
Ghosts of Shanghai: Shadow of the Yangtze by Julian Sedgwick
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.10J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ...Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow... -
Epic Films by Gary Allen Smith
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51"Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creation to the A.D. 1200s and have been churned out by Hollywood and overseas... -
The Art of Taking a Walk by Anke Gleber
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £39.90Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur... -
Snow Dog by Malorie Blackman
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.29"IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!"There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a... -
What's for Dinner?: A collection of short stories N Gray 9781036702540
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Indulge in a chilling feast-a gastronomic journey into the darkest corners of the mind. With a masterful blend of psychological depth and sensory detail, N Gray presents a menu of four tantalizing... -
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration Rocio G. Davis 9780415835916
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.79This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary... -
Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form Maggie Gray 9783030935092
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £50.99This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well... -
Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media Janine Marchessault 9780415204316
SciFier: £23.59Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA... -
Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides Christina Rawls 9781032092959
SciFier: £42.70This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and... -
Plant Horror by Dawn Keetley
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £113.99This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval... -
Placing Movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.49Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today... -
The Human Shutter by Robert L. Bowen
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.49This book provides four key insights, beginning with how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged en masse, departing from the gradualist narratives familiar in histories of photography and... -
The Memory Agent by Matthew B. J. Delaney
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Crime never changes. Punishment does. In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality... -
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RRP: £6.99SciFier: £1.86"IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!"There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a... -
Absolute Martian Manhunter: Martian Vision Deniz Camp 9781799505211
DC ComicsRRP: £17.99SciFier: £11.71Beyond Mars, beyond physical form, beyond human understanding what s left is the absolute Martian Manhunter! Brought into the Absolute Universe by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.31Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Lore Olympus Volume Two: UK Edition: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529150469
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.88Witness what the gods do after dark in the second volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology from creator Rachel Smythe.'It's easy to see why... -
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F Patton
SciFier: £13.10Philosophy like you've never seen it before. The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental... -
Lore Olympus Volume Two: UK Edition: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529150476
SciFier: £15.89Witness what the gods do after dark in the second volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology from creator Rachel Smythe.'It's easy to see why... -
The Wrinkles Of The City - Los Angeles JR 9788888493909
SciFier: £58.12JR's triumphal march through the world goes on in an effort to create a new way of connecting the streets with the system. For the first time in the heart of America, in the City of the Angels, JR's... -
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties Steve Cohan 9780253211279
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily... -
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott 9780199537501
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.24'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions'... -
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity Richard Tapper 9781860648045
SciFier: £27.99Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination Dominic Sandbrook 9780141979304
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.61'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form Maggie Gray 9783030935061
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £50.99This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well... -
Film As Film: Understanding And Judging Movies V. Perkins 9780306805417
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He... -
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys Kate Fletcher (Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UK) 9780415644563
SciFier: £48.76Praise for the previous edition:"[A] fascinating book." John Thackara, Doors of Perception"Provides the foundations for a radical new perspective." Ethical Pulse"At last a book that dispels the idea... -
Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media Janine Marchessault 9780415204309
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £85.83Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA... -
Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film Paula Willoquet-Maricondi 9780813930060
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £23.34The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies. In addition to... -
Saviour's Gate by Tim Sebastian
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.49How many have to die to save one man?Each night a small jet leaves Moscow heading for a lonely outpost in the frozen Soviet North. It takes no passengers and brings none back.Intelligence shows this...