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Newton's Cannon Greg Keyes 9781504068604
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £19.19This novel of Ben Franklin, Isaac Newton, and a demonic Louis XIV is "eminently worthwhile reading for both fantasy and alternate-history lovers" (Booklist).In 1681, in an England somewhat like our... -
Warner Bros. by Mark Vieira
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £25.52In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid... -
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World Maria Tatar 9780143111696
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.14Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another - such... -
A Dictionary of Film Studies by Annette Kuhn (Professor and Research Fellow in Film Studies, Professor and Research Fellow in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London)
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.33A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in... -
![The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture Shelton Waldrep 9780415925358 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/578256/650031/9780415925358__70253.1721731635.jpg?c=1 "The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture Shelton Waldrep 9780415925358 [USED COPY]")
The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture Shelton Waldrep 9780415925358 [USED COPY]
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £1.93The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black... -
Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics Dr Sarah Atkinson (King's College, London, UK) 9781501353970
SciFier: £36.99Live Cinema is a term used to capture a diverse range of experiences that incorporate a 'live' element in relation to a film's exhibition. The live augmentation of cinema screenings is not a new... -
Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415590983
SciFier: £36.79In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place:How does it select its objects of study and its methods of... -
Habitat by Catriona Shine
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £12.83Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146938
SciFier: £37.88Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures: Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) 9781350436633
SciFier: £84.76This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork... -
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Second Lives Tim Guest 9780099493778 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £2.12We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35... -
Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies Gabriel Menotti (Lecturer in Film Editing & Multimedia, Lecturer in Film Editing & Multimedia, Federal University of Esp^D'irito Santo) 9780190934125
RRP: £35.49SciFier: £27.99To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction. For example, when a movie theater projector falters, the... -
The Seventies by Shelton Waldrep
SciFier: £38.53The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black... -
Superheroes Beyond Cormac McGarry 9781496850102
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron... -
Superheroes Beyond Cormac McGarry 9781496850096
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron... -
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico L. Podalsky 9780230109551
SciFier: £46.99This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this... -
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures: Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) 9781350436626
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.99This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork... -
Videogames Marie Foulston 9781851779406
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.26Videogames explores the design and culture of videogames since the mid-2000s, investigating the ground-breaking contemporary design work, creative and rebellious player communities and the political... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular: by Ted Fendt
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.62Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power Andrew Herman 9780415925020
SciFier: £37.66Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web;... -
Florence and Giles by John Harding
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is... -
Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Murray Smith 9780198822752
SciFier: £33.46In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences,... -
Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Murray Smith (University of Kent) 9780198790648
SciFier: £74.76In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences,... -
Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era L. Conner 9781137023919
SciFier: £92.99This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process,... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema Ted Fendt 9781839998867
SciFier: £25.00Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Uncommon Threads by Gayle A. Pritchard
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Ohio's long quiltmaking heritage prepared the way for the contemporary "pioneer" artists of the 1970s and 1980s, who, through individual vision and dedication, have created a new art form and added a... -
The Fair Folk And Little Orphan Mary: A Tale about Gnomes Maria Konopnicka 9798887196893
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.99A classic children's tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with... -
Playback - A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames PhD Alex Wade (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781501341847
SciFier: £37.99Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Essential Effects: Water, Fire, Wind, and More Mauro Maressa 9781138196926
SciFier: £103.92Animate the world around you! Follow along with veteran Disney effects artist Mauro Maressa as he teaches you how to create and animate natural phenomena like water, fire, smoke, lightning, lava,... -
The Fair Folk And Little Orphan Mary: A Tale about Gnomes Maria Konopnicka 9798887196886
RRP: £106.99SciFier: £46.99A classic children's tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with... -
Dissent and Social Media: The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Cultural Change Matthew T. Pifer 9781839993909
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.00The book considers the role social media platforms play in facilitating dissent as a function of cultural, and associated hegemonic, transformation. In this context, social media is one of the... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
Essential Effects: Water, Fire, Wind, and More Mauro Maressa 9781138101074
SciFier: £53.49Animate the world around you! Follow along with veteran Disney effects artist Mauro Maressa as he teaches you how to create and animate natural phenomena like water, fire, smoke, lightning, lava,... -
Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era L. Conner 9781349438389
SciFier: £92.99This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process,... -
Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £87.99When it premiered on NBC in September 1966, Star Trek was described by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, as "Wagon Train to the stars." Featuring a racially diverse cast, trips to exotic planets, and... -
Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects Ute Ritterfeld 9780415993708
SciFier: £53.96Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. "Serious games" is defined herein as any... -
Phantom Power by Barbara Diener
SciFier: £34.60Phantom Power is a book about the intangible. Barbara Diener is fascinated by unexplained phenomena and, in this book, she has used a variety of methods to capture images that convey the ineffable... -
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.99Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for... -
From Pac-Man to Pop Music by Karen Collins
SciFier: £47.20Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to...