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Graffiti Planet by Alan Ket
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.53A celebration of the creativity of graffiti artists from all over the world.Ever controversial, graffiti or street art has become a significant art form and continues to evolve and transform urban... -
A History of Italian Cinema by Irmbert Schenk
SciFier: £53.11This book provides a complete description of the development of Italian film and cinema from its beginnings in 1895 until today. Special emphasis is placed on those periods in which Italian film... -
The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture C. Best 9780230603769
SciFier: £46.99This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell... -
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dr. Filipa Antunes (Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK) 9798765113608
SciFier: £30.99This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production... -
Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers by Lawrence Matsuda
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £11.59The last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us:This book tells the stories of six courageous... -
Gudetama: You're Egg-cellent! by Jenn Fujikawa
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Let your loved ones know-the Gudetama way-just how much they mean to you with this unique and customizable fill-in-the-blank book full of charming expressions of love and apathy. Once you fill in the... -
Battle Angel Alita Mars Chronicle 10 by Yukito Kishiro
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.48The cyber-martial arts saga that has spanned a solar system and over two decades in print returns, with creator Yukito Kishiro's new sequel that reveals the true story of Alita's childhood on Mars,... -
Haddon Hall by Nejib
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.53Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he made the most significant transformation of his... -
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy & Geography and the Art of Marcel Duchamp James Housefield 9781611689570
SciFier: £38.46Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp-widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp... -
Zola and Film by Anna Gural-Migdal
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its film adaptations, examining critically significant... -
Betty Grable by Larry E. Billman
SciFier: £68.99This reference work provides a comprehensive record of the life and career of Betty Grable. The book begins with a biography that presents and discusses the most significant events in Grable's life... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781349522392
SciFier: £46.99This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Girls' Hairstories by Professor Fiona Handyside
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen's Power Plait to JoJo Siwa's outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlhood is articulated in contemporary visual... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185882
SciFier: £81.12Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident by Vlastimir Sudar
RRP: £52.95SciFier: £44.11Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia. He was by far the most awarded director on a national level, winning three Golden... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822350880
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.85"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other... -
Educating Film-makers by Duncan Petrie
SciFier: £50.95A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of... -
Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector Kirsi Niinimaki 9781032729282
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £49.80This book provides a wide landscape for recycling and product lifetime management in the textile and fashion sector. Through this approach, the book attempts to deepen the understanding of the... -
Little Book of Gucci by Tom Ford: The Story of the Iconic Fashion Designer Laia Farran Graves 9781035433025
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83The legendary ten years Tom Ford spent at the helm of Gucci is one of the most significant decades in fashion history. Credited as the creative director who made the brand synonymous with... -
Exploring Visual Culture by Matthew Rampley
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023217
SciFier: £28.83The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance by Ken McMullen
SciFier: £33.99Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics Paolo Silvio Harald Favero 9780367624378
SciFier: £53.26Image-Making-India explores the evolving meaning of images in a digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India. Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in... -
Tapestry Handbook by Carol Russell
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £39.66This classic book, now completely revised and expanded, has long been a favorite of both teachers and students of tapestry weaving. Learn to weave tapestry on any kind of loom, vertical or horizontal... -
Structure Of Magic Vol 2 by John Grinder
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.39In the sequel to The Structure Of Magic, the authors bring their special skills as model builders to the art of nonverbal communication. In Part 1, the authors present and define the representational... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £47.66This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
Richard Burton by Tyrone Steverson
SciFier: £68.99Actor Richard Burton conquered British theater as Hamlet in 1953 at the Old Vic, and, after a series of theatrical triumphs launched a film career that earned him seven Academy Award nominations... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.79In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century... -
Peter Jackson Alfio Leotta (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 9781501338557
SciFier: £37.99Peter Jackson is one of the most acclaimed and influential contemporary film-makers. This is the first book to combine the examination of Jackson's career with an in-depth critical analysis of his... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler by Professor Gregory J. Hampton (Howard University, USA)
SciFier: £34.63Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Kyung Hyun Kim 9780822351016
SciFier: £22.56"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185899
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.06Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
Sustainability and the Social Fabric: Europe's New Textile Industries Clio Padovani (University of Southampton, UK) 9781474224116
SciFier: £113.99While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: £84.76The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551241
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future Kathe Hicks Albrecht (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA) 9781501384271
SciFier: £30.29What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Aesthetic program, literary genre, philosophy, and subculture, Steampunk embraces a universal... -
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) 9781350244269
SciFier: £33.99The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national... -
Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92 Johnny Walker 9781474454483
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Rewind, Replay is the first history of Britain's video boom. It considers the earliest video distributors who, from the late 1970s, took chances on a wide range of films and other programmes to... -
The Cinema of John Milius by Alfio Leotta
SciFier: £37.99This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combining the examination of the artistic, historical and cultural significance of... -
Algerian National Cinema Guy Austin 9781526106872
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.38This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political...