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Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula by Koren Shadmi
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.24A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi.Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian... -
What Fresh Lunacy is This? by Robert Sellers
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.46Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that... -
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The Star and the Strange Moon Constance Sayers 9780349426006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.40From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal mystery and magic of film. 1968: Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the... -
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Still Standing: The Savage Years Paul O'Grady 9780857501028 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.88THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Funny, forthright and sharp as a knife . . . O'Grady writes just as he speaks.' Daily MirrorLilian Maeve Veronica Savage, international sex kitten, was born on the steps... -
The British Film Industry in 25 Careers: The Mavericks, Visionaries and Outsiders Who Shaped British Cinema Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK) 9781350140691
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £44.38The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against... -
Dolores del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade Linda B. Hall 9780804799461
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.93Dolores del Rio's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751619
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore Michael Westmore 9781630761905
SciFier: £26.99Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there... -
Brutal Vision by Karl Schoonover
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751602
SciFier: £93.49Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Daisuke Miyao 9780822354079
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.51In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314524
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9780521856850
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.54This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Action Cinema Since 2000 Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781839022777
SciFier: £30.99Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century... -
We Sold Our Souls: A Novel Grady Hendrix 9781683693406
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hard-rocking, spine-tingling horror novel about a washed-up guitarist of a '90s heavy metal... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Victoria Lowe 9781789387506
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.12The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in... -
Action Cinema Since 2000 Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781839022784
SciFier: £92.05Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Victoria Lowe 9781789382334
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.75The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in... -
Flying Funny by Dudley Riggs
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.56Dudley Riggs didn't have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a... -
Doom Guy by John Romero
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.24The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero."DOOM Guy: Life in First Person is...arguably the best non-fiction gaming book of all time, giving a... -
Sharon Tate: A Life Ed Sanders 9780306818899
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37Ed Sanders gave readers their clearest insight yet into the disturbing world of Charles Manson and his followers when he published The Family in 1971. Continuing that journalistic tradition,... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822342908
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £94.05One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English,... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822343127
SciFier: £26.58One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English,... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: £26.58Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a... -
Hollywood's Native Americans by Jan-Christopher Horak
SciFier: £51.99This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates... -
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee 9780231196154
SciFier: £25.77From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial... -
The Caped Crusade by Glen Weldon
RRP: £17.00SciFier: £14.79The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world's most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him-now with a new afterword. For... -
The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.83'Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoken one' Independent'Brims with his gift for genial... -
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The Elephant to Hollywood: Michael Caine's most up-to-date, definitive, bestselling autobiography Michael Caine 9781444700039 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.57'Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoken one' Independent'Brims with his gift for genial... -
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Dawnie Walton 9781529414530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.58ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' Ta-Nehisi Coates'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' Kiley ReidA queen of punk before... -
Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97'Destined to be a classic' Sunday Independent'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' Washington Post'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm... -
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' Ta-Nehisi Coates'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' Kiley ReidA queen of punk before... -
Introduction to Film Studies Jill Nelmes 9780415582599
SciFier: £45.90Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies,... -
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson Sharon Rudahl 9781978802087
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.11The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson's career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films,... -
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson Sharon Rudahl 9781978802070
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson's career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films,...