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Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool Deirdre O'Neill 9780367887308
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge... -
Secret Violences by Slawomir Maslon (University of Silesia, Poland)
SciFier: £30.99Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure. Unlike his famous... -
Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s Steven Rybin 9781978818316
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.40Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also... -
Video Field Production and Editing Ronald J. Compesi (San Francisco State University, USA) 9781138584563
RRP: £71.99SciFier: £70.82In the eighth, revised edition of this book, Ronald J. Compesi offers a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the aesthetics of small-scale, single-camera video production in field environments,... -
Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century Geoff King 9781850438144
SciFier: £31.38Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of... -
Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2 by Neil Mitchell
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific... -
Jean Cocteau by James S. Williams
SciFier: £22.99This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light... -
Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781789388664
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £98.68Copenhagen has long been celebrated for its unique fashion, design, innovation, and sustainability practices, and yet there has never been a comprehensive history of Copenhagen fashion and its... -
Creating Special Effects for TV andVideo Bernard Wilkie 9780240514741
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £51.84Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated, this third edition covers a wide range of... -
Tales of Loch Ness by Stuart McHardy
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.27This book helps you explore the myths and legends surrounding one of Scotland's most famous locations. The home of the fabled Loch Ness monster, or Nessie as she is affectionately known, is a... -
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College, USA) 9781405193047
RRP: £71.95SciFier: £69.20Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship... -
The Sentimental Mode by Jennifer A. Williamson
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical... -
The Josephine Baker Critical Reader by Mae G. Henderson
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £32.13Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist-Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern... -
The Fugitive's Trail: An FBI Mystery Thriller J.C. Fields 9781036706463
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34A Wall Street murder, a suspect who doesn't exist, and a billion-dollar firm where truth is not company policy. FBI Special Agent Sean Kruger doesn't like any aspect of his new case. Witness... -
Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study Jason Barr 9781476666372
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81As video gaming and video gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. In this examination of how video gaming and... -
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such... -
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Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £1.29This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present Shoshana-Rose Marzel (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel) 9781472529343
SciFier: £29.99Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao... -
The Shining by Kevin Donnelly
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is an esteemed member of the twentieth century's pantheon of outstanding films while also perhaps being the director's most accessible film. It is a rarity in... -
Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images Anna Schober 9781032338002
SciFier: £43.73This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781137032683
SciFier: £114.11Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives Jeff Howard 9780367686048
SciFier: £45.46Combining theory and practice, this updated new edition provides a complete overview of how to create deep and meaningful quests for games. It uses the Unity game engine in conjunction with Fungus... -
The Graphic Design Sourcebook by Robert Opie
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £17.64The Graphic Design Sourcebook delves into the vast array of graphic design that surrounds us wherever we go, and has done so ever since printing was invented. Yet everyday graphics have mostly been... -
Black Masculinity on Film by Daniel O'Brien
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O'Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations of black masculinity have been achieved... -
European Film Noir by Andrew Spicer
SciFier: £22.99European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an... -
Reading the Everyday Joe Moran 9780415317092
SciFier: £38.53In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory - the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture.Drawing... -
Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany Thomas J. Saunders 9780520083547
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £49.49The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the... -
Tales of the Picts by Stuart McHardy
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.78For many centuries the people of Scotland have told stories of their ancestors, a mysterious tribe called the Picts. This ancient Celtic-speaking people, who fought off the might of the Roman... -
Tarot - Crossing Worlds by Rachel Clarke
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00On a medieval world called Wayan, where wondrous beings unravel their destiny through Tarot reading, a powerful sorceress commits a shocking act by abducting the queen's young children and spiriting... -
Woodstock University Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9781032335261
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969's iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it... -
Aernout Mik by Laurence Kardish
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £12.21Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling, unsettling, peculiar and plausible. The artist designs... -
Yoruba Trickster Tales by Oyekan Owomoyela
SciFier: £19.64Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster... -
Wild Bill Elliott by Gene Blottner
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51Wild Bill Elliott was a major western star. His screen persona met evil head-on and emerged victorious, bringing cheers from Saturday audiences. This book covers Elliott's entire career. It begins... -
Futuristic by Mark Voger
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £33.24Blast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities... and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and '60s... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, Leicester) 9780521849623
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £82.72This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from... -
The Fact-Finders Rainforest: Walk Through the Magical Rainforests! DK 9780241721643
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Packed full of fascinating facts, engaging characters, and hilarious comic strips, this friendly guide to the rainforests of the world will keep children entertained for hours.Join Lily and Mango as... -
Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif Stefano Baschiera 9781474428934
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, DispositifEdited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaAlthough film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of... -
Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling for Online, Broadcast and Documentary Journalists Kenneth Kobre (San Francisco State University, USA) 9781032223865
RRP: £66.99SciFier: £63.68*The first book geared toward a new 'hybrid' discipline of videojournalism, broadcast journalism and documentary film making, teaching students how to produce material for all three media (online,... -
Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This book offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over ten books adapted for cinema), his works are full... -
I fart in your general direction! by Don H. Corrigan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new ground wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture. A definitive taxonomy of farts details the characteristics of each variety, including...