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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... -
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film Randall Clark 9781138964051
SciFier: £47.20Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term... -
Ozu's Tokyo Story David Desser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521484350
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.85Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural... -
Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College, USA) 9781405193030
SciFier: £30.99Analyzing 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... -
Roger Ebert's Book of Film by Roger Ebert
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £50.49For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking... -
Torchwood: Slow Decay Andy Lane 9780563486558 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.49'The twenty-first century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready.' Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller 9781847884138
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Fetish Style Frenchy Lunning (Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA) 9781847885708
SciFier: £35.99Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures. Presenting the world of subcultural fetish... -
Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films: Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay David Greenberg 9780367687694
SciFier: £33.33Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a... -
John Ford Brian Spittles 9780582424043
SciFier: £42.28This text explores the major movies through discussion of their themes and techniques and reveals how much Ford was concerned with the very issues that are central to us today: gender, race, the... -
The Dave Walker Guide to the Church by Dave Walker
SciFier: £9.99The topics include such subjects as What Your Pew Says About You, When to Stand Up For a Hymn, Flags on Church Towers, The Dangers of Arriving Too Early or too Late, and other uneventful aspects of... -
Pathfinder RPG: Battlecry! Special Edition (P2) Logan Bonner 9781640786929
PaizoRRP: £75.99SciFier: £51.88Report for Duty! When diplomacy between nations fails and neither side backs down, war is the inevitable result. From border skirmishes to large-scale invasions, conflict comes in many forms-the... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller (London College of Fashion, UK) 9781847884145
SciFier: £113.99The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla 9781474400107
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver... -
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... -
The Dave Walker Guide to the Church Dave Walker 9781853117794 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £0.83The topics include such subjects as What Your Pew Says About You, When to Stand Up For a Hymn, Flags on Church Towers, The Dangers of Arriving Too Early or too Late, and other uneventful aspects of... -
Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146
SciFier: £38.53This 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... -
Black Magick: 13 Tales of Darkness, Horror & the Occult Raven Digitalis 9781803418254
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61Darkness is interpretive. It s in our nature to explore the shadows. Through the 13 stories presented in Black Magick, the reader is transported into mysterious settings that blur the line between... -
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: £112.87Using 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
SciFier: £40.26Woodstock 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...