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One Drop by Peter Kalu
SciFier: £9.71In war-torn Britain, inseparable Black Radicals Axel and Dune are arrested. With SIMs implanted in their heads, they are placed in a prison camp for those who defy the Bloods' white supremacist... -
Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director Lucy Fischer 9780813516455
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s-all... -
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 9780141439976
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is... -
The Cross and the Cinema by James M. Skinner
SciFier: £78.49Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In... -
Cultures of Comics Work by Casey Brienza
SciFier: £112.99This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective industrial realities of contemporary cultural production with eighteen all-new chapters presenting... -
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide Ivan Ward 9781848312104 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.40The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite... -
Armies of the Night: The Warriors and Its Legacy Michael Gingold 9781948221979
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £10.15From the New York City Subway to Coney Island-uncover the gritty legacy of The Warriors, the cult classic that stormed the streets-and shaped mainstream culture-since 1979!The Warriors opened to... -
Museum of Mistakes Julia Wertz 9781941250464
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £16.67For almost two decades, Julia Wertz has been documenting her life's most intimate, absurd, and amusing moments through a whimsical and hilarious diary comic book called The Fart Party. Wertz retells... -
Pop Goes the Decade by Kevin L. Ferguson
SciFier: £83.49Popular culture in the 1990s often primarily reflected millennial catastrophic anxieties. The world was tightening, speeding up, and becoming more dangerous and dangerously connected. Surely it was... -
The Computer-Animated Film by Christopher Holliday
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions... -
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction Robert L. Carringer 9780520078574
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £44.50Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, "They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 9780141199498
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did... -
Sam Peckinpah: Interviews Kevin J. Hayes 9781934110645
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his second feature-length film, the award-winning Ride the... -
Zatopek by Jan Novak
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Emil Zatopek is arguably the greatest Olympic champion of all time. The Czech runner's three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, for the 5,000 meter, 10,000 meter, and marathon is an... -
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide Ivan Ward 9781848312104
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.51The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite... -
Thelma & Louise by Marita Sturken (New York University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cinema on its release in... -
The Lost Tribe by Robert Rapoza
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34A race against time, a secret city, and a daughter's quest to save humanity. Deep in the Amazon, Dr. Nick Randall has made a discovery that could rewrite the history of mankind... but he may not... -
Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Priya Jaikumar 9780822337805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £10.94How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and... -
Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781501376993
SciFier: £97.99Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) is as controversial as it is beloved. Whether due to the tear-jerking hit song 'Bright Eyes' or its notorious representation of violence inflicted by and upon... -
Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781501376962
SciFier: £31.99Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) is as controversial as it is beloved. Whether due to the tear-jerking hit song 'Bright Eyes' or its notorious representation of violence inflicted by and upon... -
The Torture Report by Sid Jacobson
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 576-page report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners during the... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and... -
Black Hollywood by Kimberly Fain
SciFier: £53.49This thought-provoking work examines the dehumanizing depictions of black males in the movies since 1910, analyzing images that were once imposed on black men and are now appropriated and manipulated... -
Reading Little Britain by Sharon Lockyer
SciFier: £22.89'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satirical genius created this character-based sketch show -... -
Magnolia Christina Lane (University of Miami, USA) 9781405184625
RRP: £57.25SciFier: £51.76There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social... -
Darien: Empire of Salt Book I C. F. Iggulden 9780718186470 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £1.05Discover your new favourite fantasy series the epic and spellbinding first instalment in Empire of Salt'One of the best fantasy novels I've read' 5***** READER REVIEW______The city of Darien lies at... -
A Song Of Stone: The No.1 Bestseller Iain Banks 9780349139265
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.30'Exhilarating... a work of imagination and arresting originality' Sunday TelegraphThe war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs... -
Flying Saucers by Timothy Jenkins
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.74"Jenkins' meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were... -
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his... -
Dancing Ledge by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.48'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 9780963270702
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £5.98'A masterpiece' Sunday TimesJust before dawn one winter's morning, a aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel... -
Churchill: A Life in Cartoons by Tim Benson
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.29Following an unrivalled political career that spanned a remarkable sixty years and reached both the heights and the depths of political fortune, Sir Winston Churchill undoubtedly became the world's... -
World Film Locations: Berlin Susan Ingram (York University, Canada) 9781841506319
SciFier: £24.60One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been... -
Battle Royale: Remastered Koushun Takami 9781421565989
Viz MediaRRP: £13.99SciFier: £8.56Battle Royale is a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, and one of Japan's bestselling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government,... -
Ash James Herbert 9781509816019
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Ash is James Herbert's last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.David Ash, ghost hunter and... -
Matter by Iain M Banks
SciFier: £17.98In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 9781513206905
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49Edward Prendick is rescued from a damaged ship and brought to a small island where an infamous doctor performs a series of experiments on animals. Once exposed, Prendick becomes disturbed by his... -
Roman Polanski by Paul Cronin
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Roman Polanski (b. 1933) arrived on the international scene in 1962 with his first feature film, Knife in the Water, and his face would be on the cover of Time magazine by the end of that year. His... -
David Lynch: Interviews Richard A. Barney 9781604732375
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they...