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Movies and the Modern Psyche by Sharon Packer MD
SciFier: $72.27By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our... -
The Hidden Base by A.E. Warren
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.87__________________________________________________She wants to escape the past. Is she doomed to repeat it? In the spectacular sequel to Subject Twenty-One, Elise and her friends have unearthed the... -
The Missing Mummies: Jesperson & Lane Book 3 Lisa Tuttle 9781529422740
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $9.80Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, call on Jesperson and Lane . . . 'Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved,' says George R.R. MartinMiss Lane is... -
Wheelhouse by Alan Singer
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $27.47WHEELHOUSE is the first published book by noted Art Professor Alan Singer on his studio art practice and process spanning two decades. The artist monograph includes some of his early work before he... -
The Electric State Simon Stalenhag 9781471176081
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $29.90** Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown and Chris Pratt ** Stranger Things meets On the Road in this hypnotic, lavishly illustrated novel. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her... -
The Coen Brothers' America by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $51.42For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like... -
Images at Work by David Morgan (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University)
RRP: $55.59SciFier: $46.55Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by... -
Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television Aymar Jean Christian 9781479815975
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $23.81How the internet transformed television Before HBO's hit show Insecure, Issa Rae's comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,... -
Haunted Japan by Catrien Ross
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08A delightfully creepy telling of Japanese ghost stories.Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends... -
Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television Aymar Jean Christian 9781479874224
SciFier: $129.95How the internet transformed television Before HBO's hit show Insecure, Issa Rae's comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,... -
Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain Dr. Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University, USA) 9781501318825
SciFier: $31.26Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how Brokeback Mountain can be understood through the terms of this field of... -
77 North by D. L. Marshall
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20In Siberia, revenge is served ice cold.The epic third instalment from the author of the acclaimed Anthrax Island and Times book of the month, Black Run.An agent the world thinks is dead can be useful... -
The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics Liam Burke 9780813597164
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $35.70"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise,... -
Little Moar and the Moon by Roselynn Akulukjuk
RRP: $16.67SciFier: $11.94Moar has always loved autumn-playing outside with his friends, feeling the weather get colder-but there is one thing about autumn that really worries Moar. The moon. The days become shorter and the... -
The Lovecraft Squad by John Llewellyn Probert
RRP: $29.12SciFier: $24.59There has always been something wrong about All Hallows Church. Not just the building, but the very land upon it stands. Reports dating back to Roman times reveal that it has always been a bad... -
The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics Liam Burke 9780813597171
RRP: $166.80SciFier: $137.21"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise,... -
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Mark Gallagher 9780292762077
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur... -
Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain Dr. Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University, USA) 9781501318818
SciFier: $116.05Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how Brokeback Mountain can be understood through the terms of this field of... -
The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel Caitlin G. Watt 9780253062406
RRP: $102.86SciFier: $83.04Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies... -
October Gregory Bastianelli 9781787589230
RRP: $18.00SciFier: $12.77Readers of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and All Hallows by Christopher Golden will love this. In 1970, four boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers notice strange events occurring in... -
Understanding Indian Movies by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,... -
Body of Stars: Searing and thought-provoking - the most addictive novel you'll read all year Laura Maylene Walter 9781529349214
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20'We have a new The Handmaid's Tale... an exciting new literary voice with a dazzling imagination' EMMA KENNEDY'Compelling, menacing and ultimately uplifting, I fell headlong into the world of Body of... -
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination William Cheng (Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9780199969968
RRP: $194.60SciFier: $166.79Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and... -
Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime Yoshiko Okuyama 9781498514330
SciFier: $72.27A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician... -
The Exorcist Effect by Joseph P. Laycock (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University)
SciFier: $27.83The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking... -
The Missing Mummies: Jesperson & Lane Book 3 Lisa Tuttle 9781529422757
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, call on Jesperson and Lane . . . 'Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved,' says George R.R. MartinMiss Lane is... -
Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime Yoshiko Okuyama 9780739190920
SciFier: $158.45A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician... -
Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games Dr. Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA) 9781628927436
SciFier: $44.47The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance. At a time when streaming television finds millions of viewers, video games garner billions of dollars, and social media grows ever more intense,... -
Riefenstahl Screened by Neil Christian Pages
SciFier: $56.98"Screening Riefenstahl" offers an opportunity to rethink the place of Leni Riefenstahl and her work in contemporary culture and in academic discourse.Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the... -
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination William Cheng (Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9780199969975
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $36.13Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and... -
October Gregory Bastianelli 9781787589247
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $19.63Readers of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and All Hallows by Christopher Golden will love this. In 1970, four boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers notice strange events occurring in... -
Violent Games: Rules, Realism and Effect Gareth Schott (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 9781628925616
SciFier: $52.81It was over a decade ago that experimental psychologists and media-effects researchers declared the debate on the effects of violent video gaming as "essentially over," referring to the way violence... -
The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel Caitlin G. Watt 9780253062413
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies... -
Getting Gamers by Jamie Madigan
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $23.91Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our... -
The Simpsons: A Cultural History Moritz Fink 9781538188163
SciFier: $26.74From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30... -
The Notted Island Katherine Child 9781838749507
SciFier: $25.88A stunningly illustrated middle-grade story of kindness, determination, a night sky salesman and a young girl named Umbertiska Lupp.For a very long time, the world was black and white... Last Island... -
We're Still at War by Post Bellum
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $30.54The Communist regimes of Europe collapsed more than a quarter century ago, and the Third Reich fell in World War II. But today's rising global tide of far-right extremism makes totalitarian regimes... -
Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders 9780813571225
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $38.13Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the... -
Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders 9780813571232
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Victoria Lowe 9781789382334
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.12The 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...