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The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future Kathe Hicks Albrecht (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA) 9781501384271
SciFier: £30.29What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Aesthetic program, literary genre, philosophy, and subculture, Steampunk embraces a universal... -
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) 9781350244269
SciFier: £33.99The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national... -
Crisis of Transcendence: A Theology of Digital Art and Culture J. Sage Elwell 9780739141083
SciFier: £97.99From the Internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels-it is a fundamental... -
Ambient Television by Anna McCarthy
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185899
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.06Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92 Johnny Walker 9781474454483
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Rewind, Replay is the first history of Britain's video boom. It considers the earliest video distributors who, from the late 1970s, took chances on a wide range of films and other programmes to... -
The Cinema of John Milius by Alfio Leotta
SciFier: £37.99This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combining the examination of the artistic, historical and cultural significance of... -
Algerian National Cinema Guy Austin 9781526106872
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.38This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political... -
The Marx Brothers by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as... -
Robert Altman by Rick Armstrong
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) is interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays. Included are insights on Altman and his five-decade... -
A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975607
SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69 by John Wells
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £36.19The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series offull-color hardcovers where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade ofcomic book history from the 1940s to today! John Wells... -
The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode Mary Going (University of Sheffield) 9781009153423
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.69The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this... -
Film, Nihilism and the Restoration of Belief by Darren Ambrose
SciFier: £14.69Despite the cliches which govern much of its current forms, the cinema continues to have a vital political and aesthetic significance. Our commitment to, and our sincerity towards, our ways of being... -
Contemporary art rooted in urban culture by Moniker.art
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £69.09Moniker mon*ick*er / [ mon-i-ker ] a person's name, especially a nickname or alias. "In the street art world everyone is equal and they don't wait for official approval. They are artists in every... -
The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History William E.B. Verrone 9780786459100
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £34.68Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films,... -
The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television's Shocking Cartoon Series Leslie Stratyner 9780786443079
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central's South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben... -
A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975652
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521596978
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.64Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Jane Campion's The Piano Jane Campion 9780521597210
SciFier: £16.69Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521592956
SciFier: £52.59Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
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Spark (Ink Trilogy Book 2) Alice Broadway 9781407172859 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.11The page-turning, heart-in-mouth sequel to bestselling debut INK. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. ... -
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231204439
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China's new era, speaking to a... -
Pusheen: I Like You More than Pizza by Claire Belton
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Tell your friends and loved ones 'I like you more than pizza' with this charming fill-in book, featuring prompts inspired by the internet's favorite chubby tabby cat. Pairing 46 sweet and endearing... -
The Last Best West by Ken Tingley
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £22.59Settlement and urbanization of the Canadian Northwest coincided with the greatest popularity of the postcard. Settlement, along with the building of a transcontinental railway and the... -
The Human Body by Button Books
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.13Factology: The Human Body is a fact-packed introduction to anatomy presented in maps, timelines, diagrams and statistics. Did you know that there are more nerve cells in your body than there are... -
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-garde by David Huckvale
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as ""Dracula"" and ""The Curse of Frankenstein"", few observers... -
Cinema and Fascism by Stephen Ricci
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 9781783789924
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.01George Orwell's dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative has never been more essential reading. Winston Smith obeys the Party, rewriting history at the... -
The New Hollywood by James Bernardoni
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.69The "Old Hollywood" of studios, stars, and house directors began to break up in the 1960s. Newly independent directors freed from budgetary and aesthetic limitations imposed by studio moguls were... -
Dune: House Harkonnen Vol 2 by Brian Herbert
Boom! StudiosRRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49The hit prequel comics adaptation of the legendary science fiction epic from NY Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson continues!Spanning from Arrakis to Wallach IX, formative... -
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future Kathe Hicks Albrecht (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA) 9781501349324
SciFier: £98.49What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical... -
21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813551258
SciFier: £35.38They are shot on high-definition digital cameras-with computer-generated effects added in postproduction-and transmitted to theaters, websites, and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed... -
The Promise of the Child Tom Toner 9781473211377
GollanczRRP: £12.99SciFier: £3.25'among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years' TOR.COMAn extraordinarily inventive and hugely original SF novel that charts a compelling vision of a future and spins... -
The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination Ryan Jay Friedman 9780813593609
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious... -
Bigger Than Blockbusters by James Roman
SciFier: £63.99Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger... -
100 Greatest Video Game Franchises Robert Mejia 9781442278141
SciFier: £47.99Video games take players on a trip through ancient battlefields, to mythic worlds, and across galaxies. They provide players with a way to try on new identities and acquire vast superpowers. Video... -
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics Ariel Heryanto 9780415572705
SciFier: £46.33This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the... -
Legacies of Indigenous Resistance by Anne Brewster
RRP: £66.55SciFier: £60.49This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who... -
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor by Joseph J. Darowski
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £71.79First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975, however, it found new popularity...