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Last Samurai Standing 1 Shogo Imamura 9798888775165
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.37The sword-slinging manga that inspired the Netflix samurai epic! As the 19th century comes to a bloody end, a sinister game of life-or-death brutally culls Japan's fading warrior class. Who is... -
Last Samurai Standing 2 Shogo Imamura 9798888775172
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.39The sword-slinging manga that inspired the Netflix samurai epic! As the 19th century comes to a bloody end, a sinister game of life-or-death brutally culls Japan's fading warrior class. Who is... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: £93.71A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
DAZEWORLD by Sacha Jenkins
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £26.13This is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis's successful transition from the subways to international studios and galleries. Follow his 30+ year career from his days as a... -
Voice Acting For Dummies by David Ciccarelli
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.78Make a career out of your voice? Easy. Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in... -
Cinema in Democratizing Germany by Heide Fehrenbach
SciFier: £54.19Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she... -
Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954: Rome, Open Cinema Francesco Pitassio 9781041183457
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £35.28Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While... -
Luminous Greg Egan 9780575082083
GollanczSciFier: £20.49LUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan's short fiction is at the cutting edge of the genre. His stories range from near future... -
Memory and Intermediality in Artists' Moving Image Sarah Durcan 9783030473983
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £30.99This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443115
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.24This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443085
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £41.99This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
Documentaries and China's National Image Chen Yi 9781032315065
SciFier: £34.63Emphasizing the role of documentary in shaping a nation-state's image, demonstrating social development and promoting cultural exchanges, this book examines the changes in China's national image in... -
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film Asja Makarevic 9789048559572
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £111.37Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of "post-war" implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the... -
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community Maria Velez-Serna 9781041178842
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other... -
Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change around 1930 Daniel Wiegand 9781041175292
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films' fundamentally experimental and inventive character. By considering... -
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films Asli OEzgen 9781041187127
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9781041189244
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential... -
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia Part One by Mark Jay
Titan BooksRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.04The fourth installment of the critically acclaimed manga adaption of BBC Hit Sherlock introduces the femme fatale and the detective's famous rival, Irene Adler! Fresh from confronting Moriarty in... -
Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley
SciFier: £17.43If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But... -
The Royal Road to the Stars by Colin Barker
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £3.62When Oliver rescues Pierre, a small puppy, he has no inkling that this small act of kindness will trigger the start of a great cosmic drama. For far out in space, higher powers are about to assess... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Grammar of the Edit Christopher Bowen (Framingham State University, USA) 9781032190112
SciFier: £37.66- Covers the principles behind when to cut and why, exploring concepts like transitions, editing for continuity, selecting the best shots, editing sound, color correction, and more, providing a... -
Echo by Elisa De Wyngaert
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £31.51The essays and interviews in this book - published in conjunction with the exhibition Echo - explore the personal, universal and tactile memories of baby, child and motherhood, aging and nostalgia,... -
Fashion by A Ammonite
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.26This is a visual record of the British people's habits of dress from the Victorians to Britpop. Social history is reflected in the outfits of the time, from the wartime austerity of the 1940s to the... -
Hollywood in Cannes: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship Christian Jungen 9781041180920
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout... -
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History Patricia Emison 9781041183150
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £43.30Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of... -
Fortunate Beasts by Otava Heikkila
SciFier: £12.37When the vampire Lucardo fell in love with Edmund Fiedler, a 61-year-old mortal scrivener, their passion became legendary before Lucardo's practical father intervened. The royal Court of Night has... -
Digital Sculpting with Mudbox: Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists Mike de la Flor 9780240812038
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £36.60Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier... -
Born to Run by Tod Lange
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £26.77Despite playing canvas to a long list of talented writers, the IND (Independent) and BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan Transit) lines have been underrepresented in graffiti history. This is now rectified with... -
Number Call by Nagisa Furuya
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.32From the creator of My Summer of You comes a new high school romance about the power of numbers, and how the number 8 draws two young men together--the author's Japanese debut, now available for the... -
Miyazaki's Animism Abroad by Eriko Ogihara-Schuck
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61After winning an Oscar for Spirited Away, the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated films were dubbed into many languages. Some of the films are saturated with religious themes distinctive to... -
Last Samurai Standing 3 Shogo Imamura 9798888775189
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.32Based on the story that inspired the Netflix samurai epic! As the 19th century comes to a bloody end, a sinister game of life-or-death brutally culls Japan's fading warrior class. Who is rounding up... -
Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by... -
Memory and Intermediality in Artists' Moving Image Sarah Durcan 9783030473952
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £41.99This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid... -
The Art and Making of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves by Eleni Roussos
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.86The official behind-the-scenes companion to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring cast and crew interviews, photos, and insights about making the filmFor fans of Dungeons & Dragons and... -
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch Nonie May 9789048562336
RRP: £120.00SciFier: £107.00The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These... -
Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project Roy Grundmann 9781041181897
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun... -
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection Ilka Brasch 9781041179382
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring... -
The Mermaid's Mirror by L. K. Madigan
SciFier: £7.11Lena has lived her whole life near the beach, walking the shore, breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves. As her sixteenth birthday approaches,... -
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider
SciFier: £5.36James is a very picky eater. His dad has to get creative - very creative - in order to get James to eat foods he thinks he doesn't like. He presents James with a series of outlandish scenarios packed...