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Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests Tom Shales 9780316295062
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.07When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night... -
Romanian Capitalism on Film: Microhistories of Hope, Anxiety and Adaptation Constantin Parvulescu 9781399540162
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £84.09Romanian Capitalism on Screen examines contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania's postsocialist economy and culture. It complements existing accounts of economic and... -
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Children's love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem... -
Game Production: Prototyping and Producing Your Board Game Geoffrey Engelstein 9780367626907
SciFier: £111.36Description:Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design. While there are many... -
The Art of Tyler Jacobson by Tyler Jacobson
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £26.15Explore the world of Tyler Jacobson and find yourself lost in a fascinating culmination of cinematic moments frozen in time. The Art of Tyler Jacobson invites you to explore every aspect of... -
Houses of the Holy by Caitlin Skaalrud
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61A young woman undertakes a Dantean journey into the center of her psyche. Every door she encounters opens labyrinthine viewing galleries, macabre installations, and occult rituals where nothing is as... -
Komorebi by Djamila Knopf
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £20.44Illustrator Djamila Knopf leads us through her world, where anime-influenced characters, exquisite settings, and the process of creating fantasies enchant her fans worldwide. Having settled on her... -
Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, USA) 9781441195616
SciFier: £39.66In this comprehensive guide, some of the world's leading scholars consider the issues, films, and filmmakers that have given Italian cinema its enduring appeal. Readers will explore the work of such... -
Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments Barbara Postema 9781933360959
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.85An examination of the narrative and pictorial qualities of comics and how these help comics to communicate and create meaning. In Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, Barbara... -
Directing by Tay Garnett
SciFier: £77.99An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin... -
Halloween Is Coming! by Cal Everett
SciFier: £9.49A fun, rhyming read-aloud Halloween picture book that starts a new holiday tradition. Perfect for kids 4-8 or any young child wanting to celebrate the spookiest season of the year!Marching in the... -
Armageddon Films FAQ by Dale Sherman
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.42Mankind has been predicting its own demise through various methods from fables and religious scriptures to hard-core scientific studies since the dawn of time. And if there is one thing Hollywood... -
Producing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA) 9781784534356
SciFier: £31.38Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done... -
The Searchers by Edward Buscombe (film critic, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished... -
Fabulous Fifties by Sheila Steinberg
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £40.14Step back into the fabulous world of the 1950s! Popular culture was stimulated as products were mass produced and the middle class emerged. After World War II, America prospered and took the lead in... -
H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This collection of H.P. Lovecraft's most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgment of his monograph Supernatural Horror in... -
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England by Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)
SciFier: £36.99In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the... -
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide Dan Cryan 9781848310551 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.02Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships... -
Return from Troy Lindsay Clarke 9780007152568
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74The second part of a masterful retelling of the stories surrounding the Trojan War. RETURN FROM TROY begins after the sacking of Troy, covering Odysseus's trials and Agamemnon's fate. The... -
Blake & Mortimer 20 - The Septimus Wave Jean Dufaux 9781849182423
CinebookRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72It's been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the evil of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important figures of the capital's jet set come together around the... -
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling by Joleen Blom
SciFier: £111.36Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in... -
Playing American by Soeren Schoppmeier
RRP: £68.50SciFier: £50.58Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and... -
Screening the Past by Tony Barta
SciFier: £78.49Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of... -
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science-fiction Films by Carlos Clarens
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.79In this book Carlos Clarens, author of Crime Movies (also available from Da Capo/Perseus), George Cukor, and many articles in film magazines, brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of films and... -
Joan Fontaine by Marsha L. Beeman
SciFier: £68.49Always in competition with her older, more famous sister, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine had a varied and successful career of her own. She eventually attained stardom for her work in the film... -
Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds Ingrid E. Castro 9781498594295
SciFier: £98.49Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's... -
Digital Filmmaking: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures Thomas A. Ohanian 9780240804279
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.14Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and... -
Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative by Philip Kennedy
RRP: £47.25SciFier: £43.49This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis ("recognition"), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and... -
The American International Pictures Video Guide by Gary A. Smith
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81American International released a tide of low-budget, sensationalistic films aimed at the teenage audience, finding its greatest success in the horror genre. This is a comprehensive alphabetical... -
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
SciFier: £24.83The tales-116 in all-are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre's reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts. "Criticism" includes... -
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future Tereza Dedinova 9781793636638
SciFier: £92.99In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction... -
Coming Attractions by Robert J. Stoller
SciFier: £28.99What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can we learn about our culture's sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this... -
Realism and Popular Cinema Julia Hallam 9780719052514
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to address... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, Leicester) 9780521614863
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.54This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from... -
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character Joleen Blom 9781041190219
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in... -
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: £112.79Using 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...