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Stroheim by Arthur Lennig
SciFier: $67.84Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio... -
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970 by Derrick Bang
RRP: $67.82SciFier: $66.63Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture... -
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps: The LitRPG bestseller Andrew Rowe 9781399636759
GollanczRRP: $42.40SciFier: $32.58THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An endlessly inventive and entertaining love letter to all of us underdogs who spent countless hours with a game controller in hand, daydreaming about how we would save... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222587
SciFier: $40.22By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
THE BLAZING WORLD: An Illuminated Edition by Margaret Cavendish
RRP: $150.50SciFier: $106.19The Blazing World is one of the most fascinating, unusual and astonishing pieces of literature in the English language. Written in 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, the story... -
Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.90It's one thing to waltz properly.It's quite another to waltz properly with a bladed fan stitched into one's corset.Sophronia continues finishing school in style - with a range of deadly defences... -
Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies David C. Lightner 9781496809834
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $51.37Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478032649
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $41.06Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222570
SciFier: $158.45By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
Osama by Lavie Tidhar
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.41Winner of the World Fantasy Award Tenth Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction and three extra stories. It's a rainy day when the woman approaches Joe. He is a private detective and she is... -
The World's Desire Andrew Lang 9781513204611
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $27.01Originally published in 1890, The World's Desire follows a wandering man's odyssey as he discovers the traumatic fate of his loved ones and native land. He is forced to embark on a new adventure led... -
The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood Nicholas Godfrey 9780813589152
RRP: $262.88SciFier: $209.27The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the... -
Screams & Nightmares by Brian J. Robb
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $26.73Writer, producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully tapped into the horror vein for over forty years, serving up scary, funny, cutting-edge thrillers that have become classics in the genre... -
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971 by Derrick Bang
RRP: $67.82SciFier: $66.63Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. Isaac Hayes' theme from Shaft. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their... -
The Talking Jewels by Denis Diderot
RRP: $19.06SciFier: $14.25The Talking Jewels (1748) is an erotic novel by Denis Diderot. Although he is known as a leading radical philosopher of 18th century France, Diderot also pursued a brief career as an anonymous author... -
World Cinema and Cultural Memory I. Hedges 9781137465115
SciFier: $99.62Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five... -
Introduction to Film Nick Lacey 9781137463838
SciFier: $91.12This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies. The rise of on demand... -
The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood Nicholas Godfrey 9780813589145
SciFier: $78.02The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the... -
Laurel and Hardy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: $146.26This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Hardy's significance in film comedy, the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. Of the two,... -
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $19.53What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, *A Book, Untitled* is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of... -
Destiny's Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon by Janny Wurts
SciFier: $20.20The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc - Sword of the Canon - in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow. Lysaer's unstable integrity... -
The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781513132518
RRP: $38.14SciFier: $27.26The Red Fairy Book (1890) is a collection of fairy tales by Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. Published in time for Christmas, The Red Fairy Book was the second volume out of 25 in the Lang's Fairy... -
The Invisible Eye by Emile Erckmann
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $22.77A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales - Erckmann-Chatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others. ... -
Nightshade and Oak Molly O'Neill 9780356522630
OrbitRRP: $23.30SciFier: $16.90An Iron Age goddess must grapple with becoming human in this delightful historical fantasy of myth and magic from the author of Greenteeth.When Mallt, the goddess of death, is accidently turned human... -
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks: A Who HQ Graphic Novel Insha Fitzpatrick 9780593224465
RRP: $14.82SciFier: $13.76Discover the story behind Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this compelling graphic novel -- written by Oh My Gods! author Insha Fitzpatrick and illustrated by #DrawingWhileBlack organizer... -
The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781513281575
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $18.00The Red Fairy Book (1890) is a collection of fairy tales by Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang. Published in time for Christmas, The Red Fairy Book was the second volume out of 25 in the Lang's Fairy... -
The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s Robert Miklitsch 9780252040689
RRP: $218.36SciFier: $174.92Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets and alleyways of cultural history, The Red and the... -
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
RRP: $42.40SciFier: $33.11A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the authorToru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more... -
Mummy Movies: A Comprehensive Guide Bryan Senn 9781476687889
RRP: $114.46SciFier: $99.11In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end. Over the past century,... -
Hollywood Divided by Kevin Brianton
RRP: $102.82SciFier: $51.83On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- John... -
Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture Helton Levy (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9781350292826
SciFier: $65.70Has a global queer popular culture emerged at the expense of local queer artists? In this book, Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is indebted to specific, local references that artists... -
No Oil Painting Genevieve Marenghi 9781917224123
SciFier: $21.18Bored septuagenarian, Maureen, steals an obscure still life from Ham House. Some fellow National Trust volunteers realise what she's done and confront her. But camaraderie wins out and instead of... -
The Star and the Strange Moon Constance Sayers 9780349425986
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $25.95From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal mystery and magic of film - perfect for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue... -
Cinematic Reveries by Linda Ehrlich
RRP: $114.37SciFier: $104.92The 29 prose poems in Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water provide distinctive points of entry into a select group of films through attention to evocative gestures, a sense of stillness,... -
The Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9780582437944
SciFier: $124.08The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time... -
Prophet: 'Fabulous...a page-turner' Neil Gaiman Helen Macdonald 9781529922851
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.45YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.'Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN, author of CoralineThis is Prophet. It knows when you... -
Down from the Attic by John T. Soister
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pictures like Bride of the Monster and The Hideous Sun... -
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini Daniel Humphrey 9780814343104
RRP: $76.21SciFier: $61.46In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo... -
Red Alert by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and filmshare important connections concerning... -
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale Jon Klassen 9781529509571
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $22.18Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull...