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Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Teri J. Silvio 9780824881160
RRP: £30.95SciFier: £19.46The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere-in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects... -
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling Jared Gardner 9780804771474
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form... -
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Mark Gallagher 9780292762077
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01How 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... -
Truth from a Lie by Margaret Key
SciFier: £97.99Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist... -
The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema by Christian Rogowski (Customer)
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £24.49New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited... -
The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators Bruce Isaacs (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Sydney) 9780190889968
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £31.49In a now-famous interview with Francois Truffaut in 1962, Alfred Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did... -
Cinema's Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement Saige Walton 9789089649515
SciFier: £117.34In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema... -
Lazar Nelio Biedermann 9781529445336
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24"Lazar is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us" Patti Smith"A truly great writer steps onto the stage" Daniel Kehlmann"Propulsive, twisting and... -
Pop Song by Larissa Pham
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt... -
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Teri J. Silvio 9780824876623
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £52.71The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere-in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects... -
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling Jared Gardner 9780804771467
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form... -
Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine Tanya Shilina-Conte (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo) 9780197511329
SciFier: £98.10Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of... -
Fiends of the Eastern Front Omnibus Volume 1 Gerry Finley-Day 9781781087749
RebellionRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.12A luxury omnibus of classic supernatural war stories from the Golden Age of comics - expanded and updated in a definitive edition. Buried deep underground are the remains of Wehrmacht soldier, Hans... -
Cinema's Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement Saige Walton 9781041176978
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema... -
Prime Suspects by Andrew Granville
SciFier: £25.77An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with separate... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory Edward Branigan 9781138849150
SciFier: £56.30The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to... -
Flash Forward by Rose Eveleth
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.56An exploration of potential tomorrows from the host of the massively popular and critically acclaimed podcast Flash Forward Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible)... -
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film Andrew Klevan 9781784991241
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £76.99This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between... -
The Second Substance by Anne Lardeux
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel. A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas... -
The Aesthetics of Comics by David Carrier
SciFier: £33.49From Gary Larson's The Far Side to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they... -
Impossible Moon by Breanna J. McDaniel
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.24A young girl undertakes an impossible trip to the moon, makes friends with the stars, and brings back something priceless in this gentle and lyrically told picture book about family, history, and... -
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn 9780811234825
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.80Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos... -
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria Gabriele Mueller 9781554582259
SciFier: £74.99During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The ""cinema of consensus,"" a term coined to describe the popular and... -
The Museum of Everything Lynne Rae Perkins 9780062986306
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.38Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins invites readers on an imagination-fueled journey through the living museum that surrounds us all. Luminous, in-the-moment, and full of wonder, The Museum of... -
Am I Pretty When I Fly? by Joan Baez
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.35Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her... -
New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781441153432
SciFier: £34.99This title gives a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The relationship... -
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott Adam Barkman 9781498511773
SciFier: £51.99The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the... -
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema: The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited Daniel Barnett (San Francisco Art Institute, USA) 9781501349652
SciFier: £39.99Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of... -
Women Holding Things Maira Kalman 9780062846679
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.58From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving... -
The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (Professor of Film History, Sarah Lawrence College)
RRP: £30.50SciFier: £22.29In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the... -
Starve Acre: 'Beautifully written and triumphantly creepy' Mail on Sunday Andrew Michael Hurley 9781529387308
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a... -
Zombies and Calculus Colin Adams 9780691173207
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.65How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers,... -
Morrison Hotel: Graphic Novel by Leah Moore
Z2 comicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95The Morrison Hotel anthology written by Leah Moore, in collaboration with the surviving members of the legendary rock band and drawn by artists from around the comic book world, will weave the band's... -
Zombies and Calculus Colin Adams 9780691161907
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers,... -
We Are All Me by Jordan Crane
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.91A poetic and lyrical picture book, bursting with colors, about our interdependent world, from cell to self and seed to sky. "With bright artwork and a spare, poetic text, this inviting comic for... -
Metal Hurlant: The Monster Within Moebius 9798893573930
HumanoidsRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.96THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS IS NOW BACK IN PRINT WITH A MONSTROUS THIRD ISSUE.Go ahead. Let out your inner monster. We're all friends here. ... -
The World Doesn't Require You Rion Amilcar Scott 9781800244344
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt, history casts a long shadow over its residents. Among them are David Sherman, a... -
Time Shelter: A Novel Georgi Gospodinov 9781324090953
SciFier: £14.54"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the... -
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU by Caron Beaton-Wells
RRP: £70.99SciFier: £49.38H.G. Wells' gleefully blasphemous classic sci-fi horror tale of human chimeras and deranged scientific curiosity comes to nightmarish life through the brushwork of the legendary comic creator and... -
Time Shelter: A Novel Georgi Gospodinov 9781324095224
SciFier: £12.39"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the...