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Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $19.63Achingly human auto-bio comics that extract big laughs from the small moments. Cartoonist Keiler Roberts quit making comics. Or did she? Preparing to Bite, her latest collection of all-new,... -
Horror Noir by Paul Meehan
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's most popular genres: horror and film noir. The influence of 1930s- and 1940s-era horror films on... -
Scripting Genocide: The Wannsee Conference on Television, 1960-2022 Nicholas K. Johnson 9783111578606
RRP: $63.25SciFier: $44.26Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German artists, writers, and filmmakers since 1960. Almost... -
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2022 Kate Beaton 9781787330139
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $27.16*WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARDS FOR BEST MEMOIR AND BEST WRITER/ARTIST*'A vast and complex tapestry that captures the humanity of people... it shimmers with grace'ALISON BECHDEL, author of FUN... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564968
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $127.17There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single... -
3D Game Programming All in One, Third Edition Kenneth Finney (UCLA) 9781435457447
SciFier: $121.063D GAME PROGRAMMING ALL IN ONE, THIRD EDITION is perfect for anyone interested in learning the skills and processes involved in making 3D games. This new edition of the bestselling book shows you how... -
Perspective in Action by D Chelsea
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $18.21Using the graphic novel format, Perspective in Action features 33 easy-to-follow demonstrations to teach the major discoveries in perspective. Author and artist David Chelsea takes readers through... -
Chintz: Indian Cotton Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection Avalon Fotheringham 9781788843454
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $59.88Chintz explores the historic importance of Indian printed and painted cotton textiles, drawing on the Karun Thakar Collection. Assembled over thirty years, the collection comprises over two hundred... -
Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative by Will Eisner
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $23.62Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner's... -
Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions by Karen Fricker
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a... -
Macbeth by K. Briggs
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.01When three witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's ambitions lead to an... -
Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films: The Intersection of Geography, Ecology, and Slow Cinema Clara Orban 9781793645661
SciFier: $47.25Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Through a close examination of Tarr's... -
Caligari's Children by S. Prawer
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $19.79"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally... -
Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography Laurence Etling, 9781476690988
SciFier: $94.51This richly detailed examination of two branches of American entertainment focuses on the various ways that radio stations and air personalities have been depicted in motion pictures, from 1926's The... -
Documentaries and China's National Image Chen Yi 9781032315065
SciFier: $50.79Emphasizing 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... -
The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton 9781844083572
SciFier: $25.35In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy newEngland a fearsome double foreshadowsthe fate of a rich young man; a married... -
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Tins Alex Shearer 9780330431910 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.72SciFier: $2.93Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with an eccentric hobby: tin collecting. He likes the lucky dip aspect of buying tins that have their labels missing - after all, you never know what might be inside... -
Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests Tom Shales 9780316295062
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $22.34When 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: $139.00SciFier: $116.89Romanian 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: $13.89SciFier: $10.20Children'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... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564951
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $31.96There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146938
SciFier: $52.65Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
MOD by Richard Weight
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $16.11Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.Mod began life... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146945
SciFier: $157.06Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
Never Let Me Go: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Kazuo Ishiguro 9780571390861
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $21.20THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY'Masterly.' Sunday Times'A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman.' MARGARET ATWOOD'A page-turner and a... -
What's the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay: An Essential Guide for Directors and Writer-Directors Peter Markham (Former Head of Directing, AFI Conservatory, USA) 9780367415877
SciFier: $52.06A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand... -
Blake & Mortimer 20 - The Septimus Wave Jean Dufaux 9781849182423
CinebookRRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34It'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: $154.79Characters 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: $95.22SciFier: $70.31Videogames 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: $109.10Film 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: $26.40SciFier: $22.92In 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: $95.20Always 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: $136.90Joining 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
SciFier: $51.14Digital 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: $65.68SciFier: $60.45This 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: $40.30SciFier: $34.49American 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: $34.15The 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: $129.26In 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: $40.30What 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: $27.79SciFier: $26.05This 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...