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Facing Blackness by Ashley Clark
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £9.97"In Facing Blackness, Ashley Clark traces the contours of Bamboozled, guiding readers through Lee's intricate representation of race, politics, and popular culture. Clark moves beyond straightforward... -
The Horror Spoofs of Abbott and Costello: A Critical Assessment of the Comedy Team's Monster Films Jeffrey S. Miller 9780786419227
SciFier: £18.82While Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are more famously known for their straight comedy routines, they did make a number of films in which horror played a crucial role. The first part of this critical... -
Pop Art and Beyond by Mona Hadler (Brooklyn College and City University of New York, USA)
SciFier: £30.99Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a... -
Toy Story by Tom Kemper
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The first computer-generated animated feature film, Toy Story (1995) sustains a dynamic vitality that proved instantly appealing to audiences of all ages. Like the great Pop Artists, Pixar Studios... -
Breaking the Frames by Marc Singer
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical... -
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King by Rebecca Frost
SciFier: £33.99The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines over thirty of King's works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the... -
The A to Z of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof
SciFier: £51.99In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse... -
Nelson Pereira dos Santos by Darlene J. Sadlier
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America's most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos... -
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Stories Joanna Scott 9780316498746
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37Joanna Scott, author of ten critically acclaimed novels, now turns her "incandescent imagination" (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across... -
Infernal Mark de Jager 9781785033346 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £3.44A daring new voice in fantasy, with an anti-hero like no other Stratus wakes alone, with no memory of his past. All he knows is his name and that he is not human. Possessing immense strength,... -
The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £52.99This volume can rightfully be called "a film school in a single book." Investigating and analyzing the elements and concepts of motion picture creation, this book looks closely at 25 films that... -
Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic Lizelle Bisschoff 9780415425681
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £27.10Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This book provides... -
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 9781847493217
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.95The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with... -
Superman: The Art and Making of the Film James Gunn 9781419780752
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £23.53James Gunn's Superman marks the triumphant theatrical return of Smallville's favorite son, kicking off a bold new era of DC storytelling under the umbrella of DC Studios. In Superman: The Art and... -
Dishonored - The Corroded Man Adam Christopher 9781783293049
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the assassin known as Daud. Faced with the possibility that their deadliest foe has returned, Emily and Corvo... -
Kurt Kren by Nicky Hamlyn
SciFier: £55.74Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films-often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams-have influenced... -
Alan Moore by Annalisa Di Liddo
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £14.78Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books... -
Space and Beyond by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: £78.49Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about the true nature of space, and critical reconsiderations of... -
The Solaris Effect by Steven Dillon
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's ... -
Cinema at the Margins Wheeler Dixon 9780857281869
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £69.98More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz's "Casablanca" (1942) or Victor Fleming's "Gone With The Wind" (1939), are representing the entire film output of an era, to a new... -
Sherlock Holmes - Cry of the Innocents by Cavan Scott
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87A mysterious Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street, only to utter the words 'if corpe' before dropping dead. Though the man's death is attributed to cholera, when news of a similar case... -
Film History and Screen Culture in and beyond Greater China Lin Feng (University of Leicester) 9781032458151
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten... -
Classic Monsters, Modern Art: 20th Century Horror in 21st Century Illustration Anthony Taylor 9798886637366
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £22.35What we now know as horror was born on a rainy night in 1816, when a candle-lit writing contest between famous friends spawned Frankenstein... and eventually grew into an international genre and film... -
Directory of World Cinema: France by Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)
SciFier: £48.09Artistic, intellectual and appreciably avant-garde, the French film industry has, perhaps more than any other national cinema, been perennially at the centre of international filmmaking. With its... -
The Child in Spanish Cinema Sarah Wright 9780719090523
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child... -
Stranger Than Paradise by Jamie Sexton
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and... -
Roll Again by Jon Stone
RRP: £8.00SciFier: £6.55"This game takes a minute to play - since you should never spend longer than a minute in a library on fire." Looking for a different kind of challenge? Here's a collection of rules and instructions -... -
Biofictions: Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology Lejla Kucukalic 9780367676865
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.48Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781442646155
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £36.11In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices... -
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward I.N.J. Culbard 9781910593950
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities. Only the patient's final visitor, family physician... -
Blade Runner 2029 Vol. 2: Echoes Mike Johnson 9781787735972
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97Blade Runner Ash becomes the hunted when the Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his death cult to hunt her down and kill her. Now, to protect those she loves, Ash must take to the rain-soaked streets... -
Judge Dredd: Control Chris Weston 9781781087770
RebellionRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46The psychopathic SJS Judge Pin murders officers that fall short of her standards, and Judge Dredd is in her sights in this collection of stories featuring flesh-eating Kleggs, hijacking ape gangs and... -
Refocus: the Films of Jane Campion by Alexia Bowler
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Explores the detail of Jane Campion's film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and her contribution to feminist filmmaking Includes multiple approaches consolidated... -
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition Gretchen Schultz 9780691191416
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59A new collection of subversive French fairy talesThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live... -
The Art and Making of Sid Meier's Civilization VII by Rick Barba
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £33.29The Art and Making of Sid Meier's Civilization VII is an incredible recording of the development and design behind the latest iteration of one of the most significant turn-based strategy games in... -
Hot or Not Jessica Campbell 9781770468276
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24A hilarious send-up of the art world s patriarchy. The history of twentieth century art is filled with men, but one key component has always been missing: Which of these men are boneable? And which... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781487520267
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices... -
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659287
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes-now twenty-six... -
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £13.44'What begins as one woman's symphony of magic and loss soon unravels, stone by stone, secret by secret until we're left with nothing less than the brutal, turbulent, wild and haunted history of... -
A Spy Like Me (Double O, Book 2) Kim Sherwood 9780008495473
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.25The stunning new spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open! Six days. A bomb goes off at the BBC. The country is in chaos, but this is...