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Shocking Cinema of the 70s Julian Petley (Brunel University London, UK) 9781350194489
SciFier: £31.99This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various 'difficult' subjects, have proved to be controversial in one... -
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2--Battle Tendency, Vol. 4 Hirohiko Araki 9781421578859
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humor and frenetic battles. A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 9780785847151
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Dive into a gothic world of obsession, excess, and debauchery with this stunning edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.Artist Basil Hallward has sent a gift. A portrait that perfectly... -
Entangled Graham Hancock 9780099532828
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know it. But theirs is no ordinary alliance, for these two women live at... -
The Rage Vol. 1: Zombie Generation by Pierre Boisserie
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45A disturbing and controversial new take on the zombie genre!A new pandemic virus, a mutated form of rabies, spreads throughout the world. It affects only children, turning them into mindless, violent... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810841826
SciFier: £92.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University) 9780190244613
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £33.49Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Donald Spoto 9780099301110
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.91MARILYN MONROE is the most celebrated and controversial female icon of the 20th century. At last, Donald Spoto has produced an acclaimed biography worthy of this extraordinary and unforgettable star... -
Hollywood's Tennessee by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.34No American dramatist has had more plays adapted than Tennessee Williams, and few modern dramatists have witnessed as much controversy during the adaptation process. His Hollywood legacy, captured... -
Father of the Comic Strip by David Kunzle
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.05Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman,... -
Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781617037818
SciFier: £90.99In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1--Phantom Blood, Vol. 2 Hirohiko Araki 9781421578804
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82The legendary Shonen Jump series, now available in English for the first time, in a deluxe edition featuring color pages and newly drawn cover art! JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga... -
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 2--Battle Tendency, Vol. 1 Hirohiko Araki 9781421578828
Viz MediaRRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.24JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humor and frenetic battles. A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending... -
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1--Phantom Blood, Vol. 3 Hirohiko Araki 9781421578811
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82The legendary Shonen Jump series, now available in English for the first time, in a deluxe edition featuring color pages and newly drawn cover art. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga... -
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1--Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 by Hirohiko Araki
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12The legendary Shonen Jump series, now available in English for the first time, in a deluxe edition featuring color pages and newly drawn cover art! JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga... -
Haring Alexandra Kolossa 9783836530491
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £12.00One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique,... -
The Strawberry Girl by Lisa Stromme
SciFier: £13.33Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as 'The Strawberry Girl'.When Johanne becomes a maid for... -
Jean-Luc Godard by David Sterritt
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Some thirty years ago filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard told critic Gene Youngblood, I am trying to change the world. He has pursued his revolution in works ranging from the explosive Breathless to the... -
Baz Luhrmann Pam Cook 9781844571581
SciFier: £37.88This is the first major book-length study of the work of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, one of the most exciting and controversial personalities working in World Cinema today. Luhrmann's... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822338
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.89Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: £37.99Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Darkness Visible by Nicholas Tucker
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes - and who, or what, is Dust?Pullman's... -
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... -
Repicturing the Second World War by Michael Paris
SciFier: £92.99Films and television dramas about the Second World War have always been popular. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this collection offers challenging, sometimes controversial, insights... -
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order - Edge Of Victory Rebirth by Greg Keyes
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.64The STAR WARS epic continues its dazzling space odyssey in The New Jedi Order - as Luke and Mara, Leia and Han and others battle the mighty enemy from beyond the galactic rim. The brutal Yuuzhan Vong... -
The A to Z of Horror Cinema by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: £52.99Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to... -
Art Labor, Sex Politics by Siona Wilson
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £78.49Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Spike Lee by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: £63.49Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have... -
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks Robert L. Gambone 9781617037160
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His... -
World Film Locations: Prague by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The... -
Scandinavian Blue by Jack Stevenson
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61This book traces the development of modern Scandinavian erotic cinema as it evolved in Denmark and Sweden, from the gentle Swedish naturalist films, starting with One Summer of Happiness in the... -
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Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide David Orrell 9781848312159 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.41A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong. With illustrations from Borin Van Loon. Part of the internationally-recognised... -
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 9780141188935
SciFier: £10.99A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the... -
Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema Ismail Xavier 9780816626779
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Examines the centrality of Cinema Novo to filmmaking in Brazil."A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch 9780190244606
RRP: £115.00SciFier: £101.49Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk... -
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.89The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230104082
SciFier: £46.99Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from... -
Wine of Angels, The by Phil Rickman
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50THE FIRST IN THE INCREDIBLE MERRILY WATKINS SERIESMerrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest. Cosy? I don't think so...The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a...