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The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance Artel Great 9781978838147
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39The Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians-Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen... -
Adapting Sex on Screen: The Cinematic Biographies of Lulu, La Ronde and Venus in Furs Julian Preece (Swansea University, UK) 9781350538139
SciFier: £96.63Tracing the adaptation histories of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, and Frank Wedekind's play Lulu, Julian Preece explores how these works were... -
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde Joan Hawkins 9780816634149
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Explores what horror movies tell us about issues of taste.Even before Jean-Luc Godard and other members of the French New Wave championed Hollywood B movies, aesthetes and cineasts relished the raw... -
On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft by Barbara Morgan
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops,... -
Nine by Zach Hines
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.48In this twisted Lauren Oliver-meets-A.S. King debut, Julian has just eight more lives to burn in order to uncover a brutal secret.In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231165525
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £57.08From Slacker (1991) to The School of Rock (2003), from Before Sunrise (1995) to Before Sunset (2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with... -
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities Ellie Tomsett (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781350302280
SciFier: £92.99What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy... -
African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media Matthias Krings 9780253016256
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of... -
African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media Matthias Krings 9780253016294
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of... -
Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City Sabina Andron 9781032597515
SciFier: £40.26This book explores the ownersheir authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city.Includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface... -
Authorship in Film Adaptation by Jack Boozer
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.45Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central... -
Surrealism and Cinema Michael Richardson 9781845202262
SciFier: £31.99Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the critical literature,... -
Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset Leigh Summers 9781859735107
SciFier: £38.99Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired more passionate debate than any other article of clothing. As a means of body... -
More Than This Patrick Ness 9781406350487
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life - or perhaps afterlife - of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.A boy... -
Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History, and Empire Professor Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA) 9781441167750
SciFier: £103.99Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976828
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.49Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography Jonas Larsen 9781780763323
SciFier: £25.45Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate... -
Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory Allen Feldman 9780226277332
SciFier: £26.74In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric,... -
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion by Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £113.99Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices... -
You've Reached Sam: A Heartbreaking YA Romance with a Touch of Magic Dustin Thao 9781035006205
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Filled with the heartache of first love and loss, plus a touch of magic, Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam is an emotional romance, with a powerful story about knowing when to say goodbye.'Have your... -
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities by Eva Rueschmann
SciFier: £22.49In recent decades the experiences and political struggles of immigrants, exiles, and sojourners have inspired some of the most provocative feature films and documentaries in world cinema. These have... -
Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture Mark Seltzer 9780415914819
SciFier: £37.66In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political... -
Horrible Prettiness by Robert C. Allen
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £32.08Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe... -
Peter Greenaway by Vernon Gras
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably... -
The Book of Splendor by Frances Sherwood
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £19.59Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled... -
The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion Otto Von Busch (Parsons School of Design, USA) 9781350242814
SciFier: £34.99What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of its... -
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: Politics, Culture, and Globalization J. Daccache 9781349450565
SciFier: £46.99Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet... -
Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History, and Empire Professor Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA) 9781441198075
SciFier: £31.99Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains... -
Playing with the Guys by Marc A. Ouellette
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This... -
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781472569417
SciFier: £97.99This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976859
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £15.47Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 9780816695744
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical... -
Winter of the Gods Jordanna Max Brodsky 9780356507279
OrbitSciFier: £23.49Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. Winter in New York: snow falls, lights twinkle, and the goddess Artemis prowls the streets looking for prey. But when a dead body is... -
The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance Artel Great 9781978838130
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.59The Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians-Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen... -
My Death Lisa Tuttle 9781529979015
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.95A struggling writer hits on the subject for her next book: a biography of an overlooked female artist. But her literary detective work soon leads to bizarre, unnerving twists...The book will be about... -
Screen Adaptations: The Tempest: A close study of the relationship between text and film Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9780713679106
SciFier: £27.99Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on... -
Tool of War Paolo Bacigalupi 9780316220811
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.74From Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi comes the third companion novel in the dystopic Ship Breaker universe. Set in a future swamped by rising seas, depleted... -
Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy Thomas Deane Tucker 9781628928419
SciFier: £40.99Terrence Malick's four feature films have been celebrated by critics and adored as instant classics among film aficionados, but the body of critical literature devoted to them has remained... -
David Cronenberg: Interviews David Schwartz 9781496832252
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly-with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects-to his... -
Sally Potter Catherine Fowler 9780252075766
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78This survey of Sally Potter's work explores her cinematic development from the feminist reworking of La Boheme in Thriller to the provocative contemplation of romantic relationships after 9/11 in Yes...