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Facing Blackness by Ashley Clark
RRP: $25.44SciFier: $21.14"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: $39.90While 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... -
P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations Brian Taves 9780786422883
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Beloved British humorist P.G. Wodehouse produced a wealth of literature in his lengthy career, contributing novels, short stories, plays, lyrics and essays to the canon of comic writing. His work... -
Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century Dr. Matthew Benjamin Cole 9780472057740
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $59.32After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian... -
Dickens on Screen John Glavin (Georgetown University, Washington DC) 9780521001243
SciFier: $76.30Television and film, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. It is not merely that millions of people feel comfortable deploying the... -
Toy Story by Tom Kemper
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83The 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: $59.34SciFier: $47.83A 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: $72.06The 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... -
Dishonored - The Corroded Man Adam Christopher 9781783293049
Titan BooksRRP: $16.94SciFier: $12.44A 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: $118.17Kurt 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: $49.82SciFier: $31.33Eclectic 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: $166.40Although 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: $46.62SciFier: $37.95What 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: $148.40SciFier: $148.36More 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: $16.94SciFier: $12.44A 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
SciFier: $85.35Bringing 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: $67.84SciFier: $47.38What 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... -
The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: $112.34This 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: $78.42SciFier: $57.45Women 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: $12.70SciFier: $12.61The 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: $74.20SciFier: $49.88James 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... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781487520267
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $44.92In 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... -
A Spy Like Me (Double O, Book 2) Kim Sherwood 9780008495473 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $6.13The stunning new spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open! *A Finalist for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Crime Book of the Year* ... -
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain Margaret E. Boyle 9781442646155
RRP: $95.40SciFier: $76.55In 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 Child in Spanish Cinema Sarah Wright 9781784993795
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $38.35In 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... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520276741
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $156.86Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
RIN-NE, Vol. 20 by Rumiko Takahashi
Viz MediaSciFier: $16.09Ever since a strange encounter when she was a child, Sakura Mamiya has had the power to see ghosts. Now in high school, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! When her mysterious classmate... -
Biofictions: Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology Lejla Kucukalic 9780367676759
SciFier: $129.45Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new... -
Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film Lee Grieveson 9781845203306
SciFier: $61.46The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather... -
The Differentiation of Modernism by Professor Larson Powell (Customer)
SciFier: $235.30The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980). After 1945, the purist... -
Pedro Paramo: Edicion conmemorativa 70 anos: Pedro Paramo: 70 Year Commemorative Edition (Spanish Edition) Juan Rulfo 9788410290105
RRP: $42.29SciFier: $29.87"Pedro Paramo is one of the best novels of Spanish-language literature, and even of literature." -Jorge Luis Borges Juan Preciado makes a promise to his dying mother that he will travel to the... -
All the Young Queers: 16-24 Years Nathan Evans 9781912620319
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.71Following on from One Last Song-Evans' debut novella about queer elders-his debut short story collection journeys the other end of the rainbow spectrum, and will be published in February 2025 to mark... -
John Wayne: Actor, Artist, Hero Richard D. McGhee 9780786407521
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60After the death of Marion Morrison, known as John Wayne, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter said that Wayne "was bigger than life. In an age of few heroes, he was the genuine article. But he was more... -
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659287
Titan BooksRRP: $19.06SciFier: $13.67The 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... -
Directory of World Cinema: France by Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)
SciFier: $101.95Artistic, 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: $180.20SciFier: $163.22In 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... -
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History Nathalia Holt 9780316439145
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $24.61From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an... -
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock David Sterritt 9780231223591
SciFier: $186.69Long renowned as the "master of suspense," Alfred Hitchcock is one of the rare filmmakers to achieve both a critical reputation for cinematic artistry and enduring popularity with everyday moviegoers... -
Stranger Than Paradise by Jamie Sexton
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $25.57A 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: $16.96SciFier: $13.89"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 -...