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The Gods of Vice: The Vengeance Trilogy, Book Two Devin Madson 9780356515311
OrbitSciFier: $38.93Two emperors. One empire.The war for the Crimson Throne has split Kisia. In the north Otako supporters rally around their champion, but Katashi Otako wants only vengeance. Caught in the middle, Hana... -
Transnational Cinema and Ideology: Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths Milja Radovic 9781138546318
SciFier: $94.62Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of 'transnational' rather than national cinema. This book is... -
Robert Kirkman: Conversations Terrence R. Wandtke 9781496834829
RRP: $57.00SciFier: $36.21Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564968
RRP: $235.60SciFier: $173.83There 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... -
Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema Julia Erhart 9781474440516
SciFier: $176.72A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman... -
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure Hilary Radner 9780415905404
SciFier: $51.78Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444149
RRP: $39.88SciFier: $38.61As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Our Explorers Margerie Maria Kahlenberg (-) 9789811289040
SciFier: $13.70This book brings together the stories of 12 people whose curiosity led them to explore the expanse of the universe, the depths of the oceans or the complex realms of scientific knowledge. Who was the... -
Imaging the Divine by Lloyd Baugh, S.J.
SciFier: $77.88Baugh traces the development of the Jesus-film and through critical film and theological analysis show us the limitations of this genre. Baugh analyzes several important and often prize-winning films... -
Mediated Associations: Cinematic Dimensions of Social Theory Daniel O'Connor 9780773525498 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.38SciFier: $7.87Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic objects. O'Connor argues that social theory must... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564951
RRP: $56.98SciFier: $43.68There 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 9781350146945
SciFier: $214.68Few 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... -
The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers David C. Lane 9781978807488
RRP: $228.00SciFier: $185.73The Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an accessible writing style, sociologist Dave Lane... -
We Cry for Blood: The Reborn Empire, Book Three Devin Madson 9780356514116
OrbitRRP: $20.88SciFier: $15.14The empire has fallen and another rises in its place in the action-packed continuation of Devin Madson's sweeping epic fantasy quartet.Ambition and schemes have left the Kisian Empire in ashes... -
Mothsblood Lynn D. Jung 9781529972078
RRP: $38.00SciFier: $29.05WELCOME TO UNIVERSITE MEURDRAC.HOME TO BRILLIANT ALCHEMISTS.THE HEART OF AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME.Step into the heart of Paris with this lush and thrilling dark academia fantasy that follows a young... -
The Anarchist Cinema by James Newton (University of Kent, UK)
RRP: $146.21SciFier: $135.58The Anarchist Cinema examines the complex relationships that exist between anarchist theory and film. No longer hidden in obscure corners of cinematic culture, anarchy is a theme that has traversed... -
Henry V: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat) J A Henderson 9780008179489
RRP: $15.20SciFier: $14.08Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Relive Shakespeare's epic tale of courage and heroism in this powerful retelling by Jan-Andrew Henderson. Is... -
Depth of Field Vol. 1 by Enjo
Digital MangaRRP: $27.55SciFier: $19.30Hey, Kon-chan. Why don't we have sex? One day, in his secret after-school spot on the roof, Hayakawa met Konno. Some called Konno "hard toapproach," "scary," or "intimidating," but whenever he... -
Making Movies Sidney Lumet 9780747527671
RRP: $28.48SciFier: $22.71How is a movie made and what exactly does a director do? This book attempts to illuminate every circumstance, internal and external, emotional and technical, involved in the arduous process that... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9781349303038
SciFier: $176.68Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition Christopher Baswell 9781138989634
RRP: $47.48SciFier: $44.82Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "The Passing of Arthur", a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986. No Arthurian story... -
Resilient Allen Stroud 9781787587151
RRP: $38.00SciFier: $26.83"Resilient is one of those incredibly rare things - a sequel that actually improves on its predecessor. Stroud presents us with a complex, multifaceted science-fiction experience that offers a deeply... -
An Atlas of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's World David Day 9780753729373
RRP: $32.28SciFier: $22.78This lavish, colour atlas is a complete guide to the weird and wonderful geography of Tolkien's world. Packed with full page maps and illustrations of events in the annals of Middle-earth, it is the... -
The Comedy of Errors by Tim Knapman
SciFier: $16.32Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level A hilarious retelling of one of Shakespeare's silliest comedies. With two sets of identical twins, there's bound... -
Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo by Inela Selimovic
SciFier: $155.78This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo. Such tensions,... -
Our Explorers Margerie Maria Kahlenberg (-) 9789811289033
RRP: $18.98SciFier: $18.66This book brings together the stories of 12 people whose curiosity led them to explore the expanse of the universe, the depths of the oceans or the complex realms of scientific knowledge. Who was the... -
African Prints by Shirley Friedland
RRP: $43.68SciFier: $33.65This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
SciFier: $176.68Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Narrative Comprehension and Film Edward Branigan 9780415075121
RRP: $79.78SciFier: $73.21Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of... -
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781441198310
SciFier: $81.68Since the death of the French film director Eric Rohmer in 2010, interest in his work has reignited. Known as the last of the established directors in the French New Wave, Rohmer took complete... -
The American Abroad: The Imperial Gaze in Postwar Hollywood Cinema Dr. Anna Cooper (University of Arizona, USA) 9781501391729
SciFier: $60.78Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies, and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146938
SciFier: $71.97Few 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... -
Gifts Ursula K. Le Guin 9781399637428
GollanczRRP: $20.88SciFier: $15.14'She's showing no signs of losing her brilliance. She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters... GIFTS has the simplicity of fairy tale and the power of... -
Last of the Independents by Matt Fraction
Image ComicsRRP: $30.38SciFier: $22.06A bank in the middle of nowhere. A crew with nothing to lose. And the haul of a lifetime too big to just disappear.This busted-knuckles crime thriller by MATT FRACTION and KIERON DWYER returns to... -
Winter World A.G. Riddle 9781789543223
RRP: $18.98SciFier: $14.71'Apocalyptic sci-fi at its best... The action is anything but frozen' DAILY MAIL. WITHIN THREE MONTHS, ICE WILL COVER THE EARTH, AND LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL END. It was the last thing we... -
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $57.00SciFier: $43.70The definitive edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror, introduced by Joe Hill, annotated by Edgar-winner Leslie S. Klinger and illustrated with... -
Resilient Allen Stroud 9781787587144
RRP: $18.91SciFier: $13.91"Resilient is one of those incredibly rare things - a sequel that actually improves on its predecessor. Stroud presents us with a complex, multifaceted science-fiction experience that offers a deeply... -
Emajen Ashley Ledigo 9781785356810
RRP: $13.28SciFier: $10.41Emajen is a world, similar to Earth. Doodland is a world where all the sketches that human beings doodle spring to life. Crevitos is a cruel and beautiful Creation, with multi-world domination and... -
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 54 Robert M. Overstreet 9781603606349
RRP: $75.98SciFier: $54.97Inside its cover, this edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 30th anniversaries of Lady Death and Shi, provides a... -
Horrible Prettiness by Robert C. Allen
RRP: $75.91SciFier: $60.95Robert 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...