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The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Martin Lister 9780415535298
SciFier: $64.40This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially... -
Comics Studies: A Guidebook Charles Hatfield 9780813591421
SciFier: $110.25Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips,... -
Comics Studies: A Guidebook Charles Hatfield 9780813591414
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $38.13Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips,... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: $59.35While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s,... -
Vocal Tracks by Jacob Smith
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $39.60This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively... -
One-Handed Histories by John R Burger
SciFier: $51.14Explore the titillating world of gay male video pornography in One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography. Author John Burger has compiled years of research on gay male... -
Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 Robert Murphy 9780415076845
SciFier: $52.35Looks at popular rather than art films - the films people wanted to see - contemporary cultural approachAuthor has contributed to Screen, Sight and Sound, Time Out and several books on cinema... -
Caroline Charles by Caroline Charles
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $49.90"Miss Caroline Charles, aged 22 - youngest of the English designers whose fashions have captured New York - returns there to show her Spring collection. She is dark, beautiful and frail, with a small... -
The Air War Adrian Tchaikovsky 9781529050400
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.94The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.An empress demands her birthright . . . All is in turmoil as the world moves... -
EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game Prof Raiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 9781501375347
SciFier: $156.29If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069451
SciFier: $31.96Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069444
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing Professor Kim Wilkins (Professor, University of Queensland, Australia) 9781350359253
SciFier: $79.22In the 21st century, the rapid advance of technology and the existential threat of climate breakdown mean the real world increasingly resembles something out of fiction, filled with ambiguity and... -
Fashion Design and Product Development Harold Carr 9780632028931
RRP: $45.86SciFier: $43.08This book explains fashion design and product development as a total, integrated process whose function is to market a continuous stream of new clothes at a profit. It explores materials,... -
Get the Job in the Entertainment Industry: A Practical Guide for Designers, Technicians, and Stage Managers Kristina Tollefson (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA) 9781350103788
SciFier: $45.12Looking for a job in the theatre and entertainment industry can be daunting, especially when you are newly entering the work market. How do you take the skills and experience acquired through study... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781784991470
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $108.41This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art... -
Lost Illusions by David Cook
RRP: $56.99SciFier: $50.65The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but... -
The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India: 1960-1997 Sudha Tiwari (UPES, Dehradun, India) 9781032371276
RRP: $55.59SciFier: $53.56This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices articulating themselves as cultural policy. It... -
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $12.05Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.The days of peace are over . . .The Lowlands' city states... -
Land of Wolves by TJ Turner
RRP: $19.39SciFier: $17.35Multiple-Award-Winning Author of Historical Fiction Vigilante Justice from the hills of western Tennessee to the streets of New York City to the plains of the Lakota SiouxLand of Wolves finds Joseph... -
The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels by Dr. Mark Kretzschmar (University of Wyoming, USA)
SciFier: $136.21Visual novels (VNs), a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have increased in popularity among Western audiences in... -
Spy in a Little Black Dress by Maxine Kenneth
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $19.79Jackie's CIA boss, Allen Dulles, has given her a new assignment: under cover as a tourist, she will go to Havana, Cuba and ascertain the intentions of a young revolutionary opposed to the dictatorial... -
The Gods Must Burn T.R. Moore 9781837865994
RebellionRRP: $26.40SciFier: $18.51War hero Basuin doesn't know what to believe in anymore. All Basuin knows is life as an army captain and the pain, loss, and disgrace it has brought him. Demoted and humiliated by his legion... -
Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film David L. Boushey (Fight Director, USA) 9780367637729
SciFier: $47.30In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight director David L. Boushey writes about his life,... -
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell 9781138305854
SciFier: $66.80Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address,... -
The Holker Album by Ariane Fennetaux
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $54.84In 1751, John Holker (1719-1786), an English textile manufacturer exiled in France, undertook an industrial espionage mission to England to collect samples of English textiles on behalf of the French... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: $63.19Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen Ronie Parciack 9780367875183
SciFier: $59.58The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in... -
Hollywood in the Neighborhood by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65"Hollywood in the Neighborhood" presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland - the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film... -
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy: Architecture, Innovation, Labour, Politics, 1930-60 Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781839025341
SciFier: $135.15This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime... -
mommartzfilm 1964-2020 by Gregor Jansen
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $51.42The work of the experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz (*1934) has been shaking up the art and film community for more than 50 years. Ever since he embarked on his career as an artist in the 1960s,... -
Digital Fashion Innovations: Advances in Design, Simulation, and Industry Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem (Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Fashion Metropolitan University, UK) 9781032207278
RRP: $101.46SciFier: $101.33Digitalisation is becoming a standard practice in the fashion industry. Innovation in digital fashion is not just limited to computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM), rather it runs... -
Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children's Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games Sara Grimes 9781442615564
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.60Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children's commercial digital play spaces over the past two decades. It argues that children's... -
Esports Business Management by David P. Hedlund
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $99.33Esports have rapidly expanded from a pastime undertaken by casual players to one of the largest segments of the entertainment industry-one in which hundreds of millions of people play and compete... -
Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation Jan McMillen 9780415755818
SciFier: $60.78All contributors have international reputations as gambling scholarsNo other book develops comparative historical cultural analysis of gambling.International perspectives including UK, Australia,... -
K-pop Innovation: The Future Of Korean Innovation That Took The World By Storm by Jangwoo Lee (Kyungpook National University, South Korea)
RRP: $76.45SciFier: $69.93K-pop's remarkable global popularity is no coincidence. Its success cannot be attributed to a talented individual or a set of favourable government policies but is instead the result of continuous... -
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Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $50.03SciFier: $1.79This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781526166999
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $21.50This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery,... -
Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood by Robert Dance
RRP: $69.50SciFier: $54.77Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood brings some of the greatest portraits taken by leading Hollywood portrait photographers during the motion picture industry's golden years of 1920 to 1960... -
Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games Ian Bogost 9780415996600
SciFier: $61.99Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the...