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Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music Neil Fox (Falmouth University, UK) 9781839023446
SciFier: £91.11In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) 9781350244269
SciFier: £33.99The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national... -
Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory Dr Helena Esser (Independent Scholar, Germany) 9781350433946
SciFier: £30.99Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban... -
The Ghost! As Produced in the Spectre Drama, Popularly Illustrating the Marvellous Optical Illusions Obtained by the Dircksian Phantasmagoria Henry Dircks 9781016811170
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781016811170Author Henry DircksFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare... -
Male Idols and Branding in Chinese Luxury: Fashion, Cosmetics, and Popular Culture Dr Amanda Sikarskie (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350286061
SciFier: £28.99Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau;... -
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781138629219
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also... -
Bertrand Blier by Sue Harris
SciFier: £22.99The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and... -
The Last of Us and Philosophy by Charles Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.51Renowned for brilliant gameplay and world-class narrative, The Last of Us raises enduring philosophical questions. Beautiful, thrilling, and tragic, Ellie's story of survival is as philosophical as... -
The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781793624598
SciFier: £113.99The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus... -
Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media Keith Harris (University of Ohio, Ohio, USA) 9780415996587
SciFier: £46.33Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of... -
The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781793624611
SciFier: £37.99The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on... -
I Was Teleported to a Fantasy World after Being Hit by a Truck and for Some Reason I Was Ridiculously Popular with the Girls There so They Took Me to Their Magical High School... by Fourteenspoons
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798701843699Author FourteenspoonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction: Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film Jeremiah Morelock (Boston College, USA) 9780367720575
SciFier: £38.53With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the Dead-two series of film remakes of popular science fiction stories-this book addresses the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist... -
Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art Doris Berger (Academy Museum in Los Angeles, USA) 9781501315732
SciFier: £40.99Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an... -
Time Shelter: Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023 Georgi Gospodinov 9781474623070
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £5.00WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve... -
The Gospel according to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £19.19In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television shows, literature, and films. Science fiction, he... -
Julien Duvivier Ben McCann 9781526139559
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films... -
Medicinema by Brian Glasser (UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Sci, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Hampstead Campus)
SciFier: £37.81Cinema and medicine have been inextricably linked since the earliest days of film, with doctors appearing in fictional films before criminals, the clergy or even cowboys. But why have healthcare... -
The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero Jess Nevins 9781440854835
SciFier: £63.49Using a broad array of historical and literary sources, this book presents an unprecedented detailed history of the superhero and its development across the course of human history. How has the... -
Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture Thomas Baudinette (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781350330689
SciFier: £30.99Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men... -
Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture Thomas Baudinette (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781350330641
SciFier: £92.99Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men... -
The 1970s and its Legacies in India's Cinemas Priya Joshi (Temple University, USA) 9780415836586
SciFier: £93.00The 1970s was a pivotal decade in the Indian social, cultural, political and economic landscape: the global oil crisis, wars with China and Pakistan in the previous decade, the Bangladesh war of... -
The 1970s and its Legacies in India's Cinemas Priya Joshi (Temple University, USA) 9781138948327
SciFier: £34.19The 1970s was a pivotal decade in the Indian social, cultural, political and economic landscape: the global oil crisis, wars with China and Pakistan in the previous decade, the Bangladesh war of... -
Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality Yogesh Snehi (School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India) 9780367730147
SciFier: £42.86This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an... -
Barbenheimer Syndrome: The Creation of Cultural Spectacle at the Box Office Carolyn Condon Jacobs 9781666968637
SciFier: £97.99In this edited volume, contributors engage with Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) through the lens of the Barbenheimer fad, an online and in-person phenomenon -... -
His Favorite, Vol. 1 Suzuki Tanaka 9781421543512
SuBLimeRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74Awkward Yoshida is hated by all the girls in school for his perceived closeness with hot guy Sato, who uses hanging out with Yoshida as an excuse to turn them all down. If Yoshida is merely an... -
His Favorite, Vol. 5 by Suzuki Tanaka
SuBLimeRRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.71Awkward Yoshida's life got flipped upside down when the hottest guy in school started hanging around him. Sato may have strong feelings for Yoshida, but the girls in school just can't take a hint... -
Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and the Best Imitations by European Authors. to Which Is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation by H. Weber East 9781019499207
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £32.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019499207Author EastFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street... -
The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture Between Asia and America Paul Bowman (Professor of Cultural Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies, Cardiff University) 9780197540343
RRP: £33.49SciFier: £31.49Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts'... -
Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and the Best Imitations by European Authors. to Which Is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation by H. Weber East 9781021262042
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £24.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781021262042Author EastFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street... -
Super Bodies by Jeffrey A. Brown
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.61An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it... -
The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture Between Asia and America Paul Bowman (Professor of Cultural Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies, Cardiff University) 9780197540336
RRP: £110.00SciFier: £93.99Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts'... -
The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses Debra Gordon Zaslow 9781958972878
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972878Author Debra Gordon ZaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: £43.73Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Popular Visual Shows 1800-1914: Picturegoing from Peep Shows to Film Joe Kember (Professor of Media, Professor of Media, University of Exeter) 9780192849861
RRP: £113.00SciFier: £105.79This book tells the story of the growth of picturegoing as a popular habit between 1800 and 1914. Encouraged by urbanisation and changes in transportation, education, and leisure patterns, the... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts Blake Scott Ball (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of North Alabama) 9780197836439
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.84Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through... -
DRACULA by Bram Stoker by Bram Stoker
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783755100300Author Bram StokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint GopublishPublisher... -
Unicorn Coloring Book For Kids Ages 4-8 by Art Books
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915100115Author Art BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint GopublishPublisher... -
The Subversive Screen by Brian E. Birdnow
SciFier: £46.99A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "Golden Age" of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema. ... -
Film Firsts by Ethan Alter
SciFier: £53.49This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future. ...