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Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.89In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after... -
The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch Jacqueline Wilson 9780552557825
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.78A hand reached out and patted Dinah on the shoulder. A large scaly hand with a spiked thumb!On a school trip to see the dinosaurs in the museum, everyone in the class has a packed lunch. Everyone,... -
The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968126
SciFier: £39.39This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film... -
Philly Sports by Ryan K. Anderson
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £17.12Philadelphia sports-anchored by the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies, and 76ers- have a long, and sometimes tortured, history. Philly fans have booed more than their share and have earned a reputation as... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Seven Rachel Smythe 9781911720348
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.88Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine Rachel Smythe 9781911720928
SciFier: £18.14"The Underworld has a queen!"Persephone and Hades are finally reunited when the banished goddess of spring returns to the Underworld to claim her rightful place as queen. Now that Hades and... -
Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages Daniel T. Kline 9781138548572
SciFier: £49.63Digital gaming's cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming... -
Indeh by Ethan Hawke
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla... -
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Philip K Dick
GollanczRRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch 9780190244606
SciFier: £133.70Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk... -
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences Miriam Ross 9781137378569
SciFier: £46.993D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory... -
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences Miriam Ross 9781349478330
SciFier: £46.993D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory... -
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word Stephen Hutchings 9780415306676
SciFier: £153.63Highlights a number of key moments in the unfolding of the literature-camera media relationshipAlso of interest to scholars and students of film studiesAbout the AuthorStephen Hutchings is Professor... -
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga by Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake (Pomona College, USA)
SciFier: £93.49This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga... -
Moon Falling Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £12.81With tales from myth, folklore and modern writers, Moon Falling Short stories brings a potent mix of superstition and belief that reaches back to the gods of Babylon, Ancient Egypt and Greece... -
Henry Green by Peter Wolfe
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918897
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine Rachel Smythe 9781911720911
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.54"The Underworld has a queen!"Persephone and Hades are finally reunited when the banished goddess of spring returns to the Underworld to claim her rightful place as queen. Now that Hades and... -
Narrow Rooms Sungmin Choi 9781770468528
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96A romantic thriller exploring the dark corners of human desire and isolation with quiet eeriness. Is a fresh start truly possible? Or will society s strictures and your own impulses keep re-creating... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185882
SciFier: £81.12Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively... -
Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages Daniel T. Kline 9780415630917
SciFier: £154.33Digital gaming's cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming... -
The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook Katy Schutte 9781848427389
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.33An inspiring and interactive workbook to help you develop skills for longform improvisation, by one of the UK's top improv performers and teachers. Structured as a twelve-week course, this book... -
Nomadic Visions: Tribal Weavings from Persia and the Caucasus Michael Rothberg 9781898113829
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £44.28"Extensive text, beautifully-written and well-researched, this book leads us through many historical and geographical adventures and towards a plethora of full-colour plates...These pages ground us... -
Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual... -
Sportswomen in Cinema: Film and the Frailty Myth Nicholas Chare 9781350418998
SciFier: £31.99Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida... -
Babies Laugh at Tickles: Sound Book with Giant Giggle Button to Press Dr Caspar Addyman 9781035030293
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72"Babies who laugh more learn more." Dr. Caspar Addyman.Play along together and get little ones giggling with Babies Laugh at Tickles, a joyful board book with a giant sound button and an interactive... -
Sportswomen in Cinema: Film and the Frailty Myth Nicholas Chare 9781784530129
SciFier: £144.49Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida... -
End Game by Alan Gibbons
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10A real-life thriller about memory loss, arms dealing, and fathers and sons from million copy selling, prize-winning author, Alan Gibbons. 'He was here again last night, the man with the dead eyes... -
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People Noga Applebaum (Roehampton University, UK) 9780415989510
SciFier: £153.63In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often... -
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence by Gordon Burn
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.25'The Pop artists were among the first to understand the desire of consumers to change their lives through the purchase of clean, manufactured commodities. YBA, on the other hand, was more interested... -
Nights at the Circus Angela Carter 9780099388616
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel... -
Hybred: A Graphic Novel Jamie Mustard 9781951491437
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Set in a future-adjacent, alternative Los Angeles, this is a story of staggering poverty, drugs, and violence and of an artistic child who finds beauty in the ugly and sublime hope in our conflicts... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918880
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £73.85Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
Charles Crichton by Quentin Falk
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career... -
Creative Character Design for Games and Animation Jenny Harder 9781032152967
SciFier: £42.49* Offers a step-by-step approach for character design, covering all the different stages from start to finish. * Provides worksheets and checklists for readers to use for their own projects. *... -
This Country by Navied Mahdavian
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.12A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New Yorker cartoonist Navied Madhavian. Before Navied Mahdavian moved from... -
The Wicker Man Steve A. Wiggins 9781837643882
SciFier: £21.76Many fans of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) may know that this classic is considered a fine sample of folk horror. Few will consider that it's also a prime example of holiday horror. Holiday... -
When Hollywood Loved Britain by Mark Glancy
SciFier: £22.99Many of the most popular and memorable films of Hollywood's studio era were 'British' films; that is, American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Seven Rachel Smythe 9781911720331
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £18.88Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including... -
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada 9781803513201
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.39In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east...