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Fierce by Geoffroy Monde
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49An irreverent, darkly funny, feminist spin on the legend of King Arthur focusing on his runaway daughter, Ysabelle. Perfect for fans of Disenchantment. King Arthur, Britain's most legendary hero, is... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Eight Rachel Smythe 9781911720317
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... -
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice Catherine Cole 9780472054589
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £31.54Unresolved pasts tend to return. In the aftermath of state-perpetrated injustice, a facade of peace can suddenly give way. In such circumstances, the voices and visions of artists can help us see... -
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781472569417
SciFier: £97.99This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered... -
White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiro 9780816645855
SciFier: £29.78Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891173
SciFier: £113.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives Nicholas Chare (Universite de Montreal, Canada) 9780367595142
SciFier: £40.26Gesture has held a crucial role in cinema since its inception. In the absence of spoken words, early cinema frequently exploited the communicative potential of the gestures of actors. As this book... -
The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £30.95SciFier: £27.19Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films-as well as his fresh look at Godard,... -
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 Mike Ashley 9780853238652
SciFier: £36.03Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the... -
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Helen Hanson 9781349301447
SciFier: £46.99These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs,... -
Hokusai's Great Wave by Christine M. E. Guth
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £13.93Hokusai's "Great Wave," as it is commonly known today, is arguably one of Japan's most successful exports, its commanding cresting profile instantly recognizable no matter how different its... -
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The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch Jacqueline Wilson 9780552564809 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £2.12Dinah feels sad. Her class has gone on a school trip to see the dinosaurs at the museum, and everyone else has a tasty packed lunch - except Dinah. Until a funny new friend decides to help ...Soon... -
Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks Debra N. Mancoff 9780711257078
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £14.55What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world. Beginning... -
Ruby's Worry: A Big Bright Feelings Book Tom Percival 9781526626691
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.49A reassuring and sensitive book - the perfect springboard for talking to children about sharing their hidden worries. From the Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival Be open, be honest, be you!... -
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £28.98"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary" is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge... -
Pictures of Girlhood by Sarah Hentges
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Although the "coming of age" story has been a popular film plot for decades, producers have only recently realized the commercial potential of targeting films to adolescent girls. Movies like... -
Dead Voices by Gerald Vizenor
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of... -
The Gradual by Christopher Priest
GollanczSciFier: £10.50In the latest novel from one of the UK's greatest writers we return to the Dream Archipelago, a string of islands that no one can map or explain. Alesandro Sussken is a composer, and we see his life... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies Steven Cohan (Professor Emeritus of Film, Professor Emeritus of Film, Syracuse University) 9780190865788
SciFier: £109.91The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography Susanna Harris 9781789257212
SciFier: £62.41This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions... -
Ash Kickers by Sean Grigsby
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72With ex-firefighter Cole Brannigan in command of the Smoke Eaters, the dragon menace is under control. Thanks to non-lethal Canadian tech, the beasts are tranquilized and locked up, rather than... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891180
SciFier: £56.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
Marilyn by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was... -
Mists of Regret by Dudley Andrew
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £51.53Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as... -
Romancing Ireland by Paul Clements
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.28Richard Hayward was one of Ireland's best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century. A popular Irish travel writer, actor and singer, he led an intense and productive life, leaving behind a... -
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan Aaron Gerow 9781929280520
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £17.34Kinugasa Teinosuke's 1926 film A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an independently produced, experimental, avant-garde work from... -
Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Russell J.A. Kilbourn 9780415520300
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £49.80Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a 'reflection' but an indispensable index of human experience - especially our experience of time's passage, of the present moment, and, most... -
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship Slava Greenberg 9780253064509
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay... -
Visualizations of Urban Space: Digital Age, Aesthetics, and Politics Christiane Wagner 9781032324180
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £33.86This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban... -
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship Slava Greenberg 9780253064493
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £43.23While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay... -
The Neverending Story Michael Ende 9780140074314
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o'-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world - through the pages of an old book - ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But... -
King Of King Court by Travis Dandro
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56From a child s-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day... -
The Beetle Richard Marsh 9781551114439
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.66The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siecle... -
Invincible by Torben Betts (Author)
SciFier: £9.99The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and... -
Vietnamese Memories #2 by Clement Baloup
HumanoidsRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.76With his Award winning work, Vietnamese Memories, Clement Baloup chronicles - through vivid painted art and poetic storytelling - the fate of a handful of people who, like many of their peers, were... -
The Elusive Samurai, Vol. 5 by Yusei Matsui
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away!In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo... -
CRYPT: Mask of Death by Andrew Hammond
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21A figure wearing a white mask swoops down a deserted hospital corridor towards a quarantined patient. Covered in black sores and writhing in agony the patient can't be saved by modern medicine. But... -
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture Nicole Rafter 9780814776513
SciFier: £92.99Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that... -
Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 9780099598176
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76'A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read' The TimesOn the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling... -
Designing Russian Cinema by Eleanor Rees
SciFier: £92.99This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema's connections with other art forms, examining how...