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Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842824
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.14Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
What Is a Western? by Josh Garrett-Davis
SciFier: £34.99There's "western", and then there's "Western" - and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre,... -
Hollywood on Location: An Industry History Joshua Gleich 9780813586267
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Ernst Cassirer 9781032474304
SciFier: £33.33"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns by John L. Simons
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.40The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema. This text is the first theoretical and critical attempt to place Peckinpah within the 2,000-year-old tradition of western... -
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy Philippa Perry 9780241461785
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £10.31'A gem' - The Evening Standard'Pure book joy. Deep thinking made digestible & doled up with lashings of wit' Bernardine Evaristo on Twitter 'So smart and interesting!' Fearne Cotton on... -
Coming Out, Again by Sabrina Symington
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £17.19'We don't just come out once. We have to come out continually throughout our lives. And as we grow and change and reach a newfound understanding of who we are, we come out once again in a whole new... -
The Art of Tapestry Helen Wyld (National Museums Scotland) 9781781301128
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £38.32Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Woven with dazzling images from history, mythology and the natural world, and... -
A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350157002
SciFier: £97.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
Monster by Mark Arnold, QC
SciFier: £14.59Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Book That Changed the WorldMonster: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle... -
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children C. Richard King, Washington State University 9780742560819
SciFier: £92.99Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these... -
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children C. Richard King, Washington State University 9780742560826
SciFier: £33.99Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Ernst Cassirer 9781138907201
SciFier: £93.70"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Polanski and Perception by Davide Caputo (University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £30.16A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842817
SciFier: £90.99Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
Fellini: The Sixties (Turner Classic Movies) Anita Ekberg 9780762458387
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £39.89Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world... -
Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning Alisse Waterston 9781487526405
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by... -
A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350343757
SciFier: £31.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
Scoring Transcendence by Kutter Callaway
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £18.51Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has... -
The Non-Professional Actor by Dr. Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol University, UK)
SciFier: £30.99Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in... -
The Children Of Bathala: A Mythology Class Reunion Arnold Arre 9780804859714
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10From the author of The Mythology Class comes the long-anticipated sequel!It's been two decades since the former classmates first met, and the ensuing years have brought their share of changes... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828054
SciFier: £27.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Marx Returns by Jason Barker
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Karl Marx is a revolutionary. He is not alone. It is November 1849 and London is full of them: a bunch of fanatical dreamers trying to change the world. Persecuted by a tyrannical housekeeper and... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828047
SciFier: £56.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Hollywood on Location: An Industry History Joshua Gleich 9780813586250
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this... -
Twilight Man by Koren Shadmi
HumanoidsRRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.99We recognise him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Hollywood. Before he became... -
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.16'Astonishing . . . Genius . . . A masterpiece' EMMA WATSONChristopher Reese has been through a lot by the age of seven. He will go through much more before he turns eight.All his mother Kate Reese... -
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) 9780826429537
SciFier: £52.90This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen Michael Moorcock 9780575108868
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21Gloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. A new Golden Age of peace, enlightenment and prosperity has dawned. Gloriana is Albion and Albion is Gloriana; if one falls,... -
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Selected as a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness! A young Muslim girl spends a busy day wrapped up in her mother's colorful headscarf in this sweet... -
Yasuke by Thomas Lockley
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known... -
Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy Leslie Marsh 9780252078736
SciFier: £31.58At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in Brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films. In the early 1990s, women filmmakers in Brazil were... -
Brave New World: A Graphic Novel Aldous Huxley 9781784877736
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.98The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD graphic novel.Originally published in 1932, Brave... -
Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States Chris Lamb 9780231130677
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies... -
Hybrid Drawing Techniques by Gilbert Gorski
RRP: £76.99SciFier: £76.22Hybrid Drawing Techniques: Design Process and Presentation reaffirms the value of traditional hand drawing in the design process by demonstrating how to integrate it with digital techniques;... -
Beyond Bagpuss by Chris Pallant (University of Greenwich, UK)
SciFier: £101.43Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, The Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Dictionary of Film Terms by Frank Beaver
SciFier: £44.60Now in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for the study of films and filmmaking. This trusted and practical handbook clearly and... -
I Can See Clearly by James A. Cusumano
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £13.54Sixteen-year-old star basketball player, Luc Ponti wins an important tiebreaker game for the Palo Alto Vikings with a three-point basket during the last few seconds of play. He is simultaneously... -
Big Jim by Rory McConville
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.95The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form. On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin... -
Existence David Brin 9780356501734
OrbitRRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.59OUR CONTINUED EXISTENCE WAS NEVER A GIVEN. Year after year, humanity has survived the main pitfalls awaiting us - natural disasters, nuclear war, rising seas. But when an alien artefact is found...