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A Guide to Charlie Chan Films by Charles P. Mitchell
SciFier: £68.99There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. This guide reviews the forty-four extant Chan films. Entries, alphabetically arranged, include a unique annotated... -
American Film Cycles by Larry Langman
SciFier: £68.49Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years... -
Movie Musicals on Record by Richard C. Lynch
SciFier: £68.99This discography provides a comprehensive listing of the songs from motion picture musicals, and the singers who performed them on commercially available albums. Covering the period from The Jazz... -
Opera Mediagraphy by Sharon G. Almquist
SciFier: £58.49Opera Mediagraphy lists operas released as motion pictures, both as theatrical feature films on 35mm film and educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format... -
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia Thomas S. Hischak 9780313307379
SciFier: £68.99Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past... -
An Index to Short and Feature Film Reviews in the Moving Picture World by Annette M. D'Agostino
SciFier: £68.99The Moving Picture World magazine was the industry standard during the silent cinema era. This is the first index compiled for all the films reviewed in the early volumes of this journal. In 1916,... -
The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography by Charles P. Mitchell
SciFier: £58.49The influence of science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft is widely felt in modern literature; authors from Robert E. Howard to Stephen King can claim him as their ancestor. But cinema too has seen... -
The Marx Brothers by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as... -
Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography Kathy M. Jackson 9780313258985
SciFier: £73.49When Life magazine unveiled its list of the one hundred most influential Americans of the 20th century, the selection committee was guided by one question: How would our lives be different if each of... -
Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image by Alfred Richard
SciFier: £69.49Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film... -
International Film, Radio, and Television Journals by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £68.99Product information not available.[Slide's] blockbuster effort fills a gap in this area and is essential for all libraries supporting popular culture or film studies. ... -
Superpoodle and the Mega Blaster by Russell Punter
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £3.99What is the sinister secret behind Velma Vixen's Phantastic Plastic? Can it really be as green as it seems? Superpoodle suspects not, and must use all his super powers to expose a fiendish plot... -
Working in the Global Film and Television Industries by Dr. Andrew Dawson (Principal Lecturer and University Teaching Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Greenwich)
SciFier: £31.99Like many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends... -
The American Blockbuster by Benjamin Crace
SciFier: £87.99Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation on America's favorite pastime, focusing in on generational differences and... -
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television Richard A. Hall 9781440869877
SciFier: £88.49The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. ... -
Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema David Ingram 9780859896092
RRP: £17.50SciFier: £16.74This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely... -
Fashion Fads through American History by Dr Jennifer Grayer Moore (The Pratt Institute, New York, USA)
SciFier: £83.49Perfect for any reader interested in fashion, history, or popular culture, this text is an essential resource that presents vital information and informed analysis of key fashion fads not found... -
Zombie Train by David Macinnis Gill
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.21About the AuthorDavid Macinnis Gill lives with his family in Wilmington, North Carolina. He is the author of Black Hole Sun, Invisible Sun, and Shadow on the Sun, as well as Soul Enchilada.Book... -
Pop Goes the Decade by Kevin L. Ferguson
SciFier: £83.49Popular culture in the 1990s often primarily reflected millennial catastrophic anxieties. The world was tightening, speeding up, and becoming more dangerous and dangerously connected. Surely it was... -
Wally Mammoth: Hide-and-Seek Corey R. Tabor 9780063434943
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.53Welcome to the Nice Age! Wally is looking for his friend, Wolf. It's time to play hide-and-seek! Come out, come out, wherever you are! A giggle-inducing, unjacketed, lower-priced hardcover picture... -
Queer Cinema in America by Aubrey Malone
SciFier: £88.49This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could... -
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.62When eighteen-year-old Lexi foresees the brutal murder of a young woman outside a club in downtown L.A., she is powerless to stop it.But then the girl's ghost appears, seeking vengeance, and Lexi is... -
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker 9780571370184
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.26'Revelation after revelation . . . I love music more for reading it.' Guy Garvey'Alker joins the dots by following myriad musical ley lines. A fascinating journey into sound.' Mark Radcliffe'Reveals... -
Paul Thomas Anderson by Adam Nayman
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.01A heavily illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as a true... -
The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History Richard A. Hall 9781440861239
SciFier: £83.99This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on... -
Thornlight Claire Legrand 9780062696670
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.56"Magical."-Kirkus ReviewsResourceful twin sisters and a desperate queen must find a new source of magic to stop their kingdom from being consumed by darkness. This classic fantasy-adventure from... -
Fox 5-Book I Can Read Box Set: Fox Box: Fox the Tiger, Fox Is Late, Fox versus Winter, Fox at Night, Fox Has a Problem Corey R. Tabor 9780063470378
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.96About the AuthorCorey R. Tabor is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor-winning Mel Fell, three-time Geisel Award winner for Fox Has a Problem, Fox at Night, and Fox the Tiger, and Geisel... -
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker 9780571370177
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.25The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow... -
The Green Man in Britain by Fran Doel
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.05The Green Man has many facets, many dimensions. He peers through his leaf mask in hundreds of church misericords and stone carvings. His innate link with the changing seasons and fertility is... -
Bigger Than Blockbusters by James Roman
SciFier: £63.99Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger... -
Latino American Cinema by Scott L. Baugh
SciFier: £83.99Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated... -
Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature Tarshia L. Stanley 9780313343896
SciFier: £68.99Hip Hop literature, also known as urban fiction or street lit, is a type of writing evocative of the harsh realities of life in the inner city. Beginning with seminal works by such writers as Donald... -
New Shoes by Chris Raschka
SciFier: £13.74Two-time Caldecott Medalist and New York Times-bestselling picture book creator Chris Raschka pays tribute to one of the most quintessential events of childhood-getting new shoes-in this boldly... -
The Video Game Explosion by Mark J. P. Wolf
SciFier: £73.99The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture today. All aspects of video games... -
Deep Dark by Zohra Nabi
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10'This book is stunning - Zohra Nabi writes like a dream and has achieved the impossible by conjuring up a living, breathing Victorian London right before my eyes. I felt like I was right there with... -
Birds Kevin Henkes 9780061363047
SciFier: £14.07In what the New York Times Book Review calls "a perfect book," a little girl watches birds from her window and dreams she can fly. A board book edition of the critically acclaimed picture book from... -
Freedom of Speech by Patricia L. Dooley
SciFier: £36.99This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on-and impacted-this issue. ... -
Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television Gladys L. Knight 9780313376122
SciFier: £83.49This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video games. Female action heroes, like other fictional... -
Climate Change in Popular Culture by James Craig Holte
SciFier: £88.49An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters... -
Make 'em Laugh! by Zeke Jarvis (Eureka College, USA)
SciFier: £83.49This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century. This unprecedented look at the history of satire...