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The Portrayal of Animals in Disney Culture Kathy Merlock Jackson 9781666975505
RRP: £130.00SciFier: £92.79The contributors to this collection examine the roles that animals - fictional and real - play in Disney culture, past, present, and future. Using various disciplinary perspectives with overlapping... -
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... -
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... -
Irmina by Barbara Yelin
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94In the mid-1930s, lrmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first Black students at Oxford, who, like lrmina, is working towards an... -
The Last Hero Terry Pratchett 9781399611206
GollanczRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.37Pratchett's perceptive and laugh-out-loud Discworld series is a literary phenomenon. And in The Last Hero, one aging hero with a grudge decides enough is enough. Beautifully illustrated throughout by... -
Architecture, Film, and the In-between by Vahid Vahdat (Washington State University, USA)
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.49The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between. Apart from architecture informing scenography... -
Like This, For Ever: (Lacey Flint: 3): the chilling psychological thriller from Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton Sharon Bolton 9780552166379
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74'Nail-biting!' TESS GERRITSEN'Spine-tingling!' LISA GARDNERTwelve-year-old Barney Roberts is obsessed with a series of murders.He knows the victims are all boys, just like him.He knows the bodies... -
Body Holiday - Shadow Players Derek E. Pearson 9780957672895
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £11.49Revenge needs no salt to taste this good! "It's damn near impossible to put down. Milla Carter, the sexy, all-action heroine of Derek E Pearson's novel Body Holiday, is back in the sequel Shadow... -
Fixed.: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving Amy E Herman 9780063004849
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.20With Amy Herman's Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most... -
Four from the Forties by Brian McFarlane
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these... -
Ella and Penguin Stick Together Megan Maynor 9780062330888
SciFier: £12.43Sometimes all you need is a good friend to help you be brave. Ella has a surprise for Penguin-glow-in-the-dark stickers! But to see the stickers glow, Ella and Penguin must be in the dark. And the... -
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) 9780253070142
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £40.78The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize... -
Truman Capote by Tison Pugh
RRP: £96.95SciFier: £84.49Truman Capote once remarked, "My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the greatest living thing"; nonetheless, his legacy is in many ways defined by his complex... -
Ironcrown Moon by Julian May
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.49The continuation of a powerful new fantasy adventure filled with dark magic and deadly intrigue, from the worldwide bestselling author of the SAGA OF THE PLIOCENE EXILE. King Conrig... -
Lighting for TV and Film by Gerald Millerson (BBC, UK)
RRP: £71.99SciFier: £56.79Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice... -
Jesus of Hollywood Adele Reinhartz (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University) 9780195383386
SciFier: £42.26Since the advent of the cinema, Jesus has frequently appeared in our movie houses and on our television screens. Indeed, it may well be that more people worldwide know about Jesus and his life story... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Four: UK Edition: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529909883
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.74Witness what the gods do after dark in the fourth volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology from creator Rachel Smythe."I don't always get... -
Hollywood Cinema Richard Maltby (Flinders University of South Australia) 9780631216155
SciFier: £38.75This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most... -
Love and Degradation by William J. Simmons (New Favorite, LLC)
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.26In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama, reminiscence, change, and fandom, William J. Simmons takes up Eve Sedgwick's reparative... -
Ghost Species by James Bradley
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer ourselves out of a problem of our own making?Set against the backdrop of rapidly escalating climate catastrophe, scientists Kate... -
Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Tony Magistrale
SciFier: £87.99In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
Anime Michelle Le Blanc 9781842435861
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24This guide to anime offers an overview of the art form, looking at its development in Japan and its export to other cultures. It includes a history of Japanese animation from early examples to the... -
Designing Russian Cinema by Eleanor Rees (University College London, UK)
SciFier: £31.99This 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... -
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) 9780253070159
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize... -
Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film Ray Pratt 9780700611508
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £22.56A lit cigarette glows in the dark. A faceless voice describes sinister forces that are hard at work behind the scenes - a hidden conspiracy that controls our lives and perhaps even our thoughts... -
Monster Cinema Barry Keith Grant 9780813588803
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.07Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily... -
The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels Dominick Grace 9781496823366
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin,... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: £23.71Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
The Empire Triumphant by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21George Lucas's first ""Star Wars trilogy"" shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga - ""The... -
Beasts & Creatures Myths & Tales by Tok Thompson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82With their weird combination of animal limbs, or distorted visions of human perception, beasts and creatures can be found in all myths and legends of the world, often used to demonstrate moral or... -
Monster Cinema Barry Keith Grant 9780813597652
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £47.98Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily... -
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker Andrew Robinson (writer, UK) 9781350258495
SciFier: £38.73Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in... -
Nickelodeon City by Michael Aronson
SciFier: £42.25From the 1905 opening of the wildly popular, eponymous Nickelodeon in the city's downtown to the subsequent outgrowth of nickel theaters in nearly all of its neighborhoods, Pittsburgh proved to be...