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Back in Fashion by Giorgio Riello
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.44An engaging survey from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting fashion as a complex process that reflects economic, social, and political changes This engaging volume tells the history of Western... -
Cinema of the Psychic Realm by Paul Meehan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Cinema is ideally suited to the world of psychic phenomena. A technique as simple as a voice-over can simulate mental telepathy, while unusual lighting, set design, or creative digital... -
Cavell's Ontology of Film: The World Viewed After Half a Century Jeroen Gerrits 9781839995149
SciFier: £79.53Cavell's Ontology of Film presents ten essays by some of the most prominent international scholars of Stanley Cavell's work with a double purpose: to look back, half a century after its original... -
Cultivating Creativity through World Films: Exploring Cinematic Narratives Featuring Child Protagonists David Campos 9781475851731
SciFier: £83.49With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic,... -
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy Rami Kimchi 9780253063427
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.03A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a... -
Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-eyed Monsters by Heather Urbanski
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Speculative fiction - both science fiction and fantasy - reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our... -
Aesop's Fables: Life Lessons for Young and Old Aesop 9781400355709
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.88Step into a world of timeless wisdom and moral teachings with Aesop's Fables: Life Lessons for Young and Old. This beautifully crafted edition goes beyond a simple collection of stories, presenting... -
Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film by John Alexander Williams
SciFier: £103.99Over the past several decades, liberal western Europe's attempts to improve human rights, social equality, and political democracy have increasingly conflicted with countervailing tendencies. The... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft
SciFier: £99.35This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this... -
Technology and Culture, The Film Reader Andrew Utterson 9780415319850
SciFier: £37.66Technology and Culture: The Film Reader brings together key theoretical texts from more than a century of writing on film and technology. It begins by exploring the intertwined technologies of... -
Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new... -
Dress To Kill by David Quantick
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Eddie Izzard - action transvestite, boy racer and male tomboy - spent the 1990s conquering Britain. As the decade ended, he looked further afield. "Dressed To Kill", his stand-up tour, saw him... -
Cultivating Creativity through World Films: Exploring Cinematic Narratives Featuring Child Protagonists David Campos 9781475851748
SciFier: £41.99With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of... -
Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included, Vol. 6 by Matoba
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97It's been a year since Shintarou and Towa met! The two celebrate their anniversary as Shintarou reflects on their time together-he's gotten used to Towa being by his side, and he expects such days to... -
Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781788314114
SciFier: £112.99Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this book, Joan Ormrod... -
Unbreakable Sara Ella 9780718081058
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.11"An exquisite conclusion to the thrilling Unblemished trilogy." -RT Book ReviewsSara Ella masterfully takes readers to new worlds in the jaw-dropping finale to the Unblemished trilogy. With the fate... -
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society Elsie Walker (Professor of Cinema Studies, Professor of Cinema Studies, Salisbury University) 9780197600924
SciFier: £24.81Life 24x a Second highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Walker pays particular attention to pedagogical practice and students' reflections on what the study... -
Mindful Macrame: Create, Journal and Unwind Through Meditative Knotting Isabella Strambio 9781800922853
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.33Combine the art of macrame with the practice of mindfulness in this stunning gift book. Each of the 17 projects contains breathing exercises, questions to reflect on and guided journal prompts so... -
Grandpa's Shoes by Adesola Orimalade
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.99When Kevin accidentally put on Grandpa's shoes one day, they went on an exciting adventure. I wonder what they got up to? Grandpa's Shoes reflects a family living in a modern multicultural... -
Secret Identity Crisis by PhD Matthew J. Costello
SciFier: £31.99"Secret Identity Crisis" follows the trajectory of the breakdown of the Cold War consensus after 1960 through the lens of superhero comic books. The superhero comic books developed by Marvel, because... -
Victorian Fairy Tales Michael Newton (Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Leiden) 9780198737599
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.68'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy... -
Movies and Mass Culture John Belton 9780485300734
SciFier: £46.99This text examines the two-way process of action and reaction by which films shape the identity of a society, its culture and its sense of nationhood; and, in turn, how films are themselves shaped by... -
Kill or Be Killed Compendium by Ed Brubaker
Image ComicsRRP: £53.99SciFier: £37.85BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS bestselling series is finally collected in under one cover! Grad student Dylan must kill one person who deserves it every month, and the deeper he gets in, the more he realizes... -
Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland Ewa Stanczyk 9781496851499
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent... -
Six Turkish Filmmakers Laurence Raw 9780299315405
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £52.71Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and... -
Creative Practice as a Way of Life by Eddie Tay
SciFier: £36.99This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research. Drawing on an innovative combination of... -
Shooting Scripts by Bob Herzberg
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The adaptations of seven of the pulps' best writers - Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, Frank Gruber, Norman A Fox, Louis L'Amour, Marvin H. Albert, and Clair Huffaker - are analyzed here. Insightful and... -
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... -
Doctor Who: I, TARDIS by Steve Cole
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.29'Did you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago? I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away...'The Doctor has a unique bond with their TARDIS. They've always loved... -
Projecting Britain at War: The National Character in British World War II Films Jeremy Havardi 9780786474837
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the... -
Calcium Made Interesting by Graham Chapman
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.99Graham Chapman is said to have been Monty Python's one true anarchist. Like his mentors Spike Milligan and Peter Cook, the man who portrayed the mistaken messiah in Life of Brian lived his life on... -
Take It as a Compliment by Maria Stoian
SciFier: £18.84Gold medal winner in the 'Independent Spirit' category of the Independent Publishers Outstanding Book of the Year Awards 2016"I was fifteen.""I never saw him again.""They chanted after me, 'Oscar the... -
Refocus: the Films of Roberta Findlay by Peter Alilunas
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay Argues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemas Offers careful attention... -
Celluloid Heroes Down Under by Theodore F. Sheckels
SciFier: £78.49With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as... -
(re)Pebbling: A Story of Blackness and Curling Richard Norman 9781779401014
RRP: £55.99SciFier: £50.39(re)Pebbling: A Story of Blackness and Curling is a sharp, stylish, and soul-stirring glide through the unspoken rules of curling, a winter sport that is overwhelmingly white. Intimate reflections... -
Couture Fabrics of the '50s by Joy Shih
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.38Beautiful styles from the Parisian high fashion houses of the 1950s are shown in Couture Fabrics of the 50s, a collection of French fabrics of the era. Exotic and exquisite designs in silk, rayon,... -
The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats by Marsha Mccreadie
SciFier: £78.49This collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published film critic, examines the shifting portrayals of women from... -
The Walking Dead Live! by Philip L. Simpson
SciFier: £87.99In 2010, The Walking Dead premiered on AMC and has since become the most watched scripted program in the history of basic cable. Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead... -
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy Rami Kimchi 9780253063410
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a...