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Teaching and Learning on Screen: Mediated Pedagogies Mark Readman 9781137578716
SciFier: £96.99What stories are told about teaching and learning on TV and in film? And how do these stories reflect, refract and construct myths, anxieties and pleasures about teaching and learning? This... -
Education Fiction: Reimagining Teaching and Learning Stefan Hrastinski 9781041086840
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Education Fiction aims to inspire readers who are passionate about critically exploring possible futures of education and learning. This edited volume addresses key educational issues of our present... -
Mammals by James Robert Herndon
RRP: £6.95SciFier: £5.40Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest, selected by Jeff VanderMeer, this richly evocative tale shows readers what it means to learn to care for another living creature. The story, which is... -
The Film Minister by Felix Moeller
RRP: £36.00SciFier: £27.29Goebbels' film programme, his propaganda strategies, the planning of perfidious anti-Semitic feature films and suggestive war newsreels are reflected in these pages, and so is Hitler's influence and... -
The Battle of the Sexes Russian Style Nadezhda Ptushkina 9781782670810
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Nadezhda Ptushkina's plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways people are affected by today's turbulent world. Often writing strong... -
Horimiya, Vol. 16 by HERO
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The grand finale of the sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life! As Hori and Miyamura's graduation approaches, Miyamura reflects on how much has changed over the years. Meanwhile, Souta and Yuuna's... -
Humour by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.00A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature... -
The Battle of the Sexes Russian Style Nadezhda Ptushkina 9781782670827
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.49Nadezhda Ptushkina's plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways people are affected by today's turbulent world. Often writing strong... -
Mad Tales from Bollywood: Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema Dinesh Bhugra 9781841696461
SciFier: £93.70This is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how... -
Transnational Screens: Expanding the Borders of Transnational Cinema Armida De La Garza 9781032839530
SciFier: £42.86This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens. The introduction reflects on the changing ways in which film is... -
Figures of Resistance by Teresa de Lauretis
SciFier: £19.46The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholarsFigures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of... -
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema Pedro Blas Gonzalez 9781666906240
SciFier: £31.99The main premise of Philosophical Perspective on Cinema is simple: Can a visual medium such as cinema put in greater perspective diverse aspects of human experience? Films are usually sorted by... -
Board Games by Desi Scarpone
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £20.86Board Games have been a part of America for more than 150 years. They seem to reflect the political, social and recreational mores of the society and are an entertaining and enlightening record of... -
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... -
Sh*t Joe Rogan Says: An Unauthorized Collection of Quotes and Common Sense from the Man Who Talks to Everybody Mary Wood 9781510774612
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97"The answer is not to silence me. . . . The answer is for you to have better arguments."Go the Joe Rogan way. Sh*t Joe Rogan Says is a book of motivation, inspiration, and reflections from the man... -
Monstrosity in Games and Play: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Monstrous in Contemporary Cultures Sarah Stang 9781041183068
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the monstrosity hidden within... -
Media in China, China in the Media - Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities by Adina Zemanek
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.76Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect... -
Happy Sugar Life, Vol. 6 by Tomiyaki Kagisora
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97True love understands, more than anyone else. I know you're working hard for me. But is it really for me? Who is really reflected in your eyes...me? Or is it your own self? One-sided love can't be... -
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... -
The White Ribbon by Dr. Fatima Naqvi (Customer)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White... -
Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781350191648
SciFier: £34.99Wonder 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... -
Statius and Ovid: Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid Tommaso Spinelli (University of Manchester) 9781009282215
SciFier: £87.99This is the first in-depth exploration of the extent and significance of Ovidian intertexts in Statius' Thebaid, with particular emphasis on the interplay between poetics, politics, and material... -
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... -
Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh Amy Raphael 9780571204694
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £19.99Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake), Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of... -
Through Clouds of Smoke: Freud's Final Days by Suzanne Leclair
HumanoidsRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.06The ageing Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the lung cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism. In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar... -
Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 9 by Jun Mayuzuki
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Ordinary memories of a world where no one is at fault are sorrowfully reflected in Kujirai's glasses. But what does Kudou think of the world...? What if Kowloon disappears? It doesn't matter if it's... -
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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft
SciFier: £98.34This 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: £39.39Technology 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: £9.67Post-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... -
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... -
Serbian Folktales by J.K. Jackson
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Stories of the Serbian people are both poetic and strident, reflecting their proud heritage as Southern Slavs, who, in the years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, swept South, taking over... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia, USA)
SciFier: £31.38This 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... -
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue by Joseph Maddrey
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of the American consciousness. From an early fascination with the Gothic, to the mutant... -
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... -
Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered by Duncan Petrie
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is... -
Quality Assurance for Textiles and Apparel 2nd Edition by Sara J. Kadolph
SciFier: £88.99Quality Assurance for Textiles and Apparel, 2e reflects the industry's best practices and most practical efforts to provide products of a consistent quality that meet customers' needs. With updated... -
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... -
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...