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Dictionary of Film Terms by Frank Beaver
SciFier: £45.14Now 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... -
We the People! by Don Brown
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.19Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of democracy in the United States in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series The Greek word democracy comes from demos... -
The Wee Free Men: A Tiffany Aching Novel Terry Pratchett 9780552579193
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.10Discover master story-teller Terry Pratchett's incredible Discworld in this first book in the Tiffany Aching series . . .Tiffany Aching wants to be a witch when she grows up . . .A proper one, with a... -
Disclose Joelle Charbonneau 9780062803665
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £6.99Twisted facts and bent truths take center stage in this sequel to Verify, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins calls "a thought-provoking tale of intrigue, beautifully crafted." ... -
Sylvain Chomet's Distinctive Animation by Maria Katsaridou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
SciFier: £30.99Sylvain Chomet is a multifaceted French artist best known for his feature animation films The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist. Although the films have a highly recognized artistic value,... -
Tapwe and the Magic Hat by Buffy Sainte-Marie
SciFier: £14.49"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations." -Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With Happiness From beloved... -
Timeless: A Drizzt Novel R. A. Salvatore 9780063391055
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger,... -
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing by Kendra Preston Leonard
SciFier: £58.49When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of... -
Island Aldous Huxley 9780099477778
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with... -
Storytelling in the New Hollywood by Kristin Thompson
SciFier: £43.58In a book as entertaining as it is enlightening, Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477310687
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477309773
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £59.04Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781137404138
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £93.49Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella Patrick Rothfuss 9781473209336
GollanczRRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.28The University, a renowned bastion of knowledge, attracts the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences like artificing and alchemy. Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a... -
Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television Monique Rooney 9781783480470
SciFier: £43.99Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and... -
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition Aldous Huxley 9781784870140
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and... -
The Wizenard Series: Training Camp by Kobe Bryant
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.51#1 New York Times BestsellerA People Kid Pick of the weekFrom the mind of basketball legend and Academy Award-winning storyteller Kobe Bryant comes this radically original portrait of five young... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781349487226
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £77.99Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.29A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis FawkesEric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's... -
Religion and Film by Melanie Wright
SciFier: £26.99From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional... -
The Pink Agave Motel by V. Castro
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, V. Castro dims the lights in a collection where you might devour your next lover or meet your next meal.Readers are invited to The Pink Agave Motel,where... -
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Rachel Kushner 9781787334380
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.20From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in... -
Musicking Shakespeare by Daniel Albright (Royalty Account)
SciFier: £111.49Demonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question. In this book,... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Peter Lev
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however,... -
Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.79When two curious kids embark on a "wonder walk," they let their imaginations soar as they look at the world in a whole new light. They have thought-provoking questions for everything they see: Is the... -
A Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas that Changed the World #3 by Don Brown
SciFier: £13.14Award-winning author Don Brown explores a very timely subject: the history of vaccines A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations... -
What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.59From Yves Klein's spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol's denim to Martine Syms's joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools... -
The Spark of Modernism by William Gillard,
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £18.94Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom... -
Street Art Santiago Chile Lord K2 9780764349270
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £25.62Santiago, with its deeply evolved and extremely active underground graffiti scene, bursts at the seams with an abundance of eye-popping, jaw-dropping murals. Stencil graffiti artist Lord K2 documents... -
Daughter of the Titanic Caroline Cauchi 9780008784539
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Inspired by a true story, this is a moving reimagining of loss, legacy and the fragile truth between memory and myth... She was never meant to be a symbol, but the world made... -
Look Again Elizabeth A. Trembley 9781951491185
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16"an inventive and introspective memoir . . . crafted with equal parts mystery, honesty, and empathy." -Publishers WeeklyOnce, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead... -
Foreshadow by Emily X.R. Pan
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83A BookPage Best Book of 2020, Young Adult Thirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA Icons Created by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren... -
Seeing the Bigger Picture by David A. Schultz
RRP: £114.95SciFier: £104.49Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the political dilemmas and debates shaping our world. Reviewing... -
Workers' Tales by Michael Rosen
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.29A collection of political tales-first published in British workers' magazines-selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,... -
The Tim Burton Encyclopedia Samuel J. Umland 9780810892002
SciFier: £93.49Tim Burton is one of the most inventive filmmakers in the world. From his early work as an animator for Disney studios to his distinctive takes on iconic characters like Batman and Alice in... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
SciFier: £77.99Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck... -
The Corners are Glowing: Selected Writings from the Ottawa International Animation Festival Chris Robinson 9781032263779
SciFier: £41.13The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) began in 1976 and stands today as one of the oldest and largest animation events in the world. One of the unique features of the OIAF is the...