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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... -
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century Cristina Bacchilega 9780814346990
SciFier: £87.99Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of... -
Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics Michelle Ann Abate 9781496820730
SciFier: £101.99For several generations, comics were regarded as a boy's club-created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters,... -
Hollywood's Stephen King by T. Magistrale
SciFier: £56.74For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has lost money. Part of this may be... -
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: £38.25Akira 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... -
Translation State Ann Leckie 9780356517919
OrbitRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82'There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could' John ScalziThe mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a... -
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film M. Flisfeder 9780230341470
SciFier: £46.99Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of... -
Touch is Really Strange Steve Haines 9781787757103
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.11Why can't we tickle ourselves? How can slow touch convey more powerful emotions than fast touch? How does touch shape our perception of the world? The latest addition to the Really Strange series,... -
Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice c. 1927-77 Heather Nicholson 9780719077739
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Amateur film: Meaning and practice 1927-77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of cliched family scenes shakily shot at home or by the... -
Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film K.J. Donnelly (Reader in Film, Reader in Film, University of Southampton, Wool, UK) 9780199773503
SciFier: £42.26In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of... -
Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present Phyllis G. Tortora 9780857851918
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £30.18Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the... -
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake (Pomona College, USA) 9781350424968
SciFier: £30.99This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga... -
Olivia Gray Will Not Fade Away Ciera Burch 9781665972628
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.49A middle schooler navigates the challenges of feeling invisible-literally and figuratively-as she comes to terms with her asexual identity in this poignant speculative novel perfect for fans of Ellie... -
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film M. Flisfeder 9781349344352
SciFier: £46.99Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of... -
Monster Cinema Barry Keith Grant 9780813588803
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.89Monster 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... -
On Good Authority: A Novel of Suspense Briana Una McGuckin 9781662500909
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £11.89Repressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games. When lady's maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise,... -
Women in Weimar Fashion by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £23.39New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media... -
The Hidden Icon by Jillian Kuhlmann
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74An enthralling Arabian Nights-style fantasy perfect for fans of Bradley Beaulieu and N. K. Jemisin. Eiren, the youngest daughter of the Aleynian royal family, has been living in exile in the deep... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440833212
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £42.26From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440859458
SciFier: £35.25From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life Jane Mulvagh 9780007177066
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74The acclaimed biography of one of England's great eccentrics and leading fashion designers, reissued in an updated edition to coincide with a major exhibition of Westwood's work at the Victoria &... -
The Essential Jack Nicholson by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £42.99For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite... -
A Companion to Latin American Film Stephen M Hart 9781855662100
SciFier: £30.49A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting... -
A Companion to Latin American Film Stephen M Hart 9781855661066
SciFier: £84.06A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting... -
Influencer: The most addictive psychological thriller Adam Cesare 9781444979510
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00FOLLOW HIM OR DIE.When The Speaker posts, his followers must listen ... no matter the consequences.Exposed as the masked social media influencer The Speaker by shy misfit Crystal, Aaron Fortin... -
Undying Tales by Stephanie Law (Artist)
SciFier: £26.79Traverse the world through mythology and illustration and be inspired to think of and act for the endangered creatures that still share this planet with us. While the tales will live on in our... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator by Alistair Rolls
SciFier: £29.20The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
Art and Trauma in Africa by Lizelle Bisschoff
SciFier: £34.99The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well-known are their artistic representations. A number of recent films, novels and other art forms have... -
An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing David Bard-Schwarz (University of North Texas, USA) 9780415500593
SciFier: £55.00Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be... -
Britton on Film
RRP: £44.95SciFier: £31.09For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are...