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Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution S. K. Ali 9780593531266
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Would you trade love for peace? Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father's arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince... -
Next Level Screenwriting: Insights, Ideas and Inspiration for the Intermediate Screenwriter David Landau (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA) 9780367151584
SciFier: £30.73Next Level Screenwriting is an intermediate screenwriting book, for those that have already learned the basics of screenwriting, written a screenplay or two and want to bring their writing and... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain Joi Carr 9781433146374
RRP: £77.70SciFier: £71.49In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
Professor at Large by John Cleese
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90And now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty... -
A Life in Movies by Irwin Winkler
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century The list of films Irwin... -
Heroes In Hard Times by Neal King
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01According to Neal King, cop action movies point both an accusatory finger and homoerotically murderous race at powerful white men. A close look at a massive and hugely popular fictional culture,... -
Hey, Mary! by Andrew Wheeler
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.49Mark is a good Catholic boy. He goes to church, he says his prayers, and he spends too much time worrying about hell. When Mark realizes he has a crush on another boy in his school, he struggles to... -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain Amy Jeffs 9781529408003
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.17A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive,... -
Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In Pretend We're Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent... -
Stop-motion Animation by Barry JC Purves
SciFier: £29.29Stop-motion Animation explores how all the elements of film-making - camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling - come together in this unique art form. With tips and... -
Stories of Peace and Kindness by Elizabeth Laird
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.16Will two tribes in Ethiopia make peace by throwing their most precious possessions in the river? Can a poor Palestinian shepherd show a rich sultan the value of true kindness? Or will an angel in... -
The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe Martin Flanagan (University of Salford, UK) 9781501338533
SciFier: £37.99Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans... -
Celluloid Mischief: Deviance and Crime on the Silver Screen Erich Goode 9781032341361
SciFier: £44.60Celluloid Mischief examines the portrayal of wrongdoing and "deviant" behavior in film. The premise is that films are material products of both individual and collective imagination that reflect the... -
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain Amy Jeffs 9781529408003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £5.59A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive,... -
Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781441182166
SciFier: £40.99The author focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works... -
Icelight by Aly Monroe
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Book 3 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.Winner of the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Fiction AwardPraise for Aly Monroe'Splendid . . .Monroe provides... -
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff by Gregory William Mank
SciFier: £38.41Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster are horror cinema icons, and the actors most deeply associated with the two roles also shared a unique friendship. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521153065
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such... -
Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour: A Material History Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll (Central European University, Austria) 9781350569140
SciFier: £38.58Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the... -
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend Flea 9781472230836
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.46Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the... -
Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend: A TOON Graphic Noah Van Sciver 9781662665233
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.41Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy? Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of... -
Invisible Digital: What Animation and Games Tell Us about Software and Digital Culture Aylish Wood 9781501390906
SciFier: £97.99Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images and digital culture. At its heart is a novel method for exploring software... -
Artists' Master Series: Perspective and Depth Mike Hernandez 9781912843831
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £23.82This third title in the highly popular Artist Master Series from 3dtotal Publishing offers a comprehensive guide to using perspective and depth successfully in your art, with direction from... -
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Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £23.19Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In... -
Guillermo del Toro by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £21.69Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary... -
Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour by Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll (Central European University, Austria)
SciFier: £101.43Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the... -
Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 9781501343933
SciFier: £37.99Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its... -
Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era James Bawden 9780813174389
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £26.61James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm... -
A People Without Shame by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £13.45Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic... -
The Strange World of David Lynch by Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)
SciFier: £33.99Anyone who has watched "Twin Peaks" or sat through the dark and grainy world of "Eraserhead" knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways... -
Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice Jordan Magnuson 9781943208890
SciFier: £66.89Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being "poetic," yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice,... -
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them John Yorke 9780141978109
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50'The best book on the subject I've read. Quite brilliant' Tony Jordan, creator/writer, Life on Mars, HustleWe all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily... -
Two Heads: Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains Uta Frith 9781526601551
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.01'Charming and addictively accessible' STEVEN PINKER 'Original, authoritative and beautiful' BRIAN COX 'The most wonderful adventure' ROBIN INCE A brilliantly illustrated journey through the... -
Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema Michael Zryd 9780231201568
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31Hollis Frampton was an American filmmaker, photographer, and theorist who bridged the experimental film and contemporary art worlds in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for avant-garde films including... -
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Emanuel Levy 9780231152761
SciFier: £81.82Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of... -
The Creative Producing Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Production Katherine Beyda 9781032842233
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.99Written by the head of physical production at New Line Cinema, The Creative Producing Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Production provides a detailed overview of creative film production and what it... -
Why Visit America by mr Matthew Baker
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories... -
Vagina by Lynn Enright
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.24Winner of the Hearst Big Book Awards, 2019 - Women's Health's Book of the Year_____________Shocking, brilliant, important. A fine addition to the feminist canon. - Emma Jane UnsworthFor the first... -
The Documentary Filmmaking Master Class (Second Edition): Tell Your Story from Concept to Distribution Betsy Chasse 9781621538677
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £18.98"A realist with a sense of humor, Chasse is both stringent and encouraging as she covers every aspect of creating a successful production." -Booklist starred reviewHow to Make and Distribute a... -
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £77.99By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked...