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Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain Joi Carr 9781433146374
RRP: $164.72SciFier: $151.56In 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: $44.50SciFier: $37.95And 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... -
Next Level Screenwriting: Insights, Ideas and Inspiration for the Intermediate Screenwriter David Landau (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA) 9780367151584
SciFier: $65.15Next 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... -
Beautiful Shining People by Michael Grothaus
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $15.71A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo cafe, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever ... a captivating, masterful novel with an... -
Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship: Stories from the Pioneers Miguel Angel Gardetti 9781783530632
SciFier: $81.68Luxury products are now seen by a growing number of global consumers as an important and more widely available way of expressing personal aspirations and values. Most consumers of luxury products and... -
Superhero Ethics by Travis Smith
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $27.22Whether in comic books or on movie screens, superhero stories are where many people first encounter questions about how they should conduct their lives. Although these outlandish figures-in their... -
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii B. Ruh 9781137355676
SciFier: $57.22Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a... -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain Amy Jeffs 9781529408003
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $17.32A 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,... -
A Life in Movies by Irwin Winkler
RRP: $25.42SciFier: $18.21A 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: $55.10SciFier: $44.54According 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,... -
Stop-motion Animation by Barry JC Purves
SciFier: $62.09Stop-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: $36.02SciFier: $25.78Will 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: $80.54Marvel 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: $90.86Celluloid 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: $27.54SciFier: $11.85A 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,... -
Hey, Mary! by Andrew Wheeler
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $26.69Mark 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... -
Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $36.29In 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... -
Guillermo del Toro by Ian Nathan
RRP: $59.36SciFier: $45.98Guillermo 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: $215.03Centring 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: $80.54Compact 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
SciFier: $58.89James 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... -
Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781441182166
SciFier: $86.90The 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: $21.18SciFier: $16.90Book 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: $81.43Dracula 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: $91.16SciFier: $86.69Magic 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: $81.79Centring 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... -
The Strange World of David Lynch by Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)
SciFier: $72.06Anyone 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... -
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend Flea 9781472230836
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $22.18Flea, 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: $23.30SciFier: $20.18Did 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: $207.74Invisible 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: $67.84SciFier: $50.50This 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... -
A People Without Shame by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: $38.05SciFier: $28.81Somota 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... -
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Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: $205.64SciFier: $49.16Known 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... -
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them John Yorke 9780141978109
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $20.14'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... -
Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice Jordan Magnuson 9781943208890
SciFier: $141.81Scholars, 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,... -
Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship Volume II: More Stories from the Pioneers Miguel Angel Gardetti 9781783533565
SciFier: $81.68Luxury products are now seen by a growing number of global consumers as an important and more widely available way of expressing personal aspirations and values. Most consumers of luxury products and... -
Two Heads: Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains Uta Frith 9781526601551
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $33.94'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: $248.04SciFier: $199.94Hollis 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: $173.46Through 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: $84.78SciFier: $78.42Written 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...