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Judge Dredd: Mechanismo - Machine Law by John Wagner
RebellionRRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.24A buddy cop tale like no other! Man and mechanismo, on the mean streets of Mega-City One. The next chapter in the legendary Judge Dredd epic, penned by incomparable Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner... -
Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship David A. Gerstner 9780814350218
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £28.21How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations,... -
Untamed by Suzana E. Flores
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Wolverine. Logan. Weapon X: by any name you choose an anti-social savage that kills with gratuitous precision, a self-identified assassin who by his own words IS the best at what he does, regardless... -
The A to Z of German Cinema by Robert C. Reimer
SciFier: £52.99German film is diverse and multi-faceted; its history includes five distinct German governments (Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the... -
Spaces by Ian Christie
SciFier: £111.37Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by Andre Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to... -
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity Richard Tapper 9781860648045
SciFier: £27.99Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf... -
Robert Rossen by Alan Casty
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who was also a longtime member of the Communist Party,... -
Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State Mehdi Semati 9780415583190
SciFier: £44.60By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and... -
Controversial Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips
SciFier: £43.99At the heart of any history of controversial films is a strange paradox: while films, especially popular and mainstream films, are often portrayed as meaningless products of popular culture, those... -
Coppola: A Biography Peter Cowie 9780306805981
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards at the same time he was over 20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically... -
Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends.Every night, a young man hears children playing outside his boarding house-but the alley below his window is fenced off from the... -
Images of Elsewhere by Timothy Jenkins
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.74"Both a fascinating historically informed account of flying saucers in military and popular imagination, from their arrival in the 1940s until the present, and a satisfying intellectual account of... -
The Snow by Adam Roberts
GollanczSciFier: £20.49The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.And this is how the world will end ...'The snow started falling on the sixth... -
Movies and Methods, Volume 2 by Bill Nichols
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £32.49The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and... -
The Clothed Body Patrizia Calefato 9781859738054
SciFier: £34.99Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is... -
The Moth Dreamer Amy Lynn Farrell 9781774921616
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Grief, guilt, and dark visions won't let Aubrey go in this coming-of-age novel for young adults. Sixteen-year-old Aubrey is horrified when a vision about her cousin's death comes true. Overcome... -
Masked: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity in Fashion and Popular Culture Laini Burton 9781350236165
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.50What is a mask? A disguise or a means of protection? Laini Burton's comprehensive examination of masking in Western culture explores the mask as an enduring tool of personal, political and social... -
The Star Diaries Stanislaw Lem 9780241240021
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and... -
Charles Burnett by Robert E. Kapsis
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and... -
Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory by Clara Bradbury-Rance
SciFier: £93.01The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema... -
The Quantum Garden Derek Kunsken 9781781085714
RebellionRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72The Ultimate ChaseDays ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich, he's back with the love of his life, and he has the Time Gates, the most valuable things in... -
World of Viruses by Judy Diamond
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.67We live in a world of viruses, biological entities to be confronted not by superheroes in capes but by scientists and informed citizens during their everyday lives. From the bustle of the airport to... -
Pictorial Embroidery in England by Dr Rosika Desnoyers (Independent Scholar and Artist, UK)
SciFier: £34.99The little-known art of Berlin Work was once the most commonly practiced art form among European women. Pictorial Embroidery in England is the first academic study of both pictorial Berlin Work and... -
Loner at the Ball: The Life of Andy Warhol Fred Lawrence Guiles 9781684427925
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £19.95Andy Warhol was one of the most celebrated figures in New York society for some twenty-five years, and probably second only to Picasso as the world's best-known contemporary artist. His Pop Art... -
Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade A. Flibbert 9781403983800
SciFier: £46.99Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing... -
The Price of Everything by Jon McGoran
RebellionRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Governments fall, corporations are taken over, gangsters are killed, but no-one messes with the Courier's Guild. When Armand Pierce joined the Couriers Guild, he accepted responsibility for an... -
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Legends) by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Ever since Emperor Palpatine's Order 66--which called for the execution of allJedi--Jax Pavan is the last Knight around to fight the dark side of the Force. Togetherwith his droid I-5, Jax has eluded... -
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales by Stephen Webb
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.22This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the... -
The Last American John Wagner 9781781085448
RebellionRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.60WRITERS ALAN GRANT & JOHN WAGNERARTIST MIKE MCMAHONI pledged allegiance to the flag of the United Sates of America, and to the republic for which it stood, look where it got me.Over twenty years have... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372163
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
The Phantom Unmasked by Kevin Patrick
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £19.48Before Superman, before Batman, there was-the Phantom! Making its debut as an American newspaper comic strip in 1936, The Phantom was the forerunner of the comic-book superhero genre that today... -
Henry Green by Peter Wolfe
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over... -
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF by Mike Ashley
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what... -
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge Anupama Chopra (Film Companion, India) 9781839028328
SciFier: £11.71Aditya Chopra's 1995 romantic drama, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, follows the journey of Raj and Simran, who fall in love on a trip to Europe but must fight societal expectations as Simran is... -
Cinema and Brexit by Neil Archer (Keele University, UK)
SciFier: £33.99Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of 'culturally English cinema'... -
The Emergence of Cinematic Time by Mary Ann Doane
RRP: £38.95SciFier: £33.53Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Paula Marantz Cohen
SciFier: £36.88This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films - Shadow of a Doubt, Rear... -
The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel Michael Charles Tobias 9783030976828
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.93Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change... -
Loner at the Ball: The Life of Andy Warhol Fred Lawrence Guiles 9781684427918
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61Andy Warhol was one of the most celebrated figures in New York society for some twenty-five years, and probably second only to Picasso as the world's best-known contemporary artist. His Pop Art...