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Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781137531742
SciFier: £93.49In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts by Katrina Daly Thompson
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out... -
Agnes Varda: Director's Inspiration Matt Severson 9781636810607
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.83A visual tribute to Agnes Varda's three lives as a photographer, filmmaker and artist, with previously unseen archival materials, texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin, Martin Scorsese, JR... -
Scottish Ghost Stories by James Robertson
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible,... -
Holiday Wars by Scott King
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Holidays reflect the current culture of a society and like a shifting tide they change. Realizing this, The Easter Bunny declares war on the other Holidays in the hopes of gaining the one thing... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £99.412017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.892017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
The Greedy Dog by Alex Frith
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.29A lively retelling of the classic Aesop fable, where greedy Dog is fooled by his own reflection. Specially written for children just beginning to read, with fun puzzles to complete after the story... -
Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Animation Michael O'Rourke (Pratt Institute) 9780393730838
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £39.88This revised and updated edition of the standard introduction to computer animation reflects the latest developments in 3D computer animation. It clearly explains the basic concepts and techniques... -
Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Tania Modleski 9780253203953
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Exploring various forms of contemporary mass art and culture, from rock-'n'-roll music to "slasher" films, from women's romances to "retro" fashion style, these innovative and politically engaged... -
Alison and Her Rock Awesome Robot by Fred Chao
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £9.99Alison has built Robot to simply help her have fun, but it's not so simple. It turns out she has to teach Robot about life, mainly from the point of a 7-year-old girl. Join the cast of Alison, Robot,... -
The Arts of the Grid by Liora Bigon
RRP: £78.00SciFier: £66.77This is the first collection of interdisciplinary scholarship to expand on gridded modalities, with a strong affinity to the arts. It seeks to inspire new avenues of research by exploring a horizon... -
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Includes: The Tinder-Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Steadfast Soldier; The Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen; The Little Match-Girl ... -
Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore Rossella Ferrari 9780367515591
SciFier: £37.66Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual... -
Lyric Theology by Thomas Gardner
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £47.61Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that... -
Metric Pattern Cutting for Children's Wear and Babywear by Winifred Aldrich (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £23.79This fourth edition of Metric Pattern Cutting for Children's Wear and Babywear remains the standard text book but has three majorimprovements. First, the sections have been re-organised to reflect... -
Fantasy Rosemary Jackson 9780415847629
SciFier: £46.33First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary Martin McQuillan 9781783480043
SciFier: £92.99Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
Sandman Volume 6 by Neil Gaiman
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The critically acclaimed The Sandman: Fables and Reflections continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and... -
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan 9781474431927
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing... -
Hekate: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from popular poet, Nikita Gill: Volume 1 Nikita Gill 9781398537149
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.19'Atmospheric, engrossing, beautiful and sad, one of those books you find yourself wanting to be back inside when you've had to put it down' NATALIE HAYNES, author of A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind... -
The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities Randall Halle 9780252079955
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "interzones"--geographical and ideational spaces of transit, interaction, transformation, and contested... -
Mediating War and Identity by Lisa Purse
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32In state and public discussion about war and conflict, figures of transgression such as deserters, pacifist and emigrants are often marginalised, but they also play a key role in rethinking cultural... -
Grain & Noise - Artists in Synthetic Biology Labs: Constructive Disturbances of Art in Science Markus Schmidt, SJ 9783837665161
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £29.69The collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of... -
Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear by Joseph Bruchac
RRP: £11.95SciFier: £9.99Flying With The Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of sixteen thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within... -
Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s Andrew B. Leiter 9780786449606
SciFier: £22.59The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate among scholars of both film and Southern studies. This collection of 15 essays examines the problem of... -
Improvising Cinema Gilles Mouellic 9781041181316
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational... -
Melodrama Unveiled by David Grimsted
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49David Grimsted's "Melodrama Unveiled" explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic... -
Taxation by Andrew Lymer
SciFier: £31.84It is an excellent aid to support a first course in tax, or as a general introduction to this topic. Written in an accessible style with many examples, activities and questions throughout, this... -
Solutions and Other Problems Allie Brosh 9780224101288
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.48*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns... -
The Parallax View Mark Campbell (Royal College of Art, UK) 9781839026300
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.59Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022881
SciFier: £34.24Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 by Alfred Hitchcock
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.09Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock... -
My First Pandemic by Jamison Odone
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £19.05My First Pandemic is a collection of drawings, thoughts, poems, comics, anger, happiness, life, and death from a difficult period in our history. Over the last two years, between crises and... -
Wood Wood 2-22 by Wood Wood
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £43.93The Wood Wood 2-22 book is an introduction to, and a look back at, Wood Wood and the first 20 years of the brand's history. The label's archive has been delved into by Copenhagen/Milan-based ... -
My Cute Cousin Always Gets Her Way Vol. 2 Inuchiku 9798895613207
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £8.83What was meant to be a brief stay with family in the countryside for the summer has been suddenly extended! When Nozomu's sister joins them, she finds her brother under assault from their tomboyish... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274129
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £51.60What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic,... -
Maya Gods and Monsters by Carol Karasik
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.09Through captivating stories and lush illustrations, this book draws on ancient myth and lore of the Maya people and gives life to wild and quirky gods, magical monsters, and strange creatures. Fiery... -
Politics of Contemporary European Cinema by Mike Wayne (Brunel University (UK).)
SciFier: £30.16How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of... -
Star Trek by C. Gregory
SciFier: £41.99In Star Trek Chris Gregory analyses the reasons for the continuing success of the Star Trek phenomenon, traces its overall development and comments on how the differences between 1990s and 1960s...