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Explorer: the Mystery Boxes Kazu Kibuishi 9781419700101
SciFier: £15.09Seven clever stories answer one simple question: what's in the box?Funny, fantastic, spooky, and suspenseful, each of these unique and beautifully illustrated short graphic works revolves around a... -
The End of All Skies by Vincent C. Sales
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £12.68A tyrant's cruel reign comes to an end in a mythical Southeast Asian Sultanate where the powerless rise up against gods and monsters The final days of Sun Girna Ginar have arrived. The old witch in... -
Working Title Films: A Creative and Commercial History Nathan Townsend 9781474451949
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Provides the first history of Working Title Films Offers a detailed history of Working Title's evolution as a film business over almost 40 years Provides a major reconsideration of the... -
The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood Nicholas Godfrey 9780813589152
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the... -
Horror International by Steven Jay Schneider
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £27.99As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before... -
Introduction to Film Nick Lacey 9781137463838
SciFier: £42.98This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies. The rise of on demand... -
British Comedy Cinema I.Q. Hunter 9780415666671
SciFier: £42.00British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume... -
Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics Paul Gravett 9780500292433
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.36This beautiful and engaging volume charts the evolution of manga from its roots in late 19th-century Japan through the many and varied forms of comics, cartoons and animation created throughout... -
Street to Studio Rafael Schacter 9781848222366
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £45.43For fifty years, graffiti and street art have been challenging conventions and stimulating debate around our perceptions of what constitutes art. As the genre enters its sixth decade, this... -
Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images Dr. Janna Houwen (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 9781501349003
SciFier: £39.99In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions "what is meant by video?" and "what is meant by film?" How are... -
Palace Costume by Mimi Haddon
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £15.99Palace Costume is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Palace Costume & Prop Co., an exclusive Los Angeles film-industry haven of dresses, gowns, garments, accessories, props, and jewelry featured in... -
Bram Stoker's Gibbet Hill and Other Lost Writings by Paul S. McAlduff
SciFier: £112.99As Carol A. Senf has noted of some of Bram Stoker's less prominent fictions in Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (2002), they often occupy an elusive place, "a realm that is not... -
Stick and Stone Explore and More by Beth Ferry
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.79Two stories in one easy-to-read graphic novel perfect for beginning readers, based on the bestselling Stick and Stone books by Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld. Perfect for fans of the Narwhal and... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance Lea Jacobs 9780520279643
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
Streaming by Wheeler Winston Dixon
SciFier: £19.67Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones... -
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender Grayson Lee White 9781513141770
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.34A memoir about what it's like when they think you're their daughter, but you know you're their son. For as long as he could remember, Grayson has known he is a boy, not a girl. While... -
The Horse Who Drank the Sky by Murray Pomerance
SciFier: £36.41What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches,... -
Gothic Cinema Xavier Aldana Reyes 9781138227569
SciFier: £28.13Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first 'trick' films to its... -
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction by Thomas G. Deveny
SciFier: £83.49Now available in paperback! Cinema often relies on novels or short stories for narrative material. Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction examines cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that... -
Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear Ruben Jarazo-Alvarez 9780367206635
SciFier: £38.53Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, such as death, fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling's work from controversial and... -
The Squarzi Archive by Andrea Ventura
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £29.56A visual showcase of fashion icon Alessandro Squarzi's 6000-piece American vintage collection of rare garments spanning military to workwear, embodying styles from the '20s to the '80s with an... -
The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul Leslie Barnes 9781978809796
SciFier: £30.71Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign of terror, which... -
Jodorowsky & Boucq's Twisted Tales by Alejandro Jodorowsky
HumanoidsRRP: £27.99SciFier: £19.68An exercise in imagination, Jodorowsky's Twisted Tales is the product of an artistic challenge born from a mutual love of word and image: Jodorowsky would write dozens of tales of beauty and... -
Witness to Phenomenon: Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art Joseph D. Ketner II (Emerson College, USA) 9781501353994
SciFier: £36.99Witness to Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Gunter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art... -
Ferocious Ambition by Robert Dance
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £26.98Robert Dance's new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and-while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life-focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781137008060
SciFier: £92.99Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781349435456
SciFier: £95.24Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
SOUND OF SILENCE Anthony Ghnassia 9782490952632
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £34.19An unprecedented encounter with international music icons through the lens of photographer and director Anthony Ghnassia.For years, Ghnassia has turned his camera on world-renowned artists (David... -
Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television Jessica Gildersleeve 9781041185833
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all... -
Cloud Town Daniel McCloskey 9781419749643
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.22An exciting middle-grade graphic novel about best friends, giant robots, and monsters from another universe!In Dan McCloskey's debut graphic novel, best friends Pen and Olive live in Cloud Town, an... -
The Naked Tree Keum suk Gendry-Kim 9781770466678
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story. The critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic fiction... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance Lea Jacobs 9780520279650
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063206
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063213
SciFier: £22.99"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620814
SciFier: £97.54This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema Lucia Nagib 9781041184904
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of 'world cinema' with the more substantive concept of 'realist cinema'. Veering away from the usual focus on... -
Otto Normal's Monsterton: The Curious Case of the Bloodless Hound: Volume 2 Danielle McKechnie 9798881602680
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £14.69Dive into the strange, spooky, and spectacular world of Monsterton, where being different just might be the key to belonging. This sequel book (a blend of prose and full-color comic storytelling) for... -
Flash XML Applications: Use AS2 and AS3 to Create Photo Galleries, Menus, and Databases Joachim Schnier 9780240809175
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £25.53Add seamless, interactive, user-controlled delivery to your Flash applications. This book builds upon your understanding of basic ActionScript (AS) syntax with the foundational skills that you need... -
The Irish Fairy Tale by Vito Carrassi
SciFier: £44.99Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale" and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws... -
Before The Incal Alejandro Jodorowsky 9781594659010
HumanoidsRRP: £34.99SciFier: £24.83The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero.We are instantly plunged back into the unique atmosphere of the world of "The Incal," as we witness John...