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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... -
Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231215640
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media... -
The Difference Engine William Gibson 9780575099401
GatewayRRP: £10.99SciFier: £5.97The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic... -
Skulduggery Pleasant - A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe Derek Landy 9780008776701
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.77The book version of the thrilling and innovative second Skulduggery Pleasant podcast In 1962, three sorcerers converged to do battle in a hidden chamber near a... -
Board Games as Media Dr. Paul Booth 9781501357176
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.31Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we... -
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide Merryl Wyn-Davis 9781848311688
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved'... -
Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies and Tactics, Third Edition Robert Marich 9780809331963
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £24.35While Hollywood executives spend millions of dollars making movies, even more money is poured into selling those films to the public. In the third edition of his comprehensive guidebook, Marketing to... -
Tartan: Romancing the Plaid by Jeffrey Banks
SciFier: £25.30William "Braveheart" Wallace did battle in it. Queen Victoria decked Balmoral in it. Madonna donned it to strut around the stage. Tartan, the beloved symbol of kin, clan and nation to the Scots, has... -
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema J. Chamarette 9781349335220
SciFier: £46.99Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and... -
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict by J. Daccache
SciFier: £46.99Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet... -
The Films of Roberto Rossellini Peter Bondanella 9780521398664
SciFier: £20.04The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The... -
Maximum Ride: The Final Warning James Patterson 9780099514954 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.24___________________________'Has all the characteristics of his work . . . pace, action, mystery and cool' SUNDAY TIMESMax. Fang. Iggy. Gasman. Nudge. Angel. Six extraordinary avian-human hybrids,... -
Aliens Cristina Massaccesi 9781800859456
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.13On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James Cameron's status as a major new Hollywood player. Reprising some of the features... -
Hollywood's New Deal Giulana Muscio 9781566394956 [USED COPY]
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £35.16Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase... -
Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Russell J.A. Kilbourn 9780415520300
RRP: £51.99SciFier: £47.20Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a 'reflection' but an indispensable index of human experience - especially our experience of time's passage, of the present moment, and, most... -
Skulduggery Pleasant - A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe Derek Landy 9780008776664
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.99The book version of the thrilling and innovative second Skulduggery Pleasant podcast In 1962, three sorcerers converged to do battle in a hidden chamber near a... -
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History by Evgeny Dobrenko
SciFier: £98.24This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history, the conversion of the present and experience into... -
TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era Neil Landau 9781138705715
SciFier: £39.79TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix... -
Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews Peter Keough 9781496804587
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her... -
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One Alyssa Sheinmel 9781602863026
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49A New York Times bestseller Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though... -
Betty and Veronica by Tim Hanley
SciFier: £34.64We think we know Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, but we don't. Far more than just Archie's girlfriends, this book shows how the girls adapted to be compelling, relevant characters for each new... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103726
SciFier: £46.99In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
Secrets of Cinema: 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem Daniel Kieckhefer 9781680534931
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £42.99Over a century ago, a new form of storytelling emerged from the ruins of World War I. Different in scope and power from theater or literature, and unlike any film that had come before, Robert Wiene's... -
Contemporary African Fashion Suzanne Gott 9780253222565
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothing as a marker of ethnic identity, life stages,... -
Chester Brown Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9781496858351
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.23Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of... -
Wildlife Films Derek Bouse 9780812217285
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £30.39If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the... -
The Frost Queen's Blade Meg Smitherman 9781405987042
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22A RELUCTANT QUEEN. A DEADLY ASSASSIN. A DEAL BOUND IN BLOOD.The Frost Queen's Blade is an epic, standalone, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance from Meg Smitherman. --Conspiracy lurks in the realm of... -
Skulduggery Pleasant (18) - A Soul Full of Shadows Derek Landy 9780008586010
SciFier: £8.67The bone-shaking new trilogy concludes - the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series Skulduggery Pleasant has many enemies - many, many... -
The DC Book: A Vast and Vibrant Multiverse Simply Explained Stephen Wiacek 9780241506431
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.19Travel the myriad worlds of the DC Multiverse. If you want to truly understand DC Comics, The DC Book is your one-stop guide to the DC Multiverse. This unique, insightful examination of a... -
The Lost Diary of Anne Frank Johnny Teague 9781592110568
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £16.46The Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of 20th-century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, Anne establishes a... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £65.87Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations Malin Hedlin Hayden 9781138563209
SciFier: £48.06Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with... -
Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts Adam Bell 9780520284692
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £52.30The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and... -
Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts Adam Bell 9780520284708
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and... -
Musical Groups in the Movies, 1929-1970 by Roy Liebman
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43Music has been an important part of the film experience since the beginning, largely produced by tinny in-theater pianos and later by synchronized turntables and more sophisticated technology. But it... -
Childhood's End Sir Arthur C. Clarke 9780575082359
GatewayRRP: £14.99SciFier: £8.99Arthur C. Clarke's classic in which he ponders humanity's future and possible evolutionWhen the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although... -
Skulduggery Pleasant - The Haunted House on Hollow Hill Derek Landy 9780008708511
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.33On a dark and stormy night ... A pair of ghost-hunting journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain - the Hollow Hotel. They're here to... -
Silver - Unearthed Michael Carroll 9781837865598
RebellionRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.21Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five-hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades... -
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts Soraya Palmer 9781788168410
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74'A beautiful ode to the power of storytelling, this novel is steeped in the folklore of the Caribbean and weaves a powerful narrative of identity, trauma, resilience and hope' Eleanor Shearer, author... -
The All-Consuming World Cassandra Khaw 9781645660439
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £11.89"A visionary, foul-mouthed, gory sci-fi adventure, dripping viscera, violence, and beauty in equal measure. . . . The All-Consuming World will consume your attention and linger in your thoughts, a...