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Confessional Cinema by Jorge Perez
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £44.73In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Perez interrogates the assumption that... -
Look by Gabi Snyder
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £7.84In the tradition of Tomie dePaola's Quiet, this lyrical, timely picture book with beautiful diorama illustrations shows that if you really look, you never know what the world might give you to see... -
Twelve Days in May by Niamh Hargan
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58They haven't spoken for 12 years. Can they fall in love in 12 days? 'I've been bowled over by this perfect little rom com . . . FULL of... -
Good Luck To Us All: A Graphic Memoir of Sorts by Karen Vermeulen
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.61In this graphic memoir, Cape Town artist Karen Vermeulen reflects on the absurdities of contemporary womanhood-from romance and friendship to the ever-elusive "self-care".Trust her-Karen is trying... -
Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death Sarah O'Brien 9780472076253
SciFier: £64.30Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies... -
Operation: Make a Splash: Volume 2 Tate Godwin 9781524890230
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Nick, Sy, and Violet have the perfect vacation planned, but nothing is going according to plan. Now, they'll have to think fast, get creative, and make a splash in ways they never expected! A... -
Art in the Cinema by Dr Steven Jacobs (Ghent University and Antwerp University, Belgium)
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.01In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the... -
The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 9781513277714
RRP: £4.99SciFier: £4.23When Fairy Blackstick created a magical rose and ring, she did not anticipate their existence to be so troublesome. With the power to warp perception, the rose and the ring each make their bearer... -
In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings Gloria Fossi 9780063085176
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £20.52Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: £84.76The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
Brave New World: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Aldous Huxley 9781784879686
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.43A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's deeply eerie and prescient dystopia, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari.Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and... -
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity Jeffrey M. Pilcher 9780842027717
SciFier: £49.34Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252083051
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
Cowboys As Cold Warriors by Stanley Corkin
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a... -
The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings: Sounds of Home in the Fantasy Franchise Daniel White 9781032034157
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on music's worldbuilding roles within the film-watching... -
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton 9780224094146
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a... -
Lore Olympus: Volume One: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529150452
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.11Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories.'Steamy, often... -
The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781350245914
SciFier: £97.99Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252041242
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson Pat Cadigan 9781803361130
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning "Queen of Cyberpunk." Winner of the Scribe Award for best... -
Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation John Ellis 9780415574198
SciFier: £39.39Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences.Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday... -
The Magician's Land: (Book 3) Lev Grossman 9781804943182
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Quentin has been cast out of Fillory. Alone and adrift, he returns to Brakebills, the school of magic where it all began. But he can't hide from his past.His new path will take him through a world of... -
Vocal Apparitions by Michal Grover-Friedlander
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £53.19Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what... -
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide (Media tie-in) by Karl Weber
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as more... -
The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.77Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling... -
Rubble Films by Robert Shandley
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of... -
The Witch of Clatteringshaws by Joan Aiken
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00'It's a rotten old job being King!' says Dido Twite. Her friend King Simon agrees - his scheming courtiers want to marry him off to a pushy princess, and he has to lead his army against a tribe of... -
Outside: Stories by Barry Lopez Barry Lopez 9781595343192
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our... -
Rocket Repo: A humorous space opera adventure that will leave you laughing through the stars C.P. James 9781036701307
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34When civilization is an alien experiment, one unlikely hero must rewrite the ending. In the fractured galaxy of 2427, disgraced pilot Geddy Starheart thought his biggest problem was retrieving his... -
Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation Lilian Munk Roesing (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 9781501320170
SciFier: £40.99The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than... -
Damnation Diaries by Peter Rostovsky
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86In hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens.Hell can get you down. It's big, hot, often painful, and a hard place to get creative projects done. But something else is bothering... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: £94.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
A Brief History of Living Forever Jaroslav Kalfar 9781529368819
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' EsquireAdela, diagnosed... -
The Washington Stratagem by Adam LeBor
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.09A LONE AGENT. AN UNIMAGINABLE CONSPIRACY. UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay went rogue in Geneva and nearly lost her life. Her physical wounds are healed, but she will never be able to forget... -
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales by Bronwyn Reddan
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £43.43Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage,... -
The Collectors: Stories A.S. King 9780593620304
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.08Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz AwardA National BestsellerFrom Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an... -
Watching Arabic Television in Europe by Christina Slade
SciFier: £46.99What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New evidence from seven capitals shows that, far from being isolated in ethnic media ghettoes,... -
The Handmaid's Tale: The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series Margaret Atwood 9780099511663
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments.'The Handmaid's Tale changed me... -
Disappearing Tricks by Matthew Solomon
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. Where others have called upon magic as merely...