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Voyage of the Damned Frances White 9780241640074
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.75To mark the thousandth year of peace in the Empire of Concordia, the emperor's ship embarks upon a twelve-day voyage. Aboard are the heirs of the twelve provinces of Concordia, each graced with a... -
Players and Their Pets by Mia Consalvo
SciFier: £24.43In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women,... -
The Conscience of Cinema: The works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989 Thomas Waugh 9781041187493
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £45.03This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist... -
Their System, Our Game: Homebrew and the Worlds of Pathfinder Scott DeJong 9780472040261
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.49Our favorite tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) provide a chance to act out a fantasy. It might be the desire to wipe out foes with a single strike, the ability to charm even the most curmudgeonly... -
When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories by Francisco Garcia Gonzalez
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.49A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse-Francisco Garcia... -
Terror and the Cinematic Sublime by Todd A. Comer
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This study considers film in the aftermath of September 11. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media, including theatrical films by directors such as Steven... -
Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek
RRP: £9.95SciFier: £9.21This concise and accessible survey, the latest title in Thames & Hudson's renowned World of Art series, is set to become the definitive popular guide to graffiti and street art. The traditional... -
Voyage of the Damned Frances White 9781405956598
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Pre-order The Sunday Times bestselling murder mystery debut with magical passengers, epic adventure, and a twist you can't guess.If Agatha Christie wrote fantasy, this would be it!----------"Agatha... -
Museum Movies by Haidee Wasson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275969745
SciFier: £78.49The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: £92.99A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers... -
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki) by Professor Catherine Russell
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.67Mikio Naruse's When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960) combines high melodrama with modernist film language, telling the story of Keiko, a bar hostess struggling to succeed in Tokyo's Ginza district. ... -
The Video Game Explosion by Mark J. P. Wolf
SciFier: £73.99The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture today. All aspects of video games... -
Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada by Peter Rist
SciFier: £68.99This new volume in the Greenwood Press series Reference Guides to the World's Cinema discusses the films and personalities of the Canadian cinema. This guide encompasses the diverse output of both... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.70By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275972912
SciFier: £37.99The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher EducationA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing... -
Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris John Potvin 9781526134790
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism,... -
Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris John Potvin 9781526164902
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism,... -
Hollywood North by Mike Gasher
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £25.68British Columbia is celebrated as Canada's principal centre of audiovisual production. Its billion-dollar industry trails behind only California and New York, the most well-established film... -
Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media Janine Marchessault 9780415204316
SciFier: £24.44Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA... -
Fake Lake by Adrian Norvid
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.59It's noon on Tuesday in Fake Lake and the smell of the Tire Stack (still smoldering after thirty years) is wafting through the window of the Greasy Spoon Diner. Inside the radio's tuned to YFUK--Fake... -
Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century Kelsey Blair 9781032231297
SciFier: £37.66Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of... -
Narrative Mortality by Catherine Russell
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Analyzes New Wave cinema from a postmodern perspective.What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822350095
SciFier: £26.38By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media Janine Marchessault 9780415204309
SciFier: £93.70Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA... -
Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond Kay Dickinson 9781844577842
SciFier: £31.99Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This... -
Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema by Terri Ginsberg
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £54.49Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: in the... -
Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity by MJ Clarke
SciFier: £83.49Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as Dragon's Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique combination of videogame... -
Mechademia 10 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11-the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises-and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken... -
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes Lillian Robinson 9780415966320
SciFier: £39.39Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This... -
Lent Jo Walton 9780765379078
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's... -
Crossing Lines: Comics About Human Migration Antje Ellermann 9781487531393
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.91Across Europe and North America, far-right parties have strategically framed immigration as a threat to national identity and security, capitalizing on public anxieties around cultural change and... -
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... -
Crossing Lines: Comics About Human Migration Antje Ellermann 9781049801223
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Across Europe and North America, far-right parties have strategically framed immigration as a threat to national identity and security, capitalizing on public anxieties around cultural change and... -
Mechademia 7 by Frenchy Lunning
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Lines of Sight-the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and... -
A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg Adam Barkman 9781498593618
SciFier: £37.99A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's early productions stand as landmarks in contemporary cinema, and his... -
Five Stalks of Grain Adrian Lysenko 9781773855622
RRP: £47.95SciFier: £36.39In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding... -
The Medium of the Video Game by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching... -
The Origin of Day and Night Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt 9781772274691
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59"Spare and beautiful."- Kirkus In very early times, there was no night or day and words spoken by chance could become real. When a hare and a fox meet and express their longing for light and...