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The Monk: Annotated Edition Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781847498168
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64"A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later... -
Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki
Viz MediaRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.16A one-shot graphic novel starring very human characters from the unique imagination of Paru Itagaki, creator of Beastars!Whenever Mako Higari comes in contact with something she perceives as dirty,... -
Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema Heidi Wilkins 9781474425902
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perceived as perpetuating rigid, binary... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072369
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and... -
Rock Hudson by John Mercer (Birmingham City University, UK)
SciFier: £28.95Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072376
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820161
SciFier: £87.99Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet... -
True Beauty, Vol. 7: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel Yaongyi 9781990778148
WebtoonRRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.79Mastering the art of makeovers, Jugyeong Lim navigates high school and then college, while her self-esteem, romantic life, and career are constantly in flux... Jugyeong Lim has been treated... -
Slums on Screen by Igor Krsti
SciFier: £93.71Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen?... -
Memory of a Murder by Earl Staggs
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.92A killer is leaving a trail of terror and death from Baltimore to Ocean City, and only Adam Kingston can stop him. "Slide over sweetcakes, we're going to have us a real good time." After a near-fatal... -
MESCHUGGE by Benni Bodker
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £16.00Copenhaghen, Denmark, 1905. The small Jewish ghetto is living in fear as a series of murders is shaking the population to their core. A young Jewish secretary is recruited by the Police to help... -
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems Ingrid Loschek 9781847883674
SciFier: £112.99When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also economically relevant... -
African Filmmaking by Kenneth W. Harrow
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £14.75This volume attempts to join the disparate worlds of Egyptian, Maghrebian, South African, Francophone, and Anglophone African cinema - that is, five "formations" of African cinema. These five areas... -
El Nino, 1997-1998 by Stanley A. Changnon (Professor (Emeritus) of Atmospheric Science and Geography, Professor (Emeritus) of Atmospheric Science and Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
SciFier: £68.99This book covers the time span from the first indications of El Nino (May 1997) until its reversal (June 1998). The focus is largely on the United States, where El Nino produced widespread changes in... -
The Society of Time by John Brunner
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Don Miguel Navarro lives in Britain - a Britain which failed to repel the Spanish Armada invasion. He is part of the Society of Time, an organisation which polices the improper use of time travel,... -
Emotion and Cognition in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci by Silvana Serra
SciFier: £16.24This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to determine the ways in which they engage viewers... -
Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community Bridget Whelan 9781476667430
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The world of video games has long revolved around a subset of its player base-straight, white males aged 18-25. Highly gendered marketing in the late 1990s and early 2000s widened the gap between... -
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema Luca Barattoni 9780748685929
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book explores the ferments of Italian cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s. Unlike France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820178
SciFier: £72.49Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet... -
Secrets of Conjuring and Magic by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £24.22Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical expose of Victorian... -
Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany Jennifer Fay 9780816647453
SciFier: £27.48In the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, Germans found themselves receiving instruction from their American occupiers. It was not a conventional education. In their effort to... -
Reinventing Cinema by Chuck Tryon
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99For over a century, movies have played an important role in our lives, entertaining us, often provoking conversation and debate. Now, with the rise of digital cinema, audiences often encounter movies... -
3D Game Programming All in One, Third Edition Kenneth Finney (UCLA) 9781435457447
SciFier: £80.963D GAME PROGRAMMING ALL IN ONE, THIRD EDITION is perfect for anyone interested in learning the skills and processes involved in making 3D games. This new edition of the bestselling book shows you how... -
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema Nicoleta Bazgan 9781835532270
SciFier: £33.35Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city... -
Icons of Men's Style mini by Josh Sims
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21"Women are into fashion, men are into style, style is forever" Domenico Dolce Womenswear progresses in leaps and bounds, fuelled by the readiness of women to wear what may at the time be perceived... -
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia Ran Ma 9781041181361
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from... -
True Beauty, Vol. 8: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel Yaongyi 9781998341801
WebtoonRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.75Mastering the art of makeovers, Jugyeong Lim navigates high school and then college, while her self-esteem, romantic life, and career are constantly in flux... Jugyeong Lim has been treated... -
Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums Igor Krstic 9781474425933
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.99Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a `planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen?... -
Queer Sexualities in Early Film by Shane Brown (University of East Anglia, UK)
SciFier: £33.99Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen. Until now, however, relatively little... -
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.52In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening... -
Crown and Scalpel by C. J. L. Thomason
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.11Close your eyes and look into the light. What do you see? Now click with your tongue, then face a wall and click again. What do you hear? This is how Ambarenyll perceives the world after becoming... -
The Cosmic Logos Traci Harding 9780732266677
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.49the final fabulous story of the Celestial triad, which began with the Ancient Future trilogy. With the Nefilim gone, and all the human races united, it is time for tory and Maelgwn to unite into one... -
Politics Go to the Movies: International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television Joel R. Campbell 9781793635167
SciFier: £114.99Movies and television series are excellent tools for teaching political science and international relations. Understanding how stories in various film and television genres illustrate political ideas... -
Imagined China by Wang Haizhou
SciFier: £38.53This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the... -
Illusion in Cultural Practice: Productive Deceptions Katharina Rein (University of Potsdam, Germany) 9781032036311
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live inThis... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: £27.10Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
The Spaghetti Western by Bert Fridlund
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of spaghetti westerns--low-budget films about the early American West mostly filmed in Italy. Though sometimes derided as excessively violent imitations of... -
Who Is Sherlock? by Lynnette Porter
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not... -
Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation Steve Swink (Flashbang Studios, Tempe, Arizona, USA) 9780123743282
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.60"Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord...