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Nisekoi: False Love, Vol. 9 by Naoshi Komi
Viz MediaRRP: $11.11SciFier: $8.48Love triangle! Comedic antics!! Gang warfare?! You won't want to miss out on Shonen Jump's laugh-out-loud feel-good manga series! It's hate at first sight when Raku Ichijo first meets Chitoge... -
American Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Popular Media, 1945-1970 Lisa M. Mundey 9780786466504
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49Scholars have characterized the early decades of the Cold War as an era of rising militarism in the United States but most Americans continued to identify themselves as fundamentally... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072369
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22Mike 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... -
Interview With The Vampire: Claudia's Story by Anne Rice
Yen PressRRP: $25.01SciFier: $21.48A richly-illustrated adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, told through the eyes of the vampire Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the vampire Lestat. Though... -
Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face by Amanda Headlee
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $21.84The line between madness and greatness is as delicate as a golden silk thread.It's a tricky balancing act to dance upon this fragile line for those seeking greatness. An outsider may perceive the... -
Writing for Soaps by Chris Curry
SciFier: $28.48This updated edition looks at all the latest markets for comedy writers, with new material on writing 'The Office' style docu-comedies, writing for children's TV, and even how to try out your own... -
Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus Jeffrey A. Brown 9780367663629
SciFier: $60.78Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in America and globally, and how the fictional Dark... -
The Monk: Annotated Edition Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781847498168
RRP: $11.11SciFier: $9.23"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: $13.89SciFier: $9.10A 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: $33.35SciFier: $31.65The 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... -
Memory of a Murder by Earl Staggs
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.36A 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: $31.96SciFier: $22.24Copenhaghen, 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... -
The Society of Time by John Brunner
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34Don 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,... -
Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community Bridget Whelan 9781476667430
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49The 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: $40.30SciFier: $38.66This 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: $100.76Depictions 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: $48.64SciFier: $40.30Jean 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: $35.76In 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... -
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $18.39When 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: $40.24Tall, 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: $27.79SciFier: $25.48Mike 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: $122.31Depictions 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: $26.40SciFier: $18.17Mastering 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: $130.26Near 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?... -
Reinventing Cinema by Chuck Tryon
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.74For 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: $121.063D 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... -
African Filmmaking by Kenneth W. Harrow
RRP: $23.56SciFier: $20.02This 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: $107.27This 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... -
Queer Sexualities in Early Film by Shane Brown (University of East Anglia, UK)
SciFier: $47.25Since 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: $15.28SciFier: $12.95In 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: $13.89SciFier: $12.66Close 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: $20.84SciFier: $20.14the 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... -
Studying British Cinema: The 1960s Danny Powell 9781903663882
SciFier: $76.94Aimed explicitly at students and teachers coming to British cinema for the first time, the Studying British Cinema series considers key texts from the decade under discussion and accessibly considers... -
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema Nicoleta Bazgan 9781835532270
SciFier: $50.08Ebook 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: $18.06SciFier: $12.80"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: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Independent 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: $23.62SciFier: $17.99Mastering 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: $43.09SciFier: $34.74Near 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?... -
The Spaghetti Western by Bert Fridlund
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $26.70The 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... -
Sylvie Sylvie Kantorovitz 9781406398618
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.94In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her. Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the head teacher and her home is...