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Celluloid War Memorials by Mark Connelly
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of... -
Blood Over Bright Haven M. L. Wang 9781529935523
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.45The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The... -
Version Zero David Yoon 9780008418649
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.32'This propulsive, visceral, tech-rich tale is both all head and all heart' Caroline Kepnes, author Netflix smash hit You The blockbuster thriller from New York Times... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299474
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture Anna McFarlane 9781032083322
SciFier: £43.15In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers... -
Crash Course by Woodrow Phoenix
SciFier: £14.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951491017Author Woodrow PhoenixFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Street Noise BooksPublisher... -
Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence Daniel Bernardi 9780520285644
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the... -
The Giant by Youssef Daoudi
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £20.83By twenty-three, Welles had founded his own theatre company and revolutionised radio with his infamous broadcast of The War of the Worlds. By twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his... -
The Cinema of Ann Hui: Aesthetics, Gender, and Displacement Zhaoyu Zhu (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 9781350514447
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £67.50Beginning her film career in 1979 with The Secret, Ann Hui has come to be known as one of the most important figures in the Hong Kong film industry and was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime... -
Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence Daniel Bernardi 9780520285651
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the... -
The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.59An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: "Spooky, haunting, hilarious" (William Gibson). Welcome to the world of steampunk, a... -
Movie Speak by Tony Bill
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72"Movie Speak won't guarantee you a job, but having a knowledge of the industry terms will fool everyone into thinking you own the place." - Steven Spielberg "Finally a book that celebrates the... -
Version Zero David Yoon 9780008418656
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.12'This propulsive, visceral, tech-rich tale is both all head and all heart' Caroline Kepnes, author Netflix smash hit You The blockbuster thriller from New York Times... -
British Television Animation 1997-2010: Drawing Comic Tradition V. Norris 9781349461226
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £46.99British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern... -
Show People by Michael Newton
SciFier: £37.59Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and... -
Style and the Man by Alan Flusser
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.15What's the difference between a $395 and a $1,000 suit? What two words do you look for on a costly dress shirt's label? What are the folds in a cummerbund for? Alan Flusser knows fine clothes. One of... -
Indie Cinema Online Sarah E.S. Sinwell 9781978814707
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71Indie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and... -
Television Development: How Hollywood Creates New TV Series Bob Levy 9781138584235
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.61Development is a large and central part of the American TV industry, and yet the details of how it works - who makes development decisions and why, where ideas for new shows come from, even basics... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299481
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Masters of Light by Dennis Schaefer
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film... -
Woodstock University Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9781032335261
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969's iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it... -
Literally Me by Julie Houts
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.81LIVE. LAUGH. LOVE. or EXIST. SMURK. LURKJulie Houts has cultivated a devoted following as 'Instagram's favourite illustrator' (Vogue) by lampooning the conflicting messages and images women consume... -
Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9781350532106
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.50Across Polish film history, the contributions of women have often been overshadowed by their male counterparts. While figures like Wanda Jakubowska, Barbara Sass-Zdort, and Agnieszka Holland have... -
Game Usability: Advice from the Experts for Advancing UX Strategy and Practice in Videogames Katherine Isbister 9780367619923
SciFier: £45.46This book introduces the basics in game usability and overall game UX mindset and techniques, as well as looking at current industry best practices and trends. Fully updated for its second edition,... -
The SNES Encyclopedia: Every Game Released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Chris Scullion 9781526737830
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.60Following on from the previously released NES Encyclopedia, the SNES Encyclopedia is the ultimate resource for fans of Nintendo's second home video game console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment... -
Indie Cinema Online Sarah E.S. Sinwell 9781978814691
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Indie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and... -
The Cinema of Ann Hui: Aesthetics, Gender, and Displacement Zhaoyu Zhu (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 9781350514430
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.49A central figure in Hong Kong cinema since her debut with The Secret (1979), Ann Hui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020. This... -
Make the Cut: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Assistant Editor in Film and TV Lori Coleman 9780240813981
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £32.78Being a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. On the contrary, there are many unwritten laws and a sense... -
When Blanche Met Brando by Sam Staggs
SciFier: £18.79Exhaustively researched and almost flirtatiously opinionated, "When Blanche Met Brando" is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking New York and London stage productions of Williams'... -
The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women Jane M. Shattuc 9780415910880
SciFier: £37.66The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show,Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues... -
The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers Gary Lee Downey 9780415920223
SciFier: £50.66Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents... -
Postmortems from Game Developer by Austin Grossman
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £34.30The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the... -
D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews Keith Beattie 9781496857927
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.26This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925-2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made... -
Discovering Birmingham by Jonathan Berg
RRP: £8.00SciFier: £7.53Discovering Birmingham is the perfect guide to England's vibrant second city. From its beginnings as a medieval market town to its rise as a world centre of manufacturing, this book explores how... -
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472073726
SciFier: £65.16This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
Production Management for Television Leslie Mitchell 9780415424813
SciFier: £29.86Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520283909
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Hybrid Play: Crossing Boundaries in Game Design, Players Identities and Play Spaces Adriana de Souza e Silva 9781032400587
SciFier: £41.13This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity-one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of... -
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472053728
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.49This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
Black African Cinema by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.49From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African...