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The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at the Florida Studio Mary E. Lescher 9780252044779
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida opened in Orlando at the dawn of the Disney Renaissance. As a member of the crew, Mary E. Lescher witnessed the small studio's rise and fall during a... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
SciFier: £16.68"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this... -
Moominland Midwinter: Special Collector's Edition Tove Jansson 9781908745668
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74Special collectors' hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs 'I love these editions-so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.' Philip Pullman ... -
From the Headlines to Hollywood by Chris Yogerst
SciFier: £42.99More than any other studio, Warner Bros. used edgy, stylistic, and brutally honest films to construct a view of America that was different from the usual buoyant Hollywood fare. The studio took... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023217
SciFier: £28.83The 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... -
Cinematic Howling: Women's Films, Women's Film Theories Hoi Cheu 9780774813785
RRP: £87.00SciFier: £69.06Cinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodoxframework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstreammovies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on women'sfilmmaking... -
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... -
Tiger Queen by Annie Sullivan
SciFier: £21.68"TIGER QUEEN is a gorgeous, lush YA fiction...Highly recommend for anyone looking for a beautifully crafted stand-alone book." (YA and Kids Book Central)Two doors.Two choices.Life or death.Kateri, an... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252080210
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252038617
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Playin' to Win: A Surgeon, Scientist and Parent Examines the Upside of Video Games Butch 9781600373619
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74At the edge of one of America's most defining eras in its history, salvation comes from the most unlikely source: video games. Playin' To Win: A Surgeon, Scientist and Parent Examines the Upside of... -
Vietnamese Memories #1: Leaving Saigon by Clement Baloup
HumanoidsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.21The testimonies of five family members, over five different periods, as they are respectively forced to leave their home country of Vietnam when outside forces or inner turmoil shatter their normal... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572536
SciFier: £40.83What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
The Magician King: (Book 2) Lev Grossman 9781804943199
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.02Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of the magical land of Fillory. But he finds himself growing restless.So when a mystery at the heart of the kingdom is uncovered, Quentin and his... -
Lore Olympus: Volume Five: UK Edition: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529909906
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.74Witness what the gods do after dark in the fifth volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes content... -
Cinematic Howling: Women's Films, Women's Film Theories Hoi Cheu 9780774813792
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Cinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodoxframework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstreammovies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on women'sfilmmaking... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161329
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp... -
The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781350245952
SciFier: £31.99Answering 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... -
Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Goffredo Polizzi 9781835537237
SciFier: £31.56Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and... -
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The Monsters We Deserve Marcus Sedgwick 9781788542302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £3.01'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?' The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva,... -
All about Thelma and Eve by Judith Roof
SciFier: £30.75Inviting us to "wallow in the middle," Judith Roof offers a fresh, inventive look at female comic secondary characters who, though never on center stage, play an indispensable role in enriching and... -
Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema Rachel Dwyer 9780415314251
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of... -
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: £8.99Winner 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... -
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film Hollie Price 9781526138200
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period re-imagined...