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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: £9.08Winner 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... -
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity Jeffrey M. Pilcher 9780842027694
SciFier: £113.99Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to... -
Cobweb Walking by Sara Banerji
SciFier: £14.19As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things... -
Color Science and Digital Imaging: An Essential Guide for Filmmakers, Photographers, and Visual Effects Artists Steve Wright 9781032773865
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £46.16This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects, demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion.Readers will... -
Experiencing Film Music by Kenneth LaFave
SciFier: £42.99Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild. Yet it is an integral part of the cinematic experience. Minimized as mere "background music," film... -
Art in the Cinema by Dr Steven Jacobs (Ghent University and Antwerp University, Belgium)
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.01In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the... -
The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 9781513277714
RRP: £4.99SciFier: £4.23When Fairy Blackstick created a magical rose and ring, she did not anticipate their existence to be so troublesome. With the power to warp perception, the rose and the ring each make their bearer... -
In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings Gloria Fossi 9780063085176
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £20.52Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: £84.76The 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... -
Brave New World: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Aldous Huxley 9781784879686
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.43A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's deeply eerie and prescient dystopia, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari.Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and... -
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity Jeffrey M. Pilcher 9780842027717
SciFier: £49.34Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252083051
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
Cowboys As Cold Warriors by Stanley Corkin
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a... -
The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings: Sounds of Home in the Fantasy Franchise Daniel White 9781032034157
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on music's worldbuilding roles within the film-watching... -
Feet Of Clay: Discworld: The City Watch Collection Terry Pratchett 9781473200241
GollanczRRP: £14.99SciFier: £8.70Vimes is back, in all his curmudgeonly glory, in this classic, perceptive and laugh-out-loud Discworld mystery that will keep you turning the pages.'In my opinion, this is the book where Pratchett... -
The Lonesome Era by Jon Allen
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.36"A touching book that is sure to appeal to any reader who has tried to be the person they were meant to be." - BOOKLIST Camden is a cat. Camden is also crushing hard on his best buddy and... -
Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia by Barnaby King
SciFier: £37.99Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns... -
Lily takes a walk by Satoshi Kitamura
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.20When Lily takes a walk with her dog Nicky, she notices many lovely things. But poor Nicky only sees monsters lurking at every turn... By interpreting the pictures, the reader can understand that... -
Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film by Lucy Hay
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.12We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572543
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71What 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... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Hunter 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... -
From Box Office to Ballot Box by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as... -
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics Ariel Heryanto 9780415572705
SciFier: £46.33This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the... -
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers Alena Amato Ruggerio 9780739193044
SciFier: £51.99Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors... -
Book of Numbers Joshua Cohen 9780099597384
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.59FROM PULITZER PRIZEWINNER JOSHUA COHEN'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Toibin, Guardian'Untainted and unique' Rachel Kushner'Intensely perceptive' Independent Book of Numbers is a novel about two men... -
The Family Fortuna Lindsay Eagar 9781529518016
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Lindsay Eagar's dazzling YA debut welcomes us backstage at the Family Fortuna circus, where wonders lurk in wait to steal your breath away. You won't believe your eyes!Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous... -
Ruby's Worry: A Big Bright Feelings Book Tom Percival 9781408892152
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.49A reassuring and sensitive book - the perfect springboard for talking to children about sharing their hidden worries. From the Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival Be open, be honest, be you!... -
All The Truth I Can Stand by Mason Stokes
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.03Juniper, Wyoming high school student Ash is still reeling from his mother's death and ostracization by his friends when his father signs him up to join the crew for a college production of Oklahoma!... -
Real Vampires, Night Stalkers And Creatures From The Darkside Brad Steiger 9781578592555
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £24.99A chilling chronicle of the often-ignored history of vampirism as it has surfaced repeatedly in news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews, this shocking account of occultist... -
Remembering the Occupation in French film: National Identity in Postwar Europe L. Hewitt 9780230601307
SciFier: £92.99When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. This work shows how French film has... -
Rebel Without a Cause Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781839027765
SciFier: £11.35Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean),... -
When the Museum is Closed Emi Yagi 9781787304642
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.59A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus'Filled with movement and passion - a luminous story that reveals a whole world of desire and... -
Operation: Make a Splash: Volume 2 Tate Godwin 9781524890247
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £14.49Nick, 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...