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Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan 9781474431927
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture by Miranda Corcoran
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.63In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
New Hollywood Violence by Steven Schneider
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74New Hollywood violence is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and issues relating to the depiction of violence in New Hollywood... -
Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text Deborah Cartmell 9780415167383
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.79Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case... -
Comedy, Seriously: A Philosophical Study D. Nikulin 9781137415134
SciFier: £46.99Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking. In particular, that comedy... -
Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 1840-1980 Rebecca Gill 9781526188021
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45This book uncovers the overlooked history of artisanal textiles in projects aimed at social uplift and moral reform. The contributors ask what the implications of this form of gendered craft... -
The Sensible Stage by Bridget Crone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
RRP: £88.95SciFier: £88.12The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre... -
The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End by Akos Farkas
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £47.19First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971... -
Boulet's Notes by Boulet
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £23.40Journey back to where it all began for award-winning French cartoonist Boulet's world-renowned cartoon blog, Boulet's Notes in this hardcover collection showcasing the best of the early years. ... -
Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan 9780748699926
SciFier: £93.01In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many... -
Refocus: the Films of Denis Villeneuve Jeri English 9781474497398
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of... -
Death Comes for the Toymaker, Volume 1 by Dakota Brown
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.02Death comes for us all. But for Gil the Toymaker, the visit is an eternal tragedy! Every year the holiday gift giver visits children all over the world on a special night, but Gil's immortality comes... -
My History, My Gender, Me Cassandra Jules Corrigan 9781805014010
SciFier: £15.26Gender diversity isn't a new thing!People all throughout history have identified in ways we would now call trans, non-binary, or any number of other terms beyond 'male' and 'female'. From Marinos the... -
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image: Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema Adriano D'Aloia 9781041183518
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of... -
The Rise of Metacreativity: AI Aesthetics After Remix Eduardo Navas (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 9780367753047
SciFier: £37.66This book brings together history and theory in art and media to examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning in culture, and reflects on the implications of delegating parts... -
Film Studies: A Global Introduction Glyn Davis 9781405859189
SciFier: £68.96Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and... -
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, *A Book, Untitled* is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of... -
Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema: Constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen Ben Murtagh 9781138652231
SciFier: £42.86Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility of sexual minorities in the country, which has... -
The Magus of Hay by Phil Rickman
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.'Rickman's writing style... -
My First Pandemic by Jamison Odone
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £19.05My First Pandemic is a collection of drawings, thoughts, poems, comics, anger, happiness, life, and death from a difficult period in our history. Over the last two years, between crises and... -
Wood Wood 2-22 by Wood Wood
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £43.93The Wood Wood 2-22 book is an introduction to, and a look back at, Wood Wood and the first 20 years of the brand's history. The label's archive has been delved into by Copenhagen/Milan-based ... -
My Cute Cousin Always Gets Her Way Vol. 2 Inuchiku 9798895613207
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £8.83What was meant to be a brief stay with family in the countryside for the summer has been suddenly extended! When Nozomu's sister joins them, she finds her brother under assault from their tomboyish... -
Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures Peter Horne 9780415124683
SciFier: £37.66Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time... -
Island in a Puddle 4 by Kei Sanbe
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.87The tiny apartment where Minato lives may as well be an isolated island in the middle of the ocean. Despite still being in elementary school, it falls on his shoulders to care for his little sister... -
New Challenges for Documentary by Alan Rosenthal
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This... -
Word and Image in Japanese Cinema Dennis Washburn (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) 9780521777414
SciFier: £46.09Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important... -
Hackers as Heroes in German Film and Television by William Mahan
SciFier: £78.49This book examines German feature films and television series centered around the figure of the computer hacker as a hero, introducing the German hacker genre to the ongoing scholarly discussion of... -
The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.41This book unravels the intimate narratives woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. From the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear, the narrative explores the concealed... -
Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin Paul Cronin 9780571336067
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.55'One of the best things published about cinema.' Sight & SoundHerzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial... -
Darkening the Italian Screen II by Eugenio Ercolani
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This work is a detailed portrait of one of the most important, bustling and absurd industries that cinema has ever known: colorful essays and nine career-spanning interviews with Italian genre... -
Walking Distance Lizzy Stewart 9781910395813
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by... -
The Metamodern Slasher Film by Steve Jones
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics... -
Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Christopher Nolan's previous films have reflected the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With Dunkirk, Nolan has gone back into the past and brought to life one of the momentous events of... -
Thoughts of Dog by Matt Nelson
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.41Based on the beloved Twitter sensation, Thoughts of Dog contains never-before-seen, sweet and funny reflections on life from the pup-spective of a gooooob dog, who, above all else, loves their human... -
Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema P. Coates 9781137396709
SciFier: £46.99This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It... -
Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics Jason Dittmer 9781439909768
RRP: £67.00SciFier: £53.51Highlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsHighlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relationsAbout the AuthorJason... -
Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction (Revised Edition) Guy Austin 9780719078293
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies,... -
Bags (Victoria and Albert Museum) by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46An impeccably researched and beautifully produced concise history of bags through the ages, with examples drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum's remarkable collection. From the hand-stitched... -
Transnational Crime Cinema Sarah Delahousse 9781399505680
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Framed by approaches in critical transnationalism, this volume examines crime as a cinematic mode moving within, between, and across national cinemas to provide rigorous accounts of the political,... -
Billy & Buddy Vol.2: Bored Silly with Billy by Jean Roba
CinebookRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Billy has a very normal life, growing up in a typical family in a nondescript town. His dog, however, is a bit unusual: a cocker spaniel with human-or, as he often reflects himself,...