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Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics Nao Tomabechi 9781978839373
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today's most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance... -
Street Art, Public City by Alison Young
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £50.99What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of... -
Coco Chanel: A Biography Axel Madsen 9781408805817
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.80Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers... -
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands: (Volume 3) Stephen King 9781444723465
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21THE WASTE LANDS is the third volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.In the third novel in Stephen... -
From Tinseltown to Bordertown by Celestino Deleyto
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £29.99Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the... -
Vocal Apparitions by Michal Grover-Friedlander
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £53.19Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what... -
Talk to Her A. W. Eaton 9780415773676
SciFier: £29.86Pedro Almodovar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it... -
Rei Kawakubo by Dr Rex Butler
SciFier: £101.43The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective... -
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente 9781780339818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.11September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland - well, of... -
Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics Nao Tomabechi 9781978839380
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today's most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance... -
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen by Peter J. Bailey
SciFier: £29.25For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen... -
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Coco Chanel: A Biography Axel Madsen 9781408805817 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £1.81Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828054
SciFier: £27.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture Sandra Eckard 9781475828047
SciFier: £56.99With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the... -
Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance, Authorship Darren Waldron (University of Manchester, UK) 9781501348914
SciFier: £103.99Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona... -
Making Sense of Mind-Game Films: Narrative Complexity, Embodiment, and the Senses Dr. Simin Nina Littschwager (Independent Scholar, New Zealand) 9781501376276
SciFier: £34.99Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source... -
Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance, Authorship Darren Waldron (University of Manchester, UK) 9781501372438
SciFier: £33.99Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona... -
The Cartoon Guide to Calculus by Larry Gonick
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.22In "The Cartoon Guide to Calculus", master cartoonist and former Harvard calculus instructor Larry Gonick offers a complete and up-to-date illustrated course in college-level calculus. Using graphics... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350214385
SciFier: £34.63The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster (Monash University)
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £31.73Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing... -
The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema Seung-hoon Jeong (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) 9781501338564
SciFier: £38.99Once heralded and defined by the likes of Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing... -
In Search of Gil Scott-Heron by Thomas Mauceri
Titan BooksRRP: £26.99SciFier: £17.79Gil Scott-Heron is one of the most important artists of the past 60 years, and is widely credited as laying the foundations for modern hip hop as we know it. This gorgeous graphic novel follows the... -
Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics Dr Sarah Atkinson (King's College, London, UK) 9781501353970
SciFier: £36.99Live Cinema is a term used to capture a diverse range of experiences that incorporate a 'live' element in relation to a film's exhibition. The live augmentation of cinema screenings is not a new... -
In Other Los Angeleses by Meiling Cheng
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £24.49Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as... -
George Falls Through Time: A Novel Ryan Collett 9780063463509
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.96"Big-hearted and inspired, George Falls Through Time gifts us the timeless reminder that love makes the best sword to slay our outsized problems. On top of that, it's great, page-turning fun."... -
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing Asbjorn Gronstad 9781138319783
SciFier: £46.33The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent... -
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic Blake Atwood 9780231178174
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted... -
Judge Dredd: The Movie by Andrew Helfer
RebellionRRP: £15.99SciFier: £10.66"I AM THE LAW!" In the Third Millenium, the world changed. Climate. Nations. All were in upheaval. Humanity itself turned as violent as the planet. Civilisation threatened to collapse. And then... a... -
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else David Balzer 9780745335971
SciFier: £12.35*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to... -
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack Daniel Bishop (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University) 9780190932695
SciFier: £34.80The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the... -
Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China Shujen Wang 9780742519800
SciFier: £62.74Framing Piracy is the first book to systematically examine film distribution-legal and illegal-in the largest and mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc... -
The House of Barbary: The fierce, feminist retelling of Bluebeard Isabelle Schuler 9781526647320
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74'If you crossed The Miniaturist with Promising Young Woman, you'd get The House of Barbary . . . a blazing feminist roar of a novel' Naomi Kelsey Beatrice has been lied to her whole life.Beatrice... -
Michael Moorcock's Elric Vol. 1: The Ruby Throne Julien Blondel 9781782761242
Titan BooksRRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.26Elric Vol. 1: is the stunning first instalment of the new comic adaptation of the classic Elric of Melnibone novels by award-winning author Michael Moorcock. Eric, the albino emperor, has ruled... -
Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod
OrbitSciFier: £18.04'Stylish, witty, and engaging!' - San Diego Union Tribune'Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.'... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214049
SciFier: £107.58Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven... -
Hyper-Capitalism by Larry Gonick
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.99An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalism. In Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising,... -
World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution Stefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 9781501392399
SciFier: £31.99World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema's dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging... -
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack Daniel Bishop (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University) 9780190932688
SciFier: £108.99The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the... -
11.22.63 Stephen King 9781444727333
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand).WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of... -
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire Katherine Frank 9780822329725
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the...