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Documentary in Wales by Dafydd Sills-Jones
RRP: £61.20SciFier: £55.49Documentary, in a small, bilingual nation such as Wales, experiences many of the same challenges that it faces across the world. As the costs of professional documentary production lessen, and the... -
Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media Dr Erica McCrystal 9781350148901
SciFier: £83.49Framing Gotham City as a microcosm of a modern-day metropolis, Gotham City Living posits this fictional setting as a hyper-aware archetype, demonstrative of the social, political and cultural... -
David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818201
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169608
SciFier: £88.18Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and... -
New Realities by Greg Hunter
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Dash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly... -
Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics Paul Gravett 9780500292433
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.36This beautiful and engaging volume charts the evolution of manga from its roots in late 19th-century Japan through the many and varied forms of comics, cartoons and animation created throughout... -
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. 9781982125745
BaenSciFier: £8.09A New Day in the New World It's 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Maarten Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long... -
The Darwin Variant by Kenneth Johnson
SciFier: £11.45"Johnson channels Stephen King with this summer thriller...The Darwin Variant divides families, lovers, and colleagues working toward the same goals in a nerve-wracking race to an unexpected... -
Risky Business by William D. Romanowski
SciFier: £49.36The role of motion pictures in the popularity of rock music became increasingly significant in the latter twentieth century. Rock music and its interaction with film is the subject of this... -
Hollywood Made in China Aynne Kokas 9780520294011
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an... -
Supersaurs 5: The Seventh Spinosauri by Jay Jay Burridge
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived... The fifth adventure in the thrilling global adventure series sees Bea, Carter and Theodore are getting closer to the truth about the shadowy Sauria... -
The Walking Dead Live! by Philip L. Simpson
SciFier: £87.99In 2010, The Walking Dead premiered on AMC and has since become the most watched scripted program in the history of basic cable. Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead... -
The Amtrak Wars: Death-Bringer by Patrick Tilley
SciFier: £17.99Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation - a community living in vast subterranean cities - and the... -
The Amtrak Wars: Earth-Thunder by Patrick Tilley
SciFier: £19.99Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation - a community living in vast subterranean cities - and the... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073639
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.60Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Japan beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Jenny Hall 9781350095427
SciFier: £37.49In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern... -
The Amtrak Wars: Cloud Warrior by Patrick Tilley
SciFier: £17.24Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation - a community living in vast subterranean cities - and the... -
Alphabeatz: Tagging Alphabets from A to Z Woshe 9788417412029
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £20.92Graffiti writing was born in the streets of Philadelphia in the late 1960s. But it was in New York in the early 1970s that it became a full-fledged urban art, gradually taking over the landscape of... -
Bollypolitics by Ajay Gehlawat (Sonoma State University, USA)
SciFier: £102.13This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, including a surge in sectarian violence and the ascent... -
The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781793624611
SciFier: £37.99The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on... -
Back Lot by Maurice Rapf
SciFier: £56.99Son of pioneer movie producer Harry Rapf, Maurice Rapf grew up in Hollywood in that city's golden age. After moving from independent filmmaking to Warner Bros., in 1924 the senior Rapf joined Louis... -
Exodus Alex Lamb 9781473206151
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.46The Photurians - a hivemind of sentient AIs and machines - were awakened by humanity as part of a complex political trap. But they broke free, evolved, and now the human race is almost finished. Once... -
Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video Eric Hoyt 9780520282636
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries... -
Laurel and Hardy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £68.99This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Hardy's significance in film comedy, the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. Of the two,... -
Disney Stories: Getting to Digital Newton Lee 9781461421009
SciFier: £46.99Disney Stories: Getting to Digital explores how Disney, the man and the company, used technological innovation to create characters and stories that engage audiences in many different media, in... -
Film and Television After DVD James Bennett 9780415878340
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest... -
Nostalgia and Displacement in Contemporary European Cinema Tasos Giapoutzis 9783032176691
SciFier: £46.99This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate interplay between nostalgia and displacement in contemporary European cinema. Through the lens of significant films, it... -
Beren and Luthien J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008503963
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.37Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The... -
Retro Gaming: A Byte-sized History of Video Games - From Atari to Zelda Mike Diver 9781912785865
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £6.24'Superb coffee table book' - Nintendo Life'A fun read' - Retro Gamer Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old retro tech... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £72.95Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his... -
Superhero Comics Dr Chris Gavaler (Washington and Lee University, USA) 9781474226356
SciFier: £97.99A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and... -
Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics through Immanent Aesthetics David Fancy 9780773557291
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary artistic and popular cultural practices already providing pathways... -
Behind the Lens: Dispatches from the Cinematographic Trenches Jay Holben 9781138813489
SciFier: £53.96Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he's chronicled his adventures in the pages of American Cinematographer, Digital Video,... -
Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century D. Radosavljevic 9780230343115
SciFier: £46.99Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West,... -
Windows to Worlds: The art of Devin Elle Kurtz 3dtotal Publishing 9781912843466
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £20.44Illustrator and concept artist Devin Elle Kurtz shares her journey, from childhood ambitions to be an artist and finding the best educational fit, to working in the industry as she continues to... -
Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie by David Rickert
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.03How did a pizza become a pizza? Is a pickle really a cucumber in disguise? Explore fascinating food history, nutrition, and American culture through this middle-grade graphic-format nonfiction book... -
Hollywood Made in China Aynne Kokas 9780520294028
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.39China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an... -
Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film Helena Goscilo 9781793641670
SciFier: £37.99Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: £20.49In January 2004, Showtime debuted The L Word, the first prime-time commercial drama to centre around lesbian characters. Over the course of six seasons, the show depicted the lives and loves of an... -
Under Heaven Guy Gavriel Kay 9780007342105
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.53An epic historical adventure set in an alternate 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set...