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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... -
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... -
Race in the Machine by Quincy Thomas Stewart
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £13.81An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically... -
World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution Stefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 9781501348594
SciFier: £92.99World 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... -
Celtic Mythology by Philip Freeman (Orlando W. Qualley Chair in Classics, Orlando W. Qualley Chair in Classics, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa)
RRP: £23.49SciFier: £19.19Most people have heard of the Celts-the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the... -
Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger Rob King 9780231214056
SciFier: £27.69Radley 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... -
Musicking Shakespeare by Daniel Albright (Royalty Account)
SciFier: £111.49Demonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question. In this book,... -
Catapult by Emily Fridlund
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.66'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight' New York Times Book Review The unknowable wisdom of a baby; two teenagers with... -
Crisis Cinema in the Middle East by Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex, UK)
SciFier: £98.49In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns of revolutions. Yet, filmmakers have persisted in their desire to tell their... -
Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics by David Carrier
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £29.78"Wild Art" refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, from... -
Fashion Design for Living Alison Gwilt (Reader in Fashion and Sustainability, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9780415717724
SciFier: £42.86Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments... -
On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations Ivone Margulies (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) 9781501332456
SciFier: £32.99On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valerie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan... -
Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy 4 by Alan Grant
RebellionRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.82WELCOME TO THE DOGHOUSE Warped by radioactive Strontium-90 fallout after the Great Nuclear War, mutants like Johnny Alpha only have one career option available: a hard life as galactic bounty hunters... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 08 John Wagner 9781905437276
RebellionRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.76The global best-selling graphic novel series - over half a million copies sold! Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files collects the adventures of the iconic British character, presented in... -
After Kubrick: A Filmmaker's Legacy Professor Jeremi Szaniawski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 9781501383557
SciFier: £34.99Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of... -
Waterfall Girls by Kimberly White
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.29Legend has it that the first waterfall was created when an angry sea god threw his trident into a cliff with such force that the cliff split open, spewing water like a volcanic eruption. Through the... -
Crisis Cinema in the Middle East by Shohini Chaudhuri
SciFier: £31.99In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns of revolutions. Yet, filmmakers have persisted in their desire to tell their... -
When the Machine Made Art by Grant D. Taylor
SciFier: £31.99Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other... -
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 9781848876828
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday TimesHighly inventive and hilarious - The... -
Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1 Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781350319196
SciFier: £33.99In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical... -
A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies Mathias Clasen (Associate Professor of Literature and Media Studies, Associate Professor of Literature and Media Studies, Aarhus University) 9780197535899
SciFier: £98.87Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfounded Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy. But while horror fans... -
Queer: A Graphic History Meg-John Barker 9781785780714
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.61'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and... -
The Abyss Beyond Dreams Peter F. Hamilton 9781529059168
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.21The first volume in the Chronicles of the Fallers, The Abyss Beyond Dreams is an incredible adventure, exploring the mystery at the heart of the Peter F. Hamilton's sprawling Commonwealth Universe... -
The True Queen Zen Cho 9781509801077
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94Fairyland's future lies in doubt . . .The enchanted island of Janda Baik, in the Malay Archipelago, has long been home to witches. And Muna and her sister Sakti wake on its shores under a curse,... -
Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities Philip Kuberski 9781628929478
SciFier: £31.99Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he made: a coolness, an intellectual clarity, a critical edginess, and... -
Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1 Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781350082946
SciFier: £97.99In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical... -
Nervosa by Hayley Gold
SciFier: £20.65"A vibrant graphic memoir full of dark humor, Nervosa is an insightful look into the torment of disordered eating that will be a source of comfort to others who struggle with their mental health."... -
Dark Lullaby Polly Ho-Yen 9781789094251 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.11"This gripping thriller has everything: beautiful writing, shedloads of tension, family drama. It made me grateful for my fragile freedoms." Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake The... -
The Bear Hunter's Daughters: A Tale of Seven Sisters Anneli Jordahl 9780063338845
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.05In this modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom.Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land... -
Dark Lullaby Polly Ho-Yen 9781789094251
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45"This gripping thriller has everything: beautiful writing, shedloads of tension, family drama. It made me grateful for my fragile freedoms." Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake The... -
European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9781441182210
SciFier: £38.75This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core... -
Developing the Editor's Eye Michael R. Miller 9781032946375
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26In this accessible and informative text, Michael R. Miller draws on his extensive experience working on award-winning films to help readers develop their "eye" for editing.The book begins by... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney 9780190459970
SciFier: £35.50Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
The Science Of Discworld Terry Pratchett 9780091951702
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.91The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe... -
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion Mark Goble (Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley) 9780231219150
SciFier: £97.45Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or other experiences outside ordinary time. We... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney (Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina) 9780190459963
RRP: £120.00SciFier: £110.49Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
The Kingdoms Natasha Pulley 9781526623157
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVEL For fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical... -
The Memory Index by Julian Ray Vaca
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick.In an...