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Reading and Writing a Screenplay: Fiction, Documentary and New Media Isabelle Raynauld 9781138476769
SciFier: $87.71Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television and new media. It... -
Golden Vial, The by T Locke
SciFier: $34.56Lady Shona, the newly crowned queen of the realm, is a leader without a throne. Pursued relentlessly by a dark force, her small contingent of loyal followers must make a difficult choice--flee or... -
Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers: The Eye Behind the Lens Jacqueline Frost 9780367362638
SciFier: $85.76Packed with gems of wisdom from the current 'masters of light', this collection of conversations with twenty leading contemporary cinematographers provides invaluable insight into the art and craft... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781496807946
RRP: $66.30SciFier: $51.66In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because... -
Vampires by John Steakley
RRP: $54.96SciFier: $39.82The cult classic is back?for fans who like their vampire hunters hard-boiled.You don?t just kill vampires for the money?you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because somebody has to. You do it no... -
Time's Edge by Rysa Walker
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $19.26To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back... -
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood by Neil Archer (University of Keele)
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $38.13Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated... -
Black African Cinema by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
RRP: $66.41SciFier: $65.24From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African... -
The Pleasures of Computer Gaming by Melanie Swalwell
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys,... -
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation Marina Hassapopoulou 9781517915223
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive... -
Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry by Jayne Smith
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $62.43Garment assembly is fundamental to the creation of designs. This guide provides fashion students and designers with the knowledge of the techniques and components essential to the assembly of sewn... -
Chinese Lesbian Cinema by Liang Shi
SciFier: $238.14The emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previously available or... -
Suddenly Something Clicked by Walter Murch
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $51.09Highly lauded film editor, director, writer and sound designer Walter Murch reflects on the six decades of cinematic history he has been a considerable contributor to - and on what makes great films... -
Douglas Gordon: Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now... Silvana Editoriale 9788836663248
RRP: $54.96SciFier: $38.08A multimedia installation of films and videos presents the entire oeuvre of Douglas Gordon (Glasgow 1966), one of the most influential figures in video art. In 1999, invited to exhibit at the Foksal... -
American Film Cycles by Amanda Ann Klein
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $41.88A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres,"... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: $258.77SciFier: $249.45There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives Maike Sarah Reinerth 9780367876609
SciFier: $98.15Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in... -
Manga & Anime Digital Illustration Guide by Studio Hard Deluxe
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $29.63The complete guide to amazing digital illustration techniques!Are you an animator, an illustrator, a designer? Or an artist working in multiple digital fields at once? If so, this is the book for... -
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Paul Henley 9780226327150
SciFier: $94.07Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred... -
World Trigger, Vol. 25 by Daisuke Ashihara
Viz MediaRRP: $18.30SciFier: $13.97You thought your neighbours were bad...but at least they're not aliens trying to kill you! Earth is under constant threat from Neighbours, invincible monsters from another dimension that destroy our... -
Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures Andrea Easley Morris 9780367503819
SciFier: $92.20Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these... -
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together Kay Dickinson (Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780195326642
SciFier: $71.88In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches,... -
Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond Jose Alaniz 9781496804532
RRP: $72.14SciFier: $52.10The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the... -
Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula Steffen Hven 9781041176954
RRP: $109.90SciFier: $100.14Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento... -
Of Swords & Roses Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) 9781835627969
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $33.94Since ancient times and across realms the clash of swords and clatter of shields punctuate pursuits of love. A part of Flame Tree's thrilling new series of Romantic Fantasy titles, Of Swords & Roses... -
Matter by Iain M Banks
SciFier: $36.16In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For... -
Eastwood's Iwo Jima: Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima Anne Gjelsvik 9780231165648
RRP: $201.52SciFier: $164.12With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event... -
Tactical Media by Rita Raley
RRP: $41.20SciFier: $33.85Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests,... -
Rosario+Vampire: Season II, Vol. 10 by Akihisa Ikeda
Viz MediaSciFier: $17.61Average human teenager Tsukune accidentally enrolls at a boarding school for monsters--no, not jocks and popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches and unnameables out of his wildest nightmares!... -
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 12 by Takehiko Inoue
Viz MediaSciFier: $46.81Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher, Musashi authored A Book of Five Rings, a classic treatise in the canon of world... -
Shadows, Specters, Shards by Jeffrey Skoller
SciFier: $63.96Avant-garde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history. Jeffrey Skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avant-garde films more... -
Stories Told through Sound by Barry M. Putt, Jr.
SciFier: $44.06With over 4,000 outlets worldwide and growing, audio drama is the new frontier in storytelling. From family dramas tales to epic space battles and period pieces to large-cast musicals, it is a medium... -
The Literary Life of Pictures by Michele Cometa
SciFier: $212.95This book offers a theory of ekphrasis-the literary description of an artwork-from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical... -
Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre Cynthia Baron 9781349680832
SciFier: $57.23Everyone has heard of Method acting . . . but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors'... -
The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
SciFier: $22.88An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller-set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate-by Lindsay Cummings, co-author (with Sasha Alsberg) of the New York Times... -
Riddles of the Sphinx by Kimberly Lamm (Duke University, USA)
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $26.82Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place... -
Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament Janice Helland 9781138721432
RRP: $96.16SciFier: $88.23This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies... -
Truth from a Lie by Margaret Key
SciFier: $224.40Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781628462036
SciFier: $167.06In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 3 by Takehiko Inoue
Viz MediaRRP: $45.78SciFier: $34.88Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior philosopher, Musashi authored A Book of Five Rings, a theoretical guide to military strategy...