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Comic Book Culture by Matthew J. Pustz
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture world have in common?This book provides good... -
The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America Douglas Horlock 9781496838858
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617038235
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball
RRP: £29.50SciFier: £25.68The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both... -
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Marc Singer 9781617031366
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.56One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular... -
Shinoy and the Chaos Crew Mission: Creepy Castle: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat) Chris Callaghan 9780008454579
RRP: £6.75SciFier: £6.41Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book... -
Midnight School Mission: Scout the Raccoon - you say which way the story goes Sasha Sutormin 9798242796218
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £13.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798242796218Author Sasha SutorminFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Louis Malle: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496839619
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.46A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the... -
Louis Malle: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496839602
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews Sonia Misra 9781496838179
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £18.79Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian... -
David Fincher: Interviews Laurence F. Knapp 9781628460360
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842817
SciFier: £90.99Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
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... -
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Charles Hatfield 9781617031779
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £73.13Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics... -
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Charles Hatfield 9781617031786
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.56Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics... -
Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia by Brian Cremins
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £28.99Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says,... -
Openness of Comics by Maaheen Ahmed
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036637
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.34Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other... -
Hollywood Unknowns by Anthony Slide
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £28.13Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781496857965
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781496857996
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the... -
D. W. Griffith by Anthony Slide
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the... -
Shinoy and the Chaos Crew Mission: Static Shocks: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat) Chris Callaghan 9780008454562
SciFier: £7.42Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book... -
Shinoy and the Chaos Crew Mission: Merciless Ice Mines: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat) Chris Callaghan 9780008454678
SciFier: £7.42Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book... -
Hitman: World of Assassination Game Guide: Strategies, Tips, and Expert Techniques for Every Mission George L Davis 9798313505466
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.19Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
Bloodbourne Game Guide: Mission Walkthrough, Offering a Special Tips and Strategies for Beginner and Pro Donna J Tucker 9798285973263
RRP: £12.63SciFier: £12.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798285973263Author Donna J TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781496820419
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £90.99Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781496820426
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has... -
God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga Natsu Onoda Power 9781604732214
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £16.35Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics,... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842824
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.14Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives Masao Yokota 9781617038099
SciFier: £65.71Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in... -
Viva la historieta by Bruce Campbell
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56!Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on... -
Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781628461787
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £24.49In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young Bernard F. Dick 9781496861603
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her... -
David Lean: Interviews Steven Organ 9781604732351
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £20.34Along with Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean (1908-1991) is one of the most significant British filmmakers to emerge from the first half of the twentieth century. His use of panoramic... -
The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America Douglas Horlock 9781496838841
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his... -
Dennis Hopper by Nick Dawson
RRP: £65.00SciFier: £43.43The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
George A. Romero by Tony Williams
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After recently relocating to Canada, he shows no signs of slowing up:... -
David Lynch: Interviews Richard A. Barney 9781604732375
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781496843432
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes...