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Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas Elizabeth Johnson 9781498524742
SciFier: £83.49This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579979
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or... -
The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter - From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti by Izzy Pludwinski
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £31.81A celebration of the beauty of the Hebrew aleph-bet from sacred scrolls to graffiti. The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter is unique: there are many art books on Chinese lettering, Roman lettering, and so... -
Strategy Strikes Back by Max Brooks
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.59The most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the Star Wars saga has as much... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350049123
SciFier: £29.99Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
The Amtrak Wars: First Family: The Talisman Prophecies Part 2 Patrick Tilley 9781448213603
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.35Hundreds 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... -
Allan's Wife H. Rider Haggard 9781513208176
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49When young Allan Quatermain, a boy who would later be known for his heroic adventures, saves a young girl named Stella from a fire, they become quick friends. However, when Stella's mother leaves her... -
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace by Andrea Harriman
RRP: £43.95SciFier: £41.35It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids. 'Goth' did not gain lexical currency until the... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687152
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £78.62The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
Mobius: The Story of the Eighth Stone Emmanuel C Lachlan 9781739139735
SciFier: £12.94Although set many thousands of years before the events recorded in Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone, Moebius: The Story of the Eighth Stone is the second book in the Ocellus series. It is an... -
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West by Karin Breuer
RRP: £46.00SciFier: £41.14The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American... -
Editing and Special/Visual Effects by Charlie Keil
SciFier: £29.51Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play Diane Carr (University of London) 9780745634005
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £50.51Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one... -
Bad Magic by Derek Landy
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £5.82Experience Skulduggery Pleasant as never before - in this fully original graphic novel brought vibrantly to life in full colour 'A real cracker. Fun, thrilling,... -
Acting Across Borders: Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema Alberto Zambenedetti (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) 9781474439862
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility... -
Infinity Gate: The exhilarating SF epic set in the multiverse (Book One of the Pandominion) M. R. Carey 9780356518046
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.50'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus'A FASCINATING WINDOW ONTO A DANGEROUS AND MULTIFACETED UNIVERSE' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of... -
Design for Motion: Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design Austin Shaw 9781138318656
SciFier: £47.87Combining art and design principles with creative storytelling and professional savvy, this book covers everything a serious motion designer needs to make their artistic visions a reality and... -
New Zealand Cinema by Alistair Fox
SciFier: £25.14New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features... -
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World Thomas Zaniello (Northern Kentucky University, USA) 9781501349201
SciFier: £102.99The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of... -
Borne Jeff VanderMeer 9780008159214
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion... -
The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations: Not Getting What You Want Leading to Creating What You Need William R. Pace 9781032261256
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.93Starting out as a filmmaker comes with a host of limitations and restrictions leading to one key question: how do you channel your creativity past these daunting challenges to create compelling and... -
Wildfire: A Hidden Legacy Novel Ilona Andrews 9780063382978
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews, the thrilling conclusion to her Hidden Legacy series-plus the bonus novella Diamond Fire!Nevada Baylor can't decide which is more... -
Doris Chase Artist in Motion by Patricia Failing
SciFier: £55.08Doris Chase has achieved international stature as a pioneer in the field of video art since she moved from Seattle to New York City in 1972. An artist of remarkable and continuous creativity, Chase... -
The Girl On The Landing Paul Torday 9780753823408 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.01'The best book of the year... truly astonishing' Sunday Express'An exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller' Mail on Sunday'Surprising and suspenseful' Observer A GHOST STORY, A... -
Kew: Darwin and Hooker: A story of friendship, curiosity and discovery that changed the world Alexandra Stewart 9781526613998
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.50'A beautifully illustrated book which shows the importance of teamwork in developing new ideas'Books for Keeps On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published,... -
Spacewear: Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion Barbara Brownie 9781350000322
SciFier: £102.99Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and... -
Ready Player Two by Shira Chess
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking Ernst Cassirer 9781032474304
SciFier: £31.59"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
Wildfire: A Hidden Legacy Novel Ilona Andrews 9780062289278
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.87From Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, the thrilling conclusion to her Hidden Legacy series, as Nevada and Rogan grapple with a power beyond even their imagination...Nevada Baylor... -
Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K Wagner
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £12.22Deep in the hills of Appalachia, anti-android sentiment is building. Charismatic demagogue Eli Whitaker has used anger toward new labour policies that replace factory workers with androids to build a... -
Finn and the Pen by David Lawrence
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34When Finn buys a magic pen at a market stall, it seems like all his problems are solved... but the good times don't last in this action-packed adventure featuring life on the run, basketball battles,... -
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures: Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) 9781350436633
SciFier: £84.76This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork... -
Second Lives Tim Guest 9780099493778 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £2.12We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35... -
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... -
The Auditory Setting by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Analyses the sonic environment mediated and crafted within the film and audiovisual media arts Defines the generally underexplored but well-used terms ambient sound" and "ambience" terms that... -
Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice Dr. Max Schleser (Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) 9781501360329
SciFier: £32.46Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and... -
Ride, Boldly Ride by Mary Lea Bandy
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.68This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and... -
The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the 'Genuinely' Religious Film Dr Sheila J. Nayar (Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA) 9781472533029
SciFier: £40.99For more than half a century now, scholars have debated over what comprises a 'genuinely' religious film-one that evinces an 'authentic' manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholars do so by...