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Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Michael J. Blouin
SciFier: £33.99In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
Deeper than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema Raz Yosef (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 9781501319617
SciFier: £40.99In this collection, leading scholars in both film studies and Israeli studies show that beyond representing familiar historical accounts or striving to offer a more complete and accurate depiction of... -
The Incarnations: Betrayal and intrigue in China lived again and again by a Beijing taxi driver across a thousand years Susan Barker 9781784160005
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74A New York Times Notable Book of the YearShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize'Reads as China's Midnight's Children. Utterly remarkable' INDEPENDENT'A kaleidoscopically imaginative novel' THE NEW... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
SciFier: £88.18In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its... -
Bollywood's New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies Megha Anwer 9781978814455
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Bollywood's New Woman examines Bollywood's construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminates the contexts and contours of this contemporary... -
Entranced Earth Volume 45: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape Jens Andermann 9780810145924
RRP: £37.95SciFier: £25.68A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin... -
Invisible by Seb Doubinsky
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £10.74It's election time in New Babylon, and President Maggie Delgado is running for re-election but is threatened by the charismatic populist Ted Rust. Newly appointed City Commissioner Georg Ratner is... -
The Nightland Express J. M. Lee 9781645660316
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £9.33"A must-read for anyone who loves . . . complex and compelling coming-of-age stories, tales set in the Wild West with a tinge of magic, and/or a fast-paced read full of fae and adventure." -Tor.comIn... -
Filmmaker's Journey by Severo Perez
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £21.19Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1941, acclaimed filmmaker Severo Perez moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. His films have won awards, including five CINE... -
Lichtenberg Tom O'Connell 9781068250736
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.17In a frozen and hopeless future, Raidon City stands, the last bastion of civilisation in an otherwise barbaric world. The city's elite soldiers, the Corps, keep its inhabitants safe, hunting the... -
The Nightland Express J. M. Lee 9781645660033
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.06"A must-read for anyone who loves . . . complex and compelling coming-of-age stories, tales set in the Wild West with a tinge of magic, and/or a fast-paced read full of fae and adventure." -Tor.comIn... -
The Cinema of Raul Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies Michael Goddard 9780231167307
RRP: £84.00SciFier: £68.52Raul Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out... -
Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes Iain Borden 9781780230269
SciFier: £31.79This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art,... -
Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.28Welcome to Kyrzbekistan, winner of Most Corrupt Country 2011 and 2012. A place where anyone can be happy - as long they aren't poor, ill, foreign, a pedestrian, or in any way interested in the truth... -
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror Natasha Farrant 9781788541169
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Guardian Books of the Year 2019. Here are eight princesses for the Rebel Girls generation: bold, empowered, full of curiosity, adventure and determined to be true to themselves. Natasha Farrant's... -
Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film John Bodnar (Indiana University) 9780801885372
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.13From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless,... -
Synapse by Steven James
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.99Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant humanoid robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what... -
Media Effects and Society Elizabeth M. Perse 9780415885911
SciFier: £55.70Grounded in theoretical principle, Media Effects and Society help students make the connection between mass media and the impact it has on society as a whole. The text also explores how the... -
All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.97In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother.We all know the story of... -
The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Daisuke Miyao 9780822354079
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.51In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino... -
Professor at Large by John Cleese
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90And now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty... -
The Belladonna Maze: The most gripping and haunting novel you'll read in 2023! Sinead Crowley 9781801105651
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252080586
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social... -
![Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575375/647134/9780822336006__02013.1721653088.jpg?c=1 "Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]")
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £15.30For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship A.L. Rees 9781838719920
SciFier: £40.04Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252038945
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social... -
The Aloha Shirt by Dale Hope
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £35.99The most colorful and complete book published on the most enduring souvenir ever invented: the Hawaiian shirt. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of images, this book recounts the colorful... -
The Social Life of Kimono by Sheila Cliffe (Jumonji Gakuen Women's University, Japan)
SciFier: £27.99The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been thought... -
![Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575372/647131/9780822333579__91623.1721653085.jpg?c=1 "Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]")
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £14.58In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
Fashion and Art Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781847887832
SciFier: £34.99For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs,... -
Omni Vol. 2 by Melody Cooper
HumanoidsRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.24A young African-American doctor suddenly and mysteriously gains incredible abilities that put her at the forefront of human evolution.Dr. Cobbina, able to think at the speed of light and instantly... -
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film Ana Hedberg Olenina 9780190051266
SciFier: £42.69In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories... -
The Exorcist Effect by Joseph P. Laycock (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University)
SciFier: £20.02The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336389
SciFier: £26.38For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion Mark Goble (Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley) 9780231219167
SciFier: £25.07Slow 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... -
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dr. Filipa Antunes (Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK) 9798765113608
SciFier: £30.99This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan 9780755600571
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.35Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
Screen Industries in East-Central Europe by Petr Szczepanik (Charles University, Prague)
SciFier: £102.99This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book provides an alternative perspective into the audiovisual... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination Robert Markley 9780822336006
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £86.55For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
Cinema and Brexit by Neil Archer (Keele University, UK)
SciFier: £33.99Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of 'culturally English cinema'...