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The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon
RRP: £10.00SciFier: £9.21Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Selected as a 'book to look out for in 2017' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with... -
Alain Resnais by Emma Wilson
SciFier: £22.99Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating... -
Seen: Rachel Carson by Birdie Willis
RRP: £4.50SciFier: £3.93The second original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better.Booklist Starred Review! "Those who dwell among the... -
Not Quite Black and White Board Book Jonathan Ying 9780062380678
SciFier: £6.40Silly animals star in this lively board book that introduces colors in a unique and catchy way. Have you ever seen a zebra wearing pink polka dots? Or a penguin with bright yellow boots? ... -
Terra Formars, Vol. 7 by Yu Sasuga
Viz MediaSciFier: £9.11In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The... -
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.14Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s - "L'avventura," "La Notte," "L'eclisse" -are... -
Is Star Trek Utopia? by Sebastian Stoppe
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Star Trek has transcended science fiction through its integration of elements that also have crucial roles in the classical utopian tradition. New technologies change a civilization, a miniature... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521810920
SciFier: £76.58In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films Kyung Moon Hwang 9783031272677
SciFier: £110.40This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu ("Korean Wave") period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have... -
Dead Drunk by Pam Lock
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...' With a stiff measure of the... -
The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker Bram Stoker 9780712354448
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.30'I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.' Beyond the genre-defining... -
Woodstock University Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9781032335261
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969's iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it... -
Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Statements (Bilingual edition) by Thierry-Maxime Loriot
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £35.99Are we designers or artists? Maybe it's possible to be both For more than three decades, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have been exploring with breathtaking virtuosity the boundaries between the... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment Peter McNeil 9780857857613
SciFier: £106.94Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits,... -
Thelma & Louise and Women in Hollywood by Gina Fournier
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51The entertainment industry is all too much a man's world, with Hollywood at its macho center. Thelma & Louise made film history with a female screenwriter, two female leads and a controversial,... -
El Nino, 1997-1998 by Stanley A. Changnon (Professor (Emeritus) of Atmospheric Science and Geography, Professor (Emeritus) of Atmospheric Science and Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
SciFier: £68.99This book covers the time span from the first indications of El Nino (May 1997) until its reversal (June 1998). The focus is largely on the United States, where El Nino produced widespread changes in... -
Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam Mars-Jones Adam Mars-Jones 9781789141542
SciFier: £19.85The film review can be a little art form, not just a consumer guide, as this collection shows. Covering more than 30 years of film releases, celebrated critic Adam Mars-Jones guides us through the... -
Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.24Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du... -
Fashion Army by Matthieu Nicol
SciFier: £45.31Fashion Army investigates the evolution of military attire into iconic fashion. French visual researcher Matthieu Nicol presents a catalogue of three hundred and fifty documentary images from the... -
Narrative Threads: Palestinian Embroidery in Contemporary Art Joanna Barakat 9781849250818
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £25.49For centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thread. Their embroidery, or tatreez, inspired hundreds of artists who reinterpreted and transformed it... -
Football Kicks: Over 60 laugh-out-loud comic strip football jokes! Emiliano Migliardo 9781836000693
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Football Kicks is a hilarious collection of comic strip football jokes, filled with over 60 laugh-out-loud silly scenarios! Emiliano Migliardo's outrageously funny full-colour comics are perfect for... -
Film, Faith, and Cultural Conflict by Thomas Robin Riley
SciFier: £61.99Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ arguably generated more resistance and conflict upon its release than any film before or since, engendering intense debate and even hatred between... -
Yokki and the Parno Gry Richard O'Neill 9781846439278
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05When a Traveller family experiences a run of bad luck, an imaginative boy called Yokki lifts their spirits with tales of a magical white horse. A traditional Traveller-family folk tale which inspires... -
Pocket Irish Legends: 28 classics to delight and entertain Tony Potter 9780717158997 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.11High kings, forbidden romance and ancient magic all feature in these rich and colourful myths. Packed with 28 classic tales drawn from Ireland's ancient tradition of storytelling, these legends will... -
Hats!: Style and Statement in Global Headwear Yona Lesger 9781529443196
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96Hats! is an exploration of headwear from around the world. Divided into four parts reflecting the key reasons why we make and wear hats - Practical, Symbolic, Aesthetic and Transformative - the book... -
Post-9/11 Cinema by John Markert
SciFier: £78.49In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth,... -
Carolina Herrera: ColormaniaColor and Fashion Wes Gordon 9780847873715
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £60.18Inspired by the strong and full-of-fire Carolina Herrera woman, Wes Gordon partners with Elizaveta Porodina on painterly images merging bold colors and timeless beauty in a cinematic style. The... -
The Pixels of Paul Cezanne by Wim Wenders
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.19The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped, and inspired him."How are... -
Ed Wood, Mad Genius by Rob Craig
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51Filmmaker Ed Wood was controversial and critically maligned, even labeled 'the worst director of all time', yet he achieved cult status and remains of great interest today. This book frames Wood's... -
Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 3 by Yuhki Kamatani
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Yutaka Aoi is sweet, sensitive, and loves singing... so much so that he can't help but be brought to tears whenever he listens to beautiful music. He also has a talent few boys have: he can sing... -
Isuma: Inuit Video Art: Volume 52 Michael Robert Evans 9780773533691 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £29.33An engaging exploration into the art, folklore, politics, and cultural philosophy of Isuma, the producers of The Fast RunnerAn engaging exploration into the art, folklore, politics, and cultural... -
Appearances by Carol Dyhouse
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.89What does it mean to obsess about clothes and appearances? For some of us, deciding what to wear can involve tension and torment as well as delight. What do we mean by 'looking classy' or 'power... -
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.52Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic... -
Keith Haring: The Story of His Life Paolo Parisi 9783791388434
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.40From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring's life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment... -
Men's Cinema: Masculinity and Mise-en-Scene in Hollywood Stella Bruzzi 9780748676163
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is the first full-length study of masculinity and film style. Cinema is not just an intellectual or cerebral experience. They also make us feel: especially popular movies. This is a book about... -
Island in a Puddle 1 by Kei Sanbe
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.09The new manga series from Kei Sanbe, the master of suspense behind Erased, plunges an innocent young boy into Tokyo's criminal underworld, as he fights to keep his younger sister alive, and to return... -
The Elephant in the Womb by Kalki Koechlin
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £10.04Motherhood is the greatest job in the world...right?In this unique graphic narrative, we finally have that candid, funny and relatable book on pregnancy and parenting that mothers, expectant mothers,... -
South and East Asian Cinemas Across Borders: Critical Trends in Transnational Cinema Clelia Clini (Loughborough University, UK) 9780367693749
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in... -
Feminism, Film, Fascism by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to... -
Milk Without Honey Hanna Harms 9781803995311
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.36We could live in a paradise where insects, especially bees, pollinate fragrant oceans of flowers whose fruits we harvest. Instead, gravel fields are now displacing flower gardens and agriculture is...