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The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £61.99Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with... -
Consumptive Chic by Professor Carolyn A. Day (Furman University, USA)
SciFier: £29.99During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out... -
Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en... -
The House with Chicken Legs Sophie Anderson 9781474940665
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.12A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny. Shortlisted for... -
Warning Shadows by Gary Giddins (The Leon Levy Center for Biography)
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £21.39In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have... -
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema Rick Warner 9780231212717
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred... -
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The House with Chicken Legs Sophie Anderson 9781474940665 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.57A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny. Shortlisted for... -
Jackson Alone Jose Ando 9781804442838
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46A short, blistering gut punch of a novel, Jackson Alone is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender-a frank exploration of identity, race, and queerness in contemporary Japan. Nobody at the... -
Dressing the Part: Television's Most Stylish Shows Hal Rubenstein 9780063272590
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £23.79From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to... -
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell J. R. R. Tolkien 9780007590094
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: £113.00SciFier: £108.93There 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... -
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Mary Simonson 9780199898039
SciFier: £34.34In the early twentieth century, female performers regularly appeared on the stages and screens of American cities. Though advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they often exceeded... -
Making Video Dance by Katrina McPherson (Dundee University, Scotland, UK)
SciFier: £35.93Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing... -
The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR Tom McCarthy 9781787333291
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.96Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within... -
Autobiographical Comics Professor Andrew J. Kunka (University of South Carolina, Sumter, USA) 9781474227858
SciFier: £97.99A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and... -
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime Deborah Elizabeth Whaley 9780295994956
SciFier: £105.13Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black... -
Fashion and Class Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781847888150
SciFier: £32.46In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion... -
Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema? J Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.29One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film... -
Life's Work: A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction David Milch 9781035005642
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97'Illuminating . . . there is never a dull moment' - The Times'Marvellous . . . full of riches' - New StatesmanDavid Milch is the critically acclaimed writer of the iconic TV series Deadwood and NYPD... -
News in their Pockets: A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia Ran Wei (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina) 9780197523735
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.36Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news. With three billion mobile phone subscribers,... -
Cheers by Joseph J. Darowski
SciFier: £37.99Airing from 1982 to 1993, Cheers was both critically acclaimed and one of the most popular television shows of all time, earning over 100 Emmy nominations and securing 28 wins, including four for... -
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Ernestine Schlant 9780415922203
SciFier: £40.26Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms... -
The Many Lives of Catwoman by Tim Hanley
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.77For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains and damsels in distress. Sometimes a thief, sometimes a vigilante, sometimes... -
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.76'This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!' Colleen Hoover_______________If she wasn't dead already, Delphie would be dying of... -
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Playing With Death: A gripping serial killer thriller you won't be able to put down... Simon Scarrow 9781472213426 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.58HOW WAS A MAN KILLED WHILE ALONE IN A LOCKED ROOM? IS IT THE PERFECT MURDER?It's a case for FBI Special Agent Rose Blake. Still raw after a notorious serial killer slipped through her net, Rose will... -
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Is it a Mermaid? Candy Gourlay 9781910959732 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.11"I AM A BEAUTIFUL MERMAID!" declares the Dugong, and she shows Benji and Bel her mermaid tail (rather big) and her mermaid singing (very bad). Is she really just a "sea-cow" - or could the Dugong be... -
The Massacre of Mankind: Authorised Sequel to The War of the Worlds Stephen Baxter 9781473205116
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21The awe-inspiring follow up to The War of the Worlds, which expands H.G. Wells' classic story while remaining true to his vision,/h3>It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world... -
Love Minus Eighty Will McIntosh 9780356502144
OrbitRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10A NOVEL OF LOVE AND DEATH, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDERThe words were gentle strokes, drawing her awake."Hello. Hello there."She felt the light on her eyelids, and knew that if she opened her eyes they... -
Seven Games: A Human History Oliver Roeder 9781324003779
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.31Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and... -
Bollywood's New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies Megha Anwer 9781978814448
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £27.43Bollywood'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... -
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 9780099518471
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic.EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSEWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our... -
Muslims in the Western Imagination by Sophia Rose Arjana (Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Iliff School of Theology, Boulder, Colorado)
SciFier: £49.55Muslims in the Western Imagination explores the ways in which Muslim men are depicted as monsters throughout history. Monsters help a society delineate who belongs in a social group and who, or what,... -
Twin Daggers by MarcyKate Connolly
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.82"A taut, emotionally arresting fantasy." -KirkusIn this first book of a YA fantasy duology, magic-wielding spies and twin sisters Aissa and Zandria want nothing more than to take revenge on the... -
Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine Tanya Shilina-Conte (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo) 9780197511336
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £25.71Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of... -
When the Museum is Closed Emi Yagi 9781529935004
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.95There she stood. A goddess. I was in love with the marble goddess.When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love.Rika has been tasked with talking to... -
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense Edward White 9781324002390
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.02In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to... -
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, USA) 9781350091672
SciFier: £87.99Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature,... -
Truth from a Lie by Margaret Key
SciFier: £97.99Critics 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... -
New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory Dara Waldron (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) 9781501362163
SciFier: £35.99New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics... -
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...