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Street Art in the Middle East Sabrina de Turk 9780755638505
SciFier: £34.99Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765099
SciFier: £22.89One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as... -
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 9780198702641
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.06'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897)... -
Times Like These by David Ziggy Greene
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Discover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column Scene & Heard, including previously unseen sketches and reports. David Ziggy Greene travels the... -
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Paul Henley 9780226327143
RRP: £102.00SciFier: £101.14Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred... -
Picturegoers by Luke McKernan
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included... -
The Corso's Kids: Back in the Game by Peter Hess
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.02Join The Corso's Kids on their second fantastic adventure to Storytown! When Giorgia's soccer teammate, Carlos, quits the team because he believes he's too small to play goalie, the three... -
Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society Angel Torres-Toukoumidis (Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, Ecuador) 9781032226781
SciFier: £20.33This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within... -
Moonlight by Maria Flood
SciFier: £19.48This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of... -
Glamour by Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
RRP: £22.49SciFier: £20.49Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the... -
The Whole Equation by David Thomson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in... -
Superman - Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds by Geoff Johns
DC ComicsRRP: £36.00SciFier: £24.86Superstar writer Geoff Johns and legendary artist George Perez deliver the Crisis of the 31st century as the Legion of Super-Heroes reaches out for help against a powerful foe they can't beat alone. ... -
Film as Argument: The Secret to Feature Film Storytelling Darren Paul Fisher 9781978841130
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46If you've picked up this book, it's most likely that you have an interest in movies over-and-above the typical audience member. Perhaps a screenwriter, producer or director looking to improve your... -
Nahid Persson Sarvestani: Towards a Liquid Authorship Boel Ulfsdotter 9781474479882
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This monograph offers a critical study of Nahid Persson Sarvestani's documentary practice across three decades. Highlighting the filmmaker's at times limited opportunities to record visible evidence... -
Preppy Style: A Modern Guide to Timeless Fashion Rosalyn Gomersall 9781577155461
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.72Take a deep dive into preppy culture with this stunning lookbook and history of the iconic style.Preppy is a look, a vibe, and a lifestyle. From its inception as the fashion of Ivy League students to... -
A New History of Animation Maureen Furniss 9780500024096
SciFier: £83.93A New History of Animation takes readers from animation's origins-including descriptions of innovative techniques-and proceeds through the history of the studio system, the growth of television... -
The Masters Of The Universe Book by Simon Beecroft
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.42Relive childhood excitement and celebrate more than 30 years of He-Man, She-Ra, Skeletor and all the Masters of the Universe!By the Power of Grayskull! The war for Eternia begins again in 2021!... -
Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751556315
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The year is 1915, and the war is raging on . . . The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life.Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter,... -
Night After Night Phil Rickman 9780857898722
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Leo Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. Defford hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of... -
We Might See by Charlie Mylie
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.56In the tradition of Richard Scarry, this cleverly conceived first-words picture book is sure to satisfy the youngest readersWalking outside, we might seePlaces we pass, things going fastAcross the... -
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales by Stephen Webb
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.98This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the... -
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence Jinhee Choi (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College, London) 9780190254971
RRP: £117.50SciFier: £101.49Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. This book presents new perspectives on... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic Shiamin Kwa 9781978826571
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765082
SciFier: £113.99One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retained much of its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also... -
The Curse of Frankenstein by Marcus Harmes
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in... -
Refocus: the Films of Jane Campion by Alexia Bowler
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Explores the detail of Jane Campion's film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and her contribution to feminist filmmaking Includes multiple approaches consolidated... -
Midnight on the Marne Sarah Adlakha 9781250774613
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £7.41Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic Shiamin Kwa 9781978826533
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £48.76Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the... -
Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings Hugh Kenner 9780520305878
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £31.99Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,... -
The Harry Potter Generation by Emily Lauer
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The cultural impact of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series transformed a generation of young people into readers and fans, who were able to interact with one another in unprecedented ways as digital... -
Tropical Dream Palaces by Odile Goerg
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £42.90Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres... -
David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed. by Paul Duncan
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.15First advertised as a "mind-stretching experience," Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only... -
One Year at Ellsmere: A YA Graphic Novel about Friendship and Standing Up for What You Believe In. Faith Erin Hicks 9781035041442
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £7.31One Year at Ellsmere is a feel-good graphic novel about friendship and fitting in, from the New York Times bestselling Faith Erin Hicks!Is boarding school supposed to be this hard?When studious... -
Zuni and the Memory Jar by Aisha Saeed
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.61Meet Zuni. She's sweet, silly, ever-so-charming, and full of bright ideas. Her family has a memory jar. Anytime someone in the family does something important, they mark those moments through notes... -
World Film Locations: Prague by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The... -
Perfect Strangers by Stephen Poliakoff (Playwright, screenwriter and director, UK)
SciFier: £18.24The script of BBC's major 3-part drama for Spring 2001, starring Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall, Lyndsey Duncan and Toby Stephens If you take any family and get them together, and get them to stay up... -
Japanese Horror Cinema by Jay McRoy
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.38A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the... -
Digital Embodiment and the Arts: Exploring Hybrid Spaces through Emerging Technologies Denise Doyle (University of Wolverhampton) 9781835951125
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £22.99A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities... -
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century by Vicente Rodriguez Ortega (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.48This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films... -
The Japanese Adult Video Industry Heung-Wah Wong 9780367868550
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Unlike many other books on pornography which concentrate on arguments about restricting or not restricting pornography, this book focuses on the production of adult videos. It outlines and examines...