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On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring Fred Karlin 9780415941365
RRP: €115.19SciFier: €105.61On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of... -
The Cinema of Paula Markovitch: Contested Marginality Inela Selimovic (Assistant Professor, Wellesley College) 9781399549189
RRP: €108.00SciFier: €91.08The Cinema of Paula Markovitch investigates the director's explorations of differently marginalized dwellers and their sensescapes as a vital feature of her oeuvre. By inviting the viewer into the... -
Wonderland Thomas Riess 9783735610416
RRP: €52.80SciFier: €36.22In the comprehensive monograph Wonderland, artist Thomas Riess (b. 1970), who lives in Vienna, presents works from the last seven years. Riess, who works primarily in painting and video, intensively... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9781041189244
RRP: €57.59SciFier: €53.32The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential... -
The Painted Tent Victor Canning 9781788423526
RRP: €10.79SciFier: €8.99Freckled fugitive Smiler is never far from trouble. After hitching a ride south, Smiler finds his way to North Devon and the estate of the 'The Duchess' - a former fairground fortune-teller who... -
Comparative Dynamics in the Comics Industry: Contrasting Cultures in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands Rudi de Vries 9781032357171
RRP: €81.59SciFier: €73.27Due to the enormous cultural and economic impact of the Marvel movies, manga, and anime, research on the comics industry is growing, but has focused primarily on the US and Japan. This book focusses... -
Eternal Kiss by Laura Wright
RRP: €9.59SciFier: €7.32His father unknown, his mother dead, Nicholas Roman was raised by the vampire Breed with one wish: to live as a normal vampire. But once he's transformed against his will into a gifted immortal,... -
World Film Locations: Helsinki Silja Laine 9781841507224
RRP: €28.74SciFier: €27.14Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki... -
Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives by J. Garde-Hansen
SciFier: €56.39An accessible case study of television heritage, Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archive draws on the memories of fans and extras of Potter's productions. In providing insight into... -
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications Erkki Huhtamo 9780520262737
RRP: €96.00SciFier: €88.19This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded... -
Digital Sculpting with Mudbox: Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists Mike de la Flor 9780240812038
RRP: €53.99SciFier: €47.93Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier... -
Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 5 by Bisco Hatori
Viz MediaRRP: €8.39SciFier: €6.58Ranmaru spends his whole life not fitting in, until the oddballs of the Art Squad adopt him as one of their own. Ranmaru Kurisu comes from a family of hardy, rough-and-tumble fisherfolk and he sticks... -
Lost Gods by Micah Yongo
RRP: €10.79SciFier: €8.06Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the Shedaim. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he... -
World Film Locations: Mumbai by Helio San Miguel (The New School)
RRP: €28.74SciFier: €27.14Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350440760
SciFier: €37.66Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern... -
New Rural Cinema by Tim Lindemann
SciFier: €127.79n the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United States has risen dramatically. The impact of the... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820178
SciFier: €86.99Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet... -
The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day by Jennifer Forrest
RRP: €29.99SciFier: €26.33This work examines film series. Some are representative of three periods in American film history--silent cinema, Classic Hollywood cinema, and the post-Classic or New Hollywood cinema. And some... -
Replications by J P. Telotte
SciFier: €23.35A haunting fascination fuels our interest in the robot, the android, the cyborg, the replicant. Born in science fiction literature, the artificial human has come into its own in films, lurching to... -
Son of Harpo Speaks! Bill Marx 9781557837905
SciFier: €19.79Bill Marx is the last living person to have worked professionally with the three Marx Brothers his uncles Chico and Groucho and his father Harpo Marx. Because Chico and Groucho had siblings that... -
Ancestral Connections by Howard Morphy (Australian National University)
SciFier: €51.90Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu-an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land-and... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 2, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch (Professor of Post-Production, Bournemouth University) 9780748649464
RRP: €23.99SciFier: €22.09The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction Derek J. Thiess 9781786942227
RRP: €131.40SciFier: €43.69Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the... -
Dinosaur Therapy James Stewart 9780008472818
RRP: €13.19SciFier: €9.76**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** a comic about dinosaurs navigating the complexities of life, together including exclusive,... -
FORTNITE Official: How to Draw Volume 3 Epic Games 9781472291523
RRP: €11.99SciFier: €10.43Learn how to draw the latest Fortnite Battle Pass designs with this brand-new official guide from Epic Games.Want to recreate the action-packed looks from the Battle Passes? Well, now you can with... -
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications Erkki Huhtamo 9780520262744
RRP: €36.00SciFier: €30.08This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded... -
Storytelling in Video Games by Amy M. Green
RRP: €26.39SciFier: €23.41This book explores video games as important cultural artifacts and as sources of powerful, compelling storytelling. It begins by considering the fundamental structures of video games-including... -
The Other History of the DC Universe John Ridley 9781779517357
DC ComicsRRP: €20.39SciFier: €19.28This unique new series presents its story as prose by Ridley married with beautifully realised colour illustrations from a selection of exciting illustrators and comics artists. Extensively... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: €22.79SciFier: €21.13The New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry... -
Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) 9783836577915
SciFier: €74.51Clothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to... -
Monster in the Mirror: Band 12/Copper (Collins Big Cat) Jean Ure 9780007336234
SciFier: €9.74Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Stretch is a cat, long and slinky. Woffles is a dog, big and woolly. When the People bring home Muffy the new... -
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell 9781138305854
SciFier: €60.79Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address,... -
The Writing in the Stone by Irving Finkel
RRP: €24.00SciFier: €20.84In the capital, Nineveh, resides a deep and complex man, the power behind the King of the World. Faced with unforeseen disaster that threatens his authority, he emerges as a psychopathic killer.The... -
The Comic Mind by Gerald Mast
SciFier: €41.27Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole-its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and... -
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: €19.19SciFier: €15.88When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and... -
Rock Hudson by John Mercer (Birmingham City University, UK)
SciFier: €34.90Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an... -
3-D Cinema and Trauma: Poetics of Remembrance and Loss Dor Fadlon 9783031128233
SciFier: €135.59This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a... -
ENNEAD Vol. 3 [Paperback] by Mojito
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: €25.19SciFier: €18.44Nine powerful gods of ancient Egypt form the Ennead. When the god of war, Seth, kills his brother Osiris and takes over Egypt, he ushers in an era of chaos and cruelty. Centuries later, a new... -
The Boys by Scott Allen Nollen
RRP: €26.39SciFier: €23.41The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The initial chapter summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to... -
Cinema in Democratizing Germany by Heide Fehrenbach
SciFier: €64.79Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she...