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The Cinema of Ann Hui: Aesthetics, Gender, and Displacement Zhaoyu Zhu (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 9781350514430
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.49A central figure in Hong Kong cinema since her debut with The Secret (1979), Ann Hui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020. This... -
Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers Jeremy Borum 9781442237285
SciFier: £87.99As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them... -
The Theory and Practice of Motion Design: Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice R. Brian Stone (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) 9781138490802
SciFier: £39.23This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into account both theoretical questions and creative... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £35.00Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution Stefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 9781501392399
SciFier: £31.99World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema's dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging... -
Teo's Durumi by Elaine U. Cho
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.58The dazzling sequel to Ocean's Godori dives back into Elaine U. Cho's cinematic space opera series, taking Ocean and her crew deep into the cloisters of the Moon and the conflicts of the heart. "As... -
Teo's Durumi Elaine U. Cho 9781638933656
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The dazzling sequel to Ocean's Godori dives back into Elaine U. Cho's cinematic space opera series, taking Ocean and her crew deep into the cloisters of the Moon and the conflicts of the heart. "As... -
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art Margot Bouman (The New School, New York, USA) 9781350114562
SciFier: £96.63In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning... -
Neuromancer: The groundbreaking cyberpunk thriller William Gibson 9781473217386
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.William Gibson... -
People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail 9781517910679
RRP: £116.00SciFier: £92.98An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship The digital humanities have traditionally been considered to be the domain of only a small... -
The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come Francesco Casetti 9780231172431
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and... -
Beast Heart Kyle Richardson 9781946154354
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.16Book 1 of the Steambound Trilogy. When Gabby's hand turns to steam, her mom hires an engineer to build a clockwork glove. It's the last thing Gabby wants-if only she could be normal. But when her mom... -
Alternative Comedy by Oliver Double (University of Kent, UK)
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £27.59In the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up. Contemporary critics talked about it... -
Post-classical Hollywood by Barry Langford
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945... -
Joss, the Ambassador's Wife by Frederic Hunter
SciFier: £12.99When international correspondent Tom Craig travels to Malawi to report on a mysterious string of murders terrorizing the tiny country, he discovers another mystery that must be solved, this one very... -
Guide to Line Producing: For Filmmakers, Video Producers and Content Creators Paula Landry (Metropolitan College of New York, USA) 9781041024873
SciFier: £42.18This book is the ultimate resource for filmmakers who want to streamline their production process and ensure their films are completed on time and on budget, turning a film's vision into a reality... -
The Long Utopia: (The Long Earth 4) Terry Pratchett 9780552169363
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.422045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to... -
The Geek's Guide to SF Cinema by Ryan Lambie
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.08'Awesome. Everything you've ever wanted to know about big-screen sci-fi' - James King, film critic'Don't leave Planet Earth without it' - Dan Jolin, film critic'A wonderfully accessible, fascinating,... -
We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics Karen Schrier (Director of the Games and Emerging Media Program, Director of the Games and Emerging Media Program, Marist College) 9780190926113
RRP: £31.49SciFier: £27.99Distrust. Division. Disparity. Is our world in disrepair? Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and... -
Curse of the Werewolves Rex Ogle 9781335915832
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.32"Monsters have never been so much fun." -Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series on The Supernatural Society Welcome back to East Emerson, a town chock-full of... -
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power Luciano Cheles 9780367507480
SciFier: £42.00The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £79.86The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780313361333
SciFier: £29.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Robot Ethics 2.0 by Patrick Lin (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, California Polytechnic State University)
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £18.99The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on... -
Reel Women by Jane Sloan
SciFier: £93.99In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken... -
How to Play Video Games Matthew Thomas Payne 9781479827985
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.26Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokemon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian:... -
Rebel Stylist by Iain R. Webb
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.83"I have always been inspired by what was happening on the street - and anyway, I couldn't afford the high fashion price tags." -Caroline Baker "Featuring an array of - now - infamous covers and high... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
SciFier: £23.29The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Video Production Techniques: Theory and Practice from Concept to Screen Donald Diefenbach 9781138484566
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £46.71Video Production Techniques is an essential guide to the art and craft of video production. It introduces students to the theoretical foundations as well as the practical skills needed to make a... -
Fabric of Vision by Anne Hollander (N/A)
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £25.99Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a... -
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine Peter F. Hamilton 9781529073737
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.00'Gloriously imaginative'SFX MagazineExplore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.A... -
Be the Serpent Seanan McGuire 9780756416867
SciFier: £29.25Now in hardcover, the sixteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the... -
The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Andre Gaudreault 9780231173575
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double... -
Split Screen Korea by Steven Chung
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Shin Sang-ok (1926-2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and... -
The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature Federico Arditti Muchnik 9781138123625
SciFier: £36.79Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking. The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history,... -
Curse of the Werewolves Rex Ogle 9781335453679
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95"Monsters have never been so much fun." -Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series on The Supernatural Society Welcome back to East Emerson, a town chock-full of... -
DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib: Deluxe Collector's Edition Brian Herbert 9781419769061
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.83The second of three volumes of the graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science fiction classic by Frank Herbert, offering a prescient look into our galactic future-now in a deluxe... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780275983963
SciFier: £51.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Dodecahedron: The Story of the Second Stone Emmanuel C Lachlan 9781739139766
SciFier: £12.94Dodecahedron: The Story of the Second Stone is the third book in the Ocellus Series and is set billions of years before the events recorded in Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone. It is an epic...