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New Argentine Film: Other Worlds G. Aguilar 9780230109018
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £19.24Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new... -
Pervasive Animation Suzanne Buchan 9780415807241
SciFier: £50.66This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820161
SciFier: £87.99Depictions 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... -
Realism and Popular Cinema Julia Hallam 9780719052514
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to address... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820178
SciFier: £72.49Depictions 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... -
Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Viz MediaRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.83An explosive story from the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back!Young filmmaker Yuta contemplates suicide after the death of his mother, but a chance meeting with a mysterious girl will... -
The Quiet War Paul McAuley 9780575083554
GollanczSciFier: £23.49Twenty-third century Earth has been ravaged by climate change, and is now dominated by a few powerful families, with millions of people in prison and millions more labouring to rebuild ruined... -
Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration, Vol. 1 Nobuhiro Watsuki 9781421552316
Viz MediaSciFier: £7.20During the violent upheaval of the Bakumatsu era, Hitokiri Battosai was a feared and ruthless assassin. But now that the Meiji Restoration has begun to heal the wounds of civil war, Battosai has... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Fashion in Film by Adrienne Munich
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoinette looks, Fashion in Film uncovers the way in... -
Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61Jean-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... -
Exceptional Spaces by Della Pollock
SciFier: £53.99Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and... -
The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text M. Parker 9780230110441
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan,... -
Cinema in a Democratic South Africa by Lucia Saks
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £11.97Lucia Saks uses South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. She examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation... -
The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text M. Parker 9781349292875
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan,... -
Museum Movies by Haidee Wasson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art... -
Rising to the Surface: 'Moving and honest' OBSERVER Lenny Henry 9780571368792
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58'The king of character comedy.' Good Housekeeping'A lynchpin of British comedy.' Alan MooreThe nation's favourite comedian opens up about two extraordinary decades at the heart of British comedy... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822360025
SciFier: £20.23In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality Homay King 9780822359593
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £81.01In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,... -
Batman Vol. 3: Ghost Stories by James Tynion IV
DC ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46A bold new direction for Batman begins as Bruce Wayne's circumstances are forever changed. How did The Joker's rampage affect the citizens of the city? Bruce Wayne and the city he loves have changed... -
Kaya Book Five Wes Craig 9781534334021
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83When Kaya, Razel, and Jin encounter the cruel reality behind the Robot Empire's power, they must choose whether to run or fight. Sacrifices will be made, beloved characters return, and the bond... -
Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics Stephen Wilson 9780500289952
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £18.56Art + Science Now is a groundbreaking overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first illustrated book in its field, it shows how some of the world's most dynamic... -
Mexican Movies in the United States: A History of the Films, Theaters and Audiences, 1920-1960 Rogelio Agrasanchez, Jr. 9780786464104
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developments in entertainment--including cinema. Movie houses sprang up in areas where Latin American populations... -
Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ytasha L. Womack (Independent Scholar, US) 9798765131633
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.89Explore the Stories Behind the LegendsFirst introduced in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales reconceived Spider-Man as African American and Latinx, and his debut marked a... -
Secret Coders: Paths & Portals Gene Luen Yang 9781626720763
SciFier: £8.39Stately Academy is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! In the last volume, Hopper and Eni discovered a robot in the supply closet and programmed him to do mischief. Now they're trapped in an... -
Hell's Horizon (The City Trilogy, Book 2) Darren Shan 9780007261338 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.64The second volume in a noirish, gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling Children's author. In the City, The Cardinal rules, and Al Jeery is a loyal member of his personal... -
Hell's Horizon by Darren Shan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74The second volume in a noirish, gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling Children's author. In the City, The Cardinal rules, and Al Jeery is a loyal member of his personal... -
Star Wars: Darth Bane - Rule of Two Drew Karpyshyn 9781529157505
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the second in the Darth Bane trilogy, the fearsome Sith lord takes on a deadly new apprentice. Darth Bane's twisted genius made him a natural leader among... -
Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanislaw Lem Agnieszka Gajewska 9780367428730
SciFier: £42.00This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors... -
The State of Post-Cinema by Malte Hagener
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £113.99This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the... -
Hello, I Must Be Going by Dyan Sheldon
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95A tender, witty ghost story - and an exciting new direction for the internationally bestselling author of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.Celeste and Sorrel, Reuben and Orlando: high school... -
Blurred Boundaries by Bill Nichols
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film,... -
Romantic Comedy Claire Mortimer 9780415548632
SciFier: £25.45Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the... -
The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn by Sue Reed
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32It's spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious - her friends abandon her,... -
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Christopher Stewardson 9781836243885
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Released ten years after the original 1954 Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster marked a palpable change and new direction for Toho's famous film franchise. Godzilla took on a friendlier... -
Kick-Ass: The New Girl Volume 1 by Mark Millar
Image ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46KICK-ASS is back-ready to wipe out the city's criminal lowlives, destroy its gangs, and save its communities from decay. But there's a new face beneath the old mask, a new figure wearing that ... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163330
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163323
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
Romantic Comedy Claire Mortimer 9780415548625
SciFier: £112.44Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the...