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Bomb (Graphic Novel): The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Steve Sheinkin 9781250206749
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.66In December 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race... -
ArtQuake by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.85Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal... -
Second Takes by Andrew Repasky McElhinney
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Remaking Film, Remaking America presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema is being replaced by new forms of ""media"". Remakes, with their... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957452
SciFier: £37.99Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Allison Smith by Allison Smith
SciFier: £12.40Contemporary artist Allison Smith's diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and... -
Bomb (Graphic Novel): The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Steve Sheinkin 9781250206732
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.70In December 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race... -
John Waters: Pope of Trash by John Waters
RRP: £52.99SciFier: £32.39Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny-a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste, John Waters (born 1946)... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957445
SciFier: £73.49Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.67In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
The Yves Saint Laurent Revolution: The Story of 'Le Smoking' Loo Hui Phang 9780500030967
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.79The story of an outfit, a designer, his muse, and what the three of them created together: contemporary style. Paris, 1966. In the tranquility of his studio on Avenue Marceau, Yves Saint Laurent is... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269019
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art Andrew V. Uroskie 9780226842981
SciFier: £99.22Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White... -
Art Masters: Basquiat by Julian Voloj
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46The dazzling, provocative work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) would come to define the vibrant New York art scene of the late '70s and early '80s. Punk, jazz, graffiti, hip-hop: his work drew... -
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art Andrew V. Uroskie 9780226842998
SciFier: £28.90Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
SciFier: £68.60"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
Karl Lagerfeld: A Graphic Biography Michele Botton 9783791393476
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.57Through intertwined narratives and evocative illustrations, this graphic biography reveals the life and influence of Karl Lagerfeld, the legendary designer who revolutionized fashion. The book's... -
Cinematic Chronotopes: Here, Now, Me Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 9781501316104
SciFier: £40.99The site of cinema is on the move. The extent to which technologically mediated sounds and images continue to be experienced as cinematic today is largely dependent on the intensified sense of being... -
Refocus: the Films of Mary Harron Kyle Barrett 9781474494427
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Offers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works Argues that Harron's work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts,... -
Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves by Richard Perceval Graves
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £18.84When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world of Sixties London. Her first job was with Yoko Ono, and she soon fell in love with the... -
Working Like a Homosexual by Matthew Tinkcom
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,... -
The Andy Cohen Diaries by Andy Cohen
SciFier: £17.39As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed diary of one year in... -
Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay J. J. Murphy 9780231191975
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional... -
Good [no first name] FluX 9781681123301
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £21.29This is the story of the incredible journey of David Good, the son of an American anthropologist father, and indigenous Yanomami mother who calls the Amazon rainforest her home. Overlapping the story... -
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde Joan Hawkins 9780816634149
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Explores what horror movies tell us about issues of taste.Even before Jean-Luc Godard and other members of the French New Wave championed Hollywood B movies, aesthetes and cineasts relished the raw... -
Warhol by Geoffrey Rayner
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.34The first publication devoted to the textile designs of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, showcasing a rarely discussed aspect of the Pop Art superstar's career Andy Warhol... -
H.R. Giger: Debbie Harry Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo by Chris Stein
Titan BooksRRP: £50.00SciFier: £34.18A beautiful coffee table art book chronicling the extraordinary collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry's 1981 solo album KooKoo. When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known... -
Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475133
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £41.54This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the... -
Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks Debra N. Mancoff 9780711257078
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £14.55What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world. Beginning... -
Blow Up! by Robert Shore
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.25A non-fiction graphic novel that tells the story of a century of revolutionary contemporary art. How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark... How do you get at... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: £87.59Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
Midnight Moment by Jean Cooney
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £29.15The first and only book on Times Square's iconic Midnight Moment series, the world's largest and longest-running digital public art program Presented nightly to millions of viewers each year,... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169639
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
Made by MSCHF by Lukas Bentel
RRP: £59.95SciFier: £41.65A comprehensive, irreverent guide to the inner workings of provocative art collective MSCHF Made by MSCHF is a survey of the work of Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF, known for their eclectic... -
Filmmakers on Film by Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
SciFier: £102.13This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory. It brings together primary sources by filmmakers... -
Michael Haneke: Interviews Roy Grundmann 9781496828408
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind... -
Filmmakers on Film: Global Perspectives Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) 9781839024863
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.59This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory.It brings together primary sources by filmmakers... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169622
RRP: £84.00SciFier: £68.52Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
Michael Haneke: Interviews Roy Grundmann 9781496808691
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £90.99Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind... -
Libertine by Johnson Hartig
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £41.95Libertine is an invitation into Johnson Hartig's world, as the designer shares images of his eccentric and whimsical fashion designs, inspirational references, and his captivatingly eclectic...