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The Fat Woman's Joke Fay Weldon 9780007291755
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.24Fay Weldon's first novel, a sharp and witty parable of the way people see themselves. For several weeks, Esther Sussman had lived in a sordid flat in Earls Court. During the day she read... -
Thelma & Louise and Women in Hollywood by Gina Fournier
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51The entertainment industry is all too much a man's world, with Hollywood at its macho center. Thelma & Louise made film history with a female screenwriter, two female leads and a controversial,... -
Emotion and Cognition in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci by Silvana Serra
SciFier: £16.24This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to determine the ways in which they engage viewers... -
Holy F*ck by Nick Marino
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Sister Maria has recruited two horny drug-fueled weirdos to stop the apocalypse. Their names? Jesus and Satan. Can these biblical frenemies help this nun with a gun defeat an army of pissed off... -
Merchant of Venice by Richard Appignanesi
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74One of Shakespeare's greatest and, in recent years, most controversial plays. After borrowing a large sum of money from the Jewish money-lender Shylock, the merchant Antonio faces a devastating... -
Battle Royale Slam Book by Haikasoru .
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.41The cult phenomenon Battle Royale has been lauded as a masterpiece and decried as exploitative gore, but it's always remained in the public consciousness. This collection of essays by some of the... -
The Talking Jewels by Denis Diderot
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72The Talking Jewels (1748) is an erotic novel by Denis Diderot. Although he is known as a leading radical philosopher of 18th century France, Diderot also pursued a brief career as an anonymous author... -
Cinema's Original Sin: D. W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture Paul McEwan 9781477325490
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation,... -
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
SciFier: £17.72The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films "A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming This is the complete companion... -
Strange Travellers by Gene Wolfe
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.74Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so STRANGE TRAVELLERS contains a... -
Seal of Approval by Amy Kiste Nyberg
SciFier: £28.99For the past forty years the content of comic books has been governed by an industry self-regulatory code adopted by publishers in 1954 in response to public and governmental pressure.This book... -
Graveyard of Empires Mark Sable 9781607067399
Image ComicsRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Afghanistan. U.S. Marines face a never-ending onslaught of Taliban. But even hell can get worse. The dead are coming back to life in The Graveyard of Empires, and only together can both sides of... -
Wes Craven: Interviews Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496826107
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Code of Honor by Michael F. Blake
SciFier: £18.69This work is a behind-the-scenes look at the making and influence of three classic Western movies bound together by the "code of honour" that they explore. "High Noon" (1952, directed by Fred... -
The Discipline Volume 1 by Peter Milligan
Image ComicsRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Superhot duo MILLIGAN and FERNANDEZ' controversial story of sex and metamorphosis. When frustrated Manhattan wife Melissa Peake allows herself to be seduced by a mysterious stranger, she is drawn... -
Thelma and Louise/Something to Talk About by Callie Khouri
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74When "Thelma & Louise" opened in 1991, it was greeted with acclaim and controversy, quickly earning first-time screenwriter Callie Khouri a reputation as one of the only writers of real movie roles... -
Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America Lee Grieveson 9780520239661
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" - all became objects... -
Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema: Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique Lindsay Coleman 9781780766409
SciFier: £29.20With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives... -
Introducing Jung by Maggie Hyde
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.99'Clever and witty.' Susie Orbach, GuardianCarl Gustav Jung was the enigmatic and controversial father of analytical psychology.This updated edition of Introducing Jung brilliantly explains the... -
Refocus: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Michael Witte
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.09Examines the film practice of the Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky The first scholarly collection dedicated to the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky Offers theoretical... -
Funny Frames by Oliver C. Speck
SciFier: £34.99Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is... -
We Stand on Guard by Brian K Vaughan
Image ComicsRRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.30SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with Hollywood storyboard artist STEVE SKROCE for a subversive, action-packed military thriller. Set 100 years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic... -
Wes Craven: Interviews Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496825964
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
The Pilgrim Conspiracy Jeroen Windmeijer 9780008379186
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.74Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Robert Harris and Scott Mariani Some of history's most well-kept secrets are about to be uncovered... The normally quiet Dutch town of Leiden is... -
Local Man Volume 1 Tony Fleecs 9781534399587
Image ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46STRAY DOGS creator TONY FLEECS teams with REVIVAL's TIM SEELEY for a series that combines rural crime noir and superhero action! Once the star recruit of the media sensation super-team THIRD GEN... -
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, Bournemouth)
SciFier: £28.99Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) is precisely that: a cold-eyed character study based on the crimes of Henry Lee Lucas, who was convicted of eleven murders in the 1980s. Director John... -
Fifties Television: THE INDUSTRY AND ITS CRITICS William Boddy 9780252062995
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23William Boddy provides a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of the fledging American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy... -
Edward Dmytryk: Reassessing His Films and Life Fintan McDonagh 9781476680927
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £28.18Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" who were jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Finding himself... -
Castro Reinhard Kleist 9781906838324
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.99In October 1958, a young German journalist arrives in Havana, Cuba, and sets out to meet and interview Fidel Castro on behalf of a German newspaper. He finds himself in a country plunged into... -
Eloquent Gestures by Roberta Pearson
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.22Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood... -
The Paradox of Transgression in Games Torill Mortensen 9780367418397
SciFier: £117.75The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary... -
Legion of Super-Heroes Five Years Later Omnibus Vol. 2 (New Edition) Mary Bierbaum 9781799507840
DC ComicsRRP: £175.00SciFier: £95.84It's the Legion of Super-Heroes like you've never seen them before, as the heroes of the 30th-century continue one of their boldest and most controversial eras! As DC's 30th century super-team, the... -
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide David Norris 9781848313514
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris... -
Nicole Kidman NA NA 9781844574889
SciFier: £29.08Pam Cook's study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman's career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a... -
No Laughing Matter by Angela Rosenthal
SciFier: £36.30In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor - seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons... -
The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus (2025 Edition) by Various
DC ComicsRRP: £91.00SciFier: £58.65DC's grim arbiter of justice, the Spectre, returned in the 1960s to enact bloody vengeance on evildoers across the DC Universe.Originally introduced in More Fun Comics #42 in 1940 and co-created by... -
The Paradox of Transgression in Games Torill Mortensen 9781032400617
SciFier: £41.13The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary... -
Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97They were looking for a miracle cure, but they instead they found a killer . . .Sara and Michael. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media - until their lives are shattered by a mystery... -
The Cinema's Third Machine by Sabine Hake
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £40.78The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their... -
Introducing Thatcherism by Peter Pugh
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired...