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Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age Vanessa Gerrie 9781978834378
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context... -
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities Ellie Tomsett (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781350302280
SciFier: £92.99What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy... -
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities Ellie Tomsett (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781350302327
SciFier: £30.99What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy... -
Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age Vanessa Gerrie 9781978834361
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context... -
Peter Greenaway's Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi
SciFier: £77.99Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350198524
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £25.57How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often... -
Real James Dean by Winkler Peter
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £16.15In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350198531
SciFier: £91.56How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often... -
Sustainability and the Social Fabric: Europe's New Textile Industries Clio Padovani (University of Southampton, UK) 9781350105775
SciFier: £36.99While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact... -
I See You Wonder by Deborah Farmer Kris
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39Notice and affirm all the ways toddlers are learning and discovering as they ask questions and exploreExploring, asking, noticing, celebrating. In I See You Wonder, a caregiver notices and celebrates... -
Dreamwielder by Garrett Calcaterra
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99"In a world shrouded by soot and smoke, young Makarria has literally been forbidden to dream... Legend has foretold the demise of Emperor Thedric Guderian at the hands of a sorceress with royal... -
Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique Tereza Kuldova (University of Oslo, Norway) 9781350049499
SciFier: £31.99This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in... -
I See You Sing Deborah Farmer Kris 9798885540834
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.19Notice and affirm all the ways toddlers express their feelings and connect with the world around them. Singing, crying, laughing, clapping, cheering. In I See You Sing, a caregiver... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350049123
SciFier: £29.99Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
Sustainability and the Social Fabric: Europe's New Textile Industries Clio Padovani (University of Southampton, UK) 9781474224116
SciFier: £113.99While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact... -
Hang-Ups: Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of Fashion's 'Western'-Centrism Benjamin Linley Wild (The Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781350197237
SciFier: £34.24The Covid-19 pandemic heightened people's awareness of long-standing inequalities within the fashion industry. Amid calls for greater accountability and ethical awareness, efforts are being made... -
Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350102699
SciFier: £97.99Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350045040
SciFier: £98.49Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350272385
SciFier: £31.99Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot... -
Hang-Ups: Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of Fashion's 'Western'-Centrism Benjamin Linley Wild (The Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781350197244
SciFier: £101.74The Covid-19 pandemic heightened people's awareness of long-standing inequalities within the fashion industry. Amid calls for greater accountability and ethical awareness, efforts are being made... -
Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism Jose Blanco F. (Dominican University, USA) 9781350214392
SciFier: £33.99Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands... -
Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism Jose Blanco F. (Dominican University, USA) 9781350115163
SciFier: £103.49Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands... -
Failure Professor Nick Rees-Roberts (Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) 9781350369979
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £11.95Fashion thrives on fame and success, capitalism and culture. But beneath the luster and hype, fashion is also inevitably about failure - an essential part of its history and evolution. In his... -
Libertine Fashion: Sexual Freedom, Rebellion, and Style Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350054073
SciFier: £33.54Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the... -
Encyclopedia of Film Noir by Geoff Mayer
SciFier: £83.99When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir... -
New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts Donna Cox 9780252087011
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.46Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events... -
Critical Fashion Practice: From Westwood to Van Beirendonck Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781474265539
SciFier: £97.99There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs... -
New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts Donna Cox 9780252041549
SciFier: £33.29Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events... -
Critical Fashion Practice: From Westwood to Van Beirendonck Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781474265522
SciFier: £28.99There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs... -
Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television Jessica Gildersleeve 9781041185833
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all... -
Hare Pota me te Pakohu Kura Huna: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling 9781776711413
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.85I muri i tetahi raumati pouri i te taha o nga weriweri Tuhiri, ka ora a Hare i te taenga mai o Rana me tana motoka rererangi. Ka hoki ano ia ki Te Kura Matarau o Howata mo tona tau tuarua, engari kei... -
The Animals in That Country: winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Laura Jean McKay 9781913348854
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on...