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Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation Steve Swink (Flashbang Studios, Tempe, Arizona, USA) 9780123743282
RRP: $60.29SciFier: $53.59"Game Feel" exposes "feel" as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures, chord... -
Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design Alison C. Dobbins (Michigan State University, MI, USA) 9780367683689
RRP: $50.91SciFier: $46.98Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examining the principles of media for the stage in a... -
Politics Go to the Movies: International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television Joel R. Campbell 9781793635167
SciFier: $152.75Movies and television series are excellent tools for teaching political science and international relations. Understanding how stories in various film and television genres illustrate political ideas... -
Imagined China by Wang Haizhou
SciFier: $53.95This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the... -
The Man with Six Senses by Muriel Jaeger
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00Hilda is besotted with Michael, because Michael has a gift. Through some mutation, his mind is able to perceive 'lines of energy' and 'the vast ocean of movement' - things beyond the limits of the... -
Illusion in Cultural Practice: Productive Deceptions Katharina Rein (University of Potsdam, Germany) 9781032036311
SciFier: $53.95This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live inThis... -
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition Mieke Bal 9781442628342
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $26.18Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: $39.91Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
The Snow Queen and The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen 9781782695974
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.76The Snow Queen - When Kai is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor the roses in the garden. One wintry evening, he is kidnapped by... -
Sylvie Sylvie Kantorovitz 9781406398618
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $14.41In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her. Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the head teacher and her home is... -
Iranian Cinema: A Political History Hamid Reza Sadr 9781845111472
SciFier: $37.51Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet... -
Counter-Clock World Philip K. Dick 9780007127702
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $11.01Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning 'Time's Arrow' by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which... -
Colour Reproduction in Electronic Imaging Systems: Photography, Television, Cinematography Michael S. Tooms (Principal Consultant, MTA, UK) 9781119021766
RRP: $112.49SciFier: $103.84With the move of cinema away from film, the adoption of electronic-based production throughout all media is now complete. In order to exploit its advantages, the accurate definition, measurement and... -
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi by Adam Bingham
SciFier: $124.63Updates the story of Japanese cinema for the 21st century. This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In several cases it considers in detail the ways in which... -
From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda by Naomi Greene
RRP: $87.10SciFier: $81.06Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith's silent classic Broken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the... -
Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism Charity McAdams 9781611462067
SciFier: $50.91Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to... -
Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman by Caroline Young
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $27.86From the single ladies of Beyonce and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent, eponymous Fleabag (2016 2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1861), the... -
Gather Yourselves Together Philip K Dick 9780575132542
GollanczRRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68As the Communists advance, a small group of Americans trapped in a Chinese factory must learn to work together in this early novel from Philip K. DickThree American workers are left behind in China... -
The Ganymede Takeover Philip K Dick 9780575133129
GollanczRRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34Earth has been invaded - but one human terrorist has discovered a weapon which might change the course of the war!Earth has been taken over by the Ganymedians, a race of telepathic worm-like aliens... -
Horror Film by Steffen Hantke
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $30.49In large part due to its emphasis on gore, screaming teenage girls, and otherworldly elements, horror films have received little critical attention from mainstream movie magazines and film-studies... -
Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism Charity McAdams 9781611462043
SciFier: $111.21Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to... -
Guy Maddin by D. K. Holm
RRP: $42.21SciFier: $26.08One of Canada's premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographical tales---hidden deeply within comical, absurd,... -
Icebreaker by John Gardner
SciFier: $24.44An official, original James Bond adventure from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally... -
The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry Richard Gameson 9780851156644
SciFier: $133.32Key articles on the Bayeux tapestry collected in one volume, providing a comprehensive companion to its study. This volume presents a selection from the classic literature on the tapestry,... -
The Dead Zone: An iconic chiller from the No. 1 bestseller Stephen King 9781399765329
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask...Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car... -
Watchmen: International Edition by Alan Moore
DC ComicsRRP: $29.48SciFier: $21.29In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect. Watchmen begins as... -
Jackaby William Ritter 9781523523986
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00This thrilling novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling paranormal mystery Jackaby series pits R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplainable and his new assistant, Abigail Rook,... -
Torchon Lacemaking: A step-by-step guide Jan Tregidgo 9781847972019
RRP: $53.60SciFier: $41.49Torchon lacemaking is a textile art steeped in tradition - the skills required are often perceived to be beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. In this practical book, Jan Tregidgo describes those... -
The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005 Paul Duncan 9783836598231
RRP: $100.50SciFier: $77.84From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas ... -
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
RRP: $28.14SciFier: $19.77With her startling humor, it's no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal's web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 120,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average... -
Bedhead Ted Scott SanGiacomo 9780062941305
SciFier: $15.29Perfect for fans of Hilo and Lunch Lady, this charming and funny young middle grade graphic novel follows one boy as he discovers that his perceived flaw-wild, red hair-may just be what saves the day... -
Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Silke Arnold-de Simine 9780367716592
SciFier: $58.60Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption Matthew Hughey 9781439910009
RRP: $100.50SciFier: $80.19The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156509
RRP: $113.83SciFier: $107.03Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption Matthew Hughey 9781439910016
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $27.11The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic Shiamin Kwa 9781978826571
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $28.15Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic Shiamin Kwa 9781978826533
RRP: $80.40SciFier: $69.59Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781349463343
SciFier: $62.97Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
Asian Cinema: A Regional View Olivia Khoo 9781474461771
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $27.23Studies the dynamic industrial and cultural transformations that have produced a regional Asian cinema in the last three decades Includes case studies that illustrate collaborative models of film... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496812841
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $96.82Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only...