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The Art of Taking a Walk by Anke Gleber
RRP: $103.05SciFier: $91.37Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur... -
The Vampire Lestat: Volume 2 in series Anne Rice 9780751541960
RRP: $25.17SciFier: $18.25'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!'Lestat: a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is... -
Iranian Cinema: A Political History Hamid Reza Sadr 9781845111472
SciFier: $64.10Recent, 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... -
Who Is Sherlock? by Lynnette Porter
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not... -
Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation Steve Swink (Flashbang Studios, Tempe, Arizona, USA) 9780123743282
RRP: $103.03SciFier: $95.26"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... -
Counter-Clock World Philip K. Dick 9780007127702
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $18.82Pre-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... -
Watchmen: International Edition by Alan Moore
DC ComicsRRP: $50.38SciFier: $36.80In 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... -
Gather Yourselves Together Philip K Dick 9780575132542
GollanczRRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.25As 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... -
Horror Film by Steffen Hantke
RRP: $80.04SciFier: $52.10In 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... -
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi by Adam Bingham
SciFier: $212.99Updates 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... -
The Ganymede Takeover Philip K Dick 9780575133129
GollanczRRP: $29.75SciFier: $21.09Earth 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... -
Jackaby William Ritter 9781523523986
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $15.39This 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,... -
Guy Maddin by D. K. Holm
RRP: $72.14SciFier: $44.56One 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,... -
From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda by Naomi Greene
RRP: $148.85SciFier: $123.64Throughout 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... -
The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005 Paul Duncan 9783836598231
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $142.19From 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 ... -
Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman by Caroline Young
RRP: $68.59SciFier: $47.61From 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... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496812841
RRP: $208.39SciFier: $165.45Fans 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... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156509
RRP: $194.54SciFier: $182.90Genre - 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... -
Stormwatch Compendium by Warren Ellis
DC ComicsRRP: $125.95SciFier: $88.14Before the Authority make their big-screen debut, read the pivotal stories that paved the way to the ground-breaking team's comic book debut! The Authority is slated as a highly anticipated upcoming... -
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems Ingrid Loschek 9781847883667
SciFier: $80.13When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on... -
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
RRP: $48.09SciFier: $33.78With 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... -
Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Silke Arnold-de Simine 9780367716592
SciFier: $96.18Whether 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... -
Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains Brian McNair 9780748634477
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $59.61We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of... -
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF by Mike Ashley
RRP: $25.17SciFier: $18.25This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what... -
The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael: A Novel Paulette Kennedy 9781662531286
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $16.01A young woman, perceived dead, plots to reinvent herself in a gripping historical gothic about secrets, superstition, and murder by the bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport.South... -
Bedhead Ted Scott SanGiacomo 9780062941305
SciFier: $26.43Perfect 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... -
Asian Cinema: A Regional View Olivia Khoo 9781474461771
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $46.53Studies 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... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption Matthew Hughey 9781439910009
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $137.03The 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... -
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.25From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times)In a darkened room... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption Matthew Hughey 9781439910016
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $46.33The 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... -
Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism Jennifer Friedlander (Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College) 9780190676131
SciFier: $95.45Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic Shiamin Kwa 9781978826571
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $48.11Analyzing 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: $137.40SciFier: $111.66Analyzing 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... -
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics Heidi R.M. Pauwels 9780415576604
SciFier: $102.13This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood... -
Moonpool Revelation by Kingsley Taylor
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $37.19In my first book the Nature Spirit, Moonpool, told of her interaction with the humans as they developed from the last Ice Age until just before the Roman Occupation. This follows on from there... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156516
RRP: $75.46SciFier: $74.29Genre - 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... -
Prague. I See a City... by Daniela Hodrova
RRP: $28.63SciFier: $23.95Prague, I see a city...is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in... -
Rainbow Dreams: Color and Light in Contemporary Art Olga Rei 9781580937122
RRP: $68.59SciFier: $48.91A glorious celebration of color and light showcasing more than 200 exuberant contemporary artworks Rainbow Dreams is the ultimate visual treat: page after page of brilliant, rainbow-hued artworks by... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781349463343
SciFier: $107.61Many 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... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781137336033
SciFier: $107.61Many 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...