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Studying The Bourne Ultimatum by Neil Archer
SciFier: £29.78At the time of its release in 2007, The Bourne Ultimatum was described by one writer as the blockbuster it was 'okay to like'. What is it about this third entry in a Hollywood action franchise that... -
The Darkest Duet Connie Glynn 9780241646205
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.95The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling The Cursed MelodiesThe ocean is calling...With the return of the Shadowling, Astrid, Jonas and Gwen find themselves summoned by the Queen herself. They... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television Ariane Hudelet 9780367491475
SciFier: £42.86This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book... -
The German Cinema Book Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton, UK) 9781844575305
SciFier: £46.76This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and... -
Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy Christopher Falzon 9780415538169
SciFier: £45.46Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight, Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the approach that... -
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln, UK) 9780367758561
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy.The image of the child is often a... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195935
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television Ariane Hudelet 9780367491482
SciFier: £153.63This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book... -
New Approaches to Islam in Film Kristian Petersen 9780367723408
SciFier: £40.26Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, limiting the narrative domain to issues of national... -
New Approaches to Islam in Film Kristian Petersen 9780815393221
SciFier: £153.63Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, limiting the narrative domain to issues of national... -
The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema: Baokuan Film Phenomena under Nationalism, Globalization, and Active Audiences Xiao Yang 9789048564392
RRP: £171.99SciFier: £153.63The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema provides insights into the Chinese film industry and popular cinema in the past two decades (with a major focus on the films produced since the mid-2010s).The... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: £78.49What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160603
SciFier: £130.73The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Snared: Escape to the Above by Adam Jay Epstein
SciFier: £15.89As trapsmith of the Carrion Tomb, Wily Snare spends all day every day inventing traps to keep plunderers at bay. While bored with his lot, he's proud that no one has ever outwitted his snares - until... -
The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968126
SciFier: £39.39This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160627
SciFier: £36.79The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen Ronie Parciack 9780367875183
SciFier: £44.60The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in... -
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen Ronie Parciack 9781138962811
SciFier: £153.63The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in... -
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas K. Gokulsing 9781138311480
SciFier: £51.36India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the... -
Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film Jonathan Kemp (University of Central Lancashire, UK) 9781138603806
SciFier: £40.26Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it... -
Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries Sylvia Li-chun Lin 9780415736862
SciFier: £55.86To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each... -
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated Sylvie Bissonnette 9780367660376
SciFier: £43.56This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual... -
The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Sight & Sound's #1 Film Book of 2020Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the... -
Honeyland by Jaimie Baron
SciFier: £20.33The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations,... -
Chinese Film Theory by Xia Hong
SciFier: £78.49This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides... -
The Art of Writing Animation: Storytelling Craft for Writers & Animators Alizee Musson 9780857306173
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Is animation written with words or pictures? How do writers and animators turn ideas into animated films or series? What's the animation development process? Are animated stories only for kids? What... -
Cracked by Barbra Leslie
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87After her stormy marriage ends, Danny Cleary jumps down the rabbit hole into a world of crack cocaine - delivered to her door by a polite but slightly deranged dealer. But when Danny's twin sister... -
Film Stardom and the Ancient Past by Michael Williams
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £93.49This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and... -
Foreign Devils by Frank Beaver
RRP: £64.60SciFier: £58.49Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by... -
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Helen Hanson 9781349301447
SciFier: £46.99These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs,... -
Midnight Curse by Melissa F. Olson
SciFier: £10.27Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a human who cancels out any magic around her, Scarlett's job is to keep the supernatural world hidden-at any cost. But on the eve of the Vampire... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
SciFier: £40.26This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
City Boy by Greg Pak
DC ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.99Explore the DC Universe like never before alongside City Boy, in a major series in DC s We Are Legends initiative, starring all-new legendary Asian-American heroes! We Are Legends expands the DC... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960504
SciFier: £93.97Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781138629219
RRP: £50.99SciFier: £46.33Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: £61.99Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
The Lightstruck: The action-packed, gripping sequel to The Darkening Sunya Mara 9781529355543
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.10In the captivating sequel to The Darkening, Vesper and Dalca face their fiercest battle yet to save their besieged city from the Great King and his ominous army.'Will ensnare you from the first page'... -
Circus and the Avant-Gardes by Anna-Sophie Jurgens
SciFier: £153.63This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual... -
On Location: A Guide to Visiting the UK and Ireland's Best Film and TV Sights Peter Naldrett 9781844866335
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.55For popular-culture vultures, there really is no better guide to Britain's best TV and film locations than On Location. With their historical charm, scenic beauty and diverse cities, the United...