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Agnes Varda: Interviews T. Jefferson Kline 9781496802491
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave""... -
InstaPrayer by Kelly O'Dell Stanley
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.86Sometimes the hardest part of having a vibrant prayer life is simply getting started. To help start that conversation in a quirky and non-threatening way, these prompts from author/artist Kelly... -
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos Lilya Kaganovsky 9780253040305
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £25.68Beginning with Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a... -
William Friedkin: Interviews Christopher Lane 9781496827098
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school-educated... -
Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications, Independent Scholar, USA) 9781501359224
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £82.51By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film... -
Blue by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.95SciFier: £7.94Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. "For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." -Derek... -
The Mosaic by Daniel B. Levin
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61A ground-breaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin invites you to see the world from a new... -
Jennifer Jones by Paul Green
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The distinguished film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) is thoroughly chronicled from her faltering start as Phylis Isley (her real name) at Republic Studios in... -
Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film Ray Pratt 9780700611508
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £22.56A lit cigarette glows in the dark. A faceless voice describes sinister forces that are hard at work behind the scenes - a hidden conspiracy that controls our lives and perhaps even our thoughts... -
Long Take Akira Kurosawa 9781517903282
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.87A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words,... -
Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties Antonio Barrenechea 9781666948868
SciFier: £92.99In Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema, Antonio Barrenechea launches an inquiry into inter-American exploitation cinema-a horror cinema which captured the rise of '60s counterculture and youth-oriented... -
Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz by Juan Oritz
Titan BooksRRP: £39.99SciFier: £27.24Following on from Juan Ortiz's fabulous Original Series movie-poster collection, this latest treat for art-loving Trek fans features 178 posters that capture the essence of The Next Generation... -
Landscape and the Moving Image Catherine Elwes (Independent Scholar) 9781789385687
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £85.99Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on... -
The Heap by Sean Adams
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.64A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFeatured on recommended reading lists by the New York Times * New York Post * Library Journal * Thrillist * Locus * USA TODAY"The first great science... -
Axiomatic: Short Stories of Science Fiction Greg Egan 9781597805407
SciFier: £19.13"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The GuardianAxiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this... -
Silverfish by Rone Shavers
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99Silverfish is a syncretic tour-de-force that recombines elements of Afrofuturism, sci-fi, and wartime fiction with linguistic and literary theories to issue a dire warning about what happens when we... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496826756
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific... -
Fin & Rye & Fireflies Harry Cook 9781785302473
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH TEENAGE BOOK PRIZE 2022Fin Whittle is sixteen and he likes guys. A fact which seems to be complicating his life.One minute Fin's kissing the godlike Jesse; the next he's been... -
The Films of Jess Franco Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780814343166
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.49The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of... -
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
RRP: £10.00SciFier: £7.89Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and... -
Dirty Birdy Bible: Notes From the Road Hiro Tanaka 9781942084617
SciFier: £9.78While on tour as a photographer for numerous punk, hardcore, and indie bands (including Jeff Rosenstock, Minus the Bear, Cursive, Alkaline Trio, Har Mar Superstar, Lawrence Arms, Selby Tigers, Mike... -
The Golden Screen by Jeff Yang
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.83In 2018, the critical and financial success of Crazy Rich Asians ignited new fires in Hollywood to create and back Asian-centric stories. Since then, the number of movies featuring Asian Americans,... -
Until You Find The Sun: A story about discovering home wherever you go Maryam Hassan 9781444969337
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21An uplifting story about finding your way in a new and unfamiliar place, and a reminder to others to be kind, patient and welcoming to those finding their feet. "I will light your way, until you find... -
Ken Russell: Interviews Barry Keith Grant 9781496851840
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema. His work, like the man himself, was regarded as flamboyant, excessive,... -
Horror Movie Paul Tremblay 9781835413135
Titan BooksRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.04"Slasher movies are seen by some as kitschy fun, but this is a seriously disturbing novel, delving into the sacrifices art demands, psychological trauma and how monsters are made. Sometimes painful... -
Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice Kim Knowles (Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Aberystwyth) 9781474446358
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.68This edited collection proposes new directions for understanding cinematic intermediality, mapping out innovative approaches to film's relationship with some of its most influential artistic... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478029274
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £79.32Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video... -
Maria Lassnig - Film Works by Eszter Kondor
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.60Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. The leitmotif of her painting, the act of rendering her "body awareness"... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803794
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £47.98Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
Tilda Tries Again: A Big Bright Feelings Book Tom Percival 9781526612991
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.49Tilda's world is just as she likes it - until, one day, it turns completely upside down! From the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival Be open, be honest, be you! Big Bright... -
The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict Liam Kennedy (Bloomsbury author, no email.) 9781780767895
SciFier: £38.53Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others... -
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age Jake S. Friedman 9780913705179
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.45An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That... -
The Men Who Made the Movies by Richard Schickel
SciFier: £16.49One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation, reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of... -
Dorothy Arzner: Interviews Martin F. Norden 9781496848260
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.46Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings-including her unfinished autobiography-Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major... -
Crocodiles Do Not Like the Toilet Ali Rutstein 9781761213960
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59In this warm-hearted story from the bestselling Preschool Problems series, Manu the crocodile is far too busy to use the toilet at day care. Manu has an action-packed day ahead, and Dad reminds... -
The Bright Side by Chad Otis
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.56Sometimes it's hard to stay positive: when you live in an old school bus instead of a normal house; when you have mostly just bread and ketchup to eat; and especially when you have to go to a new... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803787
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.21Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
Michael Haneke: Interviews Roy Grundmann 9781496808691
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £90.99Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind... -
Lily by LM DeWalt
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.74Lily is a tragic and lonely vampire, unwittingly brought into her existence by Ian, a selfish but beautiful maker who has captured her heart for decades, even though he left her with no compass on... -
Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah & All Our Friends by Max Evans
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography--OtherAlmost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) cemented his...