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Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781496802545
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781617039621
SciFier: £72.95In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
White Horse, Black Hat by Jack C. Lewis
SciFier: £82.99From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be... -
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker Andrew Robinson (writer, UK) 9781350258495
SciFier: £38.75Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in... -
Dorothy Arzner: Interviews Martin F. Norden 9781496848253
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Through 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... -
Science Fiction Culture Camille Bacon-Smith 9780812215304
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literature to explore the ways in which technology transforms society... -
Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Lauren S. Cardon 9780813938622
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.78During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness"" to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a rhetoric of... -
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... -
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes Kenneth W. Harrow 9781032265704
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes.In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new... -
Ken Russell: Interviews Barry Keith Grant 9781496851833
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35In 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,... -
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews Mathew Klickstein 9781496855213
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and-worst of all-ignored throughout the general course of... -
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A. Byrd 9781478032649
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.37Settler 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... -
Scorsese on Filmmaking and Faith Martin Scorsese 9781399744386
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46'Have I succeeded, in my own life? I don't know. I don't think so. I'm in my eighties now and I just don't know. But then, maybe "success" is the wrong way of framing it. You just try, and when you... -
Bagpipes, Beasties and Bogles Tim Archbold 9780863159114
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95Charlie McCandlewick is a nightsweep. But he doesn't sweep chimneys - oh no. While children are tucked up safely in their beds, Charlie takes care of the bogle creatures of the night: the Nippers and... -
Long Story Short by Lisa Brown
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Literature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews Sonia Misra 9781496838162
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £72.25Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496824684
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99Claude 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... -
The Cinema of Urban Crisis by Lawrence Webb
SciFier: £69.23In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory. At the same... -
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated Lester D. Friedman 9781496824011
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in... -
Neil Jordan by Carole Zucker
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £27.43These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the... -
![Maria Lassnig - Das filmische Werk [German-language Edition] by Eszter Kondor](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/325561/326656/9783901644856__64020.1688657122.jpg?c=1 "Maria Lassnig - Das filmische Werk [German-language Edition] by Eszter Kondor")
Maria Lassnig - Das filmische Werk [German-language Edition] 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"... -
John Waters by James Egan
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46The films of John Waters (b. 1946) are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to... -
Hardy Amies by Michael Pick
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £19.92"This beautiful and sumptuous hardback book published by the Antique Collectors' Club (ACC Publishing Group) features hundreds of original sketches, drawings and photographs from a career spanning... -
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews Mathew Klickstein 9781496855206
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and-worst of all-ignored throughout the general course of... -
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, *A Book, Untitled* is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of... -
Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa Tijen Tunali 9780755650699
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.09Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic... -
Cookie & Broccoli: Play It Cool Bob McMahon 9780593529188
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.29Best friends Cookie and Broccoli take on popularity and overcoming obstacles together through kindness and laughter in this cheerful early graphic novel that's perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly... -
Cookie & Broccoli: Book of Secrets! Bob McMahon 9780593529966
SciFier: £7.49Shh...Cookie and Broccoli's lips are sealed! That is, until the whole school happens upon Broccoli's hiding spot and overhears his super-secret nickname - and are much more encouraging than he... -
The Simple Delivery by Andrew Claydon
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74Just because you're chosen, doesn't mean you want to be. Nicolas loves his village life just the way it is, everything as it's supposed to be. When he is chosen for a task, he finds... -
Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America Blanton Museum of Art 9781477323977
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.592023 Honorable Mention, Jonathan Brown Award, Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA)Painted Cloth explores the production, meaning, and representation of garments used in civil and religious settings... -
Carlos Saura by Linda M. Willem
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Thrust into the international spotlight in 1966 when The Hunt, his critique of the Franco regime, won the Silver Bear at Berlin, Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (b. 1932) has remained an abiding... -
The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens by First Dog on the Moon
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Meet our superheroes:- Binky, aka The Monotreme!- Worried Norman, once bitten by a radioactive croissant and now Pastry Person!- Letitia, an occasionally bossy science-wombat and genius... -
FantasticLand: A Novel Mike Bockoven 9781510737884
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £11.73A modern take on The Lord of the Flies set in a theme park, FantasticLand is a debut dystopian horror story that deals directly with contemporary issues of climate change, natural disasters, and the... -
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker Andrew Robinson (writer, UK) 9781350258501
SciFier: £92.99Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in... -
Mademe by Erin Mcgee
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.18MadeMe rose to acclaim during a time when female and LGBTQ perspectives were missing from the streetwear landscape. Inspired by the effervescent energy of the1990s when a female-first ethos was... -
Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? Anastasia Salter 9780226830803
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £13.80What makes a real game? Who is a gamer? And what type of play do we value? On the surface, the 2015 game Undertale didn't seem like much, supported by fan funding and with minimalist retro graphics...