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Cinema and the Indian National Emergency by Parichay Patra (IIT Jodhpur, India)
SciFier: £96.63The Indian National Emergency of 1975 to 1977, saw the suspension of civil liberties, increasing censorship, and extra-judicial state control. It is recognised as one of the most tumultuous periods... -
For the Time Being: Collected Journalism Dirk Bogarde 9781448208289
SciFier: £16.49_______________'Such a companionable writer you just don't want to let him go' - The Times_______________First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together Dirk Bogarde's published work... -
The Strategic Enemy: How to Build and Position a Brand Worth Fighting For Laura Ries 9781394323937
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.48Build a brand worth fighting for using the power of positioning and focus Consumers are overwhelmed by choices and inundated with marketing messages. And despite an obsession with positioning amongst... -
No-Budget Feature Filmmaking in the Digital Era: Cinema in Ones and Zeroes Adam Nixon 9783031931802
SciFier: £112.99This book chronicles the transformative impact of CMOS sensor technology on the global DIY filmmaking community. Through the lens of an ethnographer and outsider filmmaker, the author explores how... -
Neoliberalism, Affect and Twenty-First-Century Culture Dr, Prof Holly Parker (University of Lincoln) 9798216372523
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.00Neoliberalism, Affect, and Twenty-First-Century Culture draws connections accross contemporary culture, neoliberalism and affect to address representations of the self-management of emotions in the... -
Art and the Historical Film by Dr Gillian McIver
SciFier: £31.99Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
One of Us by Craig DiLouie
OrbitSciFier: £23.49'The Girl with All The Gifts meets To Kill A Mockingbird' Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August'It's quite rare to find a story with this much heartbreaking impact . . ... -
Comic Art, Creativity and the Law by Marc H. Greenberg
SciFier: £104.92Graphic novels and comics have launched characters and stories that play a dominant role in contemporary popular culture throughout the world. The extensive revisions in this second edition of Comic... -
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime Dr Gillian McIver (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781501384769
SciFier: £97.99Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum 9781479810833
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23An insider's look at the power of comedy to effect social change From Trevor Noah's The Daily Show and Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act, to Issa Rae's Insecure and Corey Ryan Forrester's Twitter feed,... -
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum 9781479810826
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £58.25An insider's look at the power of comedy to effect social change From Trevor Noah's The Daily Show and Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act, to Issa Rae's Insecure and Corey Ryan Forrester's Twitter feed,... -
The Simpsons: A Cultural History Moritz Fink 9781538188163
SciFier: £19.24From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 Century, 2 Volume set Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740921
SciFier: £109.68This book is about composition and its application in animation, illustration, games and film. It covers all various aspects of design and explains in detail the use of the specific aspect and... -
Inventing Cinema by Benoit Turquety
SciFier: £117.34With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But... -
Go! More Than a Game by Peter Shotwell
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Master the fascinating game of Go with this expert guidebook.Go is a two-player board game that first originated in ancient China but is also very popular in Japan and Korea. There is significant... -
Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict Mette Mortensen 9781138097773
SciFier: £48.06Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid,... -
Guerrilla Film Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to the Branding, Marketing and Promotion of Independent Films & Filmmakers Robert G. Barnwell (Professor, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota FL, USA) 9781138916456
SciFier: £38.36Create an irresistible brand image and build an audience of loyal and engaged fans...Guerrilla Film Marketing takes readers through each step of the film branding, marketing and promotional process... -
Hollywood's Pioneering Daredevils! by Andy Wilkinson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95For silent film pioneers like Buster Keaton, everything that appeared on the screen in the film actually had to happen. The Directors and stunt co-ordinators who followed had to think out of the box... -
Star Wars FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Trilogy That Changed the Movies Mark Clark 9781480360181
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.81From the books and movies that inspired George Lucas to imagine the EStar WarsE universe to early screenplay drafts that were never filmed to short biographies of many people who made key... -
Digital Encounters Aylish Wood 9780415410663
SciFier: £37.66Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art.In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter... -
Silicon Tales by Ella Price
SciFier: £9.99This book is the 'always there' book for your bedside table. It's ideal to dip into as a late night distraction from your day's stresses, or to break the monotony of a morning commute. And it's... -
Box Nine by Jack O'Connell
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £3.66A stunningly original nightmare novel about the impact of a new synthetic drug - Lingo - on the depressed New England factory town of Quinsigamond, where it was secretly developed. Besides offering a... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205911
SciFier: £113.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
The Films of Roberto Rossellini Peter Bondanella 9780521398664
SciFier: £20.04The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The... -
Pele and Hiiaka by Nathaniel B. Emerson
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49A colorful illustration of Hawaii's most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collection of folktales by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Drawing... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205928
SciFier: £37.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
Five Children on the Western Front Kate Saunders 9780571310951
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £4.28An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It stories. The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest. Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at... -
Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography Song Hwee Lim (Professor of Cultural Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9780197503386
RRP: £32.49SciFier: £31.49Why has Taiwanese film been so appealing to film directors, critics, and audiences across the world? This book argues that because Taiwan is a nation without hard political and economic power, cinema... -
Australian Cinema After Mabo Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, Victoria) 9780521834803
SciFier: £70.23Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the... -
Aliens Cristina Massaccesi 9781800859456
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.13On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James Cameron's status as a major new Hollywood player. Reprising some of the features... -
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities Ellie Tomsett (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781350302327
SciFier: £30.99What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy... -
Classic Fairy Tales and Modern Retellings by Pauline Dewan (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
SciFier: £45.46Drawing on the popularity of fairy-tale literature and its retellings, this guide provides insightful annotations to all the major picture books and novels for children and teens.Although popular... -
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece Octavia E. Butler 9781035409686
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. Now an acclaimed TV series streaming on Disney +'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK... -
Production Design for Screen: Visual Storytelling in Film and Television Jane Barnwell (University of Westminster, UK) 9781501373718
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £30.34Packed with colour film stills, exclusive pre-production artwork and behind-the-scenes production images, this landmark book celebrates the production designer's contribution to visual storytelling... -
The In Between by Marc Klein
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Now a major Nexflix film. A heartbreaking story from Marc Klein perfect for fans of If I Stay and Five Feet Apart.After bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, seventeen-year-old... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350198531
SciFier: £90.58How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often... -
The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.12"Totally in love with this novel." Loan Le, author of A Pho Love StoryA girl, a boy, a grandfather and a plan. The girl: Francine. Model teenager, dutiful granddaughter, absolutely no chill.The... -
The Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera: Directing and Working with Non-Actors Amy DeLouise (Independent producer/director, USA) 9781138920484
SciFier: £34.19Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "real people" to tell powerful stories on video. Director/producer Amy... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520301252
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £38.99This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the... -
Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes Andrew Horton 9780520356924
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49This title was originally published in 1998.Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the...