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Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion by Athina Karatzogianni
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a... -
Rosa By Starlight Hilary McKay 9781529074581
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10'A star-filled story of courage, belonging and the particular magic of feline friends. A treasure of a tale, beautifully told.' - A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar seriesFrom the Costa... -
Linguistics and the Study of Comics by Frank Bramlett
SciFier: £92.99Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781349466337
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and... -
Conjuring Science by Sofie Lachapelle
SciFier: £112.99Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9781349279814
SciFier: £46.99This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781137446251
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks Persi Diaconis 9780691169774
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £17.35Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron... -
Anahera Vianne Max 9781803780375
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69We all imagine escaping into new worlds, but how challenging would it really be to survive? What if you were dragged through a gateway into a place filled with magic...and you had none? On... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9780230298293
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781349675562
SciFier: £92.99This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and... -
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781137030863
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £35.19This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781349473090
SciFier: £46.99This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781403944115
SciFier: £46.99This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Beckett's Art of Absence by Ciaran Ross
SciFier: £82.99Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical... -
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The Princess and the Wizard Julia Donaldson 9781405090766 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.17"The princess may try seven times to escape By changing her colour and changing her shape." But each time Princess Eliza changes - into a blue fish, a yellow chick, a red fox or a black cat - the... -
A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television S. Panse 9781137014177
SciFier: £46.99A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film, and social media by investigating the changing... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
SciFier: £46.99Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from... -
The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism Steven Price 9780230223622
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice... -
The Digital Television Revolution: Origins to Outcomes M. Starks 9781349445219
SciFier: £46.99This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet. It pictures a... -
Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean by F. Laviosa
SciFier: £46.99This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a... -
The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship J. Buchanan 9781349339341
SciFier: £46.99Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other... -
Between Laughter and Satire by Conal Condren
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9781349351176
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £106.99This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9780230389489
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Madame Voodoo by A.W. Jackson
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.21'New York would bring with it a whole new world of possibilities and trouble.' Soon to begin her freshman year, Nkechi, a young voodoo witch, is unsure what to expect. Alone in New York, and still... -
Screening the Tortured Body by Mark de Valk
SciFier: £47.99Inspired by Michel Foucault's examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the 'political technology of the body' and 'the spectacle of the... -
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781349440610
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.99This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back Susan A. George 9781349489619
SciFier: £46.99Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns... -
Clean Kill by Donald A. Davis
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.74At a 15th Century castle outside of Edinburgh, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell, overseer of Task Force Trident and a former colonel, is in the process of brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah... -
The Lost by Caridad Pineiro
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Adam Salvatore is no ordinary millionaire. The heir to an ancient race possessing a dark, powerful magic, he can shapeshift and create energy. His gifts make him a living weapon and have forced him... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238636
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
Rosa By Starlight Hilary McKay 9781529074512
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £7.20From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes the story of a young girl looking for magic in the world, and the feline family who help her to find it.Rosa lives in a world where she... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9780230292628
SciFier: £46.99This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so... -
Docudrama on European Television by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
SciFier: £24.49This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781137017451
SciFier: £83.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781349437092
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema by Matilda Mroz
SciFier: £114.63This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103726
SciFier: £46.99In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Liz Greene 9781137516794
SciFier: £113.99This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about...