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Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema P. Coates 9781349484690
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $65.32This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It... -
Memory and Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant P. Lombardo 9781349317431
SciFier: $65.32Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo... -
Star Wars: Visions by George Lucas
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $35.13Star Wars Visions collects a wealth of art - hand-picked by George Lucas - produced by a variety of artists, illustrators, designers and cartoonists, working across all genres and styles to celebrate... -
Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 1888-1939: Reading the Travel Image Sara Dominici 9781032476605
SciFier: $53.56This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The book examines the... -
Starfinder Adventure Path: Flight of the Sleepers (The Threefold Conspiracy 2 of 6) by Owen K. C. Stephens
PaizoRRP: $29.18SciFier: $20.50Don't Trust Your SurroundingsTrapped in a bizarre research facility that's under attack, the heroes must battle against weird technology and experiments run amok. Even after they are aided by... -
Silent Film Performers by Roy Liebman
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $27.67Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of birth and death. An overview of commercially published books and articles about or written by the... -
Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives R. Pearson 9781349481927
SciFier: $65.32Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn... -
Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema David Desser 9780253204691
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.73The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films of the New Wave in Japan have, until now, been... -
The Dead of Summer by Johnny Mains
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.99May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today's... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176521
RRP: $122.32SciFier: $99.62The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Royal Hawaiian Featherwork by Leah Caldeira
RRP: $76.45SciFier: $54.07Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai'i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual protection to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries while... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561073
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $127.17Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others... -
Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color Uri McMillan 9781478032519
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $27.42In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City's downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176538
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $32.51The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Queer Objects by Chris Brickell
RRP: $47.19SciFier: $40.772020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work... -
Schooling in Modernity by Paola Bonifazio
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $35.70Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight... -
Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color Uri McMillan 9781478029168
RRP: $139.00SciFier: $114.69In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City's downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan... -
United Arrows United Arrows 9780847869688
RRP: $66.03SciFier: $63.58Founded in 1989 and based out of Tokyo, United Arrows, with over 250 stores, is one of the most influential fashion and retail brands to ever come out of Japan. This book offers a fresh and... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum) by Julian Preece (Swansea University, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German... -
The Lives of Others by Annie Ring (University of Cambridge, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil... -
Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad Ronald L. Davis 9781617039072
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $27.05Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and... -
Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham) 9780521815475
RRP: $88.96SciFier: $84.08Shakespeare Films in the Making examines the production and reception of five feature-length Shakespeare films from the twentieth century, focusing on the ways in which they articulate visions of... -
Samuel Beckett and Cinema Anthony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton, UK) 9781350081611
SciFier: $52.81In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the... -
Lars von Trier Beyond Depression: Contexts and Collaborations Professor Linda Badley 9780231191531
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.32Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start-but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011),... -
EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game Prof Raiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 9781501375385
SciFier: $44.47If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, futbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the... -
The Animated Man by Michael Barrier
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $30.29Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business,... -
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: A Cosmere Novel Brandon Sanderson 9781399613439
GollanczRRP: $30.58SciFier: $20.92'This was utterly brilliant and satisfying. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter will be the best of the secret project novels, and it is easily one of Sanderson's finest books in his career' Novel... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561066
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $34.74Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others... -
Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work Susan L. Mizruchi 9780393082869
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $28.09When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four... -
Host by Peter James
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $12.80How far would you go to live forever?Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of... -
Tracking Loach: Politics, Practices, Production David Archibald 9781474442114
SciFier: $129.28Offers a unique first-hand account of Ken Loach's working methods Provides a detailed study of the making of The Angels' Share Offers a wider analysis of Loach's films and his film-related... -
The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll 9781447275992
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $34.69The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, is the ultimate edition of Lewis Carroll's much-loved classic, from the... -
After World: A Novel Debbie Urbanski 9781668023464
SciFier: $18.75One of Los Angeles Times's Best Tech Books of 2023 One of San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Books of 2023 An "intelligent, defiant" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial... -
Louis Vuitton by Pierre Leonforte
RRP: $152.90SciFier: $106.63When Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury was published in 2004, the book was the first to describe the dramatic rise of the world's finest luxury company. Written with full access to the... -
Edith Head by Jay Jorgensen
RRP: $90.35SciFier: $86.44All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear Window. Sabrina. A Place in the Sun. The Ten Commandments. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith... -
Lars von Trier Beyond Depression: Contexts and Collaborations Professor Linda Badley 9780231191524
RRP: $104.25SciFier: $84.76Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start-but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011),... -
Versace by Donatella Versace
RRP: $104.25SciFier: $79.77Versace-a name that epitomizes Italian opulence, bold sexiness, and a flair for the extravagant-holds its place firmly in the fashion world as a legendary and iconic luxury brand. Taking over... -
Migration in Lusophone Cinema Cacilda M. Rego 9781349488452
SciFier: $65.32With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema... -
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory Reena Dube 9781349523535
SciFier: $65.32Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
Harry Potter: The Film Vault - Volume 5: Creature Companions, Plants, and Shape-Shifters by Jody Revenson
Titan BooksSciFier: $31.25The Harry Potter Film Vault series condenses the rich concept art of the Harry Potter film series into twelve collectible volumes. Harry Potter: The Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and...