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Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s Arnold McMillin 9780367721947
SciFier: $45.81This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls... -
Art Spiegelman: Conversations Joseph Witek 9781934110126
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $26.32When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350000735
SciFier: $132.63Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442545
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $138.01This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the... -
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe Aga Skrodzka 9780748685943
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This is a critical analysis of magic realism in the cinema of East Central Europe. This survey explores the interlocking complexities of two concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a... -
Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South Anthony J. Stanonis 9780820331690
SciFier: $44.88A region explained through its tourist attractions and souvenirs. This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and... -
European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou 9781138654167
SciFier: $58.60This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and... -
The Last Vampire by Whitley Strieber
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $22.77"Bloody, lush, and gripping" (Publishers Weekly), the eternal story continues in this bestselling sequel to Whitley Strieber's horror classic, The Hunger.Miriam Blaylock knows the secrets of... -
World of Warcraft and Philosophy by Luke Cuddy
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.02Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in videogame history, World of Warcraft is everywhere -- from episodes of... -
Beijing Graffiti Tom Dartnell 9780764360534
RRP: $54.93SciFier: $39.61A complex and contradictory graffiti culture has been brewing over the last few decades in one of the least expected settings-China's capital. Through an unparalleled collection of one local... -
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives Peng Hsiao-yen 9780367209278
SciFier: $62.08Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of... -
The Films of Oshima Nagisa by Maureen Turim
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $39.52This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For... -
Post-War Italian Cinema: American Intervention, Vatican Interests Daniela Treveri Gennari 9780415887786
SciFier: $63.25Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the... -
King in Limbo Omnibus 2 (Vol. 3-4) by Ai Tanaka
Kodansha AmericaRRP: $29.47SciFier: $19.14From the creator of Apple Children of Aeon comes a gripping, six-volume thriller manga about trauma, healing, friendship, and what it means to be "sick" or "healthy." A must for fans of suspenseful,... -
Big Dweeb Energy by Bill Amend
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $17.98This new FoxTrot book collection includes full colour FoxTrot Sunday comics from 2021, 2022, and 2023, and is packed with Bill Amend's delightful artwork and signature geek humour. Peter Fox never... -
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ENNEAD Vol. 3 [Mature Hardcover] by Mojito
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: $36.17SciFier: $25.74Nine powerful gods of ancient Egypt are known as the Ennead. When the god of war, Seth, kills his brother Osiris to take over Egypt, he ushers in an era of chaos and cruelty under his rule. The other... -
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $15.21The CIA take on Colombian drug lords in Tom Clancy's fifth No 1 bestseller - now reissued with a new cover. Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by US law enforcement agents, have... -
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Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide Darian Leader 9781848311831 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $2.77Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian... -
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Tetris: The Games People Play Box Brown 9781910593226 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $4.64It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly coloured... -
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Darknesses: The Corean Chronicles Book 2 L. E. Modesitt 9781841492599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $3.46A magical calamity spread a dark age across the planet, leaving Corea a divided, warring world where kingdoms fight and people live amongst supernatural beings and bizarre animals. A few rare humans... -
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Sailor Moon Vol. 2 Naoko Takeuchi 9781935429753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $7.52The magical adventure series that sees girls fighting evil returns! Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon,... -
Found Footage Horror Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $25.38As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in... -
BEASTARS, Vol. 2 by Paru Itagaki
Viz MediaRRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it's personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar-an academic and social role... -
Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries: Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks Shuk-ting, Kinnia Yau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9780415666244
RRP: $68.33SciFier: $62.08Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical... -
Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema Mark Betz 9780816640362
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $23.99A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studiesExamining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to... -
The American Southern Gothic on Screen Karen Horsley 9781041187165
RRP: $64.31SciFier: $58.60The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the... -
British Cinema: A Critical and Interpretive History A. Sargeant 9781844570669
SciFier: $52.25Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this... -
This World and Nearer Ones Brian Aldiss 9780007482344
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $11.38Aldiss' acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years. Most of the arts - architecture, music, painting, cinema - come under review in this... -
Sicilian Kan John Emms 9781857443028
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $16.01The Sicilian Kan is one of the most flexible and easy-to-play variations of the entire Sicilian complex. In contrast to opening monsters such as the infamous Dragon and Najdorf Variations, Black... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 7 by Hiromu Arakawa
Viz MediaRRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one... -
Esports For Dummies Phill Alexander 9781119650591
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $21.76Discover the path to the big leagues It's time to prove all those people who said "video games are a waste of time" wrong. Esports has rewarded top gamers with prize money, glory, and even college... -
Broken Hero Jonathan Wood 9781783294527
Titan BooksRRP: $10.71SciFier: $7.87Arthur Wallace and the MI37 team confront their complex personal relationships as well as robots originally created to aid the Nazi's invasion of Russia, leading to a trip for the team to the... -
The Composition of Video Games by Johansen Quijano
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.78Video games are a complex, compelling medium in which established art forms intersect with technology to create an interactive text. Visual arts, architectural design, music, narrative and rules of... -
Zizek through Hitchcock by Laurence Simmons
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $97.14Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples... -
Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling K. Kroeber 9781403972798
SciFier: $62.97This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal... -
Piotr Szyhalski by Diane Mullin
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $37.69The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist The artistic practice of Piotr Szyhalski encompasses an impressive array of media and genres: from poster design to... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275972912
SciFier: $50.91The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
The Geopolitical Aesthetic by Fredric R. Jameson
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $20.85"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling . . . distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." -The San Francisco Bay GuardianTaking... -
General Firebrand and His Red Atlas by Tathagata Bhattacharya
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $23.42A fast-paced and action-packed dystopian novel, addressing the nature of power, the limits of rationality, and the dominance of fear. In a world on the brink of totalitarian rule, one man rises from... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9781349347155
SciFier: $62.97Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for...