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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 Screenwriter Activist: Writing Social Issue Movies Marilyn Beker 9780415897150
SciFier: £36.79Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia. Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist... -
Lingering by Chris Coppel
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.21The woods looked dark and ominous. Between the trees, where the darkness was blacker than black, dozens of slanted yellow eyes flicked open and stared back towards the house. They weren't the eyes of... -
Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 by Jennifer Mooney
SciFier: £105.66Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by Peter Green
SciFier: £46.99A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film,... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9781403941459
SciFier: £92.99Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960504
SciFier: £92.99Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature T. Green 9781349448593
SciFier: £46.99Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230104082
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 9780230223615
SciFier: £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... -
Delirium Alexander Fisher 9781803781242
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74The end of the virus was just the beginning... Amazonian River Fever has decimated Prague, forcing the few survivors of the savage pandemic to flee to the uninfected village of Otocka. Doctor... -
Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0 B. Brevini 9781349451739
SciFier: £46.99This book investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe. It examines the most significant policy initiatives carried out... -
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema A. Davies 9781349314379
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £40.11A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays... -
The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship J. Buchanan 9780230313842
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... -
Millsbury ComicVerse Volume 3 by Maurice Miller's Millsbury Media
RRP: £14.84SciFier: £14.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359627455Author Maurice Miller's Millsbury MediaFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu... -
Lifetimes Chris Coppel 9781803780771
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.21'As he looked on in horror, the woman turned her head, giving Craig the full view of the exit wound. A piece the size of a grapefruit had been blown out of her skull. What remained within was black... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
SciFier: £46.99Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9780230217768
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Lunacy by Chris Coppel
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.89'Suddenly, a yellowish light became visible behind a small open hatch in the centre of what she knew to be the building's boiler. As she looked towards the iron beast with its one flickering yellow... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781349481866
SciFier: £92.99A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781349451500
SciFier: £46.99Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781137387707
SciFier: £92.99A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781137022189
SciFier: £46.99We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Multicultural Encounters by S. Sharma
SciFier: £92.99This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of... -
Hollywood's Stephen King by T. Magistrale
SciFier: £58.20For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has lost money. Part of this may be... -
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A Funny Life Michael McIntyre 9781529063653 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.57The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography.Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006... -
Nature's Tributes by Jade Ford
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.06No one but you can control your actions. But are you ruled by your mind... or your heart? Beyond these doors, we will find out.As punishment for destroying her lands, Nature has selected six human... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781137282170
SciFier: £92.99Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film,... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781137356871
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... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9781349334438
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... -
Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781137450500
SciFier: £103.49This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how... -
An Act of Treason Jack Coughlin 9781447289128
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24Marine sniper Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. Lauren is...