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The Mighty Goddess: World Myths Sally Pomme Clayton 9781837052493
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.05This stunning collection of myths is for adults, and brings together 52 goddess myths from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten - spectacular! Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton... -
Tee and Mo: The Christmas Box by HarperCollins Children's Books
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.64A wonderful new Christmas picture book based on the award-winning CBeebies preschool series Tee and Mo! This is a brand-new original story based on one of the... -
Directors & Designers Christine White (De Montfort University, UK) 9781841502892
SciFier: £30.16Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography-the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery-and offers new insight into the working relationships of the... -
Fractal by Ivor M Bundell
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.49In an age of rising populism, growing social unrest, and insecurity across Europe, an undercover MI5 eco-warrior turns terrorist. Pursued by the tenacious Inspector Erasmus, they engage in an... -
The Torch Trilogy Book 2 by Moira Buffini
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.77The hugely anticipated second instalment in the hottest dystopian trilogy of the decade! Who will triumph? Those with songlight, or those without?The hugely anticipated second instalment in the... -
Kageki Shojo!! Vol. 15 Kumiko Saiki 9798893739442
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.10Summer break comes to an end and Sarasa and the gang head back for their final semester of Kouka training. They're all excited to start rehearsing for the big culture festival, but day after day goes... -
The Composer on Screen by Paul Fryer
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £34.68This collection of essays explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films examples - which were... -
The Magical Teddy Bear by Susan Lacey
SciFier: £8.74The Magical Teddy Bear Would Like To Show You A Most Magically Awesome & Amazing Beartastic Adventure. A Light-Hearted Colourful Adventure - A Bear That Performs Good Deeds. For Children Aged ... -
See Me, See You by Cheng Jia Yun
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £23.63See Me, See You is the world's first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation in Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the early 1990s. This catalogue traces the journeys and... -
Isles of Scilly Folk Tales by Mike O'Connor
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.58Scilly has been its own unique land for centuries, separate from England and cut off from Cornwall by twenty-five miles of rough sea - yet until now its folk tales have been poorly documented. Let... -
Video Art by Ida Gianelli
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £12.91Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. If in its early years, during the mid sixties, video was used by artists to record performances created in an isolated... -
Improvising Cinema Gilles Mouellic 9781041181316
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational... -
Cajun Mardi Gras Masks by Carl Lindahl
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn,... -
Mr William Shakespeare's Plays by Marcia Williams
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Seven classic Shakespeare plays presented in an accessible comic strip format.Take your place in the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day to see seven of his best-loved plays in performance. Romeo and... -
Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen Chris Head 9781350155763
SciFier: £77.99This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form... -
A Filmmaker's Guide to Working with Children Meg Rickards 9781032953298
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.06A Filmmaker's Guide to Working with Children is a vital resource for ethical filmmaking with child performers. Building on their collaboration on the film Snake, the authors offer practical... -
Warlock Holmes: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87The game's afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty's gang, the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a disappointing butler demon, a succubus,... -
The Screens of Virtual Production: What is Real? Sian Mitchell 9781032730721
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.76This book is the first dedicated edited collection that explores the virtualisation of screen-making processes from pre-production to post-production, while attuning to the aesthetic, ideological and... -
Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture Ruth Prigozy 9781580462617
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £36.99Bing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and colleagues. ... -
Appetites and Anxieties by Cynthia Baron
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular... -
Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5 by Mario Andres Pagella
SciFier: £19.59Walk through the process of designing and implementing from scratch an isometric real time game such as some of the most succesful Facebook Games. Applying HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, this piece... -
This Day In Comedy by Frank Holder
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.75On This Day in Comedy is not just an encyclopedia, but a celebration of comedy. In humorous prose the book takes readers through the often-neglected subcultures of comedy in America, acknowledging... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521825139
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £88.17Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such... -
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friends by DK
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.03Brer Rabbit, that lovable trickster, is back. Watch him pit his wits against his wily old rival Brer Fox and a host of other colorful characters, from slow-but-wise Brer Terrapin to gossiping Miz... -
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin by Dan Kamin
SciFier: £44.99From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin:... -
Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide Bernard A. Drew 9781138976504
SciFier: £30.56In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent... -
Acting Wales: Stars of Stage and Screen Peter Stead 9780708316238
SciFier: £5.53This work examines the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture developed in which both chapels and schools encouraged recitations and performances. Each chapter... -
The Animator's Survival Kit: Dialogue, Directing, Acting and Animal Action by Richard E. Williams
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58DIRECTING, DIALOGUE AND ACTINGFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for animators. However, sometimes... -
Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £15.45Wendy is an aspiring contemporary artist whose adventures have taken her to galleries, art openings, and parties in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Toronto. In Wendy, Master of Art, Walter Scott s sly wit... -
Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Silke Arnold-de Simine 9781474283601
SciFier: £112.07Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a... -
Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work Aparna Sharma 9781137395436
SciFier: £46.99This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and... -
Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment Casey Ryan Kelly (Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) 9780197677865
SciFier: £71.17In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors... -
Blade Runner Amy Coplan (California State University - Fullerton, USA) 9780415485852
SciFier: £37.66Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between... -
The Mighty Goddess by Sally Pomme Clayton
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.33This stunning collection of myths is for adults, and brings together 52 goddess myths from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten - spectacular! Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton... -
Show-ha Shoten!, Vol. 4 by Akinari Asakura
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)!Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
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... -
Lee Van Cleef: A Biographical, Film and Television Reference Mike Malloy 9780786422722
SciFier: £22.59Cult film star Lee Van Cleef began his movie career in Hollywood, appearing as evil-eyed villains in such 1950s and '60s Westerns as High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and How the West was Won... -
Swatch Reference Guide for Interior Design Fabrics by Deborah E. Young (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, USA)
SciFier: £115.49Swatch Reference Guide for Interior Design is a complete learning tool for interior fabrics. An all-in-one text and swatch book, it is replete with 145 contemporary swatches relevant to the field of... -
Crime Fighting Heroes of Television by Vincent Terrace
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from the beginning. This broad-ranging reference contains a trove of information on shows...