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Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture Chris Richardson (Young Harris College, Georgia USA) 9780367409210
SciFier: $82.76This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular... -
Night Terrors Tim Waggoner 9780857669001
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $8.94Meet Detective Audra and her partner Mr Jinx, the clown who haunted her childhood dreams. Together they are working to protect the real world from Maelstrom, the world of dreams, but then things... -
Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director Lucy Fischer 9780813516455
RRP: $42.88SciFier: $33.49Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s-all... -
More Board Game Education by Jeffrey P. Hinebaugh
SciFier: $30.14This book is a follow up to Board Game Education. However, unlike many of the board games discussed in Board Game Education, this book identifies and discusses five board games that each develop... -
Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture by Carl Lostritto
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $27.30Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality. Front and centre in this discourse is the role of rendering. Most... -
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 9781472579584
SciFier: $50.91In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of four major film directors to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Focusing on the work of Orson Welles, Akira... -
Understanding Comedy through College Comedies by Norman Kagan
SciFier: $52.25Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where... -
Inner Monologue in Acting R. Roznowski 9781137354273
RRP: $60.29SciFier: $46.62What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and... -
Getting Started in 3D with Maya: Create a Project from Start to Finish-Model, Texture, Rig, Animate, and Render in Maya Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word) 9780240820422
RRP: $57.61SciFier: $52.41Deliver professional-level 3D content in no time with this comprehensive guide to 3D animation with Maya. With over 12 years of training experience, plus several award winning students under his... -
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 14 by Kenjiro Hata
Viz MediaRRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world!From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space...whether he likes it or not. His... -
Donald Shebib's 'Goin' Down the Road' by Geoff Pevere
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $21.91Since its release in July 1970, Donald Shebib's low-budget road movie about displaced Maritimers in Toronto has become one of the most celebrated Canadian movies ever made. In this study of Goin'... -
Roberto Rossellini Peter Brunette 9780520359376
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $87.61This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative... -
Art Club (A Graphic Novel) Rashad Doucet 9780759556393
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $12.34Dale Donavan has heard the same lecture over and over again: Art will get you nowhere in life. A kid with a creative streak, Dale wants nothing more than to doodle, play video games, and create... -
Rated A by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.41A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, India's... -
The Wampas Baby Stars by Roy Liebman
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.78In 1922, an early association of film publicists known as the Western Associated Motion Picture Advertisers (Wampas) hit upon a strategy to call attention to their organization and their industry... -
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 27 by Kenjiro Hata
Viz MediaRRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world!From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space...whether he likes it or not. His... -
Cassavetes on Cassavetes Ray Carney 9780571201570
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $24.76John Cassavetes is the godfather of American independent cinema, saluted by virtually every US maverick who's followed in his stead, from Martin Scorsese to Sean Penn. Since his death in 1989,... -
The Orphan and the Polar Bear by Sakiasi Qaunaq
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17In the world of Inuit traditional stories, animals and humans are not such different creatures, and animals often have much to teach humans about the world. In The Orphan and the Polar Bear , a... -
Starfish by Peter Watts
SciFier: $16.07So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometres below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose... -
A Grammar of the Film: An Analysis of Film Technique Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520306929
RRP: $56.28SciFier: $52.25Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in... -
Managing Change by Kazuhiko Nakamura (Nanzan University)
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $18.45CREATE A HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM BY EMPLOYING EFFECTIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT Do you want to improve your current workplace or organization? Organization Development can teach you what steps you can take to... -
Anatomy of a Tapestry by Jean Pierre Larochette
RRP: $54.93SciFier: $39.61The history, legacy, and boundless creativity of weavers over the centuries is the base in this helpful guide for new weavers, seasoned tapestry artists, and enthusiasts. Tapestry weaving is an art... -
Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America Lee Grieveson 9780520239661
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $38.18White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" - all became objects... -
Queer Youth and Media Cultures Christopher Pullen 9781137383549
SciFier: $125.28This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context... -
Queer Youth and Media Cultures Christopher Pullen 9781349480562
SciFier: $124.61This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context... -
National Mythologies in Central European TV Series by Jan Culik
SciFier: $154.39This is the first ever international comparative study of the mythologies which popular TV series in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania -- made before and after the fall of... -
Negative Media: Erasureand the Limits of Retention Ella Klik 9781503645264
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $25.45In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of... -
Yul Brynner: A Biography Michelangelo Capua 9780786424610
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $18.48Known as the bald cowboy in ""The Magnificent Seven"" and the sexy, charismatic male lead in ""The King and I"", Yul Brynner was a Hollywood paragon of masculinity. Beyond his distinctive appearance... -
The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy Cristobal Escobar (Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Melbourne) 9781399517546
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $23.95This book argues that the intensive-image constitutes an important cinematic category that prompts a rethinking of Deleuze's taxonomy of images in his Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The... -
Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900-1950 Maria Cristina C. Mabrey 9781032004303
RRP: $58.95SciFier: $53.95The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified... -
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 10 Kenjiro Hata 9781974723560
Viz MediaRRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world!From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space...whether he likes it or not. His... -
The Unquotable Trump by R. Sikoryak
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now... -
The Bridge by J.S. Breukelaar
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $17.49Meera and her twin sister Kai are among thousands of hybrid women -- called Mades -- bred by the Father in his Blood Temple cult. Meera is rescued by a mysterious healer and storyteller, Narn, but... -
Twilight for the Gods by Jack Tucker
RRP: $109.88SciFier: $106.52Twilight for the Gods: The Art and History of Film Editing is a passionate exploration of the important role played by editing in the process of film-making and a functional guide to using editing... -
Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 17 Kenjiro Hata 9781974732302
Viz MediaRRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17First comes marriage, then comes an earthbound love that is out of this world!From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space...whether he likes it or not. His... -
Our Hero: Superman on Earth Tom De Haven 9780300171242
SciFier: $24.79From the author of It's Superman!, an exuberant and original exploration of America's most iconic comic book hero Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late spring of... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520254565
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.41Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520256729
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $98.48Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre Faye Woods 9781137445476
SciFier: $124.61In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings,... -
Fire Study (The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3) Maria V. Snyder 9781848452411 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $3.44THE APPRENTICESHIP IS OVER NOW THE REAL TEST HAS BEGUN When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder - able to capture and release souls - spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual...