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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... -
Exit Kingdom by Alden Bell
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74Extinction by Alden Bell, author of The Reapers are the Angels, is a gripping dystopia set in a world ravaged by disaster.In a world where the undead outnumber the living, Moses Todd roams the... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781137593375
SciFier: £102.99The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781349958566
SciFier: £56.99In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.74Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
New Queer Sinophone Cinema by Zoran Lee Pecic
SciFier: £46.99This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the... -
Dream Walker by Bruce Martin
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Between layers of deceit and magic, nothing is as it seems. Alison Wilde is an ordinary girl in a nearly normal world, until an uncharacteristic turn of events shifts reality, as she knows it,... -
Luminous Mara Rutherford 9781335405654
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.54"Wonderfully lush and enthralling." -Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and SorrowsFrom the author of Crown of Coral and Pearl comes an immersive new fantasy about a... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £24.89For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every... -
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.34Nick Brooks's Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names. For fans of Angie Thomas,... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781349955220
SciFier: £27.99The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781137531742
SciFier: £93.49In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Star Trek by C. Gregory
SciFier: £41.99In Star Trek Chris Gregory analyses the reasons for the continuing success of the Star Trek phenomenon, traces its overall development and comments on how the differences between 1990s and 1960s... -
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii B. Ruh 9781137355676
SciFier: £26.99Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781349545469
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman
SciFier: £102.99This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781137008060
SciFier: £92.99Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
The British Official Film in South-East Asia by Ian Aitken
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British... -
Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination Alistair D. Swale 9781137463340
SciFier: £83.49Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781349435456
SciFier: £92.99Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality Paolo Bartoloni 9781349956630
SciFier: £46.99This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9780333918739
SciFier: £46.99This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
A Reverie Tale: Borderlands and Transience by Anna M. Tusk
SciFier: £11.49'Could it really be possible that there exists two such potent, omniscient, and incompatible energies - Fate and Hate?' Sixteen-year-old Lilly-Anne is not supposed to ask about her parents. An... -
19th-Century Fashion in Detail (Victoria and Albert Museum) Lucy Johnston 9780500292648
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's... -
Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'i' S. Colleary 9781137343895
SciFier: £46.99One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy... -
Comedy, Seriously: A Philosophical Study D. Nikulin 9781137415134
SciFier: £46.99Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking. In particular, that comedy... -
Retribution Shana Figueroa 9781455567508
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24V is for vengeance . . . Private investigator Valentine Shepherd plays by one set of rules: hers. She's haunted by dark, cryptic visions of the future, not to mention an aching hole in her chest... -
InvestiGators: A Full Colour, Laugh-Out-Loud Comic Book Adventure! John Patrick Green 9781529054378
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.00Crack the case with the InvestiGators! The first adventure in the laugh-out-loud full colour comic book series by John Patrick Green, perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey.Join Mango and Brash,... -
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication P. Frosh 9781349362363
SciFier: £46.99From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media... -
Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television Y. Shen 9781137497420
SciFier: £46.99Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual... -
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins W. Wilms 9781349375042
SciFier: £46.99This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical... -
Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films K. Combe 9781137360809
SciFier: £46.99In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity... -
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication P. Frosh 9780230551497
SciFier: £46.99From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse... -
Vengeance by Shana Figueroa
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24"Beautifully written. Shana Figueroa is an exciting new voice in the paranormal genre." -- Opal Carew, New York Times bestselling author Not every Valentine is a saint . . . Corruption. Greed... -
Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory Oliver Gruner 9781137496324
SciFier: £46.99This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent... -
Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary Vincent Campbell 9781137385376
SciFier: £92.99The shift from traditional documentary to "factual entertainment" television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of... -
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins W. Wilms 9780230608252
SciFier: £46.99This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical...