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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... -
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: £39.99SciFier: £36.79A 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... -
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... -
The Time They Saved Tomorrow by Steve Nallon
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.61The second book in The Swidgers series, this YA crossover novel focuses on the protagonist of William Arthur, who is a Swidger; someone who has the instinct to save the lives of others through making... -
The Camera Lies by Dan Callahan (Freelance Writer, Freelance Writer)
RRP: £32.49SciFier: £28.99Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint,... -
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist Ed Patrick 9781914240201
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.99'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal measure. At its heart is a breathtaking account of life on the COVID... -
Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work Aparna Sharma 9781349484157
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... -
Orfeo Richard Powers 9781804951767
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014'A virtuoso performance' SUNDAY TIMES'Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful' INDEPENDENT'A magnificent and moving novel' LOS ANGELES... -
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:... -
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... -
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... -
Ritual: Baptiste Brossard, Helen Dowling, Sara-Lena Maierhofer Madeleine Frey (Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen) 9783897906525
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £26.04Rituals shape our social relations and are highly significant in all cultures. They define communities and make transformation possible by conveying security and support. In this exhibition... -
Game Of Thrones by A Minguet
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.52Game of Thrones is rated as one of the best television series. Critics have praised it for its performances, scripts, special effects, battle sequences and music. Its story line is inspired by A Song... -
Daniel Craig: The Biography Sarah Marshall 9781843585398
SciFier: £12.74He's charismatic, talented and extremely sexy. His breathtaking performance as the latest James Bond won him legions of fans and proved that, as well as being an outstanding actor, he coud cut it as... -
Violent Faculties Charlene Elsby 9781955904940
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts.Violent Faculties follows... -
Killer Tanya Landman 9780008764906
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.61The courage of a loyal dog is tragically mistaken for violence in this gripping quick read for seriously struggling readers from award-winning author Tanya Landman. ... -
Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema Yvonne Tasker 9780415140058
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new... -
Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice by Anamarija Batista
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £22.42The reflections on historical and contemporary positions assembled here shed light on concepts of temporalities in the context of artistic practices. In the 1960s and 1970s the pursuit for the... -
The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture Karen Dillon 9781476666969
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently reproduce the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a... -
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema Karen A. Ritzenhoff 9781349344406
SciFier: £46.99How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual... -
At 25:00 in Akasaka Vol. 3 Hiroko Natsuno 9798891607521
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.64INFECTIOUS ANXIETY ABOUNDSThe young actor Yuki Shirasaki has moved in with the superstar Asami Hayama. Everything has been going well for the two of them as a couple, but work is a different matter... -
Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £71.80By merging three (inter)disciplinary areas of documentary film studies, women's and gender studies, and Iranian studies, this book looks at how Iranian women documentarians have engaged with gender... -
The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales: Volume II Folk Tales Authors 9781803999456
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.70This enchanting collection of stories once again gathers together legends and lore from across Ireland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a... -
Claptrap by Tom Wood
SciFier: £10.39Late spring in Oslo, Ontario. The annual Ibsen Festival begins with auditions, then rehearsals, and, finally, performances. This year, the Ibfest features productions of five classic plays: The... -
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art Margot Bouman (The New School, New York, USA) 9781350114562
SciFier: £96.63In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning... -
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... -
Archer Coe by Jamie S. Rich
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86Archer Coe is a performing hypnotist with the stage name "The Mind's Arrow." When his nightly shows are over, he moonlights as a special consultant for the rich and powerful. His latest client is a...