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Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott
RRP: $48.09SciFier: $35.38Wendy 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: $256.64Whether 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: $107.61This 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... -
Across the River and into the Trees Ernest Hemingway 9780099909606
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $16.26The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a... -
Gaming Masculinity by Megan Condis
RRP: $135.00SciFier: $111.16In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male gamers threatened to rape and kill both... -
Smoke Signals by Joanna Hearne
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56Smoke Signals is a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written,... -
Beyond Virtual Production: Integrating Production Technologies Tully Barnett (Flinders University, Australia) 9781032582924
SciFier: $88.23Beyond Virtual Production brings together a range of creative practice research projects that have been undertaken in The Void, an early-adopter university-based virtual production studio at Flinders... -
Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa
RRP: $32.04SciFier: $29.36Tetra Nova tells the story of Lua Mater, an obscure Roman goddess who re-imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late-20th century. The... -
Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form Elena del Rio (Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada) 9781399554770
RRP: $217.55SciFier: $183.18Both Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by... -
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru Olesya Salnikova Gilmore 9780008764821
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $31.97They whisper your fortunes, but what can they tell of their past? A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she... -
Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide Bernard A. Drew 9781138976504
SciFier: $69.98In 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: $12.66This 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... -
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: $162.98In 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: $86.24Ridley 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: $38.91SciFier: $30.53This 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: $20.59SciFier: $15.39A 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: $29.75SciFier: $26.82Released 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: $70.97What 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: $51.73Cult 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... -
The Time They Saved Tomorrow by Steve Nallon
RRP: $20.59SciFier: $15.14The 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: $74.40SciFier: $66.39Alfred 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,... -
Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice by Anamarija Batista
RRP: $59.54SciFier: $51.34The 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: $66.39SciFier: $56.81The 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: $107.61How 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: $32.04SciFier: $22.10INFECTIOUS 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: $194.65SciFier: $164.42By 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: $38.91SciFier: $29.08This 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... -
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art Margot Bouman (The New School, New York, USA) 9781350114562
SciFier: $221.28In 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... -
Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy Professor Donald Sells (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350166288
SciFier: $82.42This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian... -
Evelyn Dove by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $23.01Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star... -
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) 9780197677872
SciFier: $53.52In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors... -
Animal Alchemy by Mark Roland Langdale
SciFier: $35.93Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals' lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets... -
The Gospel According To The Son by Norman Mailer
SciFier: $41.77For 2,000 years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilisation's triumphs and disasters. In THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON,... -
Cosplayers by A. Luxx Mishou (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
SciFier: $42.64Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity... -
The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder Kiri Callaghan 9781464257858
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $16.81"For all intents and purposes, we are still blissfully separated from the mortals, but there have been...complications."When a rise in London's supernatural crime puts Fey society at risk of... -
Ritual: Baptiste Brossard, Helen Dowling, Sara-Lena Maierhofer Madeleine Frey (Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen) 9783897906525
RRP: $89.31SciFier: $59.63Rituals 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: $41.20SciFier: $28.67Game 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: $29.17He'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: $32.04SciFier: $22.51A 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: $16.01SciFier: $12.85The 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. ...