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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: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Working 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... -
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: £39.39Ridley 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... -
Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender Sheila Whiteley 9780415146715
SciFier: £38.36Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The... -
Patty Duke by Stephen L. Eberly
SciFier: £83.49Patty Duke is one of the few former child actors who has survived the transition from child to adolescent to adult and gone on to greater fame and success in her adult years. Academy Award-winner,... -
Whisper Me a Love Song 7 by Eku Takeshima
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.55Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori she just loves her, and,... -
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema Karen A. Ritzenhoff 9780230341548
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... -
Ireland's Master Storyteller: The Collected Stories of Eamon Kelly Eamon Kelly 9781781178416
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99In this collection, actor and seanchai (traditional storyteller) Eamon Kelly's finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Goban Saor, the... -
Sumi-e Just for You: Traditional One Brush Ink Painting by Hakuho Hirayama
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £18.57-One-brush' sumi-e is an easy, entertaining way to express on paper the moods and images of nature. Everything you need to know is contained in this book. All the brush skills you learn lead step by... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were... -
Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 Joseph Fink 9780356508627
OrbitRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61'Hypnotic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Incredible' BUZZFEED 'Brilliant' BOING BOING Downloaded over 100 million times in podcast form, Welcome to Night Vale is now yours to take home in print for the first time... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by John W. Frick
SciFier: £46.99No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852... -
Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas Celia Lam 9780367554002
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity 'bromances,' interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona,... -
W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen by Arthur Frank Wertheim
SciFier: £102.99This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at... -
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Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 Joseph Fink 9780356508627 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £8.85'Hypnotic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Incredible' BUZZFEED 'Brilliant' BOING BOING Downloaded over 100 million times in podcast form, Welcome to Night Vale is now yours to take home in print for the first time... -
Fabrications: Dance, Costume, and Material Culture Rachel Fensham (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne) 9780197699607
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.81How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage? How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance... -
Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy Professor Donald Sells (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350166288
SciFier: £35.99This 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: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Evelyn 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: £23.37In 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: £15.49Jag, 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: £18.24For 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: £18.62Cosplayers: 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: £9.99SciFier: £7.34"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... -
Attack of the Leading Ladies by Rhona Berenstein
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes... -
The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts Sara Pesce 9781138319745
SciFier: £46.33In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance... -
Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds Sara Humphreys 9781496224217
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so... -
Little Sheku and the Animal Orchestra Sheku Kanneh-Mason 9780241588574
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.25Little Sheku LOVED music. He loved to hear the beautiful sounds that flowed from his cello as his bow danced across the strings. And he loved finding music in unexpected places...Little Sheku can't... -
Fitzmaurice Voicework: Embodying the Holistic Voice Catherine Fitzmaurice 9781032134024
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53Fitzmaurice Voicework: Embodying the Holistic Voice is the ultimate guide to a world-renowned voice approach for discovering and developing the voice's full expressive potential and healthy use. ... -
Magic Lantern Art: The American Screen's First Great Narrative Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale Terry Borton 9780861967582
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.91Magic Lantern Art celebrates the life and artistry of cinema pioneer, Joseph Boggs Beale (1841-1926). Beale was America's premier artist creating images for magic lantern shows - the projected... -
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.38After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China's new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521153065
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89Magic 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... -
Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.99Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute...