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The Passenger by F. R. Tallis
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74Eerie, and full of suspense, The Passenger is a supernatural thriller by F. R. Tallis, author of the Vienna Blood series.1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy inhospitable waters of the... -
Rare Bird of Fashion by Eric Boman
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £24.83A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly... -
A History of Early Film V2 by Stephen Herbert
SciFier: £29.86Volume 2 of A History of Early Film examines filmmaking and presentation during the latter part of the early cinema period. Technology did not stand still during these years and despite problems with... -
The Animated Man by Michael Barrier
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.79Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business,... -
The Poppy War Collector's Edition by R.F. Kuang
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.52Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED From the #1... -
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, Book 2) R.F. Kuang 9780008239893
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR. Rin is on the run ... Haunted by the terrible choices she had to make to... -
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker 9780571370177
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.25The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow... -
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker 9780571370184
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.26'Revelation after revelation . . . I love music more for reading it.' Guy Garvey'Alker joins the dots by following myriad musical ley lines. A fascinating journey into sound.' Mark Radcliffe'Reveals... -
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry William Butler Yeats 9781513219042
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.99Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) is a collection of stories edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of... -
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, Book 1) R.F. Kuang 9780008239848
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED A brilliantly imaginative... -
Beyond the World of Men by Geoffrey Chew
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £14.62An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers. Bringing together Czech fiction published by women between 1890 and 1910, Beyond the World of Men... -
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters,... -
The Dragon Republic Collector's Edition (The Poppy War, Book 2) R.F. Kuang 9780008779672
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £25.22The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR. Rin is on the run... Haunted by the atrocity she committed to save her... -
Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood Daniel Ira Goldmark 9780520267244
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who's who of animation... -
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry William Butler Yeats 9781513270814
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.24Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) is a collection of stories edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of... -
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 Richard Abel 9780253046451
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £53.41Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local... -
Constructing a Flemish Cinema: Film Policy and National Identity in Flanders Gertjan Willems (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 9781501368974
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.00Focuses on the history of government subsidies for feature films in Flanders (the northern, Dutch-language region of Belgium) and its role in stimulating a Flemish identity. It provides an empirical... -
Radium Girls by Cy
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.89"Compelling, inspiring, and radiant." -- FOREWORD"Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Another example of how great graphic novels are at teaching history."... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Politics, Hollywood Style by John Heyrman
SciFier: £87.99This book analyzes major films about the American political process from the 1930's through the 2010's. Films are grouped historically and analyzed for their portrayal of American politicians and the... -
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales Megan DeVirgilis 9781837721689
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £69.23This book exposes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hispanic authors broke from European and American Gothic models to contend with their own anxieties over modernity and rising first-wave feminisms... -
Hokum! by Rob King
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93A 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. Hokum! is the first book to... -
The Promise of Cinema by Anton Kaes
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £67.30Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts,... -
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 Richard Abel 9780253046468
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9780230319387
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Miriam Hansen 9780520265608
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 Anton Kaes 9780520219076
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £102.56Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts,... -
Adapting Graham Greene Richard J. Hand 9780230579033
SciFier: £113.99Graham Greene was one of the most versatile writers of the 20th century, and he remains a figure of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between literature and cinema. As well... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Miriam Hansen 9780520265592
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.99Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
The Infinite Now by Mindy Tarquini
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.49On a rainy night in Philadelphia's Ninth Street Market, sixteen-year-old Fiora, newly-orphaned by the 1918 influenza epidemic, is dumped at an old man's door. Daughter of the local fortune teller,... -
Urban Culture and the Modern City by Agnes Gyoerke
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £46.06Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest,... -
Adapting Graham Greene Richard J. Hand (School of Creative and Cultural Studies, Pontypridd) 9780230579040
SciFier: £35.99Graham Greene was one of the most versatile writers of the 20th century, and he remains a figure of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between literature and cinema. As well... -
Beautiful Monsters by Michael Long
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Beautiful Monsters" explores the ways in which 'classical' music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the... -
The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers Nancy Deihl (New York University, USA) 9781350001046
SciFier: £98.49This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely... -
The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 2 by John Stanley (Consultant Hand Surgeon Wrightington Hospital Wigan UK)
RRP: £17.50SciFier: £16.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593939106Author John StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor... -
Night Shift: INCLUDES THE STORY OF 'THE BOOGEYMAN' - SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20th CENTURY STUDIOS Stephen King 9781444723199
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The No. 1 bestselling author's first classic collection of short stories which showcases the depths of his brilliant imagination - now with a stunning new cover look.A collection of tales to invade... -
The Hawkman by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £11.89A great war, a great love, and the mythology that unites them; The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War is a lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic.Set against the shattering events of the late... -
The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 1 by John Stanley (Consultant Hand Surgeon Wrightington Hospital Wigan UK)
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £17.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593939083Author John StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor... -
The Crisis of Political Modernism by D. N. Rodowick
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism--semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis,... -
The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema by David Pinho Barros
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £45.25Historical and theoretical analysis of the clear line style in comics and cinema The clear line, a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field...