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Digital Gameplay by Nate Garrelts
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life. Not only have work and education but leisure time and play have been all but revolutionized. Increasingly, digital games are... -
The Gospel according to Oprah by Marcia Z. Nelson
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £14.09In this book, religion reporter Marcia Nelson explores the spiritual dimensions that are prevalent in all aspects of the Oprah Winfrey media empire. Though Oprah is rarely explicitly religious on... -
ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks R. Barton Palmer 9781474496582
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.77ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America's most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the "literary" aspects of his... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 10 Robin Netherton (Author) 9781843839071
RRP: £65.00SciFier: £58.49The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three... -
Perspectives on the European Videogame Victor Navarro-Remesal 9781041184089
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The history of European videogames has so far been overshadowed by the global impact of the Japanese and North American industries. However, European game development studios have played a major role... -
The Little Book of Surgical Cartoons by Dr Evgeniy E Perelygin
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.89Evgeniy Perelygin -- a surgeon who is known to his friends as Perya -- has managed to capture the funny, the amusing, and the ridiculous aspects of what surgeons do and think. Yes, surgeons take... -
Sound in the American Horror Film by Jeffrey Bullins
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJeffrey Bullins is a sound designer and educator living in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has worked in the... -
Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman David Tomas 9781501307294
SciFier: £40.99Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's... -
Finnish Cinema by Henry Bacon
SciFier: £24.49This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic,... -
Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma and the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla 9781474431675
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77A new critical and theoretical approach to a neglected aspect of Pedro Almodovar's cinemaOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodovar has won international recognition for his dark... -
Karate: The Complete Kata by Richard Berger
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £23.60The martial art of karate can be practiced by anyone, regardless of age or gender, and can be undertaken at any time during a person's life. Embraced by people the world over, this traditional... -
The Players' Realm: Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming Dr. J. Patrick Williams 9780786428328
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the world... -
Words for the Theatre by David Cole
SciFier: £22.89In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.The book's four essays each offer a... -
Agent of Challenge and Defiance: The Films of Ken Loach George McKnight 9780275960360
SciFier: £37.99For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These invariably controversial film and television... -
Pazoten Jack McGinnigle 9781897913550
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Otisk and Francel love being in Pazoten, a wondrous place, where life overflows with contentment, and whose landscape is a constant pleasure to explore. As a couple, they are delighted to work... -
The Chronicles Of Light by Joanne Barnett
SciFier: £10.67Based on nearly fifty years of mediumship and friendship with Spirit, this breakthrough collection of channelled writings provides spectacular new knowledge and understanding of 'God', Spirit... -
World of Warcraft: War of the Scaleborn by Courtney Alameda
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.04The next novel set in the world of Blizzard Entertainment's legendary online game World of Warcraft. When the world was young, all life shook before the might of Galakrond, a massive primal dragon... -
Gaming as Culture by J. Patrick Williams
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Perhaps the fastest growing facet of American popular culture, the video game industry is Hollywood's premier rival in the entertainment business. But stacks of new releases for gaming enthusiasts... -
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking by Ilisa Barbash
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.36This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of... -
Studying British Cultures: An Introduction Susan Bassnett 9780415323512
SciFier: £39.39'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the... -
Visual Storytelling for Filmmakers Blain Brown 9781032414706
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £46.16Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, author Blain Brown explores how we use space, color,... -
Mr Bean's Entertaining Escapades: 11 hilarious comics Official Mr Bean 9781408376133
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48A laugh-out-loud comic collection for kids aged 7-10!Get ready for uncontrollable giggles with Mr Bean's Entertaining Escapades - a riotous collection of ten original comic strip adventures featuring... -
CONES ON THE WATERFRONT by Chris Madeley
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.74In CONES ON THE WATERFRONT the four friends meet Conefluence who teaches them about the beauty as well as danger of being near waterways, canals and rivers. ;The Cones series are brilliantly written,... -
Sleepy Hollow: Creating Heroes, Demons and Monsters by Tara Bennett
Titan BooksRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.14Resurrected from his grave more than two centuries after he was killed fighting for the Colonial Army in the Civil War, Ichabod Crane partners with Lieutenant Abbie Mills of the Sleepy Hollow Police... -
Selznick's Vision by Alan David Vertrees
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer... -
Digital Visual Art Education by Robert Sweeny
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £54.49This book presents a detailed analysis of digital media as it is currently being used by visual artists. It places these works into a theoretical framework that is useful for research in fields such... -
Language in Public Spaces in Japan Nanette Gottlieb (University of Queensland, Australia) 9780415818391
SciFier: £50.66This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts... -
The McGurk Universe by K.J. Donnelly
SciFier: £112.99This book reconsiders audiovisual culture through a focus on human perception, with recourse to ideas derived from recent neuroscience. It proceeds from the assumption that rather than simply working... -
The Art of Watching Films ISE by Dennis Petrie
RRP: £152.99SciFier: £59.59Informed by the belief that making films is an art-and that watching films is also an art. With an emphasis on the narrative film, it challenges students to take their film experience further by... -
The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 Charles Musser 9780520085336
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.99The origins of motion picture technologies are described and analyzed by Charles Musser in this lavishly illustrated volume. He considers social and economic as well as aesthetic aspects of the... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski (Stockholm University) 9781835950487
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £24.65Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
SciFier: £47.90This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and... -
Pop Goes the Decade by Kevin L. Ferguson
SciFier: £83.49Popular culture in the 1990s often primarily reflected millennial catastrophic anxieties. The world was tightening, speeding up, and becoming more dangerous and dangerously connected. Surely it was... -
The History of British Film (Volume 5) by Rachael Low
SciFier: £55.00This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of... -
Introduction to 3D Game Engine Design Using DirectX 9 and C# by Marshall Harrison
RRP: £35.49SciFier: £31.79This tutorial goes through the requirements for a game engine and addresses those requirements using the applicable aspects of DirectX with C#.Springer Book ArchivesAbout the AuthorLynn Thomas... -
The Director's Idea: The Path to Great Directing Ken Dancyger 9780240806815
SciFier: £41.39As a director, you must have a concept, a "director's idea", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and... -
The Handbook of Visual Culture Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK) 9781350250772
SciFier: £39.99Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of... -
Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality Devin C. Griffiths 9781442216952
SciFier: £35.39From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband W. Heath Robinson 9781851244904
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.04What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in...