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The Boi of Feather and Steel by Adan Jerreat-Poole
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $15.56The thrilling sequel to the queer witchy fantasy The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass.After stealing the Heart of a magical world with the help of a supernatural assassin, Tav discovers that they can't... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112063
SciFier: $186.54Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches... -
Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) 9781350453685
RRP: $137.80SciFier: $127.20A complete introduction to the comics and graphic narratives of Lynda Barry, this book maps the historical and biographical contexts, key texts, the critical themes and debates surrounding her... -
Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe
SciFier: $197.14Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? ... -
Vocal Apparitions by Michal Grover-Friedlander
RRP: $127.20SciFier: $121.82Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what... -
Play by John Hutton
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $13.55Wash, eat, tie my shoe. So much to share, so much to do. Roll a ball across the floor. Build a box house with a door . . .From books and blocks to pets and boxes, a child's desire to play, explore,... -
Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) 9781350453678
SciFier: $53.04A complete introduction to the comics and graphic narratives of Lynda Barry, this book maps the historical and biographical contexts, key texts, the critical themes and debates surrounding her... -
Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice Marie Riegels Melchior 9781472527660
SciFier: $74.18Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum... -
Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937 Laikwan Pang 9780742509467
SciFier: $120.82Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and... -
Child's Play by Ramiro Jose Peralta
RRP: $33.90SciFier: $24.61A poignant story about how children's play and creativity help children overcome the hardship of moving and changing country and heal one's soul.Danny, Molly and Marcus are three sparkling creative... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501354908
SciFier: $78.42Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim,... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory R. Rushton 9780230244580
SciFier: $99.62The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era,... -
100 Symbols That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: $46.64SciFier: $33.77100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world's most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have been used as a form of communication from the Bronze... -
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon Grace Lin 9780316114271
SciFier: $31.78In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. While her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man in the... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory R. Rushton 9781349318957
SciFier: $99.62The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era,... -
Reel Power by Matthew Alford
SciFier: $61.46Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US... -
The Rabbit Back Literature Society Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen (Author) 9781782270430
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $20.18A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author 'She came to realise that under one reality there's always another. And another one under that.' ... -
Sylvain Chomet's Distinctive Animation by Maria Katsaridou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
SciFier: $65.70Sylvain Chomet is a multifaceted French artist best known for his feature animation films The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist. Although the films have a highly recognized artistic value,... -
Race in the Machine by Quincy Thomas Stewart
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $29.28An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically... -
Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture Roger Stahl 9780415999786
SciFier: $77.99Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment-or "militainment"-in contemporary American popular culture. War has... -
Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA) 9780857855756
SciFier: $86.37Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion,... -
Wonder Woman: New edition with full color illustrations Noah Berlatsky 9780813590431
RRP: $65.72SciFier: $52.77William Marston was an unusual man-a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder... -
Wonder Woman: New edition with full color illustrations Noah Berlatsky 9780813590448
RRP: $262.88SciFier: $209.27William Marston was an unusual man-a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder... -
How To Write Great Screenplays and Get Them Into Production Linda James 9781845283070 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.25SciFier: $4.60Have you got a great idea for a screenplay, but don't know how to write it visually? Then this book is for you. It will give you the vital information you need to know before you write your script;... -
On Audrey Hepburn: An Opinionated Guide Steven Cohan (Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University) 9780197668283
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $38.90Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from... -
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Ernestine Schlant 9780415922203
SciFier: $81.68Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms... -
Deeper than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema Raz Yosef (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 9781501319617
SciFier: $86.90In this collection, leading scholars in both film studies and Israeli studies show that beyond representing familiar historical accounts or striving to offer a more complete and accurate depiction of... -
The Shaman's Apprentice by Zacharias Kunuk
RRP: $25.42SciFier: $18.21Inspired by award-winning Inuk director Zacharias Kunuk's short film of the same name, The Shaman's Apprentice tells the story of a young shaman in training who must face her first test-a trip to the... -
Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and Its Works Dr Christopher Meir (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago) 9781501368103
SciFier: $76.30Equal parts historical study, industrial analysis and critical survey of some of the most important films and television programs in recent European history, this book gives readers an overview of... -
Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine Kathryn Ramey 9780240823966
RRP: $101.74SciFier: $81.90Become a master in the influential, diverse, and highly innovative field of experimental filmmaking. Harness the little-known techniques and subtle aesthetics required for this imagination-driven art... -
Cinematic Savior by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks
SciFier: $131.42From Cecil B. DeMille's production of King of Kings in 1927, to Mel Gibson's recent The Passion of the Christ, films that discuss the meaning of Jesus have provoked interest, discussion, and... -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain Amy Jeffs 9781529408003
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $17.32A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive,... -
Chasing the Boogeyman Richard Chizmar 9781529372410
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.90The acclaimed NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that 'is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting' (Stephen King) and 'unforgettable' (Harlan Coben)... -
The Lure of the Social by Gretchen Coombs (RMIT University)
RRP: $72.08SciFier: $67.82This new and original book is a creative practice ethnography, which navigates a spectrum where at one end the author works closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic research,... -
Producing Children's Television in the On Demand Age by Anna Potter (nUniversity of Southern California)
SciFier: $61.99This book provides a detailed account of the creative, economic and regulatory processes underlying the production of children's television in a multi-platform era. Its collection of integrated case... -
The Mongoliad: Book One by Neal Stephenson
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $29.02The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords... -
Fighting to Belong! (Vol. 3): Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1970s to Today Amy Chu 9798890130440
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $19.06"Historic contributions and stories of resilience are shared in this dynamic graphic novel. An informative and engaging read!"-Maia and Alex Shibutani, two-time Olympic medalists and authors of... -
The Fantasy of the Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene
RRP: $55.12SciFier: $48.12From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons and from Medieval Times to... -
Fighting to Belong!: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1700s Through the 1800s Amy Chu 9798890130198
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $20.84"Historic contributions and stories of resilience are shared in this dynamic graphic novel. An informative and engaging read!"-Maia and Alex Shibutani, two-time Olympic medalists and authors of... -
How to Dungeon Master Parenting by Shelly Mazzanoble
RRP: $35.93SciFier: $30.99Gather your party, it's time to level up your parenting game!For years, millions of fans have looked to the beloved role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons for fun, friendship, and entertainment. And...