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Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112070
SciFier: £29.20Kenneth 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... -
The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies by George Anastasia
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.74The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian families" in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has... -
Say Zoop!: A Book of Sound-Board Book Edition Herve Tullet 9781797239347
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10A playful celebration of sound completes the quartet of board book editions that began with Herve Tullet's mega-bestselling Press Here.Press Here, Mix It Up!, Let's Play!, and now Say Zoop! Collect... -
I Died a Million Times: Gangster Noir in Midcentury America Robert Miklitsch 9780252085543
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.01In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops,... -
Scoring the Score: The Role of the Orchestrator in the Contemporary Film Industry Ian Sapiro (University of Leeds, UK) 9780415723237
RRP: £51.99SciFier: £47.20Scoring the Score is the first scholarly examination of the orchestrator's role in the contemporary film industry. Orchestrators are crucial to the production of a film's score, yet they have not... -
Spin and Spot: Things That Go by DK
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72DK brings you a beautifully illustrated and engaging book to introduce your toddler to all the different transport in our world.Introducing Spin and Spot: Things That Go, a wonderfully engaging and... -
Spin and Spot: At the Park: What Can You Spin and Spot Today? DK 9780241598290
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72DK brings you a beautifully illustrated and engaging book to introduce your toddler to all the different wonders of the park.Introducing Spin and Spot: At the Park, a wonderfully engaging and... -
Movie History: A Survey: Second Edition Douglas Gomery (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415775458
SciFier: £49.36How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don't answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112063
SciFier: £87.99Kenneth 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... -
The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture Erika Balsom 9780231221320
SciFier: £81.00Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against... -
Play by John Hutton
RRP: £6.95SciFier: £6.40Wash, 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,... -
Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
SciFier: £30.99Little 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? ... -
Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) 9781350453678
SciFier: £25.02A 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: £34.99Why 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... -
Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession Yasser Megahed (Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University) 9780367425449
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £32.29This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic... -
Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) 9781350453685
RRP: £65.00SciFier: £57.06A 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... -
The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture Erika Balsom 9780231221337
SciFier: £21.24Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against... -
Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937 Laikwan Pang 9780742509467
SciFier: £56.99Building 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... -
Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe
SciFier: £92.99Little 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: £60.00SciFier: £53.19Cinema 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... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501354908
SciFier: £36.99Situation 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,... -
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen: The Films of William F. Cody Sandra K. Sagala 9780806143613
SciFier: £28.49For more than thirty years, William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody's fabled... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory R. Rushton 9780230244580
SciFier: £46.99The 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,... -
The Femme Fatale Julie Grossman 9780813598246
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood's contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the... -
A Cultural History of School Uniform Kate Stephenson 9781804131213
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49What's a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? How have social and educational changes affected the appearance of schoolchildren? This... -
100 Symbols That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.93100 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: £13.79In 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: £46.99The 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: £29.99Hollywood 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 Femme Fatale Julie Grossman 9780813598253
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £51.14Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood's contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the... -
Sylvain Chomet's Distinctive Animation by Maria Katsaridou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
SciFier: £30.99Sylvain 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,... -
The Rabbit Back Literature Society Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen (Author) 9781782270430
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.52A 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: From The Triplets of Belleville to The Illusionist Maria Katsaridou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 9781501363993
SciFier: £97.99This open access book provides the first in-depth analysis of his animation films and his contribution to contemporary animation.Sylvain Chomet is a multifaceted French artist best known for his... -
Race in the Machine by Quincy Thomas Stewart
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £13.81An 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: £38.53Militainment, 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: £40.74Winner 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: £31.00SciFier: £25.68William 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: £124.00SciFier: £98.71William 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... -
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust Ernestine Schlant 9780415922203
SciFier: £40.26Focusing 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... -
The Starman and Me Sharon Cohen 9781786540089
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48E.T. meets Stig of the Dump in a page-turning adventure for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and David Almond'A proper adventure story for all curious middle graders ... heartily recommended' The...