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Witchfinder General by Ian Cooper
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: £27.10Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
Yesterday's Tomorrows by Mike Ashley
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £11.99Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the... -
Stalker Jon Hoel 9781999334086
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
Jurassic Park Paul Bullock 9781999334048
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.88Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of... -
Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet Mike Ashley 9780712352406
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99`I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.' An antique... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray
SciFier: £34.05Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
Candyman by Jon Towlson
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was "scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore." Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s... -
12 Monkeys by Susanne Kord
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) was a commercial and critical success, but it is Gilliam's least understood film, even on the basic plot level. Aside from recognizable debts to specific films such... -
The Curse of Frankenstein by Marcus Harmes
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in... -
Brainstorm Joseph Maddrey 9781916084223
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with... -
The Thing by Jez Conolly
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised second edition) by Gideon Nisbet
SciFier: £28.89This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film "300" (2006). Why, in a... -
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes by Tom Ue (Cape Breton University, Canada)
SciFier: £24.44Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of... -
Let the Right One In by Anne Billson
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76These days it takes a very special vampire movie to stand out. Like Twilight, the Swedish film Let the Right One In is a love story between a human and a vampire but there the resemblance ends... -
World Film Locations: Toronto Tom Ue (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781783201952
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life. A city on the move, it demands... -
Screening the Art World Temenuga Trifonova 9781041185826
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather...