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The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption Matthew Hughey 9781439910016
RRP: $57.10SciFier: $48.15The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in... -
Prague. I See a City... by Daniela Hodrova
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $24.89Prague, I see a city...is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156516
RRP: $78.42SciFier: $77.21Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production... -
Vesselless Cortney L. Winn 9780008764562
RRP: $47.60SciFier: $34.80The sensational enemies-to-lovers romantasy debut following the heir to a fantasy kingdom, and the seductive spirit sent to claim her soul. ... -
Rainbow Dreams: Color and Light in Contemporary Art Olga Rei 9781580937122
RRP: $71.28SciFier: $50.84A glorious celebration of color and light showcasing more than 200 exuberant contemporary artworks Rainbow Dreams is the ultimate visual treat: page after page of brilliant, rainbow-hued artworks by... -
Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism Jennifer Friedlander (Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College) 9780190676131
SciFier: $99.20Real Deceptions develops a new theory of realism through close consideration of myriad contemporary art, media, and cultural practices. Rather than focusing on transgressing deceptions which distort... -
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics Heidi R.M. Pauwels 9780415576604
SciFier: $110.27This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood... -
Moonpool Revelation by Kingsley Taylor
RRP: $40.44SciFier: $38.65In my first book the Nature Spirit, Moonpool, told of her interaction with the humans as they developed from the last Ice Age until just before the Roman Occupation. This follows on from there... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781137336033
SciFier: $111.84Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence Adam Szymanski 9781041176985
RRP: $114.22SciFier: $104.08The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry's clinical gaze. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism turns to the work... -
Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel Huda Fahmy 9780593855676
RRP: $38.06SciFier: $27.63In this funny and tender finale to the Huda F series, Huda has a plan to find love-but she might need to find herself first! It's the summer after Huda's school graduation, and love is in the air! Or... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496820259
RRP: $63.07SciFier: $46.31Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only... -
Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence Joram ten Brink 9780231163354
RRP: $52.36SciFier: $51.41Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as... -
Filming Women in the Third Reich Prof Jo Fox 9781859733967
SciFier: $88.04In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an... -
The Rhetoric of Violence by Kamal Abdel-Malek
SciFier: $111.84Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian... -
The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right Pramod K. Nayar 9780367626822
SciFier: $120.57This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world, from India to South Africa, Sarajevo to... -
Celluloid Mischief: Deviance and Crime on the Silver Screen Erich Goode 9781032341361
SciFier: $106.15Celluloid Mischief examines the portrayal of wrongdoing and "deviant" behavior in film. The premise is that films are material products of both individual and collective imagination that reflect the... -
In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America Robert J. Corber 9780822313861
SciFier: $53.69In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to... -
Hshouma by Zainab Fasiki
RRP: $35.68SciFier: $28.44'In my country, Morocco, it's hshouma (shameful) to discuss certain subjects, notably sexuality and the body, and even more so to want to experience these things. To understand what we're going... -
The Bad Corset: A Feminist Reimagining Rebecca Gibson (Independent scholar) 9781350295193
SciFier: $256.18Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496810694
SciFier: $242.74In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks, his theoriesof vision and sound, the... -
The Bad Corset: A Feminist Reimagining Rebecca Gibson (Independent scholar) 9781350295186
SciFier: $84.09Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly... -
Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Keith M. Johnston 9781847884763
SciFier: $85.66Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential... -
Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives by Dav Pilkey
RRP: $26.16SciFier: $16.64The perfect present for Dog Man fans - starring some of your favourite characters from the series! Cat Kid Comic Club is back in session in this groundbreaking graphic ... -
Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel Huda Fahmy 9780593855669
RRP: $59.48SciFier: $39.96In this funny and tender finale to the Huda F series, Huda has a plan to find love-but she might need to find herself first!It's the summer after Huda's high school graduation, and love is in the... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496823328
RRP: $59.38SciFier: $46.31In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the... -
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals by Tingting Hu
SciFier: $274.22This book examines the representation of women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of... -
Darwin's Children Greg Bear 9780007132386
RRP: $35.68SciFier: $30.32Evolution is no longer just a theory - and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother - in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's Radio ... -
The Broken Bubble Philip K Dick 9780575133082
GollanczRRP: $23.78SciFier: $18.97Four people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greatsSan Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage... -
Over the Top Judaism by Elliot B. Gertel
SciFier: $185.62Over the Top Judaism offers criticism of scores of television episodes and films, mainly between 1980 and 2002, that highlight the beliefs and practices of Judaism, real or perceived. Author Elliot... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103733
SciFier: $111.84In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema Guy Westwell 9780231172035
RRP: $52.36SciFier: $45.15Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in... -
Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz
RRP: $26.16SciFier: $23.54What does it mean to be trans? Non-Binary? Gender Expansive?What parts of gender come from society? What parts come from within?How much is biology, and how much is socialization?Part of the Really... -
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The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen 9781782691037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64SciFier: $5.00When Kai is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor the roses in the garden. One wintry evening, he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow... -
The Dead Zone Stephen King 9781444708097
RRP: $26.16SciFier: $21.92Stephen King's fan-favourite thriller. Also available in audio for the first time, read by Academy Award nominee James Franco.The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck... -
Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition Alan Moore 9781401238964
DC ComicsRRP: $85.68SciFier: $56.88In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect. Watchmen begins as... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103726
SciFier: $111.84In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
The Shaman's Mirror: Visionary Art of the Huichol Hope MacLean 9780292728769
RRP: $95.20SciFier: $81.99Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored... -
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
RRP: $23.78SciFier: $19.56Bernard Cornwell's brilliant novel, reissued for fans to find out the story behind the stones. This is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that created this great temple. One... -
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography Sarah Brophy 9781442616097
RRP: $76.16SciFier: $61.12From reality television to film, performance, and video art, autobiography is everywhere in today's image-obsessed age. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual...