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The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204590
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $45.94Paul Thomas Anderson's evolution from a brash, self-anointed "Indiewood" auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent... -
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet
SciFier: $52.65Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been... -
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) Christina Brennan 9781836243526
SciFier: $109.99At the 1989 Sydney Film Festival, George Sluizer's little-known independent film, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), was an unexpected hit, winning the festival's audience award and gaining accolades at... -
Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter Richard Barrios (, East Norriton PA) 9780199973842
RRP: $90.43SciFier: $72.11Insightful, witty, as exuberant as its subject matter, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. In a book that is at once history,... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Thematic Integration in Board Game Design Sarah Shipp 9781032584058
SciFier: $106.10Theme is often described as the why of a game. Themes help with rules comprehension by giving reasons for the mechanics. Themes can help set players' expectations for what kind of experiences or... -
Gwent Folk Tales by Christine Anne Watkins
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $21.94Gwent teems with stories of magic and strange transformations above and below ground. To tell them afresh, storyteller Christine Watkins has searched out of darkness through a maze of mountain mist... -
The Truce by Angie Smibert
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $26.82Twelve-year-old Bone, whose Gift allows her to see memories in everyday objects, must unearth her family's deepest secrets to find her favorite, missing uncle. This supernatural historical mystery is... -
Perori by Paul McDermott
RRP: $25.17SciFier: $19.90When Bard and linguist, Easten wins the right to bear Perori at an Eisteddfod, he little suspects how exceptional this lute really is. 'Perori' means music in Welsh, but her music does more than... -
Southeast Asia on Screen by Gaik Cheng Khoo
SciFier: $267.11After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories... -
Refocus: the Films of Jocelyne Saab by Mathilde Rouxel
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $55.85Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinema Offers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artistic Positions Saab's work as... -
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus (c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc) 9780231138246
RRP: $96.18SciFier: $83.65All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff... -
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus (c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc) 9780231138253
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $60.07All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff... -
The Camera Lies by Dan Callahan (Freelance Writer, Freelance Writer)
RRP: $74.40SciFier: $66.39Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint,... -
Outside: Stories by Barry Lopez Barry Lopez 9781595343192
RRP: $34.33SciFier: $29.17The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema Margo Shohl Rosen 9789089642837
SciFier: $128.22One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on... -
Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya
SciFier: $38.95Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original... -
The Trouble with Becoming a Witch by Amy Edwards
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $24.59Veronica thinks she's happy. But with fight after fight, night after night, she knows that something isn't right anymore. Then her husband busts her researching witchcraft-and her picturesque... -
Greta Gerwig: Filmmaker Suzanne Ferriss (Emiritus Professor, Nova Southeastern University) 9781399553506
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $40.92This is the first book to consider Gerwig as a writer-director. It argues that her three feature films to date-Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019) and Barbie (2023)-engage with debates about... -
Madeline Kahn by William V. Madison
RRP: $47.98SciFier: $39.04Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time - and one of the least... -
A Convenient Parallel Dimension by James Greene, Jr.
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $51.91"Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines." So wrote Roger Ebert in his review of Ghostbusters, the 1984 blockbuster that combined our paranormal fears and fascination with... -
Light in the Dark by Bjoern Nordfjoerd (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, St. Olaf College)
SciFier: $196.99Light in the Dark tells the dramatic history of Icelandic cinema from its modest origin in the early twentieth century to the heterogenous and complex national cinema of today. In tracing this... -
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis 9780253223388
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $35.63Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. ... -
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A Cage of Roots: Book 1 in the Ayla Trilogy Matt Griffin 9781847176813 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.30SciFier: $6.41Magic exists beneath our feet, if we only know where to look ... Growing up in a New York orphanage, Ayla has no idea who her family is. It is not until she comes to Ireland that she finds out... -
Afterlives: Scandinavian classics as comic art adaptations Camilla Storskog 9789189361126
RRP: $135.00SciFier: $128.19In Afterlives, the literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian orgin have been reinterpreted as comics. She sets out how literary works, plays, and films have... -
White Turtle by Bobis Merlinda
RRP: $27.37SciFier: $19.42An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman's twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in... -
The Purified by C. F. Peterson
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.05The long-awaited sequel to 'Errant Blood' , a second crime thriller set in the Scottish Highland village of Duncul. Eamon's new found happiness is shattered by the type of murder that the government... -
Amplify by Norah Bowman
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $46.33In this highly original text-a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist-graphic storytelling offers an emotionally resonant way for readers to understand and engage with... -
Ben Says Goodbye by Sarah Ellis
SciFier: $34.10When Ben's best friend moves away, he decides he will move, too - under the table, where he lives as "Caveman Ben." Supported by his family, Ben is able to work through his emotions until he feels... -
Pious Fashion by Liz Bucar
RRP: $45.69SciFier: $40.05Who says you can't be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through the way they dress. Headscarves can be modest or bold,... -
Lost Summers & Half forgotten Afternoons by Jo Burt
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $73.49Jo Burt's comic strips detailing the adventures of Mint, a mountain-biking sheep, have amused and delighted readers for over three decades. Join Mint as he rides through an enchanting, bucolic world... -
Finnish Film Studios by Kimmo Laine
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $168.06Provides the first scholarly examination of Finnish studio system Provides an approach that is both sensitive to the specific characteristics of Finnish studio system and applicable to small... -
The Adventures of Mr Nicholas Wisdom Krasicki. 9780810110397
RRP: $41.11SciFier: $28.51Winner, 1997 National Book Award for PoetryWinner, 1993 PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizePublished in 1776 and considered the first Polish novel ever written, The Adventures of Mr... -
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis 9780253356536
RRP: $132.82SciFier: $106.23Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. ... -
Sam Shepard Susan Compo 9781985904002
RRP: $72.14SciFier: $64.92Sam Shepard (1943-2017) was more than an actor, director, author, and playwright-he was a cultural force who transformed modern theater. From the 1960s through the 2010s, his works shattered... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts Blake Scott Ball (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of North Alabama) 9780197836439
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $36.27Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through... -
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance Will Aitken 9780889775213
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $40.95Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art. In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne... -
Negotiating the Auteur by Julia Dobson
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $143.70This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: $283.96SciFier: $227.652017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $57.002017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success...