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Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age Shannon R. Wooden 9781442275652
SciFier: £37.99Since Toy Story, its first feature in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has produced a string of commercial and critical successes including Monsters, Inc.; WALL-E; Finding Nemo; The Incredibles; Cars;... -
Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games Tim Summers 9781538192757
SciFier: £77.99Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at game fans, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Based on the... -
Latin American History at the Movies Donald F. Stevens 9781538152461
SciFier: £41.13Movies are meant to be entertaining, but they can also be educational. People are naturally curious to know how much of what they see on their screens might be historically true. In Latin American... -
Weird Al: Seriously Lily E. Hirsch 9781538163504
SciFier: £16.49Featuring even more insights on "Weird Al" Yankovic including his activities during a tumultuous 2020 and 2021, this expanded edition dives deeper into the world of the iconic man who has made a... -
Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games Tim Summers 9781538192764
SciFier: £33.99Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at game fans, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Based on the... -
Weird Al: Seriously Lily E. Hirsch 9781538124994
SciFier: £30.30This book is the first to address in a serious way the impact and meaning of the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Though everyone knows his name, Yankovic is often dismissed as a novelty. His music... -
Betty and Veronica by Tim Hanley
SciFier: £34.64We think we know Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, but we don't. Far more than just Archie's girlfriends, this book shows how the girls adapted to be compelling, relevant characters for each new... -
The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows by Zachary Ingle
SciFier: £39.99This book celebrates the 100 greatest superhero films and tv shows from the early 1940s to the present. Each entry includes a plot summary, background information, production details, critical... -
The Care and Display of Historic Clothing Karen M. DePauw 9781538105924
SciFier: £56.99Wearable textiles hold their own stories of trade, manufacture and regionalism, just to name a few; they also tell a personal tale of the individuals who created our history. When we look at a piece... -
Experiencing Film Music by Kenneth LaFave
SciFier: £42.99Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild. Yet it is an integral part of the cinematic experience. Minimized as mere "background music," film... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt Eric San Juan 9781538127650
SciFier: £37.99Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese. His inventiveness displays a reaction against the "right" way to make a movie,... -
Batgirl and Beyond by Tim Hanley
SciFier: £35.34Explores the history of Batgirlfrom her groundbreaking comics debut to her disappointing live-action appearances and beyond.For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has... -
Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 9781666973648
SciFier: £92.99This edited volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date analysis of the entire filmography of Dario Argento, one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror... -
Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Picturing the Enemy Peter Gottschalk 9781538107362
SciFier: £83.49In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and... -
Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Picturing the Enemy Peter Gottschalk 9781538107379
SciFier: £33.99In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and... -
The Coen Brothers' America by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £36.99For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like... -
Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga by Randall Bonser
SciFier: £47.99Interest in comic books, graphic novels, and manga has never been greater, and fans of these works continue to grow around the world. From American superheroes like Superman and Spiderman to... -
The Care and Display of Historic Clothing Karen M. DePauw 9781538105917
SciFier: £98.49Wearable textiles hold their own stories of trade, manufacture and regionalism, just to name a few; they also tell a personal tale of the individuals who created our history. When we look at a piece... -
The Laughing Dead by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: £93.49Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to... -
The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual Albert R. Spencer 9781666942774
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £72.44The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual explores how role-playing games (RPGs) serve as immersive laboratories for exploring identity, ideology, and self-discovery. By weaving... -
The Reel World: Scoring for Pictures, Television, and Video Games Jeff Rona 9781538150498
SciFier: £37.99This fully updated and complete guide takes you inside the world of creating music for film, television, and-unique to this third edition-video games. It addresses a wide range of topics including... -
SpongeBob SquarePants by Paul Volponi
SciFier: £23.49The first, long-overdue book on SpongeBob SquarePants for all agesWhen SpongeBob SquarePants debuted in 1999, the fun-loving, pure-hearted title character took the world of animation by storm, riding... -
Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards John Dorney 9781538163108
SciFier: £35.34A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy... -
The Essential Films of Ingrid Bergman Constantine Santas 9781442212145
SciFier: £39.99Ingrid Bergman was not only an incomparable beauty but one of the finest actresses of cinema's Golden Age. She made her start in modest productions in Sweden before Hollywood beckoned and soon became... -
Marilyn Monroe Day by Day by Carl Rollyson
SciFier: £30.99From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century. However, no... -
Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven by Mariana Whitmer
SciFier: £41.99Released in late 1960, The Magnificent Seven was a Western reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Despite such stars as Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, the film was not... -
Jean-Luc Godard: Philosopher/Insurgent Jonathan Scott Lee 9781666936711
SciFier: £82.99In this book, Jonathan Scott Lee argues that Jean-Luc Godard is best seen as a philosopher who uses cinema and video as his media to develop provocative interventions into contemporary political... -
Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the Atlas Daniele Dottorini 9781666941999
SciFier: £97.99This book establishes a starting point toward a theory of the anachronism of cinematic images through an exploration of existing films, theories, and discourses concerning the temporality of images... -
100 Essential Indian Films by Rohit K. Dasgupta
SciFier: £50.99Although the motion picture industry in India is one of the oldest and largest in the world-with literally thousands of productions released each year-films from that country have not been as well... -
The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia by Robert W. Pohle
SciFier: £99.99In a career that spanned eight decades, Christopher Lee (1922-2015) appeared in more than 200 roles for film and television. Though he is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in films of the... -
Fantasies of Singledom: Living in the Cultural Imaginary of Single Femininity Kate Gilchrist 9781666966893
SciFier: £82.99This book examines the representation of the single woman in contemporary popular culture from the UK, US, and Europe, and places it in juxtaposition to the experience and self-narratives of single... -
The 12-Hour Film Expert by Noah Charney
SciFier: £27.55The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation.If you are looking at this book, then you probably love watching movies and television shows. Who doesn't? But... -
Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans Frederick Gooding, Jr. 9781538123720
SciFier: £37.99The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts an annual award show affectionately and commonly known as "the Oscars." Yet, these awards are more than a mere ceremony; they are a phenomenon... -
Not All Supermen by Tim Hanley
SciFier: £33.99An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut... -
The Tim Burton Encyclopedia Samuel J. Umland 9780810892002
SciFier: £93.49Tim Burton is one of the most inventive filmmakers in the world. From his early work as an animator for Disney studios to his distinctive takes on iconic characters like Batman and Alice in... -
100 Greatest Video Game Franchises Robert Mejia 9781442278141
SciFier: £47.99Video games take players on a trip through ancient battlefields, to mythic worlds, and across galaxies. They provide players with a way to try on new identities and acquire vast superpowers. Video... -
Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema: Being (a)Part Kwasu D. Tembo 9781793642011
SciFier: £93.49In this book, Kwasu D. Tembo utilizes ideas from physics, mathematics, and media (specifically cinema, philosophy, and theory) to explore questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in... -
Bill Duke by Bill Duke
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.11While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash,... -
Nephilim by John Barrowman
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.49Seventeen-year-old Remy is a Conjuror - someone who can alter reality with his music. But such a talent comes with a price. He and his superpowered friends, Matt and Em Calder, are engaged in a... -
Nephilim John Barrowman 9781781856437 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.58Seventeen-year-old Remy is a Conjuror - someone who can alter reality with his music. But such a talent comes with a price. He and his superpowered friends, Matt and Em Calder, are engaged in a...