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On His Majesty's Service by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.59Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, another captivating Matthew Hervey adventure from the pen of THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson. "Allan... -
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History Peter Watson 9781842124444
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.79'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a... -
Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies Tarja Laine 9781623561505
SciFier: £31.99There is an upsurge of interest in contemporary film theory towards cinematic emotions. Tarja Laine's innovative study proposes a methodology for interpreting affective encounters with films, not as... -
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema Tom Brown 9780748683079
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? It is... -
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a civilisation. Walt, the last of King Harold's bodyguard, the one who... -
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The Last English King Julian Rathbone 9780349109435 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.51On the Sussex Downs in 1066, the psychotic William and his gang of European mercenaries began the process which fragmented a civilisation. Walt, the last of King Harold's bodyguard, the one who... -
Black Butler, Vol. 25 by Yana Toboso
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97A mysterious cult mesmerises legions of spectators with glorious rituals of song and dance. But the unbridled passion it inspires in its followers gives Queen Victoria cause for concern, and she... -
Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw Peggy Shaw 9780472034147
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £21.73Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned... -
The White Devil: The gripping adventure for fans of The Man in the High Castle Paul Hoffman 9780718185572
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50THE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIESAmerica is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . .________Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet... -
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into... -
The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction John Wyndham 9780241972168
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what... -
Reflexivity in Film and Culture by Robert Stam
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of... -
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja 9780803211261
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £34.45In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous... -
Black Butler, Vol. 24 Yana Toboso, Yana 9780316511209
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97A mysterious cult mesmerises legions of spectators with glorious rituals of song and dance. But the unbridled passion it inspires in its followers gives Queen Victoria cause for concern, and she... -
Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Vol. 9 (light novel) by Bokuto Uno
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.07The combat league is reaching its climax, and the four teams that fought their way there are ready for center stage. First is Oliver's team against Team Valois, a trio of tricky sword arts users... -
Breaking Cinema: Cauleen Smith Experimental Film 2010-2023 by Romi Crawford Romi Crawford 9788867496372
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £13.44Operating in multiple materials and arenas, interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith (b. 1967) roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from... -
A Particular Friendship by Dirk Bogarde
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.10_______________ 'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator _______________ First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs. ... -
The Feel-Bad Film Nikolaj Lubecker 9780748697991
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.21Presents an analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort. In recent years some of the best known European and American art... -
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja 9780803245976
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous... -
The Midwich Cuckoos: Now a major Sky series starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley John Wyndham 9780141033013
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE CHRYSTALIDS AND THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDSNow a modern reimagining starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley available to watch on Sky.'Exciting, unsettling... -
Video Art by Ida Gianelli
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £12.91Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. If in its early years, during the mid sixties, video was used by artists to record performances created in an isolated... -
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Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson 9780571326112 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.58A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is 'the best thriller I've ever read' (Philip Pullman) ranking with 'The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People'... -
Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson 9780571326112
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is 'the best thriller I've ever read' (Philip Pullman) ranking with 'The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People'... -
Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £35.00Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Chaplin by David Robinson
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.25David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's... -
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Hollywood's New Deal Giulana Muscio 9781566394956 [USED COPY]
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £35.16Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase... -
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand Brian Aldiss 9781399635417
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21'Devilishly clever and compulsive' Daily Mail'Science Fiction at its best' SpectatorIn Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty... -
Mania Lionel Shriver 9780008658717
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.41'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely ... I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE 'Viciously... -
Chanel: An Intimate Life Lisa Chaney 9780141036854
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised... -
The Hopkins Manuscript R. C. Sherriff 9780241349076
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22The funny and moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England'I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned... -
Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The University of Hong Kong) 9780195374711
SciFier: £62.00Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the... -
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Chanel: An Intimate Life Lisa Chaney 9780141036854 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.89In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised... -
Twelve Films about Love and Heaven by Pete Fraser
SciFier: £18.51Peter Fraser revisits stories told onscreen that in different ways all convey clear and ringing truths and touch the deepest human chords. Spanning different time periods and cultures, Twelve Films... -
Shivers Down Your Spine by Alison Griffiths
SciFier: £95.78From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a... -
Veiled Presence by Paul Hills
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £44.86This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a... -
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement Heidi Lucja Liedke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 9781350340961
SciFier: £92.99This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. Assessing livecasting through the... -
French Cinema by Phil Powrie (University of Surrey, UK)
SciFier: £38.96What are the Cahiers du cinema? Which are the most popular French films? How do you write an essay on a French film? What is a high-angle shot in French? When did more French spectators go to see... -
The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema Frances Restuccia 9781441107572
SciFier: £37.99This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but revolutionary, film theory. Informed by the theory of... -
Robert Bresson Keith Reader 9780719053665
SciFier: £22.99This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear... -
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image: Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema Adriano D'Aloia 9781041183518
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of...