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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... -
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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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... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.31Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
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... -
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... -
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement Heidi Lucja Liedke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 9781350341005
SciFier: £30.99This 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... -
The Art of Living: A satirical novel Stephen Bayley 9781529176896
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the... -
Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema Shellie McMurdo 9781474482097
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema argues that found footage horror cinema... -
Audiences by Ian Christie
SciFier: £62.80This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest... -
Christian Marclay: Sound Stories by Christian Marclay
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £20.58Marclay fuses art and technology to draw on the sounds and images of life on Snapchat In Sound Stories, American artist and composer Christian Marclay (born 1955) fuses art and technology, using... -
Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism by Martina Moeller
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £33.11Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator's image of him or herself as "a good... -
Mortal Engines: Thunder City by Philip Reeve
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.67"My favourite contemporary children's author is Philip Reeve" - Charlie Higson An epic, thrilling, action-packed city-eat-city adventure starring brave fighter Tamzin Pook, who... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X Feng 9780822329961
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Comedy: A Critical Introduction Eli Rozik 9781845194772
SciFier: £115.22Herewith an original approach to the study of comedy. While assimilating theoretical insights from Aristotle to the present day, it contests, inter alia, the theory of comedy's ritual origin;... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes
SciFier: £29.78Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been... -
In or Out? by Kipper Williams
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.66Brilliantly witty and full of irreverent fun, this is a tongue-in-cheek look at Europe by leading cartoonist Kipper Williams, whose work regularly appears in the Guardian and The Spectator. From... -
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Mania Lionel Shriver 9780008658670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £4.11What if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing... -
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Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £11.42This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism William Kaizen 9781611689440
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £67.67Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the... -
Breaking the Frame by Inez Hedges
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist... -
Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism William Kaizen 9781611689457
SciFier: £38.46Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the... -
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan: Cinema as a Sensory Circuit Ya-Feng Mon 9781041179375
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the... -
Two Tribes Chris Beckett 9781786499332
SciFier: £10.52'Brilliantly and chillingly imagined' Guardian'Explored with wit, thoughtfulness and emotional weight' SpectatorAs a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.61Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have...