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Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet Jesse S. Cohn 9781496850157
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the... -
Zombie Town by R.L. Stine
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £4.14This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all the zombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, go to see a horror movie called Zombie Town, the last thing they expect... -
The Plants of Middle-earth by Dinah Hazell
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £14.99A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien's Middle-earth."Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien... -
Oba Electroplating Factory Yoshiharu Tsuge 9781770466791
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96An alt-manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal works. Oba Electroplating Factory is a startlingly bleak but nonetheless captivating portrait of... -
Three Faces of Me by R.L. Stine
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £4.37When Ira Fishman wins a prize in the machine outside a candy store, he's disappointed it's not the squirt gun he had his eye on. The little black plastic box looks like a camera, but when Ira presses... -
Abhorsen Garth Nix 9780007137350 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £0.96The long-buried secrets of the Old Kingdom and the Ninth Gate are revealed in the sequel to Sabriel and Lirael. Orannis, the Destroyer, has been freed from its subterranean prison and now... -
The Myth of the Superhero Marco Arnaudo (Indiana University, Bloomington) 9781421409535
SciFier: £29.85A refugee from his broken planet who saves earth (more than once), Superman was sent to America as his father's final act before dying. Does this make him the ultimate immigrant success story?... -
Ship of Spells H. Leighton Dickson 9781911750130
SciFier: £14.07Don't miss out on the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last. This breathtaking collectible is only available on a limited first print run, a must-have for any book lover.A war-scarred... -
The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood Brooke Cameron 9781032001784
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £37.99Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period's fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at... -
Vogue: The Editor's Eye by Conde Nast
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £44.28In September 2012, Vogue, the world's most influential fashion magazine, will celebrate its 120th Anniversary. Many of Vogue's hundreds of gorgeous images have remained timeless. With work by... -
Alright, Alright, Alright by Melissa Maerz
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.53The definitive oral history of the cult classic Dazed and Confused, featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the cast, crew, and Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater.Dazed and Confused not only... -
Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £72.99In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became... -
Showdown at High Noon by Jeremy Byman
SciFier: £77.99For more than fifty years, High Noon has been a touchstone in the popular imagination and a source of endless controversy about film art. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece. But film... -
He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsuge
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96A manga icon s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horror and surrealism. By the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance something his work from 1975 to 1981... -
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £16.70The very first Drawn and Quarterly Kitaro collection, now back in print with a lush new cover. Kitaro seems just like any other boy. Of course, he isn t what with his one eye and jet-powered geta... -
Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images Dr. Janna Houwen (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 9781501349003
SciFier: £39.99In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions "what is meant by video?" and "what is meant by film?" How are... -
Life Lessons from Slasher Films by Jessica Robinson
SciFier: £61.99Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and... -
Radio Flyer by Robert Pasin
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.99USA TODAY BestsellerA visual history of one of childhood's most beloved icons-the Little Red Wagon-told through a rich collection of photos and stories that highlight its unique place in American... -
The Woman of Mystery Maurice Leblanc 9781513292441
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10The Woman of Mystery (1916) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Although he is known for his series of stories and novels featuring Arsene Lupin, a character based on the life of French anarchist Marius... -
Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.99While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is... -
Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350272385
SciFier: £31.99Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot... -
Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema Steven Rybin 9781438465524
SciFier: £25.79Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point... -
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film Andrew Klevan 9781784991258
SciFier: £22.99This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between... -
Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350102699
SciFier: £97.99Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot... -
Sabriel: The Old Kingdom 2 Garth Nix 9781471409622
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.34The Old Kingdom is a place of free magic, necromancers and ancient spirits bound to elemental forces. Who will guard the living when the dead arise?Sabriel has spent most of her young life far away... -
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.99*From the author of The Reformatory-A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* The bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspense-a gripping tale that showcases a... -
Monsters in the Machine by Steffen Hantke
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science... -
Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope Dr. Jadranka Skorin-Kapov (Stony Brook University, USA) 9781501320156
SciFier: £40.99Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky. Including Pi (1998),... -
Seeing the Apocalypse by Brandon R. Grafius
SciFier: £87.99Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural... -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9781501373961
SciFier: £33.99This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand,... -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales Keller Kimbrough 9780231184465
RRP: £113.00SciFier: £107.63Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and... -
Georges Auric by Colin Roust (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Kansas)
SciFier: £66.49Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world... -
Martin Scorsese by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £47.99Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered... -
Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.99"Ebensperger debuts with a big pink splash in the forthright but lighthearted memoir . . . This entertaining, funny, and warmhearted chronicle of the rocky road toward self-acceptance is a real... -
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios Joanna Robinson 9781472270733
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.55'Buoyed by an appealing and measured sense of affection. Whether you love Marvel 3000 or you're a Scorsese sympathisers, MCU is worth your time, being a pacy, lively account of the single most... -
Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter Richard Barrios (, East Norriton PA) 9780190262617
RRP: £26.49SciFier: £25.99Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives. They're so glitzy and catchy that it seems impossible that... -
The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time Mark Evanier 9781419784170
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £39.89This spectacular deluxe edition celebrates the 75th anniversary of Peanuts and the life, art, and legacy of Charles M. Schulz, and comes packaged with unique bonus materials. Extras include: 8... -
Paris, Capital of Fashion by Valerie Steele
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.54Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This lavishly-illustrated book is edited by MFIT's... -
Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781501376993
SciFier: £97.99Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) is as controversial as it is beloved. Whether due to the tear-jerking hit song 'Bright Eyes' or its notorious representation of violence inflicted by and upon... -
Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781501376962
SciFier: £31.99Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) is as controversial as it is beloved. Whether due to the tear-jerking hit song 'Bright Eyes' or its notorious representation of violence inflicted by and upon...