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Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781138629219
RRP: $68.33SciFier: $62.08Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also... -
The Wild Huntress Emily Lloyd-Jones 9780316568159
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68From the bestselling author of The Bone Houses and The Drowned Woods comes a thrilling fantasy about three unlikely allies bound together in a deadly, magical competition-perfect for fans of Holly... -
Turn Off the Light: A Novel Jacquie Walters 9780316580328
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $23.13A haunting horror novel for fans of Josh Malerman and Jennifer McMahon-about two women, centuries apart, bound by the same dark secret, from Jacquie Walters, author of Dearest and "a talent to watch"... -
Devil Is Fine: A Novel John Vercher 9781250894502
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $17.41Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town... -
Vaccine Nation David Lender 9781612182773 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $3.38Dani North is a filmmaker who just won at the Tribeca Film Festival for her documentary, The Drugging of Our Children, a film critical of the pharmaceutical industry. When she is handed... -
Wonder Woman: 80 Years Later Vera J. Camden 9780367711740
RRP: $58.95SciFier: $53.95Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media Carol Vernallis (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ) 9780190258177
SciFier: $83.07The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media surveys the contemporary landscape of audiovisual media. Contributors to the volume look not only to changes brought by digital innovations,... -
Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 8 Naoki Urasawa 9781421569130
Viz MediaRRP: $25.45SciFier: $17.76Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately... -
The Privilege of the Sword Ellen Kushner 9781473214736
GollanczRRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballrooms, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl... -
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss
SciFier: $17.67Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case... -
Trash Heap of Terror Joe McGee 9781534487437
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $16.60The Junior Monster Scouts take out the trash when a new villain comes to town in the hilarious fifth chapter book of the Junior Monster Scouts series!The Junior Monster Scouts have a new grump in... -
Aftermath LeVar Burton 9781538723739
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.02America today is teetering on the edge of the alarming vision presented in LeVar Burton's debut novel, written more than two decades ago . . .In 2012, the first African American president is... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: $117.37Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations Tze-yue G. Hu 9781496826268
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $97.75Contributions by Graham Barton, Raz Greenberg, Gyongyi Horvath, Birgitta Hosea, Tze-yue G. Hu, Yin Ker, M. Javad Khajavi, Richard J. Leskosky, Yuk Lan Ng, Giryung Park, Eileen Anastasia Reynolds,... -
Master Keaton, Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa
Viz MediaSciFier: $19.82Taichi Hiraga Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology... -
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.37'An American short-story writer of intimidating talent' Zadie Smith 'Dark, concerned, confused and funny, all at the same time ... Like so much of Saunders' brilliant, crazy writing it's relevant,... -
Conversations with Women Showrunners Marygrace O'Shea 9781032287195
SciFier: $45.81Featuring over forty interviews with America's leading showrunners, this book provides unique perspectives and insights into the TV industry, demystifying the craft, backbone, skill, strategies,... -
Cute Creature Art Class by Naomi Lord
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.95Enhance your drawing skills and create 57 anime fantasy creatures following simple step-by-step tutorials. In Cute Creature Art Class, popular anime artist Naomi Lord shares the secrets to drawing... -
Paradise Lost John Milton 9781554813506
SciFier: $22.10Reviled as a regicide, isolated in a personal darkness, and aging, John Milton did not relinquish his voice. He somehow used that tireless voice, rather, to create Paradise Lost, one of the enduring... -
The Curators by Maggie Nye
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $20.85Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates A dark, lyrical blend of historical fiction and magical realism, The Curators examines a critically underexplored event in... -
Martin Scorsese: Interviews Robert Ribera 9781496809476
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $21.91Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of America's greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some of the most iconic moments in American film, never... -
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism Kenneth H. Marcus (University of la Verne, California) 9781107652491
SciFier: $57.61Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. In this book Kenneth H. Marcus shows that in fact Schoenberg's connections to Hollywood ran deep, and most of the... -
Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play Thomas P. Oates 9780253015020
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $22.94In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of... -
Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories by Kathryn Tucker Windham
SciFier: $17.67This is the first anthology of the author's own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands... -
Timelight by Faith Conlon
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.95Can a mysterious power help a thirteen-year-old boy solve the disappearance that has fractured his family?Seventh grader Charlie Winter has never stopped believing he can find his missing mom, even... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
SciFier: $53.95This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
Keiichi Tanaami by Keiichi Tanaami
RRP: $77.72SciFier: $45.06The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Keiichi Tanaami's kaleidoscopic oeuvre, which merges Japanese postwar culture and American-style comics with a genre-defining artistic output... -
Groucho the Grouchy Groundhog by Lydia Lukidis
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $8.17Commander Hare E. Bun Bun has stolen all of the pancakes in Critter Creek! Grumpy groundhog Groucho and his annoying, cheery neighbor, Blork, the unicorn pig, must work together to save... -
Multiplayer Gaming and Engine Coding for the Torque Game Engine Edward F. Maurina 9781568814223
RRP: $100.49SciFier: $91.60Multiplayer Gaming and Engine Coding for the Torque Game Engine shows game programmers how to get the most out of the Torque Game Engine (TGE), which is an inexpensive professional game engine... -
Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima: Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano 9781041181668
RRP: $64.31SciFier: $58.60In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly... -
Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, and Song Brian Swann 9780803246157
SciFier: $67.52Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by... -
On Film Editing: An Introduction to the Art of Film Construction Edward Dmytryk 9781138584327
SciFier: $57.43In On Film Editing, director Edward Dmytryk explains, in clear and engaging terms, the principles of film editing. Using examples and anecdotes from almost five decades in the film industry, Dmytryk... -
The Mother by B.L. Blanchard
SciFier: $15.77Dragon Award for Best Speculative Fiction Nominee. In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy,... -
Looking for a Jumbie by Tracey Baptiste
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.47New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and acclaimed illustrator Amber Ren take readers on a fun, creepy, storytime-ready romp through a forest filled with creatures from Caribbean... -
David Cronenberg: Interviews David Schwartz 9781496832252
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $26.08From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly-with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects-to his... -
Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations Tze-yue G. Hu 9781496826251
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $30.23Contributions by Graham Barton, Raz Greenberg, Gyongyi Horvath, Birgitta Hosea, Tze-yue G. Hu, Yin Ker, M. Javad Khajavi, Richard J. Leskosky, Yuk Lan Ng, Giryung Park, Eileen Anastasia Reynolds,... -
White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiro 9780816645848
RRP: $83.08SciFier: $66.40Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable... -
Infinity's Shore David Brin 9781504064743
RRP: $26.73SciFier: $23.57A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef.Book Two in the Uplift Storm TrilogyIt's illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but... -
Monster of Disguise Joe McGee 9781534436855
RRP: $8.03SciFier: $7.22The Junior Monster Scouts must save the village from a carnival with a not-so-fun funhouse in the hilarious fourth chapter book of the Junior Monster Scouts series!A carnival has come to The Village,... -
Reel Black Talk by Linda Allen
SciFier: $91.78As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the...