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Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
SciFier: £46.99Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
Matchbox Theatre by Michael Frayn
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.99Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times).These tiny plays... -
Anonymous Noise, Vol. 14 by Ryoko Fukuyama
Viz MediaRRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Music and longing collide in this ballad of unrequited love! Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves... -
Analog Cookbook Issue #7 by Kate E. Hinshaw
SciFier: £24.99The 7th issue of Analog Cookbook, titled Analog Erotica, looks at sexuality, erotic imagery, and pornography's contributions to radical artistic practices in relation to analog media.Human sexuality... -
Boggarts, Trolls and Tylwyth Teg by Peter Stevenson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.99The Grimms called them The Quiet Folk, in Maori they are Patupaiarehe, in Wales Y Tylwyth Teg: hidden people who live unseen, speak their own languages and move around like migrants, shrouded from... -
Music in Films about the Shoah by Elias Berner
SciFier: £111.68This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of the 20th century. Musicology has seen an increasing... -
The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook James Wierzbicki 9780415888745
SciFier: £54.84The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present,... -
Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film William Hawes 9780786439867
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape--all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fight for artistic freedom in Hollywood movies reached a boiling point when Bob... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Click! by Kayla Miller
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £16.42For fans of Smile and Real Friends comes a debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in middle school. Olive wants to get in on the act . . . . . . Any act! Olive "clicks"... -
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.42Dellaria Wells - petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch - is behind on her rent. To make ends meet, Delly talks her way into a guard job in the city of Leiscourt, joining... -
Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman
SciFier: £102.99This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, with Song and Session Information for Albums Nicholas Churchill 9780786419494
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £46.75The late jazz tenor saxophonist, Stan Getz, was born in 1927. Getz was influenced by the big bands during World War II and later was a major influence himself until his death in 1991. Some of the... -
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy Nick Browne (University of California, Los Angeles) 9780521559508
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.79The Godfather trilogy is among the most significant works of Hollywood cinema of the last quarter century. They provide a richly complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning... -
Cow Takes a Bow by Russell Punter
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.48A lively story with humorous illustrations, ideal for children who are beginning to read for themselves, or for reading aloud together. When Brown Cow visits the circus, she puts on a surprise... -
Whisper in the Wind: Fetch Phillips Book 4 Luke Arnold 9780356521626
OrbitRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.39Fetch is done being a hero. Once a detective, all he wants now is to run his cafe in peace. Sunder City is still recovering from the sudden and violent end of magic, and if one man can't solve all... -
The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales by Folk Tales Authors
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.01This spellbinding collection of stories once again gathers together legends and lore from across Scotland in one special volume.Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, this second... -
Reggie Rabbit: Robbery at the Masqued Ball Becka Moor 9780192788351
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.06It's time for the GRANDEST event in Bearburgh: the Masque family's Masqued Ball! And this year it's even more exciting because famous pop star KITTY QITA is going to perform! Young detectives... -
A More Perfect World by Rick Goldsmith
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00A tale of thwarted love set in a place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual are dangerously blurred, and where your dearest memories may not be your own. A place where desire for a... -
Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990-2020 Ben Fink 9781613321942
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including... -
Writing for the Screen Anna Weinstein (Kennesaw State University, USA) 9781138945128
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.43Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572543
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
The Eyes Have It by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £28.21The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning... -
Llama Out Loud! by Annabelle Sami
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.28Sidesplitting middle grade comedy, with serious heart (and one very funny llama). Illustrated by Allen Fatimaharan, the official illustrator for World Book Day 2022. ... -
Rebel Without a Cause Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781839027765
SciFier: £11.35Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean),... -
The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel Caitlin G. Watt 9780253062406
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £59.74Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies... -
The Sons of El Topo Vol. 2: Abel by Alejandro Jodorowsky
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.56The ongoing sequel to cult film, El Topo, from cult-favorite filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. "Oh, father, I cannot kill you, but I can kill your son . . ." El Topo was a bandit without limits, a man... -
Words for the Theatre by David Cole
SciFier: £22.04In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.The book's four essays each offer a... -
Exhibitionist by Richard Dorment
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.25For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the... -
Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 3 by Yuhki Kamatani
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Yutaka Aoi is sweet, sensitive, and loves singing... so much so that he can't help but be brought to tears whenever he listens to beautiful music. He also has a talent few boys have: he can sing... -
The Films of Jean Seberg by Michael Coates-Smith
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61Here is the first comprehensive examination of the international film career of Iowa-born actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979). Bursting onto the scene as star of Otto Preminger's controversial Saint Joan... -
Stopgap Measures: Writings on Mike Kelley 1986-2023 by John C. Welchman
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £27.20Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces written over more than three decades by noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. It includes... -
Jane Campion's The Piano Jane Campion 9780521592581
SciFier: £76.58Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,... -
The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom Vol. 9 Tohru Himuka 9798891605664
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.78FATHER KNOWS BEST?The jig is up for Koyou! Back in the bustling capital after her triumph in Rihou, the young doctor faces her greatest adversary yet: her father, Noah. Upset that his daughter has... -
Pathfinder RPG: NPC Core Pocket Edition (P2) Raychael Allor 9781640786707
PaizoRRP: £26.99SciFier: £17.49Populate Your World! Devotees of the gods, cunning mercenaries, fun-loving performers, crafty engineers, devious villains and more all have roles in your game with the Pathfinder NPC Core! Over... -
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance Daniel Hammett (University of Sheffield) 9781529219715
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £39.03Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by... -
Keeping Time - A Novel by Thomas Legendre
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £14.62A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past . . . When archaeologist Aaron Keeler finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, he becomes swept up in a... -
I Never Know How Poems Start by Michael Rosen
SciFier: £8.12Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Inspiration for poetry can come from anywhere - a memory, an insight and even broccoli! Former Children's... -
Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary Thomas S. Hischak 9780786462711
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51This encyclopedia is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
SciFier: £45.46This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author...