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The Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999 Ray Tevis 9780786421503
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43This chronologically arranged work analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female, in primarily American and British motion pictures from the silent era to the 21st century. The work... -
Sunstone: Mercy Book Three by Stjepan Sejic
Image ComicsRRP: £44.99SciFier: £32.80Loving someone means building a shrine within your heart dedicated to them. A shrine made of good memories and treasured moments. Anne is about to find the shrine of her heart ransacked by none other... -
The Handbook of Visual Culture Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK) 9781350250772
SciFier: £39.99Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of... -
Scene-writing for Film and TV Simon van der Borgh 9781032277554
SciFier: £28.99Focusing on an integral aspect of screenplays, this book takes students and writers at all levels through the process of understanding and writing better scenes. It interrogates the functions of a... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski (Stockholm University) 9781835950487
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £24.65Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
SciFier: £46.16This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband W. Heath Robinson 9781851244904
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.04What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in... -
The Animation Producer's Handbook by Lea Milic
SciFier: £28.41Animation is one of the fastest-growing fields in film and television, and it is also integral to video games and web development. Once an esoteric and hard-won skill, technology has advanced to the... -
Motion Picture and Video Lighting Blain Brown 9781032370347
SciFier: £56.30- Explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but why. - In-depth coverage of light and color theory, latest technology and... -
Screening Text: Critical Perspectives on Film Adaptation Shannon Wells-Lassagne 9780786472307
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation has encouraged new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film. This... -
Lauren Bacall by Brenda Scott Royce
SciFier: £68.99Lauren Bacall's life has been widely covered by the media ever since her screen debut in To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart in 1944. This volume is a comprehensive critical guide to all... -
Channel 4 and British Film Culture: Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 11, Issue 4 Paul McDonald 9780748692514
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87This title considers aspects of the legacy that makes Film4 synonymous with a rejuvenated national cinema. When Channel 4 was launched in 1982 its policy of commissioning new feature films for... -
The Director's Idea: The Path to Great Directing Ken Dancyger 9780240806815
SciFier: £40.10As a director, you must have a concept, a "director's idea", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and... -
The Joss Whedon Companion (Fully Revised Edition) by PopMatters
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.67THE ESSENTIAL AND EXPANDED UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE WHEDONVERSE!This revised and updated edition covers every aspect of his work, through insightful essays and in-depth interviews with key figures in... -
Artificial Kingdom by Celeste Olalquiaga
SciFier: £29.70From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace, Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kitsch and what kitsch tells us about the conflicts... -
Adventurous Film Making by J. David Beal
SciFier: £101.46Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel,... -
Comics Studies Here and Now Frederick Luis Aldama 9780367590703
SciFier: £42.00Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward,... -
Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations: The Catalog of a Collection Thomas Mann 9780786417223
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Photoplay editions were usually hardcover reprints of novels that had been made into movies, illustrated with photographs from the film productions. Sometimes, instead, they were "fictionized"... -
Patternmaking History and Theory Dr Jennifer Grayer Moore 9781350227804
SciFier: £34.99Fashion design is increasingly gaining attention as an important form of cultural expression. However, scholarship has largely focused on specific designers and their finished products. This... -
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 9 (light novel) Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. 9781975338411
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Winter is here. Tomozaki finds himself at odds with Kikuchi'AEiand once again, words close the distance between them. Tomozaki confronts his own deeds, and that sheds light on one aspect of Kikuchi... -
Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play Bernard Perron 9780786441976
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival"... -
Sound Art: Concepts and Practices Thom Holmes 9781138649491
SciFier: £38.53- First textbook to cover sound art in a single volume that can be used as the primary text in a college course- Offers balanced overview of the field, including coverage of both practical and... -
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Ray Carney (Boston University) 9780521381192
SciFier: £77.28The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces,... -
Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Late Bronze Age and Archaic Period by Gabriella Longhitano
SciFier: £43.46Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment. Besides a practical function, textiles played a crucial role in... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski (Stockholm University) 9781789389760
RRP: £89.95SciFier: £81.53Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection... -
Figure Drawing for Men's Fashion by Elisabetta Kuky Drudi
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £22.29This completely redesigned and updated long-selling manual offers a comprehensive guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion drawings that accurately... -
Minor Miracles Will Eisner 9780393328141
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.98In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A powerful portrayal of Jewish life in the New York City of Eisner's youth, Minor... -
Hogan by Donata Sartorio
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £35.99Fifty-six international designers and architects celebrate the Hogan label's most recent collections. There is an obvious connection between the different forms of creative expression: this is the... -
Blake & Mortimer - The Complete Collection Vol. 6 Jean Van Hamme 9781800441835
CinebookRRP: £30.99SciFier: £17.70This sixth volume of the collected edition introduces the second creative team assigned to the new adventures of Blake & Mortimer: Andre Juillard and Yves Sente, who would take turns with Jean Van... -
Blake & Mortimer - The Complete Collection Vol. 8 Jean Van Hamme 9781800441859
CinebookRRP: £37.99SciFier: £25.41In this eighth volume of the Complete Collection, the next Blake & Mortimer written - in two parts - by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by three different artists, brings the reader along on one of... -
Scotland the Brave Land by Stuart McHardy
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.00From bold heroines to clan battles, standing stones to castles, there is hardly any aspect of Scotland's heritage that does not feature in our storytelling traditions. This collection of stories from... -
SOUND OF THE BREAK by Elizabeth Price
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £20.82Elizabeth Price SOUND OF THE BREAK accompanies the homonymous Turner Prize winner's extensive solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, presenting both new works and works shown in Germany... -
By Their Father's Hand by Monte Francis
SciFier: £6.24This book is the horrifying and compelling true-crime account of the Wessons - a family torn apart by a father's single-minded attempt to control every aspect of each member's life, down to the final... -
Dressmaking Simplified by Valerie Cock
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.99No beginner should be without this book. Paper patterns often give insufficient information, but here clear diagrams and detailed step-by-step instructions provide a method of working which is easy... -
Adventurous Film Making J. David Beal 9781032938998
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel,... -
Glamour by Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
RRP: £22.49SciFier: £20.49Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the... -
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness Nagata Kabi 9781626926035
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.64My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive... -
Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom Diane Negra 9780415216784
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £34.03Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars... -
Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition Tony Williams 9781628461077
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £25.68Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from... -
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde Joan Hawkins 9780816634149
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Explores what horror movies tell us about issues of taste.Even before Jean-Luc Godard and other members of the French New Wave championed Hollywood B movies, aesthetes and cineasts relished the raw...