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The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique Christian Avender 9781032724348
SciFier: £45.46Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these... -
Return Of The Crimson Guard by Ian C Esslemont
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.29From the pen of million copy seller Ian C Esslemont comes this breath-taking, thrilling and captivating epic fantasy - a must read for fans of Steven Erikson, David Gemmell and Brandon Sanderson... -
Zero History William Gibson 9780425240779
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £18.49Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she's broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game... Milgrim can disappear in... -
Puttering About in a Small Land Philip K Dick 9780575132061
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Written in the late 1950s but unpublished until after his death, this is one of Dick's greatest realistic novelsWhen Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs Alt's Los Padres Valley... -
The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments Torill Elvira Mortensen 9781138548671
SciFier: £48.06Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would... -
Writing Comedy by John Byrne
SciFier: £27.99Comedy has always been one of the most high-profile, glamorous and potentially lucrative markets for scriptwriters, but it is also perceived as one of the hardest. In the fourth edition of this... -
Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! Professor Sue Matheson (Associate Professor of English, University College of the North, Canada) 9781399532051
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £92.09Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on... -
The Red Necklace Sally Gardner 9781842556344
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.34A thrillingly exciting, action-packed novel about a boy destined to be a hero of the French Revolution.The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved... -
Solarpunk by Francesco Verso
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94In this near future anthology, Solarpunk explores the many ways individuals and resilient groups can fight gentrification, expropriation, abuse and loss of identity, starting within local... -
Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics by Gavin F. Hurley
SciFier: £87.99Identifying an important subgenre of horror literature, this book argues that Catholic horror fiction works distinctively to inspire the philosophical, theological, and spiritual imaginations of... -
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The Boy Who Could Fly Sally Gardner 9781444011630 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £2.02When Thomas's wish is magically granted, he can fly! But it's not a soaraway success . . . A brilliant story from award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.One day a fairy... -
Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media James Dalby 9780367680602
SciFier: £40.26This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new... -
Graphic Medicine by Erin La Cour
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35In Graphic Medicine, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic... -
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds Daniel Holmes 9781498590761
SciFier: £112.99Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the "new" education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes,... -
Comedy: A Critical Introduction Eli Rozik 9781845194772
SciFier: £110.27Herewith 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;... -
Magical Children: The Boy Who Could Fly by Sally Gardner
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.48When Thomas's wish is magically granted, he can fly! But it's not a soaraway success . . . A brilliant story from award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.One day a fairy... -
Voices from the Street Philip K Dick 9780575132719
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97One of Dick's earliest books but his last to be published, this is the story of one man's descent into depression and madness - and his escape to the other sideStuart Hadley is a young radio... -
'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film: Cinematic Dialogues Between the US and the USSR Marina L. Levitina 9781350200050
SciFier: £35.99Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are... -
Screen Comedy and Online Audiences Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore 9780367869700
SciFier: £41.13The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use... -
The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand by Kristopher Imbrigotta
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.49"Pohlmann's study of Muller's media presence is one of the few English-language books on this important postwar dramatist in the past two decades. Embedded in a discussion of avant-garde aesthetics... -
Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema Jay Beck 9780813564135
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with... -
The Practical Critic: Andre Bazin on Film, 1945-1958 James R. Russo 9781680534627
RRP: £107.00SciFier: £82.99Andre Bazin (1918-58) was renowned for almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as for being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. In... -
Dead Lines Greg Bear 9780007129775
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.24Ring, ring. You're dead. We were all there in that city that draws its paycheck from the manufacture of ghosts, itself made of ghosts: Los Angeles. We were there when one man started... -
Approaches to Kurban Said's Ali and Nino by Carl Niekerk (Customer)
SciFier: £95.33Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it. Ali and Nino is a novel... -
Moroccan Fashion by M. Angela Jansen
SciFier: £40.99Moroccan garment design and consumption have experienced major shifts in recent history, transforming from a traditional craft-based enterprise to a thriving fashion industry. Influenced by western... -
Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices Mark Duffett 9781138936973
SciFier: £43.73This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on... -
Ridley Scott by Laurence F. Knapp
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Artisan, entrepreneur, and impresario, British filmmaker Ridley Scott accepts the profit motive as the only way to thrive in an industry where there is little patience for artistic flourishes or... -
The Weavers of Alamaxa Hadeer Elsbai 9780356520506
OrbitRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97'Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!' P. Djeli... -
Tyler Perry's America: Inside His Films Shayne Lee 9780810896222
SciFier: £34.86Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry's America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350060142
SciFier: £102.99Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350175334
SciFier: £35.99Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: £94.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307797
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911 by Simon Brown
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film... -
Magical Children: The Strongest Girl In The World by Sally Gardner
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.48What happens when a small girl finds she can lift a bus in one hand? A very funny story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.Josie Jenkins, aged eight and... -
Brightstar by Jared N. Michaud
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £9.39"Only the void is content to wait in peace." Brightstar is the beginning of an epic space adventure that introduces readers to Nate, a boy desperate to escape the prison of an ordinary life made... -
Cobweb Walking by Sara Banerji
SciFier: £14.39As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things... -
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Magical Children: The Smallest Girl Ever Sally Gardner 9781444011623 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.11The story of a little girl so tiny that she fits into a handbag - by award-winning author Sally Gardner, part of her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.Everyone expects Ruby Genie to have the same fantastic... -
Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
SciFier: £30.99Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? ...