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Refocus: the Films of Ken Russell Matthew Melia 9781474477666
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.77Ken Russell was among the most provocative, creative, original and important directors in British film and television history but his career and legacy have long suffered under the media cliches of... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9780230524651
SciFier: £47.40Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
French Fashions of Good Taste by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £28.30The exclusive French periodical Gazette du Bon Ton was published in Paris to showcase the latest haute couture women's fashion. A selection of the original pochoir print illustrations made for this... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781349522392
SciFier: £46.99This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Best Karate: V.10 by Masatoshi Nakayama
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £11.95This volume is one of a series presenting all karate and kumite' practiced by the Japan Karate Association. Each chapter contains photographs of an instructor of the Association executing a certain... -
Bump in the Night by J. D. Robb
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.19Follow four of today's most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397187
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9781349357086
SciFier: £46.99Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
Accidental Christ, An by Lon Milo DuQuette
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.64In this newly revised and expanded edition, bestselling author Lon Milo DuQuette shares a groundbreaking and irreverent retelling of Jesus Christ's life. DuQuette draws on modern scholarship and his... -
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Bump in the Night J D Robb 9780515141177 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.62Follow four of today's most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical... -
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa Calum Waddell 9781474450027
SciFier: £93.01Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent... -
Dogma by Kevin Smith
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £12.29One of the major hits of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, a film that proved too hot for Disney to handle, Kevin Smith's ribald, revolutionary new film Dogma is a comic theological fantasy that is sure... -
The Haunting of Alejandra V. Castro 9781803365619
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32The story of a woman haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel from the author of Goddess of... -
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy Hamid Dabashi 9780520397170
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.08When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated... -
Barrier: The Collected Edition Brian K. Vaughan 9781534331457
Image ComicsRRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86From the Eisner Award-winning team behind The Private Eye, BARRIER is a shockingly prescient drama about violence, language, and illegal immigration...with a spectacular sci-fi twist. "Provocative... -
Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader: Foreword by Spike Lee Janice D. Hamlet 9781433102363
RRP: £35.40SciFier: £33.99Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible Chris Dumas 9781841505541
SciFier: £30.16Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74_______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES) 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept... -
Cinematic Quests for Identity by Maria Garcia
SciFier: £83.49Whether embodied in literature, theater, or film, an enduring theme of many artistic works has been the protagonist's search for identity. Such quests are typically psychological or spiritual... -
'Have You Seen...?' by David Thomson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.25David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521596978
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.64Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521592956
SciFier: £57.99Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Metaphor and Film by Trevor Whittock
SciFier: £35.99In Metaphor and Film, Trevor Whittock demonstrates that feature films are permeated by metaphors that were consciously introduced by directors. An examination of cinematic metaphor forces us to... -
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly Aristophanes 9781324091561
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £12.77Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when... -
Talk to Her A. W. Eaton 9780415773676
SciFier: £31.59Pedro Almodovar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it... -
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Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904414
SciFier: £40.96Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more... -
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism Philip Mosley 9780231163293
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £21.08The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial... -
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism Philip Mosley 9780231163286
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial... -
Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition: Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin John Rudlin (University of Exeter, UK) 9780367648572
SciFier: £22.89Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These... -
In a Lonely Street by Frank Krutnik
SciFier: £42.86Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a... -
Refiguring American Film Genres by Nick Browne
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
Julio Medem Robert Stone 9780719072000
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red... -
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors Peter S. Donaldson 9781138981799
SciFier: £48.93Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and... -
Perfect World 1 by Rie Aruga
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.19The moving, provocative manga about the struggles and triumphs in love of a woman and a man who uses a wheelchair comes to print! Fans of tumultuous manga romance like A Silent Voice and Your Lie in... -
The Shining by Kevin Donnelly
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is an esteemed member of the twentieth century's pantheon of outstanding films while also perhaps being the director's most accessible film. It is a rarity in... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction Gina Marchetti 9780520084957
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.78Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how... -
The Witching Hour (New Edition) by Jeph Loeb
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24From the writer of BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and BATMAN: HUSH. The atmostpheric graphic novel by award-winning writer Jeph Loeb (BATMAN, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY) with art by Chris Bachalo (STEAMPUNK,... -
The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.74A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare. Take one wealthy... -
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction John Crowley 9780380731060
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.24A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York...