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'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... -
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: £12.09One 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: £6.91The 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... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Perfect World 1 by Rie Aruga
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.15The 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... -
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... -
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Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £23.19Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In... -
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... -
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA) 9780415391672
SciFier: £47.20Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: £93.71A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years, November 1879-April 1904 Will Rogers 9780806127453
SciFier: £55.21Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first... -
B-Movie Gothic by Justin D. Edwards
SciFier: £93.01Explores the neglected subject of Gothic B-movies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and AfricaFollowing the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775487
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.99The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
Alexander Mcqueen Claire Wilcox 9781419717239
SciFier: £75.78This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969&;2010) invites you into the creative mind and world of one of Britain&;s most brilliant, daring, and provocative designers, and the many themes... -
Wonderland Thomas Riess 9783735610416
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £30.18In the comprehensive monograph Wonderland, artist Thomas Riess (b. 1970), who lives in Vienna, presents works from the last seven years. Riess, who works primarily in painting and video, intensively... -
Hallelujah Now Terence Davies 9798986446370
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £22.30Filmmaker Terence Davies's only published novel. Includes a selection of Davies's original poetry, much of it never before published, along with an introduction by Michael Koresky and an afterword by... -
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... -
TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution Neil Landau 9781138905269
SciFier: £39.23TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed,... -
DARLING in the FRANXX Vol. 1-2 by Kentaro Code:000
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24From the artist of Ayakashi Triangle, To Love Ru (both also from Seven Seas), and Black Cat! This provocative sci-fi tale is the manga version of the hit anime--but with a divergent storyline. In... -
Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed... -
Filthy Rich Vampire Geneva Lee 9781649375872
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.69When cellist Thea literally stumbles into his life at a gala, he knows she's the last person he could ever fall in love with. She's too innocent, too kind, and way too human. But now that she knows... -
The Cinema of ALex De La Iglesia Andy Willis 9780719071379
SciFier: £23.99Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films... -
Julio Medem Robert Stone 9780719072017
SciFier: £22.99This 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... -
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Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Dave Robinson 9781840468533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.42Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as:What is the nature of reality?What are human beings really like?What is special about the human mind and...