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Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781349515646
SciFier: $65.32This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much Murray Pomerance 9781844579556
SciFier: $16.28Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: $65.61Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Bone Orchard: Tenement by Jeff Lemire
Image ComicsRRP: $50.03SciFier: $35.39From the Eisner-winning creative team behind GIDEON FALLS and PRIMORDIAL, comes the most significant and essential project yet in the bold and ambitious new shared horror universe of THE BONE ORCHARD... -
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! -: AO-, Vol. 5 (manga) Tsuyoshi Fujitaka 9781975368463
Yen PressRRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08Yogiri and Tomochika continue on their way through the Tower of the Trial in hopes of escaping before it comes to light that Yogiri has not only killed the Dark God, but has also started to do... -
More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form Barry Atkins 9780719063657
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $21.77The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural... -
Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance Lisa B. Y. Calvente 9781783485062
SciFier: $72.27What is the significance of the visual representation of revolution? How is history articulated through public images? How can these images communicate new histories of struggle? Imprints of... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015754
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $28.12In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
Off the Wall by Dilys E. Blum
RRP: $52.13SciFier: $47.97Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete... -
Richard Widmark: A Bio-Bibliography Kim R. Holston 9780313264801
SciFier: $129.26This bio-bibliography is the first book to examine the life and career of one of Hollywood's most durable leading men, Richard Widmark. Though never considered in the same star category as Burt... -
Dressed for War by Nina Edwards
SciFier: $79.22Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her... -
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora Noah A. Tsika 9780253015716
RRP: $97.30SciFier: $78.65In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781137531742
SciFier: $129.95In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900 Alun Withey (University of Exeter, UK) 9781350127845
SciFier: $158.45This Open Access book provides a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their associated practices and practitioners. Concerning... -
An Introduction to Film Geography: Foundational Frameworks and the Reel/Real Divide Chris Lukinbeal 9781041273356
RRP: $94.51SciFier: $84.87This foundational text establishes a cohesive, systematic framework for film geography. It integrates theories of transactionalism and phenomenology with core elements of communication (Source,... -
The Steel Claw: Reign of The Brain by Tom Tully
RebellionRRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.01One of Britain's most enduring comic book heroes returns in two stories reprinted here for the first time! The second collection of the sci-fi classic, the Steel Claw collects writer Tom Tully's... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781349958566
SciFier: $79.22In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity Alla Myzelev 9781138250291
RRP: $87.56SciFier: $78.87Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focuses on three material and conceptual links central... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444132
SciFier: $136.55As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern - transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781403921789
SciFier: $144.55This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
Australian Gothic by Jonathan Rayner
RRP: $97.30SciFier: $96.16The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace their Gothic... -
Reveal and Conceal by Andrea B. Rugh
SciFier: $62.26This book is an exciting study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. The author analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals... -
From the Films of Harry Potter: 100 Objects: The Most Iconic Props from the Movies by Jody Revenson
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $41.26Harry Potter in 100 Objects presents a host of incredible props, artefacts and set items from the legendary Harry Potter movies. Through colourful photography and insider facts from the creators of... -
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall Chelsea McCracken (, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA.) 9781839025082
RRP: $90.35SciFier: $72.21100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that... -
Salvation from Cinema: The Medium is the Message Crystal Downing 9781138913943
RRP: $65.32SciFier: $59.58Salvation from Cinema offers something new to the burgeoning field of "religion and film": the religious significance of film technique. Discussing the history of both cinematic devices and film... -
Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy Leslie Marsh 9780252078736
SciFier: $50.43At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in Brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films. In the early 1990s, women filmmakers in Brazil were... -
Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema Julia Erhart 9781474440516
SciFier: $129.28A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman... -
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure Hilary Radner 9780415905404
SciFier: $37.88Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved... -
Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444149
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719088797
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their... -
Vested Interests by Marjorie Garber
SciFier: $56.56Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with... -
Spike Lee by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: $87.56Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have... -
Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity Rachel Moseley (University of Warwick, UK) 9781844570683
SciFier: $51.42Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress... -
Girls' Hairstories: Resilience and Sparkle in Contemporary Screen Cultures Professor Fiona Handyside (Associate Professor in Film Studies, University of Exeter) 9781399506946
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen's Power Plait to JoJo Siwa's outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlhood is articulated in contemporary visual... -
The Star Trek Archive: 100 Objects and Stories from the Final Frontier Ben Robinson 9781835418741
Titan BooksRRP: $55.59SciFier: $35.10Experience Star Trek like never before through 100 of the objects and stories that have made the franchise so well-loved. From Spock's ears to the captain's chair or the Enterprise itself,... -
Animation in Croatia: Zagreb School and Beyond Midhat Ajanovic (Univ. West, Sweden) 9781032451480
RRP: $76.44SciFier: $69.22This book provides a comprehensive account of Croatian animation history, as well as an analysis of background factors such as political and social circumstances and cultural heritage that influenced... -
Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo by Inela Selimovic
SciFier: $113.97This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo. Such tensions,... -
Marina Abramovic Ossian Ward 9781913947514
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $13.12Marina Abramovic has truly pioneered performance as a visual art form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and intense physical encounter - has pushed the boundaries of contemporary... -
Trees in European and American Cinemas Prof Thomas Austin (Professor of Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK) 9781399564939
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $115.76This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster... -
The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries Michal Daliot-Bul 9780674976993
RRP: $47.19SciFier: $40.92The Anime Boom in the United States provides a comprehensive and empirically-grounded study of the various stages of anime marketing and commercial expansion into the United States. It also examines...