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Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.31Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes
SciFier: £29.78Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been... -
Christian Marclay: Sound Stories by Christian Marclay
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £20.58Marclay fuses art and technology to draw on the sounds and images of life on Snapchat In Sound Stories, American artist and composer Christian Marclay (born 1955) fuses art and technology, using... -
The Art of Living: A satirical novel Stephen Bayley 9781529176896
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the... -
Audiences by Ian Christie
SciFier: £62.80This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest... -
Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism by Martina Moeller
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £33.11Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator's image of him or herself as "a good... -
Mortal Engines: Thunder City by Philip Reeve
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.67"My favourite contemporary children's author is Philip Reeve" - Charlie Higson An epic, thrilling, action-packed city-eat-city adventure starring brave fighter Tamzin Pook, who... -
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Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £11.42This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video Peter X Feng 9780822329961
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.56This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
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Mania Lionel Shriver 9780008658670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £4.11What if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing... -
Comedy: A Critical Introduction Eli Rozik 9781845194772
SciFier: £115.22Herewith 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;... -
Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema Shellie McMurdo 9781474482097
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema argues that found footage horror cinema... -
In or Out? by Kipper Williams
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.66Brilliantly witty and full of irreverent fun, this is a tongue-in-cheek look at Europe by leading cartoonist Kipper Williams, whose work regularly appears in the Guardian and The Spectator. From... -
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan: Cinema as a Sensory Circuit Ya-Feng Mon 9781041179375
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the... -
Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism William Kaizen 9781611689440
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £67.67Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the... -
Breaking the Frame by Inez Hedges
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist... -
Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism William Kaizen 9781611689457
SciFier: £38.46Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the... -
Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image Hilary Radner 9781474422895
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film StudiesOne of the most influential figures in French film philosophy, Raymond Bellour's interests... -
Two Tribes Chris Beckett 9781786499332
SciFier: £10.52'Brilliantly and chillingly imagined' Guardian'Explored with wit, thoughtfulness and emotional weight' SpectatorAs a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.61Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have... -
The Patient by Nick Tyrone
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34A chilling dystopian novel filled with dark humour, for fans of Andrew Hunter Murray's THE LAST DAY or Christina Dalcher's Q.She went willingly to the hospital. She couldn't have anticipated how... -
Eden Jim Crace 9781529062434
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24'No one is better . . . eden sees Crace at the top of his game' - TelegraphTrouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields,... -
Traversing the Fantasy: The Dialectic of Desire/Fantasy and the Ethics of Narrative Cinema Sandra Meiri (The Open University of Israel) 9781501385810
SciFier: £34.99Traversing the Fantasy: The Dialectic of Desire/Fantasy proposes a new and comprehensive model of spectatorship at the heart of which it draws an analogy between the ethics of Lacanian psychoanalysis... -
The Silence by Don DeLillo
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72'An apocalyptic novel for our times' - Guardian'Horrifyingly resonant' - ObserverSuperbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game... -
The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets...'Compassionate,... -
The Art of Living Stephen Bayley 9780857526397
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.99With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the... -
Eden Jim Crace 9781529062458
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39'No one is better . . . Eden sees Crace at the top of his game' - TelegraphTrouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields,... -
Modernizing Costume Design, 1820-1920 Annie Holt 9780367561161
SciFier: £42.86Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual... -
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The Patient Nick Tyrone 9781472287793 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £1.19A chilling dystopian novel filled with dark humour, for fans of Andrew Hunter Murray's THE LAST DAY or Christina Dalcher's Q.She went willingly to the hospital. She couldn't have anticipated how... -
MegaDeath Tory Quinn 9781646305087
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £15.72Death plays dirty.It's 2112 and war between nations has become a spectator sport. Soldiers are now gamers who live and die based on the outcome of the match, and every four years a worldwide... -
100 Movies of the 1980s Taschen 9783754403853
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.01From Aliens to Amadeus, get your fill of 1980s nostalgia with this movie bible of all things bold, bizarre, and boisterous. We've diligently compiled a list of the most influential films of the 1980s... -
The Best of Kipper Williams by Kipper Williams
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51Kipper Williams is one of Britain's most popular cartoonists. His work has appeared in publications including the Spectator, the Guardian, Private Eye, the Sunday Times and Country Life. His book... -
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 Samson Kaunga Ndanyi 9781793649249
SciFier: £87.99In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to... -
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, have lived uneasily with forces beyond their reckoning. They raise their families, work the land, and... -
Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion Carl Plantinga (Associate Professor of Theater Arts, Calvin College) 9780801860119
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.17The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the anxiety induced by thrillers to the... -
Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body Eileen Rositzka 9783110709124
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £15.60Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider... -
The Night of Wenceslas Lionel Davidson 9780571326846
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights'Quite simply the best thriller writer around.' SpectatorNicolas Whistler is young, bored and in debt. When an... -
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Why Steve Was Late: 101 Exceptional Excuses for Terrible Timekeeping Dave Skinner 9781782391852 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.02A laugh-out-loud funny book of excuses for terrible timekeeping. Why Steve Was Late is a book of hilarious (and even - occasionally - plausible!) reasons for tardiness, handily dreamed up by someone... -
Doing Film Studies Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602693
RRP: £124.99SciFier: £111.36Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an...