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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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
A Close Run Thing (The Matthew Hervey Adventures: 1): A high-octane and fast-paced military action adventure guaranteed to have you gripped! Allan Mallinson 9780553507133
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74From the Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, a riveting read with the perfect combination of hero, history and adventure - perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell... -
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. Darting back and forth... -
Men's Cinema: Masculinity and Mise-en-Scene in Hollywood Stella Bruzzi 9780748676163
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is the first full-length study of masculinity and film style. Cinema is not just an intellectual or cerebral experience. They also make us feel: especially popular movies. This is a book about... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783319690803
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £104.49This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
Essays on Quebec Cinema by Joeseph I. Donohoe
RRP: £8.95SciFier: £8.89Emerging in the Sixties with the rest of Quebec society from the dark ages of "la survivance", Quebec cinema soon began to incite and reflect a decade of sweeping changes now known as the "Quiet... -
Cinema Against Spectacle by Jean-Louis Comolli
SciFier: £80.99Jean-Louis Comolli's six-part essay Technique and Ideologyhad a revolutionary effect on film theory and history when it first appeared in Cahiers du Cinema in 1971. In 2009, Comolli revisited his... -
MegaDeath Tory Quinn 9781646300662
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.69Death 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... -
Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body Eileen Rositzka 9783110579635
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £78.99Writing 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... -
We Are Here by Mehdi Ben Cheikh
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £39.18The exhibition We Are Here (June 2024 - January 2025) adorned the Petit Palais in the colours of street art for the first time ever. Sixty leading artists of the movement, such as Shepard Fairey or... -
Doing Film Studies Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602709
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £28.13Doing 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... -
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 9781841594101
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.91As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships,... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783030098681
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £72.49This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
World Film Locations: Mumbai by Helio San Miguel (The New School)
SciFier: £24.44Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums... -
All Around Me; A First Book of Childhood Shirley Hughes 9781406399325
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72A beautifully illustrated introduction to childhood concepts by beloved Kate Greenaway medal-winning illustrator.In this classic collection by Kate Greenaway-winning author, Shirley Hughes, Katie and... -
The Sabre's Edge by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.59The Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, brings us another enthralling Matthew Hervey adventure. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, you will love this!"What a... -
Spies and Other Gods: An electrifying novel from a former spy set in the mysterious world of British espionage James Wolff 9781399826327
SciFier: £13.85From a former spy comes an electrifying novel about the mystery, paranoia and ruthlessness of the secretive world of British espionage'Wonderfully entertaining' John Banville, author of Booker... -
VS Volume 1 by Ivan Brandon
Image ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46War has become a spectator sport. Privately funded armies of superstar soldiers march into battle for fame, profit, and the glory of their sponsor nations.When a new generation of soldiers arrive,... -
Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Claudia Springer 9781784534035
SciFier: £31.38Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking... -
Picturing Casablanca by Susan Ossman
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals... -
The New Extremism in Cinema by Tanya Horeck
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £25.21This is an exploration into the darkest side of cinema. Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have... -
Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories by Brice Stratford
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £10.61Halloween. The night when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. When ghosts walk and corpses writhe, and innocent souls had best beware. Storyteller Brice Stratford takes you...