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Hunter by Shuang Xuetao
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.21A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory... -
Where There Was Fire John Manuel Arias 9781035041381
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08Where there was fire, ashes remain . . .Costa Rica, 1968.A deadly fire rips through the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation, destroying all evidence of a massive cover-up.That... -
China on Screen: Cinema and Nation Christopher Berry (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Goldsmiths College) 9780231137072
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key... -
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike Project Novel Graphic Stanford 9781642595130
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $15.85After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the... -
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike Project Novel Graphic Stanford 9781642595154
RRP: $66.72SciFier: $52.81After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the... -
The Roamers Francesco Verso 9781787588332
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $12.80The pulldogs, a group of people at the twilight of Western civilisation, undergo an anthropological transformation caused by the dissemination of nanites (nanorobots capable of assembling molecules... -
The Roamers Francesco Verso 9781787588349
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $19.63The pulldogs, a group of people at the twilight of Western civilisation, undergo an anthropological transformation caused by the dissemination of nanites (nanorobots capable of assembling molecules... -
Interactive Design by Behnaz Farahi
RRP: $65.33SciFier: $56.13Designers and forward thinkers in the field of interactive design share their reflections and show examples of different models of a responsive future environment. Interactive design has exploded in... -
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean
SciFier: $39.10A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates... -
Lost Atlantis Short Stories by Dr. Jennifer Fuller
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $20.60An exceptional addition to the stunning, richly-rewarding short story collections of Flame Tree's Gothic Fantasy series, with intriguing and thrilling tales from both new submissions and ancient... -
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility Rey Chow (Duke University) 9780231133333
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $34.65What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining... -
Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies
SciFier: $35.70Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9780230111622
SciFier: $65.32A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng (Director, Columbia University)
RRP: $168.19SciFier: $139.79Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9781137290090
SciFier: $65.32A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
The Global Road Movie by Jose Duarte (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
SciFier: $107.56The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before, exploring the motif... -
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema Ivone Margulies 9780190496838
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $29.87In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person... -
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation Sheldon Lu (University of California, Davis, USA) 9781350234185
SciFier: $154.80Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022 Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan... -
He Who Drowned the World: the epic sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan 9781529043457
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times... -
The Women Could Fly: The must read dark, magical - and timely - critically acclaimed dystopian novel Megan Giddings 9781035001606
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.27Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The Women Could Fly is a queer feminist speculative novel that speaks to our times - a piercing dystopian tale,... -
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation Sheldon Lu (University of California, Davis, USA) 9781350254381
SciFier: $44.47Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022 Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan... -
Impossible Moon by Breanna J. McDaniel
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $12.66A young girl undertakes an impossible trip to the moon, makes friends with the stars, and brings back something priceless in this gentle and lyrically told picture book about family, history, and... -
Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 Weihong Bao 9780816681341
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $27.05What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) Solvej Balle 9780811238410
RRP: $23.56SciFier: $16.00We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle's riveting project continues to wring ever... -
He Who Drowned the World Shelley Parker-Chan 9781529043440
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $19.36Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times... -
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China Jie Li (Harvard University) 9780231206273
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile... -
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China Jie Li (Harvard University) 9780231206266
RRP: $162.63SciFier: $132.63How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile... -
Molka: A hotly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART Monika Kim 9781840918632
SciFier: $17.24'A thought-provoking, rage-inducing revenge tale that is hard to forget' Asia Mackay, author of A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage'Brutal and unflinching...You won't be able to look away as this... -
China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century Matthew D. Johnson (Grinnell College, US) 9781501315749
SciFier: $56.98This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This innovative collection of essays on twenty-first century Chinese cinema and moving... -
The Women Could Fly: The must read dark, magical - and timely - critically acclaimed dystopian novel Megan Giddings 9781035001583
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.01"Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness." - Raven LeilaniReminiscent of the works of Margaret... -
Legends of the Masters: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Martial Arts Augustus John Roe 9781594399640
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $23.10MARTIAL ARTS TRANSPORT US TO THE REALMS OF LEGENDS Every day in dojos and training halls, fantastic stories of history's martial arts heroes are told. Tales of men and women who overpower wild... -
Legends of the Masters: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Martial Arts Augustus John Roe 9781594399626
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $15.85MARTIAL ARTS TRANSPORT US TO THE REALMS OF LEGENDS Every day in dojos and training halls, fantastic stories of history's martial arts heroes are told. Tales of men and women who overpower wild... -
Future Horizons by Dean Irvine
RRP: $36.84SciFier: $34.46Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by...