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Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.46The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £72.25The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Roman Polanski James Morrison 9780252074462
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A new take on an eclectic and controversial directorJames Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the... -
Ken Russell by Kevin M. Flanagan
SciFier: £78.49For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered... -
Gender and the Superhero Narrative Michael Goodrum 9781496821102
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Contributions by Dorian Alexander, Janine Coleman, Gabriel Gianola, Mel Gibson, Michael Goodrum, Tim Hanley, Vanessa Hemovich, Christina Knopf, Christopher McGunnigle, Samira Nadkarni, Ryan North,... -
Aleksandr Sokurov by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £24.44Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de... -
Gender and the Superhero Narrative Michael Goodrum 9781496818805
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Contributions by Dorian Alexander, Janine Coleman, Gabriel Gianola, Mel Gibson, Michael Goodrum, Tim Hanley, Vanessa Hemovich, Christina Knopf, Christopher McGunnigle, Samira Nadkarni, Ryan North,... -
Thieves Fall Out Gore Vidal 9781781167922
Titan BooksRRP: £16.99SciFier: £8.72Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two... -
DC Finest: Batman: A Death in the Family Jim Starlin 9781799508571
DC ComicsRRP: £36.00SciFier: £24.08Death comes to us all, now in DC Finest! In 1988 the pop culture world was rocked when comics readers were given the opportunity to decide the outcome of one of the medium s most controversial... -
Games are Not by David Myers
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile... -
The Films of John Carpenter John Kenneth Muir 9780786422692
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic... -
Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain by Dr Anna Ariadne Knight
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause,... -
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan Mark McLelland 9781496807762
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the ""beautiful boy""... -
Orbital 2 - Ruptures by Sylvain Runberg
CinebookRRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.95Caleb (a human) and Mezoke (a Sandjarr) are paired up and trained as special agents to keep the intergalactic peace. This is a controversial and historic alliance given their races' longstanding... -
Digital Gameplay by Nate Garrelts
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life. Not only have work and education but leisure time and play have been all but revolutionized. Increasingly, digital games are... -
Al Pacino by William Schoell
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21One of our most passionate and gifted actors, Al Pacino has been riveting audiences for decades with performances in everything from The Godfather to Angels in America to Danny Collins. He has also... -
Dread Nation Justina Ireland 9781789090871 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.51Trained at Miss Preston's School of Combat for Negro Girls in both weaponry and etiquette, Jane McKeene is poised for a successful career protecting the wealthy from the encroaching plague of walking... -
Alexander McQueen: The Graphic Novel Balthazar Pagani 9781786751713
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Brilliant and controversial, bold, and rebellious - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was an extraordinary creative force that was impossible to define. But what was the story behind the... -
Refocus: the Films of Pablo Larrain Laura Hatry 9781474448291
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's... -
Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film Lindsay Anne Hallam 9780786462964
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Since its publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a... -
Graffiti Planet by Alan Ket
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.53A celebration of the creativity of graffiti artists from all over the world.Ever controversial, graffiti or street art has become a significant art form and continues to evolve and transform urban... -
Till Kingdom Come Andrej Nikolaidis 9781908236241
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74One man's search for his true identity through an investigation of his parent's past which leads him to discover truths about the former Yugoslav secret services. Through his own unique and now... -
Deluge by Sydney Fowler Wright
SciFier: £19.79First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed-RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story-the novel depicts a flood... -
Refocus: the Films of Mary Harron Kyle Barrett 9781474494410
SciFier: £93.01Mary Harron's diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first... -
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45Trained at Miss Preston's School of Combat for Negro Girls in both weaponry and etiquette, Jane McKeene is poised for a successful career protecting the wealthy from the encroaching plague of walking... -
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet
SciFier: £22.99Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been... -
The Art of Record by John Corner
SciFier: £15.66Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record is a fascinating insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict... -
Framing Pictures by Steven Jacobs
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Edinburgh Film Studies is a series of advanced textbooks which cover core aspects of film studies for undergraduate students while, at the same time, offering valuable material for the general reader... -
Youssef Chahine by Ibrahim Fawal
SciFier: £107.97A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine's work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and... -
The Hatpin Menace by Kerry Segrave
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon that caused men to tremble in fear (it was said). Big... -
Stars in Modern French Film by Guy Austin
SciFier: £43.99Guy Austin's lucid and engaging account charts the making (and in some cases breaking) of the icons of French cinema, including such famous names as Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu and Brigitte... -
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan Mark McLelland 9781628461190
SciFier: £72.95Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the ""beautiful boy""... -
Orbital 1 - Scars by Sylvain Runberg
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48In the 23rd Century, the humans and the Sandjarrs are allowed to join an inter-galactic multi-racial organisation set up 8,000 years before. The humans are seen as a belligerent, underdeveloped race... -
Darwins Diaries Vol.1: The Eye of the Celts Sylvain Runberg 9781849180955
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Victorian England. In Yorkshire, several men and horses working on a railway line have been killed-slaughtered, really. The police suspect some kind of wild beast. The government calls upon... -
The Zoo and Screen Media by Michael Lawrence
SciFier: £92.99This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters... -
Ed Wood, Mad Genius by Rob Craig
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51Filmmaker Ed Wood was controversial and critically maligned, even labeled 'the worst director of all time', yet he achieved cult status and remains of great interest today. This book frames Wood's... -
The Films of Jean Seberg by Michael Coates-Smith
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61Here is the first comprehensive examination of the international film career of Iowa-born actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979). Bursting onto the scene as star of Otto Preminger's controversial Saint Joan... -
Jane Campion's The Piano Jane Campion 9780521592581
SciFier: £76.58Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,... -
Dan Dare: The 2000 AD Years, Volume Two by Gerry Finley-Day
RebellionRRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.20THE VETERAN BRITISH SPACE PILOT, DAN DAREcontinues his 2000 AD adventures through a hostile universe. Together with his hardened crew, Dan pilots the mighty Space Fortress into battle against the... -
Walking Shadows
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £17.24Walking Shadows dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and brash young filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's film Citizen Kane. In 1940-1941 it became...