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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie by Ramin Zahed
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.83The official behind-the-scenes tie-in book to Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar (R)-winning Spider-Verse saga,... -
Orwell Subverted by Daniel J. Leab
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £21.73Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell's Animal... -
The Russian Cinema Reader by Rimgaila Salys
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.89This reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema or Russian culture through film. It consists of excerpts from English language criticism and translations... -
Spider-Man: Quantum Quest! (A Mighty Marvel Team-Up # 2) by Mike Maihack
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34From award-winning writer/illustrator Mike Maihack, Spider-Man: Quantum Quest!, the action-packed and hilarious second graphic novel in the Mighty Marvel Team-Up series, everyone's friendly... -
All Hands on Deck by Will Sofrin
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles for the making of a beloved blockbuster film In the late 1990s, Patrick... -
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance J. E. Smyth 9781617039645
SciFier: £91.49Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of... -
Foreign Language Films and the Oscar by Michael S. Barrett
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt... -
Elusive Salvation by Dayton Ward
SciFier: £10.44An all-new Star Trek adventure across time-the latest of the acclaimed Original Series novels! The Arctic Circle, 1845: Escaping the tyranny under which their people have lived for generations,... -
Animals in Film by Jonathan Burt
SciFier: £19.27From Salvador Dali to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the... -
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780415778565
SciFier: £49.19The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one-volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the... -
Agnes Varda: Interviews T. Jefferson Kline 9781617039201
SciFier: £72.25Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave""... -
Mean...Moody...Magnificent! by Christina Rice
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £26.60Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell... -
Peter Greenaway by David Pascoe
SciFier: £22.09In all his films, Peter Greenaway shows obsessive attention to detail, exaggerating the archaic and fabricating his plots out of an artificial realm of caricature and pastiche. This book examines his... -
Agnes Varda: Interviews T. Jefferson Kline 9781496802491
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave""... -
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre James J. Donahue 9781496850508
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35In recent years, studios like Marvel and DC have seen enormous success transforming comics into major motion pictures. At the same time, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble in the US and Indigo in... -
Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards John Dorney 9781538163108
SciFier: £35.34A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy... -
Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space Stephen Barber 9781861891273
SciFier: £19.27In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected Cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of... -
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated Lester D. Friedman 9781496824028
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in... -
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre James J. Donahue 9781496850492
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £65.08In recent years, studios like Marvel and DC have seen enormous success transforming comics into major motion pictures. At the same time, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble in the US and Indigo in... -
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated Lester D. Friedman 9781496824011
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in... -
Paul Verhoeven: Interviews Margaret Barton-Fumo 9781496818287
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £21.54After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as... -
Eric Rohmer: Interviews Fiona Handyside 9781617036880
SciFier: £72.25The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy... -
Paul Verhoeven: Interviews Margaret Barton-Fumo 9781496810151
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as... -
Sheepdogs Elliot Ackerman 9780241772546
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £10.96TWO MISFITS.ONE MISSION.ZERO BACK-UP.WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?Skwerl and Cheese are down on their luck after being screwed over by the US military. Skwerl used to work for the CIA's elite... -
Cinema: Concept & Practice Edward Dmytryk 9781138584273
SciFier: £38.53In this unique study of the process of filmmaking, director Edward Dmytryk blends abstract film theory and the practical realities of feature film production to provide an artful and elegant analysis... -
Eric Rohmer: Interviews Fiona Handyside 9781496802507
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy... -
Distributing Silent Film Serials: Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation Rudmer Canjels (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 9781138653658
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension... -
Making Hollywood Happen by Charles Drazin
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.26Filmmaking is a business-someone has to pay the bills. For much of the industry's history, that role was shouldered by the studios. The rise of independent filmmakers then led to the rise of... -
Michael Winterbottom: Interviews Damon Smith 9781604738407
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b.1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has created feature films as disparate and stylistically... -
The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations: Not Getting What You Want Leading to Creating What You Need William R. Pace 9781032261256
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.93Starting out as a filmmaker comes with a host of limitations and restrictions leading to one key question: how do you channel your creativity past these daunting challenges to create compelling and... -
Make the Cut: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Assistant Editor in Film and TV Lori Coleman 9780240813981
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £32.78Being a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. On the contrary, there are many unwritten laws and a sense... -
David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818201
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored... -
Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies David C. Lightner 9781496809834
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £24.23Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in... -
Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews Peter Keough 9781617037740
SciFier: £72.25With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her... -
Werner Herzog: Interviews Eric Ames 9781617039683
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £90.99Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these,... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781628466973
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.95Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781496809728
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818218
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored... -
From Reverence to Rape by Molly Haskell
SciFier: £24.16A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time...