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Refiguring American Film Genres by Nick Browne
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
Julio Medem Robert Stone 9780719072000
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red... -
Perfect World 1 by Rie Aruga
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.19The moving, provocative manga about the struggles and triumphs in love of a woman and a man who uses a wheelchair comes to print! Fans of tumultuous manga romance like A Silent Voice and Your Lie in... -
The Shining by Kevin Donnelly
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is an esteemed member of the twentieth century's pantheon of outstanding films while also perhaps being the director's most accessible film. It is a rarity in... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction Gina Marchetti 9780520084957
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.78Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how... -
The Witching Hour (New Edition) by Jeph Loeb
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24From the writer of BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and BATMAN: HUSH. The atmostpheric graphic novel by award-winning writer Jeph Loeb (BATMAN, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY) with art by Chris Bachalo (STEAMPUNK,... -
The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.74A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare. Take one wealthy... -
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction John Crowley 9780380731060
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.24A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York... -
Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 9780356500485
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'What a saga! Scifi with honest, complex humanity, physics, biology, sociology' - Tom Hanks'Aurora is a magnificent piece of writing, certainly Robinson's best novel since his mighty Mars trilogy,... -
TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution Neil Landau 9781138905269
SciFier: £39.23TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed,... -
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Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00SciFier: £23.19Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In... -
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2 by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £40.61This volume continues the exploration of contemporary Argentine cinema that began in the first book. It provides a close analysis of exciting new directors, including Marco Berger and Matias Pineiro,... -
The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History Timothy Corrigan 9781138989245
SciFier: £47.20Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £27.81Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781403944115
SciFier: £46.99This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Refocus: the Films of Susanne Bier Missy Molloy 9781474428729
SciFier: £98.24A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's workThe award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide Chris Horrocks 9781848312074
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean... -
A Political Companion to American Film by Gary Crowdus
SciFier: £33.60The Political Companion to American Film is an encyclopedic collection of critical essays offering provocative social and political commentary on the work of filmmakers (from Woody Allen to Darryl... -
Green Porno by Isabella Rossellini
SciFier: £16.47When Isabella Rossellini and The Sundance Channel set out to make a series of short films for the internet about the sex lives of animals, they had no idea what was in store. The overwhelming success... -
Maeve Fly by C. J. Leede
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.04A provocative, blood-soaked slasher about unsung villainesses - a nightmarish blend of Eric la Rocca meets American Psycho. By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every... -
The Anarchy of the Imagination by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £24.23The Anarchy of the Imagination colects the most important interviews, essays, and working notes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the most influential cultural figures to emerge from postwar... -
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775463
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £60.46The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite; and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
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... -
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Dave Robinson 9781840468533
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as:What is the nature of reality?What are human beings really like?What is special about the human mind and... -
Alexander McQueen: Fashion Icon Editors of Createur Magazine 9781419787355
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.69Discover the legacy of Alexander McQueen and trace his rise in high-fashion in this gorgeous monograph that covers his time with Givenchy and Gucci, his greatest inspirations, and his work with... -
Aphrodite in Pieces Lauren J.A. Bear 9781803364766
Titan BooksRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.62Experience the myth and magic of antiquity's most alluring-and provocative-goddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author... -
DARLING in the FRANXX Vol. 1-2 by Kentaro Code:000
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24From the artist of Ayakashi Triangle, To Love Ru (both also from Seven Seas), and Black Cat! This provocative sci-fi tale is the manga version of the hit anime--but with a divergent storyline. In... -
Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed... -
Filthy Rich Vampire Geneva Lee 9781649375872
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.19When cellist Thea literally stumbles into his life at a gala, he knows she's the last person he could ever fall in love with. She's too innocent, too kind, and way too human. But now that she knows... -
The Cinema of ALex De La Iglesia Andy Willis 9780719071379
SciFier: £23.99Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films... -
Julio Medem Robert Stone 9780719072017
SciFier: £22.99This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red... -
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Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide Dave Robinson 9781840468533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.42Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as:What is the nature of reality?What are human beings really like?What is special about the human mind and... -
The Pryce of Pride: An Historical Ghost Cozy Mystery Kari Bovee (Bosque Publishing, LLC) 9781036709273
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Can pride mask a deadly secret? 1886, La Plata Springs, Colorado. As Arabella Pryce nears the end of her year managing the family's historic hotel, she's eager to reclaim her glamorous New York... -
Visions of England: Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema Paul Dave 9781845202934
SciFier: £33.99Visions of England is a provocative and original exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. Class has been a central part, whether consciously or not, of much... -
Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda Patrick J. Cook 9780821419441
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.91Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic... -
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.54Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled... -
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense Edward White 9781324022121
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.69In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to... -
Thatcher Stole My Trousers Alexei Sayle 9781408864548
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05'Enlightening ... Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' NEW...