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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: £19.17The 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... -
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2 by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £38.48This 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,... -
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... -
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... -
Exclusive Memory by Tom Sherman
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.39Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor General's Award-winning artist, Tom Sherman. Its contents sweep... -
The Musicality of Narrative Film D. Kulezic-Wilson 9781137489982
RRP: £79.99SciFier: £77.99The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's... -
The Judas Glass by Michael Cadnum
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic... -
Anime Through the Looking Glass by Nathalie Bittinger
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.59The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form of artistic... -
The Measure Of A Man by Sidney Poitier
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.59In this beautifully written, candid memoir, legendary actor Sidney Poitier reveals the spiritual depth, passion and intellectual fervour that has driven his remarkable life. Poitier credits his... -
The Company of Wolves James Gracey 9781911325314
SciFier: £19.38Co-written by Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan and British novelist Angela Carter, and based on several short stories from Carter's collection The Bloody Chamber, The Company of Wolves (1984) is a... -
The Four Loves (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) C. S. Lewis 9780007461226
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.99C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. ... -
Seven Games: A Human History Oliver Roeder 9781324051022
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.37Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and... -
Religion and Technology into the Future by Sam Gill
SciFier: £103.49Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of... -
Soonish by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.84What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of... -
Night Side of the River: Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller Jeanette Winterson 9781787334175
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £11.53A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.The genre-bending and... -
Annie Bot Sierra Greer 9780008584566
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £10.42She's human in every way that matters. Annie is a robot, created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Playful and eager to please, she has dinner ready for... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9781137354990
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda Patrick J. Cook 9780821420218
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Hamlet 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... -
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World: Summer: Summer Ko Hiratori 9781718351110
J-Novel ClubRRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21I got transported another world; every otaku's wet dream, right? But women are basically powerless here, so I had to become a sex worker to survive... This is my story.*record scratch*A collection of... -
Photography Theory James Elkins 9780415977838
SciFier: £39.39Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers,... -
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim by Frederica Sagor Maas
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £32.59" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio... -
Private Dancer by Kimberly Dean
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.49Torn between two worlds, Alicia struggles to find a way to walk with her faith, but still dance with sin. When Alicia gets caught in the conflict between her... -
The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease Matthew Holness 9781905583591
SciFier: £10.69SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch... -
Disruptive Feminisms by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
SciFier: £46.99Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn...