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Kageki Shojo!! Vol. 7 by Kumiko Saiki
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.63The Culture Festival's about to begin, and the first-years start prepping to perform! When Sarasa gets Sugimoto's dream role, the class rep finds herself struggling to understand what she did wrong... -
Loitering with Intent: The Child by Peter O'Toole
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.99Peter O'Toole's account of his early life - a childhood framed by "Captain" Patrick O'Toole, itinerant racetrack bookmaker and Constance Jane Eliot Ferguson who had "wavy black hair, quick eyes and a... -
Kusama by Simon Elliott
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46"The only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live." From her days in 1960s New... -
Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age' by Josephine Dolan
SciFier: £124.99This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of 'silvering' - economics and ageing... -
Lee Remick by Barry Rivadue
SciFier: £56.99Lee Remick's ascent as an actress was swift and distinguished. At age 24 she attained stardom in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and was nominated as Best Actress three years later for her role in Days... -
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Peter Turner
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical... -
British Film Directors: A Critical Guide Robert Shail 9780748622306
SciFier: £93.01British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This... -
Spike Lee by Spike Lee
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £22.19Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films-from Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Malcolm X to 25th Hour , Bamboozled, and The Inside Man-helped... -
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Larger Than Life: My Autobiography Eddie Large 9781844541287 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £2.92Eddie Large and Syd Little dominated television screens across the nation for fifteen years; drawing in record viewing figures of more than 16 million at their peak. They are fondly remembered as two... -
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies Steven Cohan (Professor Emeritus of Film, Professor Emeritus of Film, Syracuse University) 9780190865771
SciFier: £35.33The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their... -
New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780813551722
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £38.68What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
Mae Murray by Michael G. Ankerich
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £37.19Mae Murray (1885--1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to... -
Anna May Wong
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles in 1905 to a traditional family that did not support her ambition, is the only Asian-American actress to have achieved stardom during Hollywood's Golden Age. In her... -
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader Frank Krutnik 9780415235525
SciFier: £42.00Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as... -
Wallace Reid by E. J. Fleming
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognised face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely remembered of ""Wally"" Reid is that he died in a... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781137381460
SciFier: £44.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Garbo by Barry Paris
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.48The only complete biography of the screen legend-now in paperback for the first time!Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and... -
Yul Brynner: A Biography Michelangelo Capua 9780786424610
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Known as the bald cowboy in ""The Magnificent Seven"" and the sexy, charismatic male lead in ""The King and I"", Yul Brynner was a Hollywood paragon of masculinity. Beyond his distinctive appearance... -
Harrison Ford by Virginia Luzon Aguado
SciFier: £113.99Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Hans Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard - but his career of fifty years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His... -
Shining in Shadows by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380097
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Ruby Keeler by Nancy Marlow-Trump
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.01You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star, Warner Baxter told Ruby Keeler, in the 1933 film ""42nd Street"". The actor's scripted words would prove prophetic. The film... -
Batman: One Bad Day: Clayface Collin Kelly 9781779520470
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.35All Basil Karlo ever wanted to be was an actor...no...one of the greatest actors there's ever been. However, his life went off course when he became the shape-shifting monster known as Clayface. ... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380080
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781349479627
SciFier: £46.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Van Heflin by Derek Sculthorpe
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21A versatile craftsman, actor Van Heflin was never concerned with popularity or comfortable with stardom. Lauded by his peers, Heflin won over moviegoers with his portrayal of resolute homesteader... -
The Mighty Onion and Guinea Pig Girl! by Mark Crilley
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.91In this hilarious illustrated novel about the chaos of the creative process, Pam and Eliot are back-and creating comics for their local newspaper this time! But when their careers start taking them... -
Martial Arts Ecology: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Cinematic Mediation Wayne Wong (Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield) 9781399527927
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £83.09What is martial arts cinema? While known for its dazzling action and emotional intensity, this book argues that martial arts cinema aspires to a deeper goal: cultivating tranquility amid conflict-a... -
Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema Gaylyn Studlar 9780520274242
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163330
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163323
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces Linda Cheng 9781786542182
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in this debut sapphic supernatural thriller set in the glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past... -
Who Was Her Own Work of Art?: Frida Kahlo: An Official Who HQ Graphic Novel Terry Blas 9780593384657
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Explore Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's rise to stardom, as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition and sets the art world aflame. A story of independence,... -
Below the Grand Hotel by Cat Scully
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46The Great Gatsby meets Hellraiser.Mabel Rose Dixon will do anything to become a Ziegfeld girl-including picking the pockets of the wealthy NYC elite to fund her way to stardom. When she picks the... -
Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America George Kouvaros 9780816647477
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles... -
Ava Gardner by Karin J. Fowler
SciFier: £57.99This book contains a biography of one of the screen's most loved actresses whose career has spanned five decades. Her life's story is as dramatic and compelling as many of her famous roles. From her... -
Film: The Key Concepts Nitzan Ben-Shaul 9781845203665
SciFier: £24.49Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film... -
On the Calculation of Volume IV: 'Unquestionably one of the greatest works of 21st century literature so far.' Herald Solvej Balle 9780571397037
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Tara Selter is one of many.In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve... -
MASH FAQ by Dale Sherman
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.87Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. EM*A*S*HE began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After...