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Blood And Gold: The Vampire Chronicles 8 Anne Rice 9780099548157
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah... -
A Brief History of Walt Disney Brian Robb 9781472110565
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21Both a fascinating account of Walt Disney's own significant artistic creations, from the iconic Mickey Mouse to the groundbreaking Snow White in 1937, and an insightful history of the hugely... -
The Ultimate Directory of Silent Screen Performers by Billy H. Doyle
SciFier: £114.99Libraries abound with books on silent film history and numerous biographies on the legendary stars, but what about the thousands and thousands of actors who never obtained legendary status? Film... -
Advertising and Public Memory by Stefan Schutt
SciFier: £41.13This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as 'ghost signs')... -
The Godfathers of Horror Films: Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee Jennifer Selway 9781399055130
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.85Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee: three middle-class Englishmen whose names are synonymous with the history of the horror movie. Karloff was born in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's... -
Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa Tijen Tunali 9780755650699
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.09Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic... -
Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters Robert Silverberg 9781941110805
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.93Aliens in all shapes and sizes-some fearsome, some outlandish, and some just plain fun-fill the pages of these hand-picked classic stories by sci-fi grand master Robert Silverberg, each featuring a... -
Contre le Chaos by Tom Griffith
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £19.63Sept aventures variees, alliant enquete, exploration et action. Le roi du Val attaque ferocement un de ses vassaux et delaisse sa frontiere nord, de plus en plus menacee par les barbares. Les... -
Suburban Fantastic Cinema by Angus McFadzean
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.25Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural... -
Indigenous Media Arts in Canada by Dana Claxton
RRP: £38.95SciFier: £32.86Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices. Humans... -
Coercion Tim Tigner 9781503944367
SciFier: £11.43The phone rings and the offer is made, leaving you only seconds to decide. Betray your country, or watch your family drop dead before your eyes. After the Iron Curtain's collapse, Russia appears... -
A War Transformed by Frederick Silburn-Slater
Osprey GamesRRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.15The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame. 1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new... -
New Waves in Cinema by Sean Martin
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The term 'New Wave' conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s: Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, the young Jean-Pierre Leaud, the three protagonists of Jules and Jim capering across a bridge,... -
Multi-media: Video - Installation - Performance Nick Kaye 9780415283816
SciFier: £41.83Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the... -
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays Michelle Ann Abate 9781496811677
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95One of the most significant transformations in literature for children and young adults during the last twenty years has been the resurgence of comics. Educators and librarians extol the benefits of... -
Shadow Girls Carol Birch 9781838939458
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £10.52Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester,... -
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition Wheeler Winston Dixon 9781978833586
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and... -
A History of Horror, 2nd Edition Wheeler Winston Dixon 9781978833593
RRP: £52.00SciFier: £42.44Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and... -
British Gothic Cinema B. Forshaw 9781137300300
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field,... -
British Gothic Cinema B. Forshaw 9781137300317
SciFier: £41.99Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field,... -
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia by Hesiod
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.95Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: £42.70While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s,... -
Shadow Girls Carol Birch 9781838939472
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.58Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester,... -
Leonard Cohen by Philippe Girard
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £14.75Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal... -
Cinematic Cold War by Tony Shaw
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £22.56The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood... -
Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company Alexander Freed 9781784750046 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.88The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the... -
Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.74The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the... -
Pansy Boy by Paul Harfleet
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.10Pansy Boy is a stunningly beautiful picture book about a child's journey to overcome bullying and be proud of who he is. Told as rhyming poem, the story comes to life with vivid graphic art.Out in... -
Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century Laura Cristina Fernandez 9781032148311
SciFier: £38.53Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru,... -
Stardom, Italian Style by Marcia Landy
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Marcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of... -
The Sea Watch Adrian Tchaikovsky 9781529050363
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £7.17The Sea Watch is the sixth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.Danger lurks beneath dark waters . . . A shadow is falling over Collegium... -
Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture Paul Bowman 9780231165280
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial... -
The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema Seung-hoon Jeong (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) 9781501338564
SciFier: £38.99Once heralded and defined by the likes of Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing... -
The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century Gian Piero Brunetta 9780691119892
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £31.75The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this... -
Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture Liesbeth Francois 9789462704022
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.81Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our... -
Music of Fantasy Cinema by Janet Halfyard
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.99Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere... -
Contemporary Westerns by Andrew Patrick Nelson
SciFier: £92.99Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small... -
The Bone Flower by Charles Lambert
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.80A deliciously Gothic and atmospheric novel, one for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley 'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather On a... -
A History of the Paper Pattern Industry by Joy Spanabel Emery
SciFier: £37.49Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £61.99Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with...