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Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia by Brian Cremins
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £28.99Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says,... -
Openness of Comics by Maaheen Ahmed
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich... -
Movie Musicals on Record by Richard C. Lynch
SciFier: £68.99This discography provides a comprehensive listing of the songs from motion picture musicals, and the singers who performed them on commercially available albums. Covering the period from The Jazz... -
Opera Mediagraphy by Sharon G. Almquist
SciFier: £58.49Opera Mediagraphy lists operas released as motion pictures, both as theatrical feature films on 35mm film and educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format... -
Inside the TV Writer's Room: Practical Advice For Succeeding in Television Lawrence Meyers 9780815635208
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Aspiring writers often ask how they can break into the television writing business. Meyers believes that the answer can be found by asking why people become television writers and what makes them... -
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia Thomas S. Hischak 9780313307379
SciFier: £68.99Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past... -
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture Eric Herhuth 9780520292550
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.99Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they owe a large debt to the early crime talkies such as The Public Enemy,... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.49The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime. The... -
Daughter of Fire by Sofia Robleda
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.64For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people's legacy is a dangerous pursuit in a mystical, empowering, and richly imagined historical novel. Catalina de... -
Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781628461787
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £24.49In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
SciFier: £30.99Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? ... -
Li'l Abner by Arthur Asa Berger
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £20.49Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip ""Li'l Abner,"" From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed, riled, and... -
Comic Book Culture by Matthew J. Pustz
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture world have in common?This book provides good... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617038235
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
A Guide to American Silent Crime Films Daniel Finn 9780313288586
SciFier: £68.49The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre. The authors of this Guide have compiled for the first time in one... -
The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball
RRP: £29.50SciFier: £25.68The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both... -
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Marc Singer 9781617031366
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.56One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular... -
Jon Stewart by Michael Blitz
SciFier: £36.99This biography profiles Jon Stewart, television's most incisive deliverer of the fake news. As the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he has attracted a vast audience that sees him as one of... -
Can We Laugh at That?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age Jacques Berlinerblau 9780520403031
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £17.79Did you hear the one about the comedian who was canceled? Comedians are no strangers to controversy or crossing the line. But some things do change. Humorists the world over are no longer simply... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Father of the Comic Strip by David Kunzle
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.05Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman,... -
The Great Book of Mobile Talk by Andrew Barrow
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.44Overheard mobile pronouncements are a modern phenomenon. In the street, in the park, in supermarkets, buses, waiting rooms and even, heaven help us, in libraries, it's quite impossible to get away... -
Declaration Illustrated R. Sikoryak 9781770467170
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21R.Sikoryak revisits the Declaration of Independence on 250th anniversary of its signing. R. Sikoryak, the cartoonist who cemented his reputation as the king of the visual mash-up with Masterpiece... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 7 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72After an eventful Christmas with her classmates, Sawako is super excited when Chizu and Ayane invite her to come with them to the shrine on New Year's Eve, which happens to be her birthday. But what... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 15 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72Ever since the near-kiss incident on the school trip, Sawako and Kazehaya have become distant. With Ayane warming to Kento's affections and Chizuru devastated that her friendship with Ryu is beyond... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 14 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72A school trip to tropical Okinawa heats up the student body, and with Ayane distracted by a new boyfriend and Chizu suddenly jealous of Ryu, Sawako and Kazehaya find themselves alone. Can they handle... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 19 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaSciFier: £8.33Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. Nicknamed Sadako after the haunting movie character, everyone is afraid to come near her for fear of being cursed. But her whole life... -
Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts David McGowan 9781477317433
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.20A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century,... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 9 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaSciFier: £8.32Kento, a new classmate, takes an interest in Kazehaya and Sawako's relationship, but his interference confuses Sawako even more. When Kazehaya tries to tell Sawako he has feelings for her, she... -
Through the Moon (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #1) Peter Wartman 9781338608816
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.86Don't miss this exclusive, original story set between seasons 3 and 4 of the hit animated series The Dragon Prince on NETFLIX! The Dragon Prince has been reunited with his... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 11 Karuho Shiina 9781421539225
Viz MediaRRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.72Sawako and Kazehaya have confessed their feelings to each other! But now Sawako is worried about her rival, Kurumi. In the past, Kurumi vowed to hate any girl who went out with Kazehaya. So how's she... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 18 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72After the Christmas party, Kazehaya finally kisses Sawako! But a kiss is not enough, and Sawako asks permission from her parents to stay out late with Kazehaya... Then, Sawako's friends dish the... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 22 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. Nicknamed Sadako after the haunting movie character, everyone is afraid to come near her for fear of being cursed. But her whole life... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 24 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaSciFier: £7.99Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. Nicknamed "Sadako" after the haunting movie character, everyone is afraid to come near her for fear of being cursed. But her whole life... -
Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts David McGowan 9781477317440
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century,... -
Mass Photography by Annebella Pollen
SciFier: £105.26With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 17 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaSciFier: £8.26Even though Sawako is dating Kazehaya, lately he's been distant. When the class Christmas party inspires the bristly Chizu and even insecure Yano into taking the next step in their relationships,... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 21 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. Nicknamed Sadako after the haunting movie character, everyone is afraid to come near her for fear of being cursed. But her whole life... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 2 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. With her jet-black hair, sinister smile and silent demeanour, she's often mistaken for Sadako, the haunting character from Ringu...