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Secret Identity Crisis by PhD Matthew J. Costello
SciFier: £31.99"Secret Identity Crisis" follows the trajectory of the breakdown of the Cold War consensus after 1960 through the lens of superhero comic books. The superhero comic books developed by Marvel, because... -
Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies Henry A. Giroux 9780415926560
SciFier: £37.66Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the... -
Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and Spain Elena Cordero-Hoyo (Universidade de Lisboa) 9781789381719
SciFier: £33.99Though cinema arrived in Spain and Portugal at the end of the nineteenth century, national and industrial problems as well as the dictatorships of Salazar and Caetano (in Portugal) and Franco (in... -
The Doomsday Spiral by Jon Land
RRP: £30.95SciFier: £23.99An Israeli special-forces operative races to stop a terrorist plot against the US in this novel by "one of the best thriller writers out there" (Library Journal). After years of being presumed dead,... -
Pillow Talk Stephanie Cooke 9780358525721
SciFier: £17.32Grace Mendes a.k.a. Cinderhella is a fierce competitor in the PFF, a pillow fight federation that's part roller derby, part professional wrestling. But in this fresh, coming-of-age YA graphic novel,... -
The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza Parsons 9781513282886
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.99The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is a novel by Eliza Parsons. Employing themes common to the popular genre of Gothic fiction, Parsons crafts a chilling tale of murder and mystery that remains uniquely... -
Monsters in the Machine by Steffen Hantke
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science... -
The Titan's Debt HN Wake 9781036707835
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Some secrets don't just destroy lives-they topple empires. Renegade short seller Mirielle Laurant, still grieving the murder of her FBI agent husband, uncovers a suspicious gap in the... -
Angelmaker Nick Harkaway 9780099538097
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.Shortlisted for the Arthur C... -
The Wolf Mile: The explosive start to a gritty dystopian thriller series set in Edinburgh C.F. Barrington 9781800246416
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32Squid Game meets The Hunger Games in this thriller where modern-day recruits compete with ancient weapons in a deadly game across the streets of Edinburgh. Welcome to the Pantheon Games. Let the... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374667
RRP: £69.00SciFier: £57.99Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
The Rise of Victorian Caricature Ian Haywood 9783030346584
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in... -
India's New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 9781138319721
SciFier: £46.16This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically... -
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 by Christian B. Long (The University of Queensland)
SciFier: £77.38The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of... -
Cartooning the Landscape Chip Sullivan 9780813939209
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.45One of the singular talents in landscape design, Chip Sullivan has shared his expertise through a seemingly unusual medium that, at second glance, makes perfect sense--the comic strip. For years... -
Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played Jonathan A. Grubb (Professor at Georgis Souther University, USA.) 9781032388038
SciFier: £39.39Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video... -
Alexander and Alestria by Shan Sa
SciFier: £9.99Beginning with Alexander's childhood in Macedonia with his abusive father, tyrannical King Philip and his overbearing mother Olympias - educated by Aristotle and trained in the military training - he... -
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Magical Children: The Invisible Boy Sally Gardner 9781444011616 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £2.01As the little alien explains to Sam, being invisible can be a big help. A very funny adventure story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.When his parents are lost in... -
Darkness Visible by William Golding
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Nicola... -
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University, USA) 9781032251363
SciFier: £40.26Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerous? by Christopher Frayling
SciFier: £23.57Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)... -
Firebird Juliette Cross 9781035052462
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39'A scorching love story' - CosmopolitanThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller! Firebird is a dark, brooding romantasy from Juliette Cross, full of enemies-to-lovers steam. Perfect for fans of House of... -
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas Sangjoon Lee 9781041185253
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £44.43This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of... -
Videogames Marie Foulston 9781851779406
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.26Videogames explores the design and culture of videogames since the mid-2000s, investigating the ground-breaking contemporary design work, creative and rebellious player communities and the political... -
A History of Japan in Manga by Kanaya Shunichiro
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic... -
Drive in Cinema by Marc James Leger (Independent Scholar)
SciFier: £41.64Drive in Cinema offers Zizek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander... -
The Rise of Victorian Caricature Ian Haywood 9783030346614
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374674
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £24.99Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action Ira Jaffe 9780231169790
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.99"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and... -
'Film Europe' And 'Film America' by Andrew Higson
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.99Winner of the 2000 Prix Jean Mitry. A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of... -
Differences in the Dark by Michael Gilmore
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £35.23George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American... -
Magical Children: The Invisible Boy by Sally Gardner
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.48As the little alien explains to Sam, being invisible can be a big help. A very funny adventure story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.When his parents are lost in... -
The Atlas Paradox: The incredible sequel to international bestseller The Atlas Six Olivie Blake 9781529095326
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.00Discover The Atlas Paradox, the electric dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be... -
Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.44The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed... -
The Curious Crime by Julia Golding
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10'In a strange, vast and wonderfully imagined museum, an apprentice sculptor and student scientist must solve a murder. Julia Golding has written a gripping helter-skelter story that will keep you... -
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja 9780803211261
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £34.45In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous... -
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory Elsie Walker (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland) 9780199896325
SciFier: £45.49Until recently, most scholars neglected the power of hearing cinema as well as seeing it. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational... -
German Film after Germany by Randall Halle
SciFier: £29.19What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question, Randall Halle focuses on the film industry of Germany, one of Europe's largest film markets and one of the... -
Sinder: Diabhal Book 2 Kathleen Kaufman 9781684423309
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Sinder weaves together the parallel stories of Ceit, grown to adulthood and having taken her rightful place as Matrarc of the Society, and her great-grandmother, Ainsley Robertson in 1924 Ireland,...