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The Reel Cowboy by Buck Rainey
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Movies and books have romanticised the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the strong, silent, asexual deliverer of damsels in distress;... -
The Opera Singer and the Silent Film by Paul Fryer
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £46.05Film technology developments in the early 20th century opened up a new world of possibilities for the motion picture industry, and opera, relying as it did on the melodramatic storyline and grand... -
The Films of Randolph Scott by Robert Nott
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.91Reclusive American actor Randolph Scott, known for his subtle, dignified performances in almost 60 westerns, has been called the "most genuine Westerner." His career began in 1928 with the first... -
Identification Papers: Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture Diana Fuss 9780415908863
SciFier: £35.93The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply and dramatically into focus with the recent interest in such topics as queer performativity,... -
Ayoade on Top Richard Ayoade 9780571339136 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.33At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most... -
Japanese Cinema and Punk: Intermedial Exchanges Mark Player (University of Reading, UK) 9781350378568
SciFier: £95.93In this book, Mark Player explores how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a time of crisis and change for Japan's film industry. Drawing on... -
Wandance 13 by Coffee
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.59A boy named Kaboku sees a girl named Wanda dance, and suddenly burns with a need to join in. With its thrilling scenes of Japanese hip-hop dance and quirky, charming characters, this is a new,... -
Mat o' Shanter: A Cautionary Tale Simon Lamb 9781836300090
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.64A stunning new version of a Scottish classic for the ears and eyes and hearts of today by the Carnegie-nominated author of A Passing On of Shells.'Tam o' Shanter' is one of the world's most famous... -
Redwood and Wildfire Andrea Hairston 9781250808714
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This... -
Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light (Target Collection) by Rona Munro
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.44"To protect a muddy little hillside, you doomed your whole world!"The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole back to 2nd century Scotland to learn the fate of the 'lost' Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman... -
Cosbyology by Bill Cosby
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.99Now in paperback, the national bestseller from the funniest man in America, who looks back at his life . . . bit by bit.With more than 200,000 hardcover copies in print, Bill Cosby's Cosbyology has... -
Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £48.09Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in... -
Design and Political Dissent by Jilly Traganou
SciFier: £42.00This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a... -
The Century of Deception by Ian Keable
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick,... -
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472073726
SciFier: £66.80This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
Mortal Kombat: Games of Death David Church 9780472055227
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.49Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered... -
Introducing Gilbert & George by Robert Rosenblum
SciFier: £5.10Gilbert & George are artists of our time. Theirs is an art for everyone, a democratic art - in their own words, an 'art for all'. In their sculptures, photographic works, drawings and performance... -
The Monster of Elendhaven Jennifer Giesbrecht 9781250225689
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.72The Monster of Elendhaven is a dark fantasy, a twisted tale of revenge set in an original world as oily and real as Jack the Ripper's London. After a thing with no name washes up on the docks, empty,... -
Angels of Power by Hawthorne Susan
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £10.31Following Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, writers rework images of the body, resisting those wanting to create monsters and angels.Australian Feminist Book Fortnight Favourite 1991About the AuthorSusan... -
Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Star Trek: Vulcan Dayton Ward 9781608875207
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61Plan your next trip to the planet Vulcan with Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a trip to the Fire... -
The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture Paul Wells 9780813544151
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.34Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto. The... -
Hollywood's Image of the South by David Ebner
SciFier: £56.99From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden 9781479811991
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.56Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious... -
The Mystery Present Ian Beresford 9781839754333
RRP: £7.50SciFier: £7.49A story of a child's journey into aspects of adult life. In search of truth concerning a matter close to his heart, he encounters emotional anguish, challenges and disappointments but in the end... -
We Know Now Snowmen Exist by Michael Spencer
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £7.97Five women go camping in a remote mountain range. None return. Chloe, Hayley, Rachel, Lisa & Zoe. Each has their own reason for needing to get away. But what starts as a camping trip takes a dark... -
Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.72*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot... -
Cruel Illusions: the deliciously dark and addictive magical fantasy Margie Fuston 9781399711395
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'The perfect sinisterly magical escape' Stephanie GarberCaraval meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer! A magical secret society.A deadly competition. A chance for revenge.WIN... OR DIE... After a vampire... -
A Fright to Remember (Monster High #1) by Mattel
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The first book in a fang-tastic new middle-grade series inspired by Nickelodeon's animated show Monster High!As Monster High prepares for its annual talent show, Frankie Stein is left wondering what... -
How to Stop the End of the World Tom Mitchell 9780008597146
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.28Colin Coleridge is facing a long, boring summer holiday with NOTHING to do. But when he notices some weird markings outside his house, and some strangers acting VERY suspiciously in his... -
The Blood Countess by Annouchka Bayley
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.64Two women separated by five hundred years, each with a secret - the infamous 'Blood Countess'(1560-1614), notorious for bathing in the blood of six-hundred-and-fifty women in Renaissance Hungary and... -
Lights Up by Lisette Auton
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.29Just like her favourite person in the whole world - her grandad - Hettie's favourite place in the whole world - the Arts Centre - has gone. And Hettie can't quite work out how she's supposed to feel... -
Stand Up! (A Graphic Novel) Tori Sharp 9780316538930
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.04Two hilarious best friends create their very own podcast in this feel-good middle grade graphic novel about making the spotlight your own, from the author of Just Pretend.Lights, Curtains...Podcast! ... -
Children of Hollywood by Michelle Vogel
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Living in the shadow of a famous parent can have powerful effects, from professional opportunities to pressure so great it leads to suicide. Some children of stars are proud of their roots while... -
Send Yourself Roses by Kathleen Turner
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.21Strong, feisty, brave and brilliant, Kathleen Turner is a woman to be reckoned with. One of the most revered actresses of her generation and beyond, she is a woman who goes after what she wants and... -
The Soul Thief by S L Howe
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58A brand new gothic horror for fans of Sarah Waters and Carly Reagon At the end of a long nightshift at the hospital Dr Warren Carter is offered a nightcap by a beautiful young... -
The West Wind Alexandria Warwick 9781398533677
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.06FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NORTH WIND COMES A DARKLY REIMAGINED TALE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE, INSPIRED BY THE GREEK MYTH OF HERO AND LEANDER AND THE SCOTTISH BALLAD TAM LIN. Brielle of Thornbrook has... -
A Woman in the Wild by Tad Crawford
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £22.19A Woman in the Wild is a revealing and memorable portrait of a woman boldly facing her demons in pursuit of a meaningful life. A psychologist in crisis leaves her established practice in the city for... -
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... -
The East Wind: Volume 4 Alexandria Warwick 9781398533691
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.03Rapunzel meets the myth of Psyche and Cupid in a standalone fantasy romance tale of love, survival and healing, as a mortal woman and a god unite to overcome deadly trials - and their own tortured... -
Buzzard Inez Ray 9781967967261
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.49In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for...