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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) 9780826429537
SciFier: $69.92This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits) Paul Hogan 9781460759301
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.96The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces... -
Freddie vs. the Family Curse Tracy Badua 9780358749288
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.04WINNER OF THE 2023 SID FLEISCHMAN HUMOR AWARDIn this thrilling and hilarious middle grade adventure, a young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that's haunted... -
Asadora!, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa
Viz MediaRRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won't quit.In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a... -
The Valley by A.M. Linden
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $11.89Llwddawanden is a hidden sanctuary where remnants of a once-powerful pagan cult carry on their ancient ritual practices, supported by a small but faithful following of servants, craftsmen, and... -
Earthborn by Orson Scott Card
OrbitSciFier: $31.48'The fifth and last volume in Card's sprawling Homecoming saga. More than parable, not quite allegory, Card's far-future religious saga manages, brilliantly, to be at once entertaining,... -
Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir Thi Bui 9781419718779
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $23.22National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018... -
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World Peter Szendy 9780823264803
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $83.23Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with... -
The Circle Dave Eggers 9780241970379
SciFier: $11.82NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John BoyegaTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet'Prepare to be... -
Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print Kevin Murphy 9781611484946
SciFier: $152.75Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and... -
The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $15.40Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.When Cat Novak was a young girl, her... -
Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese Robert Casillo 9780802091130
RRP: $111.22SciFier: $88.39Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three... -
Hexis by Charlene Elsby
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $13.17I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm lacking it. In that sense, I'm not relentless, but perhaps I'm unrelenting. I could relent if I... -
The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey by Pierre Hecker
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $25.03Investigates the relationship between culture, politics and power in present-day Turkey, from headscarves to heavy metal Provides an overview of the politics of culture in Turkey under the rule... -
The Hidden Forest by Daintry Jensen
RRP: $24.05SciFier: $20.09Nantucket Island in the summertime- a dream come true, right? Not for twelve year old Adelaide, whose father died a year earlier and now has one ambition in life: to be a great explorer and... -
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $11.89SHORTLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 'Intense, beautifully crafted . . . Her talent is electric. Get ready for a shock'... -
Make Art or Die Trying by Stuart Semple
RRP: $29.48SciFier: $22.34Learn to make art that can change the world. Multidisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and activist Stuart Semple believes that art is for everyone, and that everyone is an artist. Every single human... -
Princess Smartypants and the Missing Princes by Babette Cole
RRP: $9.37SciFier: $7.34Princess Smartypants rules her kingdom of Totaloonia on her own - she certainly doesn't need the help of a silly Prince of a husband. However, she is always willing to help her friends, and agrees... -
A Nasty Business A. R. Goldsmith 9781963511192
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $15.56A realistic novel of female spies and coming of age in the Cold War era of British Intelligence. A Nicollette Beverley Spy Novel It's 1976 and on the prompting of her coach and former teacher,... -
Talking to the Wolf: A Novel Rebecca Chace 9781636284620
RRP: $18.75SciFier: $13.17"It's a story about how our ideas of success change over time, and the mysterious ways that our deepest friendships both hold us and release us."-Rene Steinke, novelist and National Book Award... -
Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette 9781793627056
SciFier: $41.53Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in 20th and 21st-century filmmaking.Topics include a... -
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 9781568366494
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $24.07This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars... -
More Adventures in Moominvalley Amanda Li 9781529016475
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.28The Moomin family and their friends are back in More Adventures in Moominvalley, a collection of warm and charming stories based on the award-winning 3D animation.Go on a journey to Moominvalley - a... -
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World Thomas Zaniello (Northern Kentucky University, USA) 9781501349201
SciFier: $138.01The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of... -
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World Thomas Zaniello (Northern Kentucky University, USA) 9781501385841
SciFier: $46.89The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of... -
Casual Game Design: Designing Play for the Gamer in ALL of Us Gregory Trefry 9780123749536
SciFier: $69.96From Windows Solitaire to Bejeweled to Wii Tennis, casual games have radically changed the landscape of games. By simplifying gameplay and providing quick but intense blasts of engaging play, casual... -
Understanding Design in Film Production: Using Art, Light & Locations to Tell Your Story Barbara Freedman Doyle (Chair, Film Division, Chapman University, USA) 9781138058705
SciFier: $52.26Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle... -
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design Fleur Watson (Architecture Victoria | Open House Melbourne, Australia) 9781138492738
SciFier: $46.98The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on... -
Frame by Frame by Hannah Frank
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.41At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In... -
Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relationship Jaimie Baron (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Alberta) 9780197563632
SciFier: $46.63The word "ventriloquism" has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak. Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term to reflect our complex vocal... -
The Mind Virus Donna Freitas 9780062118677
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $10.30In the tradition of M. T. Anderson's Feed and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, The Mind Virus is the thrilling conclusion to the Unplugged series, which Kass Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of... -
Pilgrims 2.0 - A Novel by Lindsey Harding
RRP: $21.44SciFier: $19.59A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery. PILGRIM, Canterbury Cruise Line's flagship, promises its passengers not just a... -
A Cut Below by Scott Drebit
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $26.14Horror films have been around for more than 100 years, and they continue to make a large impact on popular culture as they reflect their contemporary zeitgeist. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s,... -
Special Effects by Michele Pierson
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $31.34Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood... -
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy by Zhen Ni
SciFier: $30.81After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other... -
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The First Official Novel Gwenda Bond 9781787462021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $3.34_____________________________ 'A pacey, creepy book that does what any good prequel should... this is unmistakably Stranger Things' - SFX Magazine_____________________________A mysterious lab. A... -
Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's King Lear by Steve Barlow
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $16.40Shakespeare's King Lear like you've never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: King Lear has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with... -
Istvan Szabo: Filmmaker of Existential Choices Susan Rubin Suleiman (Harvard University, USA) 9781350181823
SciFier: $32.11Istvan Szabo is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabo's... -
Animation Masterclasses: From Pencils to Pixels: A Complete Course in Animation & Production Tony White 9781032345864
RRP: $66.99SciFier: $63.58Today, it is commonly believed that if you learn software, you can become an animator. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Master animators are trained and not born. Software, as is the... -
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 8 Naoki Urasawa 9781421599687
Viz MediaRRP: $25.45SciFier: $19.01A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa's award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!Humanity, having faced extinction at...