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Mae West by Carol M. Ward
SciFier: £57.99This provocative work analyzes Mae West's long life and productive career in three major phases: the early theater years, her meteoric film career in the thirties, and her subsequent life as a... -
Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: £77.99In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre. In the past, Jungian archetypes have been used to interpret... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780275952990
SciFier: £37.99Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
Red, White, and Spooked by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99America has always attempted to define itself through a network of invented myths and national narratives. Historically, this national mythmaking has focused on the building of the nation itself as a... -
Wes Anderson by Mark Browning
SciFier: £43.99This is the first full-length study devoted to the films of Wes Anderson, one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today. This first full-length consideration of this noted director's work,... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957445
SciFier: £72.99Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats by Marsha Mccreadie
SciFier: £78.49This collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published film critic, examines the shifting portrayals of women from... -
Chuck Jones by Maureen Furniss
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Chuck Jones: Conversations brings to life the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shape the history of American animation, defining our impressions of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,... -
My Beautiful Laundrette Hanif Kureishi 9780571202546
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.58Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a... -
The Mysteries of Cinema by Peter Conrad
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.55People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a... -
Graphic Horror by John Edgar Browning
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £29.76Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference guide. Monsters from major as well as minor horror films are brought... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822338
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.69Who 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... -
The Sweet Rot by Joe Simko
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.43Visit the lush, sugar-coated township of Pollilop Drop and follow the journey of one lil' rotter kid, Pukeboy, who struggles to overcome his fear of playing guitar in front of an audience. He seeks... -
New Documentaries in Latin America Vinicius Navarro 9781349450787
SciFier: £46.99Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the... -
What's the Difference... by Ms Christina Findlay
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.15What's the Difference... Between Me and You? is a highly original picture book filled with delicate, characterful drawings and an important central message: everyone is different, and difference is... -
Alan Moore by Annalisa Di Liddo
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £14.78Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books... -
Last Man Standing by James Curtis
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £28.31On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a... -
Drawn to Television by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £46.99Since late evening cartoons first aired in 1960, prime-time animated series have had a profound effect on American television and American culture at large. The characters and motifs from such shows... -
Howard Chaykin: Conversations Brannon Costello 9781628461770
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics... -
On Sunset Boulevard by Ed Sikov
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.86On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classicsas Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739232
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Jane Campion by Virginia Wright Wexman
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In outstanding films that are sharply focused on unusual women Jane Campion has gained worldwide admiration and respect. This New Zealand director first attracted international attention with her... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936617
SciFier: £78.49Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Dracula in the Dark by James Craig Holte
SciFier: £78.49One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781403921789
SciFier: £103.99This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
The Origins of Comics by Thierry Smolderen
RRP: £52.50SciFier: £41.56In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the... -
Cham by David Kunzle
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.94Cham, real name Count Amedee de Noe and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a celebre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his... -
Sinophone Cinemas by A. Yue
SciFier: £46.99Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from... -
May Contain Graphic Material by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £46.99Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release... -
Lila and the Secret of Rain David Conway 9781847800350
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10This award-winning picture book tells with spare, elegant prose and poignant illustrations how Lila saves her Kenyan village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows. For months the sun has... -
Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World, Vol. 18 (Light Novel) by Tappei Nagatsuki
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.99After Subaru and his friends fail to retake city hall, the Water Gate Cityof Pristella is hit by a deluge of muddy water. Though Subaru vows to turn the tide,the Witch Cult's Archbishops continue... -
Century's End: The Black Order Brigade Hunting Party Enki Bilal 9781782766810
Titan BooksRRP: £31.99SciFier: £21.83As the 20th Century draws to a close, so too does the Eastern European Communist era...but with it brings terrorist attacks, ageing militant groups coming out of retirement and those who will stop at... -
Sorandib: A Thennla Supplement Jonathan Drake 9781911471585
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £25.56A mythras adventure role playing game. Sorandib is an ancient city in catastrophic decline. The surrounding country has been laid waste by years of banditry and civil strife; the city itself is... -
A=-A by Dimitris Anastasiou
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.62A=-A is a beautiful, dark and surreal story, about a man called Alpha whose world is quite literally turned upside down for a day. As he wanders the streets of his hometown, reality flips on its... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination Dominic Sandbrook 9780141979304
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.61'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
Boulet's Notes by Boulet
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £26.69Journey back to where it all began for award-winning French cartoonist Boulet's world-renowned cartoon blog, Boulet's Notes in this hardcover collection showcasing the best of the early years. ... -
Something in the Walls: The addictive and chilling folk horror perfect for fans of Midsommar Daisy Pearce 9780356529158
OrbitRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.82'FULL OF SUPERB, AND SUSTAINED, TENSION AND HEAVY DOSES OF FOLKLORE AND EERIE HISTORY' New York Times*A Library Reads Pick!**Most Anticipated by Goodreads, E! News, BookRiot, and more!*Unbearably... -
It's All True by Catherine L. Benamou
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, "It's All True", shot in Mexico and Brazil between... -
Seeing the Bigger Picture by David A. Schultz
RRP: £114.95SciFier: £104.49Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the political dilemmas and debates shaping our world. Reviewing... -
Cala Laura Legge 9781788547475
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32'Beautifully atmospheric' Woman's Own. 'Startlingly original' The Tablet. Rule CXX. No resident of Cala is to be out gallivanting after nightfall. This is to protect all women from feelings of...