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The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition Gustavo Mercado 9781138780316
SciFier: £32.29* Become an eloquent visual storyteller through effective and expressive choices for each and every shot in your film with hundreds of full-color examples from your favorite blockbusters in this... -
Marxism Beyond Marxism Saree Makdisi 9780415914437
SciFier: £39.39These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished... -
Gerhard Richter by Ortrud Westheider
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.30This publication is the first to focus solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the artist began to call painting into... -
The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons Iain Chambers 9780415108584
SciFier: £39.39Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our... -
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye Will Gompertz 9780241965993
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.31What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From... -
Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score by Josefine Wikstroem
SciFier: £39.99This book takes a new critical approach to the concept of performance as it operates in performance studies and art theory. It constructs a critical concept of performance by understanding it as... -
Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies Natasha Lushetich (University of Dundee, UK) 9780367743000
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £42.86Who, what, and where perceives, and how? What are the sedimentations, inscriptions, and axiologies of animal, human, and machinic perception/s? What are their perceptibilities? Deleuze uses the word... -
Richard Hambleton by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £36.39Richard Hambleton (1954 2017) was a Canadian artist known for his pioneering street art. He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art... -
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory by Nick Jones
SciFier: £46.33"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496810694
SciFier: £101.99In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks, his theoriesof vision and sound, the... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496823328
SciFier: £27.99In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: £43.73Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA) 9780415391672
SciFier: £47.20Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half... -
Lichtenstein by Janis Hendrickson
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £13.66American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary... -
The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image Gustavo Mercado 9780415821315
SciFier: £32.29The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project. This book offers a unique approach to... -
Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives Nicholas Chare (Universite de Montreal, Canada) 9780367595142
SciFier: £40.26Gesture has held a crucial role in cinema since its inception. In the absence of spoken words, early cinema frequently exploited the communicative potential of the gestures of actors. As this book... -
Netherwood Jake Arnott 9781835416594
Titan BooksRRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.85A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the... -
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema: Screening Composite Spaces Jennifer Kirby 9781032119458
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e... -
Pattern Euphoria: New Designs for Home Interiors and Fashion by Wang Shaoqiang
SciFier: £34.99The delightful patterns collected in this book, which have been created by talented designers from all over the world, are inspired by botanic shapes, the animal kingdom, geometry or abstract forms. ... -
Funky Fabrics of the '60s by Joy Shih
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.29The wide range of sixties fabric designs reflected the transition from the comforting tranquility of the early years to the bolder, more "hip" end of the decade. Funky Fabrics of the 60s takes you on... -
Photography, Temporality, and Modernity: Time Warped Kris Belden-Adams 9781032338613
SciFier: £43.73This book examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium's... -
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium Paul Crowther 9781032338910
SciFier: £43.73Is art created with computers really art? This book answers 'yes.' Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252080210
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252038617
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Modern Guide to Colorwork Crochet: Techniques, Motifs and Projects for Tapestry, Intarsia and Fair Isle-Style Meghan Ballmer 9781577157182
SciFier: £13.10Master colorwork crochet with step-by-step techniques and stylish projects.Expand your crochet skills and explore the art of color with Modern Guide to Colorwork Crochet. Whether you're a beginner or... -
Debt-Free Art Degree: Foundations in Drawing by Marco Bucci
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £10.66An essential guide for a new generation of artists to learn professional-level art skills-no student loan required!Now a successful artist, illustrator, and YouTube star, Marco Bucci once thought you... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg Hal Foster 9780691202600
SciFier: £38.96How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
The Construction of Drawings and Movies: Models for Architectural Design and Analysis Thomas Forget 9780415898409
SciFier: £57.44The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be... -
Mediated Associations: Cinematic Dimensions of Social Theory Daniel O'Connor 9780773525498 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £4.14Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic objects. O'Connor argues that social theory must... -
Foulards by Tina Skinner
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £17.82More than 350 photographs of historic fabric swatches explore design variations in foulards, the small motifs printed on silks and related fabrics that were intended for men's ties and dressing gowns... -
Half Cheetah James Bloom 9788867497263
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.39" James Bloom's Half Cheetah project uses real-time Reinforcement Learning AI models. Each piece presents 3D scans of humans running on a never-ending journey toward an unknown destination, while a... -
African Prints by Shirley Friedland
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £17.82This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs... -
Screening Economies - Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation by Daniel Cuonz
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £17.18The relationship between economy, finance and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdependent web of relations into an area of incomprehensible... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.99A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the... -
Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks
Titan BooksRRP: £44.99SciFier: £31.89Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks highlights the all original art created exclusively for Mondo's vinyl releases by world-renowned artists for film, television, and video game soundtracks. Featuring... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: £45.46A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work... -
Nomadic Embroideries by Tina Skinner
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £35.50More than 500 images explore the free-form embroidered creations of the tribal people of India's renown Gujarat Province. Dating back 30 to 100 years, they include original garments, temple... -
Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960s Matilde Nardelli 9781474444057
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema's 'modern' incarnation. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious... -
Arrows of Desire: Selected Writings 1963-2002 Peter Wollen 9781836741176
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.00Arrows of Desire indexes numerous intellectual, political, and artistic histories of the twentieth century. The book presents Wollen's engagement with anti-imperialist politics and counter-cinema,... -
Designer Fabrics of the Early 60s by Tina Skinner
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.10Take a tour of the top couture fabric design houses of Paris during the early 1960s. This visual feast explores more than 250 exemplary designs in full-color photographs of fabric swatches. Explore a...