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A Philosophy of Computer Art Dominic Lopes 9780415547628
RRP: £51.99SciFier: £47.20What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as 'meaning', 'form' or 'expression' apply to computer art? A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore... -
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 9780691165554
SciFier: £12.06In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all... -
Are You a Hungry Monster? Guilherme Karsten 9780711283398
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Are You a Hungry Monster? is a hilarious interactive picture book that will have readers giggling and laughing along, as monster creates his legendary snack recipe! Are you feeling hungry? Do you... -
Are You a Hungry Monster? Guilherme Karsten 9780711283404
SciFier: £14.59Are You a Hungry Monster? is a hilarious interactive picture book that will have readers giggling and laughing along, as monster creates his legendary snack recipe! Are you feeling hungry? Do you... -
A Moon Boy Loves My Best Friend Rebecca Patterson 9781839130175
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95Lyla and her friends are off to camp on the moon! They're going moon walking, laser archery shooting and low gravity dancing! And Moonite kids at camp are just so stylish and cool. When they suggest... -
Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation Tessa Dwyer 9781474440998
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77This study argues that the contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Through examples ranging from avant-garde dubbing to crowdsourced subtitling, it proposes that... -
Sex, Censorship and the Millennial Teen Film Jade Jontef (La Trobe University, Australia) 9781350442474
SciFier: £94.99Through an in-depth analysis of iconic teen movies, this study explores the relationship between sex, censorship, and the shaping of Generation Y's views on desire. Jade Jontef argues that in light... -
Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung Nina MacLaughlin 9780374538583
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.24A powerful, feminist retelling, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung channels the fierce, textured voices of the women in Ovid's Metamorphoses, as they claim their stories and challenge the power of myth I am... -
Best of 2000 AD Volume 4: The Essential Gateway to the Galaxy's Greatest Comic by John Wagner
RebellionRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.99Best of 2000 AD is a landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest stories for a new generation of readers. Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the... -
Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture Helton Levy (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9781350292826
SciFier: £30.99Has a global queer popular culture emerged at the expense of local queer artists? In this book, Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is indebted to specific, local references that artists... -
Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood Kendra Marston 9781474430296
SciFier: £93.01Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore... -
Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Anahid Kassabian 9780520275157
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99How does the constant presence of music in modern life - on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television - affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only... -
Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Anahid Kassabian 9780520275164
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99How does the constant presence of music in modern life - on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television - affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only... -
Best of 2000 AD Volume 5: The Essential Gateway to the Galaxy's Greatest Comic To Be Announced 9781837860937
RebellionRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Best of 2000 AD is a landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest stories for a new generation of readers. Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the... -
Youssef Chahine by Ibrahim Fawal
SciFier: £107.97A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine's work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and... -
Romanian and Chinese Cinemas by Lucian ion
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £75.90Drawing on what used to be the erstwhile internationalist cultural space of Communist Eurasia, the author reads socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China as promoting a common... -
Refocus: the Films of Kelly Reichardt E. Dawn Hall 9781474452243
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent... -
The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re) Production Brooks Landon 9780313256875
SciFier: £77.99Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF in its provocative speculations on the... -
Are You a Sleepy Monster? by Guilherme Karsten
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Energetic little readers will be sent to the land of nod after reading this fun picture book by award-winning illustrator Guilherme Karsten.Are you all set for SLEEPOVER TIME? Monster has your scary... -
Spirit Service Sarena Nanua 9781665955188
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.73Four seventh graders start a small business helping their local neighborhood spirits pass on to the other side in this supremely sweet and spooky story that's "a perfect fit for fans of The... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748643462
SciFier: £93.01This book presents a new approach to the issue of temporality in film. Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality,... -
Vocal Apparitions by Michal Grover-Friedlander
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £53.19Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what... -
Derek Jarman by Rowland Wymer
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema... -
The Pulse in Cinema: The Aesthetics of Horror Sharon Jane Mee 9781474475853
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to... -
Representing the New AI in Film and Television Dr Graham Allen (University College Cork, Cork) 9781350378032
SciFier: £67.49The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers. Our hopes and... -
The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 4 William Hope Hodgson 9781597809597
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.99Available for the first time in trade paperback, the fourth of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction,... -
The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions by William Hope Hodgson
SciFier: £13.33Available for the first time in trade paperback, the final volume in a five-book set collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science... -
The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Film Editing and Technological Change Marc Furstenau 9781041187134
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage. It is commonly argued that the changes to the technical apparatus of... -
Surrealism in Film: Beyond the Realist Sensibility William Earle 9781412814805
SciFier: £47.20The arts were created from an appeal to freedom. There can be no general aesthetic that defines how that freedom must express itself. Movies offer a seductive example. Of all the major arts, cinema... -
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism Jim Collins 9780415901376
SciFier: £37.66Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the... -
Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress S. Harper 9780230218802
SciFier: £46.99Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress... -
Representing the New AI in Film and Television Dr Graham Allen (University College Cork, Cork) 9781350378018
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.84The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers. Our hopes and... -
The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 3 William Hope Hodgson 9781597809412
SciFier: £14.43Available for the first time in trade paperback, the third of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction,... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 9780816693160
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As... -
Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future Aaron Mauro (Brock University, Canada) 9781350231023
SciFier: £28.13What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This... -
The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy Charul Palmer-Patel 9781032087054
SciFier: £43.73The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally... -
Unknown Soldiers by Vainoe Linna
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the... -
Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series Luca Bandirali 9781498597562
SciFier: £82.99What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics... -
Synthetic Cinema by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades...