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Walking Shadows
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £17.24Walking Shadows dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and brash young filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's film Citizen Kane. In 1940-1941 it became... -
Orbital 1 - Scars by Sylvain Runberg
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48In the 23rd Century, the humans and the Sandjarrs are allowed to join an inter-galactic multi-racial organisation set up 8,000 years before. The humans are seen as a belligerent, underdeveloped race... -
Darwins Diaries Vol.1: The Eye of the Celts Sylvain Runberg 9781849180955
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Victorian England. In Yorkshire, several men and horses working on a railway line have been killed-slaughtered, really. The police suspect some kind of wild beast. The government calls upon... -
The Zoo and Screen Media by Michael Lawrence
SciFier: £92.99This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters... -
Batman: A Death in the Family The Deluxe Edition by Jim Starlin
DC ComicsRRP: £45.00SciFier: £28.36Death comes to us all. In 1988 the pop culture world was rocked when comics readers were given the opportunity to decide the outcome of one of the medium s most controversial quandaries: Should the... -
Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Wallace Steadman Watson
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.13Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder introduces scholars and students to the controversial and prolific but brief career of a filmmaker hailed as one of the New German Cinema's most talented... -
Marxism Beyond Marxism Saree Makdisi 9780415914437
SciFier: £37.66These 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... -
The Monk: Annotated Edition Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781847498168
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64"A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later... -
St. Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.50Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist... -
His Master's Summons Volume 1 by Cassie Sweet
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £10.74Azgarth's Chosen: Book One At the chasm between life and death lurks the art of reanimation. When world-famous violinist Andres Valentine is... -
Faith Volume 3: Superstar Jody Houser 9781682151990
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83FIGHT AND FLIGHT! As Los Angeles' high-flying protector, Faith has inspired the dreams of an entire metropolis... Now get ready to meet its worst nightmare! When an escaped psiot prisoner starts... -
Transition by Iain Banks
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide... -
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary Marie-Jose Mondzain 9780804741002
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £85.19The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy... -
A Certain Realism by Maurizio Viano
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.49Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films--Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Salo--continue to challenge and entertain new... -
The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972 James C Robertson 9780415090346
SciFier: £37.66How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence on British film history than is often... -
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors Peter S. Donaldson 9781138981799
SciFier: £46.33Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and... -
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary Marie-Jose Mondzain 9780804741019
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy... -
The Makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race by Jim Daems
SciFier: £19.21Start your engines - for the fun, the controversy, and the life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff RuPaul's DragU. This collection of original essays by international scholars critically... -
The Matrix by Jo Bannister
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.24Dak Hamiko had never even heard of the Matrix. Nobody had, not for millennia, but The Matrix was not gone, only waiting. It had a purpose, in pursuit of which it was prepared to be every bit as... -
The Films of Paul Morrissey by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £23.38The Films of Paul Morrissey is the first appraisal of one of the major figures of American independent cinema. An innovator in the narrative cinema that emerged from Andy Warhol's Factory, Morrissey,... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Gothic Chronicles Collection) by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.66"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a beloved Gothic masterpiece of supernatural terror, is now available in an... -
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 9781473616110
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.975,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect... -
Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film William Hawes 9780786439867
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape--all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fight for artistic freedom in Hollywood movies reached a boiling point when Bob... -
John Wayne by Judith Riggin
SciFier: £35.99John Wayne--the man, actor, and icon--remains synonymous with certain American values. He represents conservative political views, aggressive militarism, and a masculine bravado which seemed... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521815635
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £83.63Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
The Ciphermaster Yu Zhiyan 9781910760673
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.451927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL.The Communist Party and the Kuomintang government, long at each others' throats, are now locked into a conflict set to claim the lives of millions. History remembers the... -
Harrison Ford by Brad Duke
SciFier: £30.89Harrison Ford has been labeled one of the top 100 stars of all time, the sexiest man alive, and the highest-grossing actor in the history of film, yet he still has the appeal of an average guy to... -
Thomas Hardy on Screen T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780521600521
SciFier: £32.79The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing adaptations of fiction for the big screen. This collection... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775463
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £60.46The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite; and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
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Fazbear Frights #2: Fetch Scott Cawthon 9781338576023 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.52The Fazbear Frights series continues with three more bone-chilling, novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five Nights at Freddy's player up at night... ... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
The Dark Night Returns by Terrence R. Wandtke
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.97This book traces the history of crime comics from their beginnings to the current resurgence and analyzes the cultural forces that give rise to influential works like Frank Miller's Sin City. ... -
King Jesus Robert Graves 9780141197654
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true... -
Introducing Chomsky by John Maher
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.25Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal... -
African Cinema by Manthia Diawara
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." -Robert Stam "Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments... -
Robots That Kill by Judith A. Markowitz
SciFier: £24.81This book describes the technologies that enable real-world robots and drones to be effective killers, including an overview of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate to the topic. It... -
Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists by Sharon Packer, MD
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the... -
The Horror Comics by William Schoell
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This historical and critical survey looks at horror comics from the Golden Age of the 40s, through the Silver Age of the 60s, up until the early 80s - the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the... -
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema A. Davies 9780230236202
SciFier: £46.99A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays... -
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Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide Ziauddin Sardar 9781848310131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.01If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical...