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The Cinema of John Milius by Alfio Leotta
SciFier: £37.99This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combining the examination of the artistic, historical and cultural significance of... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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 James Bond Omnibus 003 by Ian Fleming
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97The daring James Bond is back in a definitive bumper edition collecting the first period of Jim Lawrence's celebrated run in comic strip form! This title includes seven of Bond's most thrilling and... -
Mad Max by Martyn Conterio
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05Mad Max (1979) is a freak picture. Too classy and well-crafted to be lumped in with low-budget Ozploitation titles, yet completely unlike other films made during the 1970s Australian New Wave, George... -
The Valentino Mystique by Allan R. Ellenberger
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The circumstances surrounding the death of legendary star Rudolph Valentino have been a constant source of fascination for admirers worldwide. This work examines every aspect of his passing,... -
Thomas Hardy on Screen T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780521840811
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £57.99The 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 9780226775487
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.99The 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... -
The Films of D. W. Griffith Scott Simmon 9780521388207
SciFier: £20.04The Films of D. W. Griffith serves as an introduction to, and a cultural argument for, the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker. Situating D. W. Griffith within film history and... -
Celluloid Chains by Rudyard Alcocer
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £44.99Featuring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, Celluloid Chains is the most comprehensive volume to date on films about slavery. This collection examines works from not... -
The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many... -
Nihilism in Film and Television: A Critical Overview from Citizen Kane to The Sopranos Kevin L. Stoehr 9780786425471
SciFier: £30.19This book explores the idea of nihilism, emphasized by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, through its appearance in modern popular culture. The author defines and reflects upon nihilism, then...