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Flaxman Low: Occult Detective E. and H. Heron 9780262051651
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86The weird and weirdly delightful adventures of fiction s first occult detective. Flaxman Low, literature s first professional, full-time 'occult detective,' i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys... -
The History of Video Games Charlie Fish 9781526778970
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.71This book is a potted history of video games, telling all the rollercoaster stories of this fascinating young industry that's now twice as big globally than the film and music industries combined... -
Comics Studies Here and Now Frederick Luis Aldama 9780367590703
SciFier: £42.00Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward,... -
Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin Michael S. Richardson, M.D. 9780367640163
SciFier: £42.00Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to... -
Sociology and Popular Television by Raisa-Gabriela Zamfirescu
SciFier: £114.42This book examines representations of gender, age and identity across the Hallmark film and television output in relation to specific periods of time that pertain to changes within the specific... -
Why We Need Superheroes by Jeffrey Kahan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Comic books and superhero stories mirror essential societal values and beliefs. We can be Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Black Panther or Rocket Raccoon through our everyday choices. We... -
Kurt Kren by Nicky Hamlyn
SciFier: £55.74Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films-often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams-have influenced... -
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China Shenshen Cai 9789811581182
SciFier: £46.99This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC)... -
To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.99Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls. Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started... -
American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre Anthony Mills (Independent Scholar, USA) 9781138548855
SciFier: £47.20Stan Lee, who was the head writer of Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, co-created such popular heroes as Spider-Man, Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and Daredevil. This book... -
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen Ronie Parciack 9780367875183
SciFier: £42.86The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in... -
Darkness Becomes Her Jaime Rush 9780062018922
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.79Lachlan McLeod doesn't get out very much. He's been keeping himself away from society ever since he became addicted to using his powers and caused a fatal mistake. He had astral projected into the... -
Yokai Bestiary: How to Draw Eerie and Enchanting Japanese Ghouls and Monsters Lance Red 9781577154457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Learn how to draw a bestiary of supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore, and discover their origins as you go.Yokai is a Japanese term for mystical beings that encompasses a range of... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: £112.99Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume I Matthew Kaiser 9781516521142
SciFier: £84.99This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era... -
Evermore Alyson Noel 9780330512855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £2.14Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California, she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those... -
Northern Tales by Howard Norman
RRP: £18.50SciFier: £14.99With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Siberia, Alaska, Japan, and the polar region, told and retold during months-long winter nights, Northern Tales gathers together a rich... -
Pokemon and Philosophy: A Trainer's Guide To The Toughest Questions Michaud Nicolas 9781637700730
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.12Pokemon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philosophical implications. Pokemon and Philosophy celebrates this cultural icon while... -
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China Shenshen Cai 9789811581151
SciFier: £46.99This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC)... -
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga by Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake (Pomona College, USA)
SciFier: £93.49This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga... -
Our Faith in Evil by Gregory Desilet
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Is violence in American cinema a reflection of life? Or does life imitate the violence people see in cinema? One of the pressing questions in today's society is whether fictional portrayals of... -
Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir
SciFier: £38.41This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released from 1990 through 1999. The horror genre's trends and cliches are connected to social and cultural phenomena, such as Y2K fears and the Los... -
Break the Frame by Kevin Smokler (Independent scholar, Independent scholar)
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £24.91A diverse group of women filmmakers speak for themselves about their careers and their work In the twenty-first century alone, women filmmakers have succeeded at directing every size, genre, and... -
Tales from the Loop Simon Stalenhag 9781471194412
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.90'Remarkable... beautiful' - National Public Radio These are the tales of an extraordinary journey: from the small towns of Sweden to the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia. A journey... -
Evermore Alyson Noel 9780330512855
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California, she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883409
SciFier: £112.99Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume II by Matthew Kaiser
SciFier: £84.99This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era... -
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 Dominic Janes 9780226358642
SciFier: £35.60"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a... -
Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection Junji Ito 9781974754663
Viz MediaRRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.25Obsession and persistence warp reality in this collection of macabre stories set in Junji Ito's bloodcurdling world.Alley; Shiver; Tombs A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe,... -
Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales by Diane Purkiss
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £12.81In the West we tend to think of witches in terms of the witch trials, when fear, ignorance and religious fervour brought the poor to heel, and fostered suspicion of those who dared to be different,... -
Finnish Cinema by Henry Bacon
SciFier: £24.49This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic,... -
World Film Locations: Washington D.C. by Katherine Larsen (George Washington University, USA)
SciFier: £24.44Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the... -
Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 9780816695744
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical... -
Chart Throb Ben Elton 9780552773768 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.49Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the... -
Chart Throb Ben Elton 9780552773768
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the... -
Cosplayers by A. Luxx Mishou (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
SciFier: £18.62Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity... -
Alien Zone II by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £28.59Science fiction, more than any other film genre, allows cinema to exhibit its own distinctive matters of expression. Whether these be the state-of-the-art special effects technologies of 2001: A... -
Teddy vs. the Slimy Evil Braden Hallett 9781773219134
SciFier: £15.19The secrets of Ravensbarrow have been buried far too long. Now they're coming to light . . .Teddy and his friends uncover a monstrous-and cheesy-terror in the second installment of this... -
The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45"The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally... -
Board Games as Media Dr. Paul Booth 9781501357176
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.31Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we...