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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9781137354990
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda Patrick J. Cook 9780821420218
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic... -
British Film Culture in the 1970s by Sue Harper
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This is an authoritative history of 1970s British Cinema. This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the... -
Cinema at the Shore by Fiona Handyside
RRP: £52.00SciFier: £47.49From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to Francois Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781137414168
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Masculinity and Italian Cinema by Sergio Rigoletto
SciFier: £93.01This is a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the... -
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Donna Haraway 9780415903875
SciFier: £62.59Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their... -
Egon Schiele: His Life and Death by Xavier Coste
SciFier: £15.70'Egon Schiele' is an evocative depiction based on the life of the Austro-Hungarian artist whose short career spanned the turn of the 20th century. Schiele (1890-1918) was a painter known for... -
H. P. Lovecraft by Jan B. W. Pedersen
RRP: £48.00SciFier: £43.99"This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen's provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally... -
The Oliver Stone Experience Matt Zoller Seitz 9781419717901
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £20.57Oliver Stone is one of the grand masters of American cinema. A multiple Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden), he... -
The Thin Red Line David Davies 9780415773652
SciFier: £31.59The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during... -
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 3 by David Casanave
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.15Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat? Sapiens: A Graphic History - The... -
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday (University of Strathclyde, UK) 9780415157193
SciFier: £44.43An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in... -
Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene by William Brown
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton's iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race... -
Artists' Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 by Erika Balsom
SciFier: £36.90An in-depth study of the expanding role of the moving image in British art over the past thirty years Over the past three decades the moving image has grown from a marginalized medium of British art... -
Mean...Moody...Magnificent! by Christina Rice
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £26.66Jane Russell's acting career was launched on one of the most notorious publicity campaigns in the history of cinema for The Outlaw, a film produced and ultimately directed by Howard Hughes. Russell... -
Dark Mind Ian Douglas 9780062368980
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.10New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas continues his Star Carrier saga as humanity unites against an ancient artificial consciousness powerful enough to exterminate every species it encounters... -
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (Author)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' GuardianEngland is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. Under the repressive regime of The Authority, citizens have been herded into... -
The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics Jan Baetens 9781477332504
RRP: £44.00SciFier: £36.91How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics. As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of... -
Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema Mark Betz 9780816640362
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studiesExamining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to... -
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97The classic science fiction novel of a future dark age and humanity's new renaissance It is a new dark age of fear and ignorance.An atomic Flame Deluge has ravaged the earth, and humanity's survivors... -
The World According to Karl by Jean-Christophe Napias
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £7.99Karl Lagerfeld is a modern master of couture. He is also famously outspoken: his wise, surprising statements pop up like offbeat news flashes. This collection of quotations pays homage to the... -
Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity Asher Seidel 9780739123294
SciFier: £44.99Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the possibility of increasing the physiological and psychological capacities of humans to the point that they are no longer biologically,... -
Post-Work Stanley Aronowitz 9780415917834
SciFier: £42.86In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, ThePost-Work Manifesto,, provides the... -
The Films of Oshima Nagisa by Maureen Turim
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.49This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For... -
The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Daniel Bernardi 9780415774130
SciFier: £40.09The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns... -
Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games 9780472050925
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £21.73This title presents a new look at digital gaming and the aesthetics of play. ""Play Redux"" is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on... -
West of Everything by Jane Tompkins (Professor of English, Professor of English, Duke University)
SciFier: £37.86Is there anyone who has not seen a Western film, or read a Western novel? In West of Everything, Jane Tompkins asks what the Western hero has meant for Americans in the twentieth century. Thoughtful,... -
Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK) 9780826452870
SciFier: £44.99The book features a lengthy interview with Simon Pegg, co-creator of the sitcom "Spaced".About the AuthorWill Brooker is Assistant Professor in Communications at Richmond, the American International... -
European Film Music David Burnand 9780754636595
SciFier: £43.73The vast majority of writing on film music is concentrated on Hollywood in particular and on a canon of North American scores and films more generally. Recent scholarship acknowledges other... -
In the Shadow of No Towers Art Spiegelman 9780241463970
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £29.14For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new... -
In the Wet Nevil Shute 9780099530046
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496833006
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.23Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to... -
Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet) Lois Lowry 9780007597260
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.28The fascinating sequel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. GATHERING BLUE is a... -
Everything Good Dies Here by Adrian Thieret
RRP: £15.50SciFier: £11.30Introducing English readers to the speculative fiction of pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings and interventions into internet culture have attracted a cult following in South Korea The... -
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present Robin R. Means Coleman 9780367704407
SciFier: £35.93- The first sustained scholarly study of black horror films, now updated to include the last decade.- Tells a unique social history of African Americans through changing representation in horror... -
Kubrick's Men Richard Rambuss 9780823293872
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £81.81A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future... -
The Fermata Nicholson Baker 9780099286714
SciFier: £13.33This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781349490165
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion by Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
SciFier: £31.99Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and...