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Madeline Kahn by William V. Madison
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.05Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time - and one of the least... -
Jane Campion by Virginia Wright Wexman
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In outstanding films that are sharply focused on unusual women Jane Campion has gained worldwide admiration and respect. This New Zealand director first attracted international attention with her... -
The Origins of Comics by Thierry Smolderen
RRP: £52.50SciFier: £41.56In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the... -
Cham by David Kunzle
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.94Cham, real name Count Amedee de Noe and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a celebre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his... -
Anthony Minghella by Mario Falsetto
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496832993
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99Tarot 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... -
Daniel Clowes by Ken Parille
SciFier: £90.99Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) emerged from the ""alternative comics"" boom of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive voices in the development of the graphic novel. His... -
George Lucas by Sally Kline
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46A director, producer, and writer, George Lucas is the power behind ""The Force."" The son of a conservative small-town businessman, he grew up to become arguably the most identifiable and popular... -
A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan Carl Rollyson 9781496862198
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in... -
Anthony Minghella: Interviews Mario Falsetto 9781617038204
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £27.43Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840844
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.75On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496833006
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.53Tarot 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... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Terry Gilliam: Interviews David Sterritt 9781578066247
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46This collection of interviews with the renowned filmmaker, animator, artist, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe covers the phases of his career from his early work as a cartoonist and... -
A Comics Studies Reader by Jeet Heer
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £17.05A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books,... -
Film and Comic Books by Ian Gordon
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic... -
Garry Trudeau by Kerry D. Soper
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Since 1968, Garry Trudeau (b. 1948) has brought his brand of political satire to bear on public figures, movie stars, heads of state, and even on himself. Trudeau has also advocated for artists'... -
The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking Alicia Kozma 9781496840998
SciFier: £90.99The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was... -
The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking Alicia Kozma 9781496841001
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was... -
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics Sydney Ladensohn Stern 9781496840851
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £18.60Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz FoundationNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library... -
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics Sydney Ladensohn Stern 9781617032677
RRP: £49.95SciFier: £34.64Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's... -
Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation Martha Sigall 9781578067497
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Martha Sigall worked with all the classic cartoon characters-Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dawg, Beany & Cecil, Tweety, and Porky Pig-and the madcap artists who created them-Chuck... -
Ridley Scott by Laurence F. Knapp
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Artisan, entrepreneur, and impresario, British filmmaker Ridley Scott accepts the profit motive as the only way to thrive in an industry where there is little patience for artistic flourishes or... -
The Superhero Reader Charles Hatfield 9781617038068
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £22.56Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book... -
The Magic Behind the Voices by Tim Lawson
SciFier: £29.99The Magic Behind the Voices is a fascinating package of biographies, anecdotes, credit listings, and photographs of the actors who have created the unmistakable voices for some of the most popular... -
A Haunt of Fears by Martin Barker
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.75Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about ""American-style"" or ""horror"" comics. The British press cried out in alarm: ""Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our... -
Carl Barks by Donald Ault
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.64Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created one of Walt Disney's most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. Barks also produced more than 500 comic book stories. His work is ranked among the most... -
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era Drew Morton 9781496820280
SciFier: £28.99Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted... -
The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £22.56This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in... -
The Superhero Reader Charles Hatfield 9781617038020
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.95Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book... -
Comics and the U.S. South Brannon Costello 9781617039454
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £22.75Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips,... -
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color Tim Jackson 9781496804792
SciFier: £71.49The marvelous recovery of neglected black artists and their awesome body of comics creativity.Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely... -
Aerosol Kingdom by Ivor L Miller
RRP: £44.95SciFier: £30.69Hailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aerosol Kingdom explores the origins and aesthetics of graffiti writings. From a vast array of inherited traditions and gritty... -
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks Robert L. Gambone 9781617037160
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His... -
She Could Be Chaplin! by Anthony Slide
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £17.90Alice Howell (1886-1961) is slowly gaining recognition and regard as arguably the most important slapstick comedienne of the silent era. This new study, the first book-length appreciation, identifies... -
After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen Drew Morton 9781496842169
SciFier: £90.99Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis... -
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown
SciFier: £28.99What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common? Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans gives an answer that goes far beyond ""tights and capes,"" an answer... -
Accidental Ambassador Gordo by Robert C. Harvey
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £26.38The comic strip Gordo was published in U.S. newspapers for forty-four years (1941-1985). For almost all of this run its creator Gus Arriola was the most visible American of Mexican descent working as... -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics) Mark Twain 9780008296469
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.28HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.About... -
Happy Clouds, Happy Trees by Kristin G. Congdon
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £20.23Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators,...