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The World of Critical Role: The History Behind the Epic Fantasy Liz Marsham 9781529101225
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.54Dive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos.From its... -
Eloquent Gestures by Roberta Pearson
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.22Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood... -
Myrna Loy by Emily W. Leider
SciFier: £28.19From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This... -
Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars Brooks Landon 9780415938884
SciFier: £37.66First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that... -
The Unrecovered: A richly atmospheric gothic tale of madness, war and all-encompassing obsession set in Scotland Richard Strachan 9781526670557
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver'I devoured this' Rebecca Netley'A rare gem of gothic literature' A. M. ShineAt a Scottish manor house requisitioned as a temporary hospital during the First World... -
Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay Andrew Horton 9780520220157
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Whoever wrote "Make 'em laugh!" knew that it's easier said than done. But people love to laugh, and good comedy will always sell. With the help of this complete and entertaining guide, writers and... -
Vested Interests by Marjorie Garber
SciFier: £38.96Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with... -
Our Lady Cinema: How and Why I went into the Photo-play World and What I Found There Harry Furniss 9781138977815
SciFier: £43.73This charming classic of film literature was originally published in 1914 and hence represents an early attempt to catalogue the allure of cinema and how the motion picture industry began. This tale... -
American Political Movies: An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films James Combs 9781138990388
SciFier: £43.73Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The... -
Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video Eric Hoyt 9780520282643
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries... -
The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals Richard Butsch 9780415977906
SciFier: £37.66In The Citizen Audience, Richard Butsch explores the cultural and political history of audiences in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. He demonstrates that, while attitudes... -
Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year Catherine Jurca 9780520233706
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £51.60In "Hollywood 1938", Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars... -
Make 'Em Laugh by Debbie Reynolds
SciFier: £12.74The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings... -
Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
Viz MediaRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.99The hilarious manga classic featuring beautiful space alien princess Lum! Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth on her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down!... -
Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 9 by Rumiko Takahashi
Viz MediaRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.60The hilarious manga classic featuring beautiful space alien princess Lum!Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth on her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down! What... -
Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting Jessica Parr 9780367707521
SciFier: £31.59Featuring over 100 images, including step-by-step examples illustrating how to improve costume renderings.This is an invaluable resource for students in Costume Rendering and Costume Design courses,... -
Real-Time Video Content for Virtual Production & Live Entertainment: A Learning Roadmap for an Evolving Practice Laura Frank 9781032073446
SciFier: £35.93Offers access to projects of some of the top professionals working in Real-Time Content Production today like engineering teams from "The Mandalorian" & League of Legends as well as video content... -
A Philosophy of the Screenplay Ted Nannicelli 9781138210219
SciFier: £43.73Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines-including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies-have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change Stephanie Burridge 9780367748760
SciFier: £42.00This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various... -
Chanteuse in the City by Kelley Conway
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life,... -
Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood Simon Hewitt (Coventry University, UK) 9781032357843
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £37.66Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greater impact on film industrial practices than ever... -
British Women's Cinema Melanie Bell 9780415466974
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'... -
Imagine Wanting Only This Kristen Radtke 9781787330504
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.49Imagine Wanting Only This is a haunting graphic memoir about leaving, and those left behind.After the sudden death of a beloved uncle, Kristen becomes obsessed with abandoned places - derelict... -
Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 12 by Rumiko Takahashi
Viz MediaSciFier: £16.69The hilarious manga classic featuring beautiful space alien princess Lum!Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth on her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down! Will... -
The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence Erick Vaughn Wolfe 9780367707606
SciFier: £34.03The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an... -
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 9781472228420
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.79A special Christmas edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEARThe Ocean at the End of the Lane is the bestselling magical novel from... -
Tunes for 'Toons by Daniel Goldmark
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £19.73In this first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that... -
Uncanny Bodies by Robert Spadoni
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In 1931 Universal Pictures released "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition... -
Beautiful Monsters by Michael Long
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Beautiful Monsters" explores the ways in which 'classical' music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the... -
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Television by Joe Nazzaro
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97What's it like putting words in Buffy's mouth? How do you go about inventing your own X-File, or coming up with a mission for the crew of the Enterprise? And most importantly, how do you get into the... -
Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema Yvonne Tasker 9780415140058
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new... -
Terror at the Gates: A Devilishly Good Fantasy Romance from the Author of the Hades x Persephone Saga Scarlett St. Clair 9781464248283
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83The first in a seductive new romantasy series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. Banished and betrayed, Lilith rises from the shadows of her past to claim forbidden... -
The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance Chiara Bullen 9781529953251
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.11BEHIND EVERY HERO, THERE'S A HISTORIANAn ambitious young scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer's inn - only to uncover a centuries-old secret in this heart-warming and poignant... -
Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 4 by Rumiko Takahashi
Viz MediaSciFier: £14.28The hilarious manga classic featuring beautiful space alien princess Lum! Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth on her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down!... -
Dictionary of Russian Literature William E. Harkins 9780367724528
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1957, provides essential information on the entire field of Russian literature, as well as a great deal on literary criticism, journalism, philosophy, theatre and... -
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 9781472200341
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £4.90THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality... -
Refashioning and Redressing - Conserving and Displaying Dress by Mary Brooks
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £41.26Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways... -
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity Jacqueline Najuma Stewart 9780520233492
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban... -
Film Noir Andrew Spicer 9780582437128
SciFier: £77.30Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.Film Noir is an overview of an... -
The Coming of Sound Douglas Gomery (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415969017
SciFier: £37.66The coming of sound to film was an event whose importance can hardly be overestimated; sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry but all of world cinema as well. As economic and film...