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Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960s Matilde Nardelli 9781474444057
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema's 'modern' incarnation. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: £45.46A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work... -
Arrows of Desire: Selected Writings 1963-2002 Peter Wollen 9781836741176
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.00Arrows of Desire indexes numerous intellectual, political, and artistic histories of the twentieth century. The book presents Wollen's engagement with anti-imperialist politics and counter-cinema,... -
Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches Kathrin Fahlenbrach 9780815386520
SciFier: £48.76In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in... -
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me Kelly Thompson 9781799507543
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £11.60Trapped in the Maze, Forged by Myth Wonder Woman Faces Her Greatest Test. Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me continues Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman s bold new vision of Diana of... -
Macabre Masterpieces: Over 100 Sinister Scenes to Color Editors of Chartwell Books 9780785849278
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.59Transform darkness into art as you color intricate, line-drawn illustrations of monsters, apparitions, and mysterious landscapes.Within the pages of Macabre Masterpieces, gothic romance meets the... -
Designer Fabrics of the Early 60s by Tina Skinner
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.08Take a tour of the top couture fabric design houses of Paris during the early 1960s. This visual feast explores more than 250 exemplary designs in full-color photographs of fabric swatches. Explore a... -
Luc Tuymans: La Pelle by Luc Tuymans
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.69Luc Tuymans: La Pelle documents the most ambitious monographic exhibition of the work of Luc Tuymans (born 1958). The Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi has in the past mounted exhibitions of the... -
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment Raymond Watkins 9781041182023
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his... -
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me Kelly Thompson 9781799507536
DC ComicsRRP: £26.00SciFier: £13.00Trapped in the Maze, Forged by Myth Wonder Woman Faces Her Greatest Test. Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me continues Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman s bold new vision of Diana of... -
Mythras Core Rules by Pete Nash
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £29.99A complete rulebook for creating fantastical roleplaying adventures. Everything you need for fabulous roleplaying adventure is contained in a single volume that has been designed for any genre of... -
Designing Dynamism: Kuba Textiles from the D R Congo, The Wesley Mancini Collection Annie Carlano 9781913875893
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.06The textiles of the Kuba kingdom (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), represent the most intact and cohesive tradition in the region, and are exceptional for their artistic calibre, graphic... -
Quilts and Color by Pamela A. Parmal
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.69Quilts and Color presents more than sixty graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. These collectors... -
Remembering the Future through Cinematic Symbols: Human/Artificial Intelligence Amar Singh 9781666939538
SciFier: £103.49This book explores the making of futuristic memory through cinematic symbols relating to future relationships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Amar Singh examines how audiences are... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781644691120
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £23.27How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
The Rabagoo Race by Garresh
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.86The Rabagoo Race, the most famous boat race in the world, sees contestants face certain death throughout its frantic stages, all in the impossible hopes of reaching that mythical finish line, and... -
Distress Greg Egan 9780575081734
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.21On the utopian, man-made island, Stateless, Nobel Prize winner Violet Mosala is close to solving the greatest problem of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything (TOE) is almost... -
Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image Hilary Radner 9781474422895
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film StudiesOne of the most influential figures in French film philosophy, Raymond Bellour's interests... -
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963 Samson Kaunga Ndanyi 9781793649249
SciFier: £87.99In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to... -
Tape Art by Bruno Kolberg
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.14As you read and use this book, you will come to agree that "tape is the new paint." Stunning photos demonstrate step by step how to create eleven different tape art projects on wood, aluminum Dibond,... -
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni Peter Brunette (George Mason University, Virginia) 9780521389921
SciFier: £20.04The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni provides an overview of the Italian director's life and work, and examines six of his most important and intellectually challenging films. L'avventura, La notte,... -
Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis Lisa Gottlieb 9780786434367
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This book presents a classification system for graffiti art styles that reflects the expertise of graffiti writers and the work of art historian Erwin Panofsky. Based on Panofsky's theories of... -
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema Pedro Blas Gonzalez 9781666906226
SciFier: £83.49The main premise of Philosophical Perspective on Cinema is simple: Can a visual medium such as cinema put in greater perspective diverse aspects of human experience? Films are usually sorted by... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781618118363
RRP: £105.99SciFier: £104.48How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
Liberty by Kassia St Clair
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £35.99Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Liberty, this book celebrates the extraordinary range of innovative fabric designs that have been at the forefront of the business and its... -
Existential Science Fiction Ryan Lizardi 9781793647351
SciFier: £83.49This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society's conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521009317
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.54In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
The 21st Century Superhero by Richard J.Gray II
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521810920
SciFier: £76.58In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
Char Davies's Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality Laurie McRobert 9780802090942
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £38.36In this first book-length study of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Char Davies, Laurie McRobert examines the digital installations Osmose and Ephemere in the context of Davies' artistic... -
Tales of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £14.62From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of the... -
The Book of Forks by Rob Davis
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.91The Motherless Oven and The Can Opener's Daughter may have raised more questions than they answered. But The Book of Forks explains everything. Castro Smith finds himself imprisoned within the... -
Macbeth by K. Briggs
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24When three witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's ambitions lead to an... -
The Stencil Graffiti Manual Christian Guemy AKA C215 9780764363276
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £19.84Stencils are a technique with unlimited aesthetic adaptability and possibility-from ancient cave painting to contemporary graffiti. Beyond their unique stylistic expression, stencils offer practical... -
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same by Amy Herzog
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt... -
Monika Fioreschy: Fields of Flow by Uta M. Reindl
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £30.89From silicone tubes to paint, paper and threads - throughout her artistic career stretching back over more than 50 years, Monika Fioreschy has been constantly discovering new forms of expression in... -
Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.46Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond... -
The Manga Guide To Electricity by Kazuhiro Fujitaki
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.63Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time,... -
Fabulous Fifties by Sheila Steinberg
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £40.58Step back into the fabulous world of the 1950s! Popular culture was stimulated as products were mass produced and the middle class emerged. After World War II, America prospered and took the lead in... -
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed David Leiwei Li 9781138019317
SciFier: £46.33The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the...