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Playboy Laughs by Patty Farmer
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £16.15Following her success with Playboy Swings , Patty Farmer looks at Playboy's relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs . Playboy Laughs invites readers onto the... -
Cary Grant by Beverly Bare Buehrer
SciFier: £56.99Cary Grant, one of the most enduring stars in the history of Hollywood history, is the subject of this unique bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives... -
Editing Digital Film: Integrating Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Media 100 Jaime Fowler 9780240804705
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £39.40At long last, film and video editors are using the same systems to edit their projects, and Editing Digital Film is the guide to show them how to do it. This concise reference provides video and film... -
Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Video Games Frank G. Bosman (Tilburg University, Netherlands) 9780367786731
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.60This book formulates a new theological approach to the study of religion in gaming. Video games have become one of the most important cultural artifacts of modern society, both as mediators of... -
Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences Peter Vorderer 9780805853223
SciFier: £73.60From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross... -
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich by Sabine Hake
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions,... -
Mr Bean's Side-Splitting Stories: 10 hilarious comics Official Mr Bean 9781408376140
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48A laugh-out-loud comic collection for kids aged 7-10!Get ready for uncontrollable giggles with Mr Bean's Side-Splitting Stories - a riotous collection of 10 original comic strip adventures featuring... -
Man + Table by Nicholas Wadley
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59Following his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table. Tracing origins in... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9780748640720
SciFier: £93.01This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Ian Garwood provides a comprehensive account of existing work on film narration and offers an overview... -
Breaking Bad and Dignity: Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama Elliott Logan 9781349554904
SciFier: £46.99An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around... -
Al Pacino by William Schoell
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21One of our most passionate and gifted actors, Al Pacino has been riveting audiences for decades with performances in everything from The Godfather to Angels in America to Danny Collins. He has also... -
Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender Michael J. Shapiro 9780814797501
SciFier: £92.99In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of... -
ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky Michael Witte 9781399505956
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Known as the father of the "midnight cult movie" and co-founder of the avant-garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a... -
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See How They Lie Sue Wallman 9781407165387 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.12From the bestselling author of Lying Last Summer comes another spine tingling thriller for teens. Mae feels lucky to have grown up at Hummingbird Creek, an elite ... -
Video Games and the Mind by Bernard Perron
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by... -
A History of Early Film V3 Stephen Herbert 9781032513416
SciFier: £29.86Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay and considers... -
Magic in Theory by Peter Lamont
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35A useful manual for any magician, or for anyone who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician''s work. Exploring the ways in which human... -
Directory of World Cinema: Italy by Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)
SciFier: £58.33Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory... -
South African Cinema 1896-2010 by Martin Botha
SciFier: £36.85Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: £42.00Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
How to Make Love to a Movie Star Norman Snider 9781550962451
RRP: £24.50SciFier: £15.78Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspects-dramatic structure, the creation of character, and story development. The nature of the writer's... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: £78.19Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.79In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century... -
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam 9780415065955
SciFier: £37.66First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it... -
The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons by Nichola Dobson
SciFier: £56.30Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have... -
Swedish Folk Tales by Anna Maria, Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.40With their roots in old Norse mythology, the folk tales from Sweden are evocative and reveal ancient beliefs about the wonders and dangers of the natural world. Sweden is a land filled with unearthly... -
The Art and History of Popeye by R.C. Harvey
RRP: £58.99SciFier: £39.79When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know that the world's most famous sailor would still be... -
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide Chris Horrocks 9781848310605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.62Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and... -
How To Write For Television 7th Edition: A guide to writing and selling TV and radio scripts William Smethurst 9781472135735
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.21This book provides professional tips and techniques for those wishing to break into writing for TV whether it's a soap, series drama, or situation comedy. It covers all aspects of script writing such... -
The Lazy Goth Method by Molly Mercier
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £18.51Long ago in March of 2019, a gothic young woman had an idea. It was, perhaps, a lazy idea, but aren't all the best ones? After all, lazy is just another word for efficient. And thus, a comic idea... -
Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA) 9780367754310
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett's visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and... -
Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination Alistair D. Swale 9781349553570
SciFier: £82.99Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While... -
Central African Folktales by Professor Enongene Mirabeau Sone
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Featuring stories such as The Prince Who Insisted on Possessing the Moon, How the Squirrel outwitted the Elephant, and The Water-Fairies save a Child, tales from Central Africa share many aspects of... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887589
SciFier: £102.99Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are... -
An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing David Bard-Schwarz (University of North Texas, USA) 9780415500593
SciFier: £52.40Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be... -
The Hidden Life of Clothing: Historical Perspectives on Fashion and Sustainability Rachel Worth 9781350180987
SciFier: £82.84Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing. Arguably... -
Grand Design by Tino Balio
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.99The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as 'Hollywood's... -
The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film and Television by Ed Andreychuk
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated television series (1949-1957) to a 2013 feature... -
Gone with the Wind on Film: A Complete Reference Cynthia Marylee Molt 9780786472826
SciFier: £32.13This is the definitive collection of data about all aspects of this film. The ten sections focus on characters in the novel, the players and their own histories, costuming (every major garment worn),...