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Introduction to Media Production: The Path to Digital Media Production Gorham Kindem (Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) 9780240810829
SciFier: $86.61Introduction to Media Production began years ago as an alternative text that would cover ALL aspects of media production, not just film or just tv or just radio. Kindem and Musburger needed a book... -
Video Games and the Mind by Bernard Perron
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49Can 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: $43.91Volume 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... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: $32.96Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
Touchstones of Gothic Horror: A Film Genealogy of Eleven Motifs and Images David Huckvale 9780786447824
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $26.70Gothic cinema, typified by the films of Universal, Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, grew out of an aesthetic that stretches back to the 18th century and beyond, even to Shakespeare. This book explores... -
Central African Folktales by Professor Enongene Mirabeau Sone
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34Featuring 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: $143.16Although 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... -
Tiddly and Winks: Don't Be Scared R.L. Stine 9780063482944
RRP: $8.33SciFier: $6.53From R.L. Stine, bestselling author of Goosebumps, and Marc Brown, bestselling creator of Arthur, comes a spooky-silly My First I Can Read series starring two monsters!"Emerging readers will enjoy... -
The The Complete Book of Mario: The Ultimate Guide to Gaming's most iconic character Sona Books 9781912918164
RRP: $31.28SciFier: $23.62When Shigeru Miyamoto created "Jumpman" for his new platform game, Donkey Kong, it's highly unlikely that he realised he was creating the most recognisable gaming character of all time. That's... -
Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism Melissa L. Mednicov 9781032339078
SciFier: $60.78This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a... -
Fabrics in Fashion Design: The Complete Textile Guide. Third Updated and Enlarged Edition by Stefanella Sposito
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $32.92Intended for fashion students and fashion designers, this fabric book is indispensable for sourcing and selecting textiles for fashion. It will guide you to the perfect fabric for every design, ... -
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies Graeme Turner 9780415088862
SciFier: $54.75Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.Participating in the... -
The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film by Francois Pfaff
SciFier: $72.27The films of Ousmane Sembene are powerful representations of the newly emerging black African cinema. In this interpretive study of his most significant films, Francoise Pfaff examines Sembene's... -
The Divers' Game Jesse Ball 9781783785872
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $15.72A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be... -
Graffiti South Africa by Cale Waddacor
RRP: $56.98SciFier: $44.59In a visual feast, hundreds of vibrant images showcase the work of South Africa's most influential graffiti artists, which will entertain and inspire graffiti enthusiasts and art fanatics all over... -
Georgia Through Its Folktales - With translations by Ketevan Kalandadze illustrations by Miranda Gray by Michael Berman
RRP: $16.67SciFier: $11.94'Everything shifts in the Caucasus, blown by some of the strongest winds on earth. Even the ground moves, splintered by fault lines. In early Georgian myths, it is said that when the mountains were... -
Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism by Martina Moeller
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $46.02Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator's image of him or herself as "a good... -
Computers and Art by Stuart Mealing
SciFier: $41.92Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use... -
Game Audio Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Theory, Planning, and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games Keith Zizza 9781032111957
SciFier: $59.58- Uniquely accessible guide to game audio, requiring no pre-existing knowledge from the reader, making it suitable for readers from a range of background, including game design, music technology and... -
Best Karate Volume 2 by Masatoshi Nakayama
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $17.46As well as setting forth the basic rules that must be put into practice when performing kata or applying techniques in kumite, this volume pinpoints the underlying physical and physiological... -
Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by Andreea Marinescu
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $46.55Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raul Ruiz.Most widely known for his filmic productions, Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) was a highly prolific, erudite, and innovative artist, whose work is located at... -
Playboy Laughs by Patty Farmer
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $22.45Following 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: $79.22Cary 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... -
Westminster Part I: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey Warwick Rodwell 9781910887240
SciFier: $61.76The British Archaeological Association's 2013 conference was devoted to the study of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. It also embraced Westminster School, which was founded at the... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887596
SciFier: $79.22Although 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... -
The Myth of the Superhero Marco Arnaudo (Indiana University, Bloomington) 9781421409535
SciFier: $40.77A refugee from his broken planet who saves earth (more than once), Superman was sent to America as his father's final act before dying. Does this make him the ultimate immigrant success story?... -
Creating Digital Content by John Rice
SciFier: $56.98Over the coming years more stations will switch to DTV transmitters, cable programmers will begin to offer wide-screen and HDTV signals via satellite, cable systems will begin to deliver digital... -
Bertrand Blier by Sue Harris
SciFier: $31.96The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and... -
US Youth Films and Popular Music by Tim McNelis
SciFier: $59.58This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre,... -
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore by Harold Courlander
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $25.70In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles,... -
Wargaming: An Introduction Neil Thomas 9780750938167
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $27.17Since the 1950s the hobby has grown exponentially and now enjoys a widespread following across the world. Although the rise in computerised wargaming has transformed some aspects of it, the... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 2: Characters in Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740907
SciFier: $80.68Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Characters in Animation focuses on characters and their application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers various technical aspects of... -
Deluge by Sydney Fowler Wright
SciFier: $26.67First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed-RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story-the novel depicts a flood... -
The Judging Eye R. Scott Bakker 9781590202920
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $17.22Now he returns to The Prince of Nothing universe with the long-awaited The Judging Eye, the first book in an all-new series. Set twenty years after the end of The Thousandfold Thought, Bakker... -
Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease by Raquel Medina
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $136.21This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a global... -
Framing Pictures by Steven Jacobs
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $31.65Edinburgh Film Studies is a series of advanced textbooks which cover core aspects of film studies for undergraduate students while, at the same time, offering valuable material for the general reader... -
Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender Michael J. Shapiro 9780814797518
SciFier: $40.30In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 1: Image-making for Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740891
SciFier: $80.68Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects... -
Film Editing: Emotion, Performance and Story Julie Lambden (Senior Lecturer and Associate Lecturer, Westminster University, UK) 9781474254908
SciFier: $52.65Film editing is part of the long process of formulating, acquiring and presenting the images and sounds that make a film. The film editor makes decisions about the arrangement of the visual and aural... -
Magic in Theory by Peter Lamont
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78A 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...