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Null States by Malka Older
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.99The future of democracy is about to implode. After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new... -
Jessica Jones, Scarred Superhero by Tim Rayborn
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Jessica Jones barged onto our TV and computer screens in November 2015, courtesy of Marvel and Netflix, presenting a hard-drinking female protagonist who wrestles with her own inner (and outer)... -
Peter Weir by Serena Formica (University of Derby)
SciFier: £19.74The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim - from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he's helmed since... -
Five Directors by Kate Ince
SciFier: £22.99Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever... -
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.79"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves,... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130199
RRP: £130.55SciFier: £118.49For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
The Nuclear Chronicles by Andrew Madl
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £22.73The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the US Nuclear Highway leverages fictional design narratives as devices for discussing the impact of nuclear technology within the... -
Bad at the Bijou William R. Horner 9780786409389
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This book is about a group of actors who bring drama to the big screen the way the fair haired hero never could. The granddaddies of Darth Vadar and J.R. Ewing--villains of the Westerns. Witty... -
John Wayne by Judith Riggin
SciFier: £35.99John Wayne--the man, actor, and icon--remains synonymous with certain American values. He represents conservative political views, aggressive militarism, and a masculine bravado which seemed... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521815635
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £83.63Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
The Ciphermaster Yu Zhiyan 9781910760673
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.451927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL.The Communist Party and the Kuomintang government, long at each others' throats, are now locked into a conflict set to claim the lives of millions. History remembers the... -
Harrison Ford by Brad Duke
SciFier: £30.89Harrison Ford has been labeled one of the top 100 stars of all time, the sexiest man alive, and the highest-grossing actor in the history of film, yet he still has the appeal of an average guy to... -
Thomas Hardy on Screen T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780521600521
SciFier: £32.79The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing adaptations of fiction for the big screen. This collection... -
The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch Paul Stoller 9780226775463
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £60.46The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite; and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often... -
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Fazbear Frights #2: Fetch Scott Cawthon 9781338576023 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.52The Fazbear Frights series continues with three more bone-chilling, novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five Nights at Freddy's player up at night... ... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
Manga and the Representation of Japanese History Roman Rosenbaum (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781138857407
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include... -
John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director Roddy Flynn 9780786458530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new essays encompasses a variety of topics relating to... -
Red Aesthetics by Todd Cronan
SciFier: £82.99"WHAT'S NEEDED-IS NO REST," Aleksandr Rodchenko declared in the "Manifesto of the Constructivist Group." We must "go out into all kinds of production anywhere where there is an artistic need." This... -
The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells 9780141441085
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that... -
The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History Timothy Corrigan 9781138989245
SciFier: £45.46Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and... -
Introducing Chaos by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical... -
Jean-Luc Godard's Political Filmmaking Irmgard Emmelhainz 9783319720944
SciFier: £114.22This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present. The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard's work abandoned... -
Agent of Challenge and Defiance: The Films of Ken Loach George McKnight 9780275960360
SciFier: £37.99For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These invariably controversial film and television... -
The First Star Trek Movie by Sherilyn Connelly
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.69The history of Star Trek's resurrection, between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Star Trek-The Motion Picture, has become legend. Like many legends, it tends to... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130182
RRP: £33.50SciFier: £31.49For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521016308
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £30.09Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
Through Clouds of Smoke: Freud's Final Days by Suzanne Leclair
HumanoidsRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.06The ageing Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the lung cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism. In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar... -
Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary Vincent Campbell 9781137385376
SciFier: £92.99The shift from traditional documentary to "factual entertainment" television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of... -
Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter by Kevin Macdonald
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.55A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in... -
Secrets of Conjuring and Magic by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £24.22Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical expose of Victorian... -
The Dark Night Returns by Terrence R. Wandtke
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.97This book traces the history of crime comics from their beginnings to the current resurgence and analyzes the cultural forces that give rise to influential works like Frank Miller's Sin City. ... -
King Jesus Robert Graves 9780141197654
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true... -
Introducing Chomsky by John Maher
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.25Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal... -
African Cinema by Manthia Diawara
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." -Robert Stam "Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments... -
Robots That Kill by Judith A. Markowitz
SciFier: £24.81This book describes the technologies that enable real-world robots and drones to be effective killers, including an overview of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate to the topic. It... -
Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists by Sharon Packer, MD
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the... -
The Horror Comics by William Schoell
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This historical and critical survey looks at horror comics from the Golden Age of the 40s, through the Silver Age of the 60s, up until the early 80s - the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the... -
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema A. Davies 9780230236202
SciFier: £46.99A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays... -
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Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide Ziauddin Sardar 9781848310131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.01If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical...