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Screen Presence by Stephen Monteiro
SciFier: £93.01Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Screen Presence explores the intersections... -
Refashioning the Renaissance by Paula Hohti
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.11How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives... -
The Gospel according to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust Mark I. Pinsky 9780664225919
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.69In this follow-up to his bestselling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated... -
Minor Platforms in Videogame History Benjamin Nicoll 9781041182900
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next. It is also a history of platforms and communities that never quite made it; that struggled to make their... -
The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick Robert Niemi 9780231176262
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £81.49In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's... -
Women'S Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas Megan DeVirgilis 9781526176721
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined... -
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (Light Novel) Vol. 8 Ryo Shirakome 9781645054351
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.59SEEING DOUBLE Hajime struggles to understand his feelings for Shea as the party heads to the next labyrinth, the Haltina Woods. But this time, there's a challenge like no other lying in wait; the... -
Jim Scancarelli by Lewis M. Stern
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte's... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958 Colin Crisp 9780253016959
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each... -
Dracula in the Dark by James Craig Holte
SciFier: £78.49One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to... -
Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes by Longus
SciFier: £25.16Two racy Greek romances.In Longus' ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their... -
Fear Itself by Melvin E. Matthews
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities of the era, most notably the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning with ""Dracula""... -
British Cinema of the 1950s by Ian Mackillop
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's... -
Candice Breitz by Marcella Beccaria
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £12.29The art of the up-and-coming South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. Published in association with the Castello di... -
The King's Highway Dicus 9781936097265
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Philosophers, bugs, and bears! Horses, cats, and teachers of English! These are just a few of the hilarious inhabitants populating Dicus's The King's Highway. The King's Highway is a stretch of road... -
Playwriting in Europe by Margherita Laera
SciFier: £61.06This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a... -
The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody Mabel Maney 9780380803118
SciFier: £9.24Another hilarious Bond parody in the shape of THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN BOUFFANT. James Bond's out of commission and his sister Jane must step once more into his shoes, his smoking jacket, and his... -
The Big Book of Tattoo by Spider Webb
SciFier: £23.12Enter a visual smorgasbord of tattoo imagery. Hundreds of photographs, thousands of tattoos. This incredible assembly of historic tattoo images dates back to the invention of the camera and follows... -
The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema Judith Mayne 9780253206060
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45"[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -SubStance" . . . this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's... -
Breaking the Frame by Inez Hedges
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60Ranging over the broad spectrum of contemporary literary and film theory, Breaking the Frame explores the different approaches to cinematic art that are offered by cognitive psychology, feminist... -
What Should Be Wild Julia Fine 9780062684141
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062684141Author Julia FineFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison
GollanczRRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.97John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who... -
Complex Age 1 by Yui Sakuma
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.24Twentysomething temp worker Nagisa Kataura lives like an average young woman - but she has a secret life. When she's not sitting at her day job, she spends most of her time transforming into her... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307773
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Faking it by Craig Hight
SciFier: £22.99The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific... -
Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton
SciFier: £14.33In this lighthearted YA graphic novel romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of falling in love for the first time. Maisie is on her way... -
Roger Michell Brian McFarlane 9781526185297
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell's career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the... -
A Conversation Larger Than the Universe by Henry Wessells
SciFier: £35.73This catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, argues for a broad description of science fiction that encompasses fantasy and horror. Beginning with the origins of science... -
Horror Films of 2000-2009 by John Kenneth Muir
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £46.05Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested... -
Saevus Corax Captures the Castle by K. J. Parker
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97FROM ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL VOICES IN FANTASY COMES A HEROIC TALE OF HONOR, FRIENDSHIP, AND BATTLEFIELD SALVAGE.It's important to look after your crew when you're in the battlefield salvage... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £47.66This 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... -
From the Forest L. E. Modesitt, Jr. 9781250323330
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86Alayiakal, who will one day be known by many names - not all of them flattering - has to climb the ranks of Cyador's Mirror Lancers, fighting against unforeseen weapons and ancient technology. ... -
The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro
RRP: £11.95SciFier: £11.59A collection that includes the Nebula Award-winning titular novella and "Light and Shadow," the story that begins the Saga of the Skolian Empire series. In "The Spacetime Pool," recent MIT grad... -
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £15.09The first book in the Skolian Empire saga by the Nebula Award-winning author. "Fast, smart, speculative . . . another stellar debut." -Los Angeles Daily News Soz Valdoria, a bioengineered fighter... -
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle: Stranger Things meets Rivers of London in this thrilling urban fantasy T. L. Huchu 9781529097726
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.03Ghostalker Ropa Moyo and her rag-tag team of magicians are back in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book in the spellbinding Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu.'Alluring, shadowy... -
Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone Alvin K. Wong 9781478028673
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.57In Unruly Comparison, Alvin K. Wong examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism... -
The Queen Of The Damned Anne Rice 9780708860724 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.51After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the... -
I'm the Grim Reaper, Vol. 4: Volume 4 GRAVEWEAVER 9781974758883
Viz MediaRRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.31It's a hell of a job...When Scarlet finds herself doomed to eternal punishment in Hell for a sinful life she can't even remember, Satan himself offers her a deal: return to earth and kill one marked... -
Featherfall Jerry Ibbotson 9780956063571
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £9.38There's an angel living in suburban York. He's turned his back on his old life to become a husband and father. But darkness threatens and his old boss wants him back in the fold. Angry, jealous ... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles...