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Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean by F. Laviosa
SciFier: £46.99This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a... -
In the Wet Nevil Shute 9780099530046
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496833006
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.23Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to... -
Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet) Lois Lowry 9780007597260
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.28The fascinating sequel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. GATHERING BLUE is a... -
Everything Good Dies Here by Adrian Thieret
RRP: £15.50SciFier: £11.30Introducing English readers to the speculative fiction of pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings and interventions into internet culture have attracted a cult following in South Korea The... -
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present Robin R. Means Coleman 9780367704407
SciFier: £35.93- The first sustained scholarly study of black horror films, now updated to include the last decade.- Tells a unique social history of African Americans through changing representation in horror... -
Kubrick's Men Richard Rambuss 9780823293872
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £81.81A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future... -
The Fermata Nicholson Baker 9780099286714
SciFier: £13.33This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781349490165
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion by Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
SciFier: £31.99Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and... -
Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics by David Carrier
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £31.24"Wild Art" refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, from... -
Our Friends From Frolix 8 by Philip K Dick
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.21For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity's most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In OUR FRIENDS FROM FROLIX 8,... -
Hollywood Reborn by James Morrison
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43Weary from the turbulent sixties, America entered the 1970s hoping for calm. Instead, the war in Vietnam and its troubled aftermath persisted, the Watergate scandal unfolded, and continuing social... -
Sex Work in Popular Culture Lauren Kirshner 9781487507862
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £47.09Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years - a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex... -
Halo: Retribution Troy Denning 9781785656736
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-held space ... culminating in the assassination of... -
Keeping It Real by Justina Robson
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the... -
Contemporary US Cinema Michael Allen 9780582437760
SciFier: £61.40Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release... -
Libra Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining... -
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Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 Stewart Lee 9780571329038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.48Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162210
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.86Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau... -
Leave No Trace: The new thriller from the author of BBC 2's Between the Covers pick In the Blink of an Eye Jo Callaghan 9781398511231
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £5.95DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of the award-winning In the Blink of an Eye. 'A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is... -
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 Stewart Lee 9780571329038
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.24Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular... -
The Dark Room: World War 2 Fiction Rachel Seiffert 9780099287179
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.33The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in... -
Dark Mind (Star Carrier, Book 7) Ian Douglas 9780008121099
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74The seventh book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series - STAR CARRIER. The civil war might be over, but war for the galaxy... -
Dr Seuss & Co. Go To War by Andre Schiffrin
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.49Brings together over 300 all-new cartoons from the WWII era, including over 100 by Dr Seuss, 50 by The New Yorker's Saul Steinberg and works by Al Hirschfeld, Carl Rose and Mischa Richter. The... -
Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Inclusion at the Oscars Ben Arogundade 9781788405492
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £19.79On Thursday, February 29, 1940, African-American actress Hattie McDaniel became the first person of colour to win an Academy Award. This was the start of Hollywood's diversity and inclusion journey... -
The Best of Greg Egan Greg Egan 9781473232297
GatewayRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381520
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £74.10We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
Hot Cargo Volume 1 Nicki Bennett 9781935192497
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £11.99Captured and accused of piracy, privateer Blaise Risner, captain of the Golden Stallion, finds himself in a clinch - literally - with Confederation Admiral Peter Keller, who promises to see justice... -
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph Kate Palmer Albers 9780520381544
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current... -
The Musicality of Narrative Film D. Kulezic-Wilson 9781349504329
RRP: £79.99SciFier: £56.99The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's... -
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction Ben Winters 9781138630499
SciFier: £50.66This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of... -
Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity by Adams
SciFier: £15.59THE FIVE AGES OF THE UNIVERSE is a riveting biography of the universe which describes for the first time five distinct eras that Adams and Laughlin themselves defined as a result of their own... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan
SciFier: £52.10This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
Shudder's Creepshow: From Script to Scream by Dennis L. Prince
Titan BooksRRP: £44.99SciFier: £31.18Shudder's Creepshow: From Script to Scream is the official behind-the-scenes book featuring the spine-tingling stories and tantalizing talent behind The Creepshow series. Shudder's Creepshow: From... -
Son (The Giver Quartet) Lois Lowry 9780007597307
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.93The thrilling fourth companion novel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. They... -
Hollywood Biblical Epics by Richard Lindsay
SciFier: £51.99This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day. In spite of restrictive... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269019
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps by Ernest Mathijs
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £31.56Few studies of Canadian cinema to date have engaged deeply with genre cinema and its connection to Canadian culture. Ernest Mathijs does just that in this volume, which traces the inception,... -
Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory by Clara Bradbury-Rance
SciFier: £93.01The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema...