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Coproducing Asia by Stephanie DeBoer
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie... -
The Hollywood Romantic Comedy by Leger Grindon (Middlebury College, USA)
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £25.42The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the... -
Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker by Karen McNally
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of Hollywood's foremost emigre filmmakers,... -
Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games Agata Waszkiewicz 9783111353081
RRP: £14.00SciFier: £9.83Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that... -
Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Ivone Margulies 9780822317234
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.21Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one... -
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen Yosefa Loshitzky 9780292747241
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.352002 - A Choice Outstanding Academic Book The struggle to forge a collective national identity at the expense of competing plural identities has preoccupied Israeli society since the founding of the... -
Remembering Katharine Hepburn by Ann Nyberg
SciFier: £13.61A sweet and captivating look at a woman who was an inspiration for many and whose legacy endures. Ann Nyberg, delves into the long, extraordinary life of Katharine Hepburn through personal... -
Film and Television After DVD James Bennett 9780415878340
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest... -
DC Comics Cover Art: 350 of the Greatest Covers in DC's History Nick Jones 9780241438343
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.25"Story hook, tragic moment, poster, or outrageous character, the covers lured us in." - Paul Levitz, president of DC Comics 2002-2009From the trailblazing works of Bob Kane, to the photorealistic... -
The Best of the Best by Gardner Dozois
SciFier: £29.79For over twenty years, "The Years Best Science Fiction" has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan... -
Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films Nadine Farghaly 9780786472918
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2012) all contribute to this enormous universe. The... -
Humphrey Jennings by Keith Beattie
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of... -
Murderous Requiem Volume 1 by Jamie Fessenden
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £10.74A Brethren NovelJeremy Spencer never imagined the occult order he and his boyfriend, Bowyn, started as a joke in college would become an international organization with hundreds of followers. Now a... -
The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film by Francois Pfaff
SciFier: £51.99The 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... -
Truck Art: A Decade of Graffiti Tod Lange 9780764334931
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £21.10Two top graffiti artists from New York City expose their large-scale work. 294 startling color photos capture the innovative graffiti they and others created for over a decade from the late 1990s... -
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption Qiao Li 9781032478166
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global... -
Film and Television After DVD James Bennett 9780415962414
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £94.82Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest... -
Jimmy the Hand (Legends of the Riftwar, Book 3) Raymond E. Feist 9780006483908
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.15The third and last novel of Feist's successful collaborative series. From the endlessly inventive mind of one of fantasy's all time greats comes a spellbinding new adventure of high magic,... -
The Colour of Fashion: The Story of Clothes in Ten Colors Caroline Young 9781802790849
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £8.59The story of fashion is woven through with colour. Vividly illustrated and compellingly written, The Colour of Fashion uncovers the colourful history of style, through 10 shades and their key moments... -
D.Gray-man, Vol. 18 by Katsura Hoshino
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64It's been three months since Allen Walker's mentor, Cross Marian, pulled his latest disappearing act. Allen and fellow exorcist Kanda now learn of an odd new threat known only as G. G plans to steal... -
Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays Erin B. Waggoner 9780786447503
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Buffy the Vampire Slayer has remained an enduring feature of late 1990s pop culture, spawning television spin-offs, rabid fans, and significant scholarly inquiry. Though there have been numerous... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader Edward Lamberti 9781474444002
SciFier: £97.54Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a... -
Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific Larissa Hjorth 9780415535892
SciFier: £45.46This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production... -
Bronze Screen by Rosa Linda Fregoso
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78"Born in East LA","La Bamba", "American Me" and "Zoot Suit" are all recent films by and about chicanos. In this study, the author offers an explanation of the cultural significance of these and other... -
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... -
Calling Dr. Strangelove by George Case
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie's origins as a... -
Dune: House Harkonnen Vol. 1 by Brian Herbert
Boom! StudiosRRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Discover the crucial backstory of House Atreides' bitter rivals that no Dune fan will want to miss!Delve into the past of Gurney Halleck, Leto Atreides, Lady Jessica, and Liet Kynes, and discover how... -
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals): Responses to Reality in Western Literature Kathryn Hume 9781138794467
SciFier: £44.60Since Plato and Aristotle's declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from... -
Terry Pratchett Could Save the World by Rebecca Ann Bach
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £37.66This monograph contends that attending to Pratchett's work could help to save our world. It draws attention to the astonishing capacity of Pratchett's novels to inspire and argues that Pratchett's... -
Drawn from History by James Mellor
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.74Drawn From History is a cartoon journey through Britain's past. Cartoonist James Mellor traces the story of Britain from the end of the Ice Age to the dawn of the twenty-first century and captures a... -
Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature Giovanni Fanfani 9781789259865
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.69Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and... -
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders Heike Bauer 9780815637714
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £59.04In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and... -
International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture Masami Toku 9781138549036
SciFier: £48.06This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It... -
Film Censorship in a Cultural Context by Daniel Sacco
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This book examines a sampling of cinematic works that provoked censorious impulses throughout the shift away from formal film censorship in the late modern West. The public controversies surrounding... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350227224
SciFier: £34.99Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural... -
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen Gerald R. Butters 9780700611973
SciFier: £45.99In early-20th-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. However, few people realize that from 1915 to 1929 a number of... -
Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures Niamh Thornton 9781474480543
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative,... -
The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.41This book unravels the intimate narratives woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. From the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear, the narrative explores the concealed... -
The Secret of Giza Ken Warner 9781036709006
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34What if humanity didn't start on Earth..? An incredible discovery deep inside the Great Pyramid, a mysterious signal sent from the Bermuda Triangle, and a ruthless experiment taking place in Area... -
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree: Color Your Own Stickers with the Party Cats Primary Wave 9780486855783
RRP: £2.99SciFier: £2.69Celebrate Christmas with the Party Cats! Color over 20 festive stickers featuring Spike, Mazzy, Coda, and other holiday designs. This book is a great stocking stuffer and is perfect for decorating...