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Totally Random by Tanya Bub
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.65An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanicsTotally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum... -
Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood Daniel Ira Goldmark 9780520267244
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who's who of animation... -
Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking: From the Silent Era to Synchronized Sound George Larkin 9780367663391
SciFier: £42.00Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking studies the discourses surrounding post-production, as well as the aesthetic effects of its introduction during the 1920s and 1930s, by... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: £66.79Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for... -
Will Eisner Reader by Will Eisner
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.16A collection of brilliant short-story gems, including "A Sunset in Sunshine City"-an ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by Eisner's transition to life in Florida after his "retirement" in 1985... -
Funky Fabrics of the '60s by Joy Shih
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.27The wide range of sixties fabric designs reflected the transition from the comforting tranquility of the early years to the bolder, more "hip" end of the decade. Funky Fabrics of the 60s takes you on... -
The ABCs of Christmas by Jill Howarth
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48LEARN the ALPHABET and DECK the HALLS!Spread the joy of Christmas with this sparkly board book that features clever word associations and delightfully festive illustrations.About the AuthorJill... -
Improvising Cinema by Gilles Mouellic
SciFier: £111.37Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression... -
Film and Television Acting: From stage to screen Ian Bernard 9780240803012
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £36.93Film and Television Acting offers solid techniques for creating a natural, believable performance for film and television. The reader will discover techniques for listening and reacting, blocking and... -
Grammar of the Edit Christopher Bowen (Framingham State University, USA) 9781138632202
SciFier: £37.51Tell more effective visual stories by learning the "grammar" of cinematic language with this elegant, accessible reference. The fourth edition of Grammar of the Edit gives you the answers to the... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Even twenty years after his death and nearly fifty or more years after his creative peak, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is still arguably the most instantly recognizable film director in name,... -
The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call Julio Agustin 9781538188866
SciFier: £67.49While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few books that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional. The Professional Actor's... -
Mysterious Disappearances Vol. 8 Nujima 9798893737004
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £13.99SciFier: £8.93MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO...Kuzunoha follows a mysterious train and finds herself trapped in the Otherworld Station. Ren and Sumireko chase after her, but if they make even one wrong choice, they'll have... -
Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century A. Woolley 9781137299055
SciFier: £46.99Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781403921789
SciFier: £103.99This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
Survivors the Vol.1: Episode 1 by Leo
CinebookRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10During the early days of the colonisation of Aldebaran, the second colony ship is lost in transit with all hands, prompting Earth to abandon the project and strand the first wave of colonists. And... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781349515646
SciFier: £46.99This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century A. Woolley 9781349452583
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This... -
Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film Rossella Catanese 9781041179948
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly... -
Picturing Ghosts by Katia Pizzi
RRP: £48.60SciFier: £44.49How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and... -
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, Vol. 1 by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
Yen PressRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97At first, there was only Winter. But this lonely existence was too much for them to bear, so Winter split off part of themself to bring forth spring. But the earth wished for Summer and Autumn as... -
Firebugs by Nino Bulling
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37Everything is changing but everything is also exactly the same. Ingken can t ignore it: ice caps stained brown from forest fires, pipeline construction, drought the whole world somehow persists... -
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era Drew Morton 9781496820280
SciFier: £28.99Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted... -
Guardian Volume 1 by Natasha Deen
SciFier: £7.21Maggie Johnson is dealing with too much - the rising distrust and hate of the townspeople, her growing (and unpredictable) supernatural powers, and the dead, waiting to be transitioned from this side... -
Cinema and Development in West Africa James E. Genova 9780253010087
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from... -
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium Maria Guadalupe Arenillas 9781137495228
SciFier: £112.99Nearly two decades into the new millennium, Latin American documentary film is experiencing renewed vibrancy and visibility on the global stage. While elements of the combative, politicized cinema of... -
Escape From St Hell by Lewis Hancox
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.81MAN-MODE: ACTIVATED Escape from St Hell is the life-affirming sequel to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic memoir, Welcome to St Hell, by author, illustrator and... -
Cinema and Development in West Africa James E. Genova 9780253010025
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from... -
A Revolution for the Screen by Paul Cuff
SciFier: £116.64Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time,... -
Modern Ghost Melodramas: 'What Lies Beneath' Michael Walker 9781041182986
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This... -
The Hard Switch Owen D. Pomery 9781910395837
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Ada, Haika, and Mallic are on a mission... one last mission, before everything, everywhere shuts down. They're raiding old, abandoned spaceships and wrecks for the (sometimes expensive) parts-and... -
Refocus: the Films of Paul Leni Erica Tortolani 9781474454520
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Offers the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of Paul Leni Covers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity, including his early visual and theatrical work in... -
Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide by Kodansha International
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £14.92This is the updated third edition of an atlas first published in 1998. During the past six years, the transportation network of the metropolitan area of Tokyo has changed a good deal. In the case of... -
Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s Andrew B. Leiter 9780786449606
SciFier: £22.59The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate among scholars of both film and Southern studies. This collection of 15 essays examines the problem of... -
Improvising Cinema Gilles Mouellic 9781041181316
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational... -
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era Drew Morton 9781496809780
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £90.99Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted... -
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia Marijke Valck 9781041179344
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world's most famous festivals - Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam - Film Festivals tells the story... -
Cheer Up by Crystal Frasier
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.10A sweet, queer teen romance perfect for fans of Fence and Check, Please! Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader... -
Produced by Irving Thalberg: Theory of Studio-Era Filmmaking Ana Salzberg 9781474451055
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Irving Thalberg was not just a critically important producer during Hollywood's Golden Age, but also an innovative theorist of studio-era filmmaking. Drawing on archival sources, this is the first... -
Patty Duke by Stephen L. Eberly
SciFier: £83.49Patty Duke is one of the few former child actors who has survived the transition from child to adolescent to adult and gone on to greater fame and success in her adult years. Academy Award-winner,...