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Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction David Leigh 9780268033804
SciFier: $31.37David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Immersive Stories Across New Media Platforms Kelly McErlean 9781138638822
SciFier: $51.70Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling provides media students and industry professionals with strategies for creating innovative new media projects across a variety of platforms... -
California Video - Artists and Histories by . Phillips
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $45.35Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video... -
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen Ken Dancyger (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NY, USA) 9781032150567
SciFier: $52.78The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9780801445996
RRP: $144.72SciFier: $126.71During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Lars von Trier's Cinema by Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
SciFier: $53.95This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier's cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the... -
The Dark Net: A demonic horror novel that will make you want to throw your tech away Benjamin Percy 9781473652231
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.44'One of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself' - New York Times*******************The dark net is an online shadowland for criminals to operate anonymously, but when a... -
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary N. Katherine Hayles 9780268030841
RRP: $111.22SciFier: $100.55A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however,... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433189760
RRP: $56.28SciFier: $52.92In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252086182
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $26.08Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle,... -
Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach Lee Michael Cohn 9780367548452
SciFier: $46.98Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing.Lee Cohn lays out a step-by-step, no-nonsense... -
Whiplash River by Lou Berney
SciFier: $16.07"Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romance...as compelling as the mystery... -
The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda: A Novel Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo 9781631524813
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.40As he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make sense of his life and confront his family's secrets in order to save his ancestors from becoming Hungry... -
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss 9781481466516
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this "tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
SciFier: $108.70Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433196966
RRP: $125.96SciFier: $113.89In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
One Jar of Magic Corey Ann Haydu 9780062689856
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $16.40From the critically acclaimed author of Eventown comes a hopeful and empowering tale set in an enchanting world of magic and mysterious family secrets-perfect for fans of Anne Ursu, Rebecca Stead,... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9781501713620
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $34.41During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
The Making of Modern China by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial ChinaThe fourth volume in the... -
Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Dr Ben Saunders 9780826441980
SciFier: $37.51This title is a consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs. Ben Saunders shows that... -
After Sundown Mark Morris 9781787584570
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $19.86NOMINATED FOR A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD AND BRITISH FANTASY AWARD "This rich and masterful collection of horror highlights both up-and-coming and established authors in an interesting twist on the... -
The Butcher's Daughter David Demchuk 9781835410868
Titan BooksRRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.43An eerie and evocative Victorian-set horror thriller about how a well-meaning butcher's daughter from London's Whitechapel grew up to become the baker who stuffed her pies with the flesh of Sweeney... -
The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Laila Lalami 9781526687166
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.38* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 ** A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 *Sara is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere she's pulled aside... -
The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media Bruce Block 9781138014152
RRP: $50.91SciFier: $45.81This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how... -
Prewriting Your Screenplay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Generating Stories Michael Tabb 9781138482296
SciFier: $50.18Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design... -
Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend: A TOON Graphic Noah Van Sciver 9781662665226
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $16.64Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy?Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of... -
Magic Has No Borders by Samira Ahmed
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $16.01From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience.This fantasy and science fiction teen... -
Division to Unification in Imperial China by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to... -
Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s Matthew Kennedy (Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, Instructor in Film Studies and Anthropology, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA) 9780190262440
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $36.50Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the... -
The Secular Religion of Fandom: Pop Culture Pilgrim Jennifer Otter Bickerdike 9781473907799
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $107.72Media pilgrimage has become a booming business in the 21st century. Fans of television shows, rock groups and books flock to places associated with their favorite series, artist or writer, trying to... -
The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News D. Michael Rivage-Seul 9781433149511
RRP: $137.69SciFier: $124.61D. Michael Rivage-Seul's eye-opening new book, The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News, invites readers to try out what Baba Dick Gregory calls the "magic... -
Inside Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $30.63'Black Mirror is hands down the most relevant program of our time, if for no other reason than how often it can make you wonder if we're all living in an episode of it.' - New York TimesWhat becomes... -
Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a... -
Screening the Art World Temenuga Trifonova 9781041185826
RRP: $64.31SciFier: $59.54Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather... -
The Ninth Metal: The Comet Cycle Book 1 Benjamin Percy 9781473690073
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.07'Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' STEPHEN KING It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new. They called the comet Cain, after the... -
Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68"An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history; ideal for those new to the subject."--School Library Journal (review of volume 1) This latest volume in the Understanding... -
Trouble the Waters by Sheree Renee Thomas
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.28Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586260
RRP: $17.35SciFier: $12.31"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $124.61This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel Nicole Glover 9780063293632
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.01Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic.....