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The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America Associate Professor Peter C. Fine (University of Wyoming, USA) 9781474299572
SciFier: $37.69Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African... -
Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg Adrian Schober 9781498518864
SciFier: $69.67To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry... -
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century Dana Stevens 9781501134203
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying "new kind of history" (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed... -
Batman: White Knight Presents: Generation Joker Katana Collins 9781799509523
DC ComicsRRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40Legacy can be a curse-and in Gotham, it may be fatal. Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, The Wake) joins Katana Collins and Clay McCormack for a tense, emotionally charged thriller set in DC's... -
Studio Ghibli: The films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata Michelle Le Blanc 9780857305848
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.40The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a... -
Marty Milagros DOOMS the Earth: A Star League Story, Book 1: Volume 1 Veronica V. Jones 9781524885847
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $18.75"Perfect for students who are still trying to adapt and figure out where they fit in." - School Library JournalMarty Milagros is a klutz, a clown, a payaso-and now he's got an AI living in his brain!... -
To Bewitch a Hunter: A Novel Luciano Lamberti 9780063455726
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $23.34"Proceed with caution because, as with many great books, not everything is entirely what it seems."-Samanta Schweblin, National Book Award-winning author of Seven Empty Houses"An astonishing writer. ... -
The Black Locomotive Rian Hughes 9781529074468
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.84'Utterly unique . . . A masterpiece' The Daily Mail'Stunning . . . Brilliantly original' The GuardianLondon is built from concrete, steel and the creative urge. Old technology gives way to the new... -
The Harsh Cry of the Heron Lian Hearn 9781509837793
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegiac and bittersweet successor to the bestselling series by Lian Hearn, Tales of the Otori... -
Guantanamo Voices by Sarah Mirk
SciFier: $24.24An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in... -
Breach of Containment (A Central Corps Novel, Book 3) Elizabeth Bonesteel 9780008137861
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $20.09A reluctant hero must prevent war in space and on Earth in this fast-paced military science fiction thriller from the author of The Cold Between and Remnants of Trust. ... -
Knaves Over Queens by George R.R. Martin
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.81The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. For decades, George R.R. Martin... -
Burning Glass Kathryn Purdie 9780062412379
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.37Red Queen meets Shadow and Bone in a debut fantasy about a girl forced to use her gift for sensing-and absorbing-other people's feelings to protect the empire from assassins. Steeped in intrigue and... -
Maus Now: Selected Writing Art Spiegelman 9780241509050
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $19.50A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The... -
Legends and Liars: The Duellists: Book Two Julia Knight 9780356504094
OrbitRRP: $12.05SciFier: $4.90Vocho and Kacha are brother and sister, and between them they've got quite a reputation. They were once known for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. The only problem is, ever since they were... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520283909
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $38.85Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Chapter House Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film Frank Herbert 9781473233812
GollanczRRP: $13.39SciFier: $8.99The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...The long-established galactic... -
The Last Wish: Illustrated Hardback Edition Andrzej Sapkowski 9781473235090
GollanczRRP: $29.48SciFier: $19.46Experience the world of the Witcher like never before with this stunning deluxe illustrated hardcover edition of The Last Wish!Featuring seven gorgeous illustrations from seven award-winning artists... -
Millennium Trilogy Boxed Set by Sylvain Runberg
Titan BooksRRP: $66.99SciFier: $43.13Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikel Blompkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to investigate a unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious computer... -
The Hair Trunk or the Ideal Commonwealth by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $30.81Half a dozen young men find themselves at the end of their university years facing the awful prospect that they must now support themselves. They decide to found an Ideal Commonwealth, in the... -
The Modernist Screenplay by Alexandra Ksenofontova
SciFier: $111.21The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France,... -
The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky George Melnyk (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501378805
SciFier: $131.31Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur Philippe Met (French Forum) 9780231188708
RRP: $117.92SciFier: $96.04Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of... -
The Shadowing Rhiannon Ward 9781409192220
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she travels to Southwell to find out how her sister ended up at such a place.Haunted by her sister's ghost,... -
Bullettime by Nick Mamatas
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.60"Think Run Lola Run by way of the Columbine massacre. . . . A noir steeped in teenage misery and revenge" by the author of Sensation and Sabbath (Backlisted). Every day, Dave Holbrook runs the... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350227224
SciFier: $46.89Uniform: 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... -
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 9781408855959
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $19.90Join Harry Potter on the magical journey of a lifetime in the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's multi-award-winning series. As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to... -
Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe Doris Baltruschat 9781442626836
RRP: $44.22SciFier: $36.76Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics... -
Moby-Dick Herman Melville 9781509826643
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.05Complete and unabridged.Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum Daniel Worden 9781496833761
RRP: $46.83SciFier: $30.23Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S... -
Sea of Shadows: Book 1 of the Age of Legends Series Kelley Armstrong 9780751547818
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.68'We loved the dark fantasy and smoldering romance in this story of identical twins with very different personalities. A tale of heroes, filled with mythological creatures, valor and... -
Michael Haneke Peter Brunette 9780252077173
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.81In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon, winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices Catherine Russell 9780822370451
SciFier: $123.66In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand Benedict Anderson 9780857424020
RRP: $17.42SciFier: $16.32In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a... -
Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices Mark Duffett 9781138936973
SciFier: $60.92This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9780230282773
SciFier: $62.97Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520241183
RRP: $67.00SciFier: $64.64Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Cluster by Piers Anthony
RRP: $24.05SciFier: $20.09First in the sci-fi series "packed with exotic beings, ancient secrets, and futuristic worlds" from the New York Times-bestselling author (The Portalist). As Cluster opens, the alien envoy Pnotl of... -
Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century D. Radosavljevic 9780230343115
SciFier: $62.97Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West,... -
The Art of Film Acting: A Guide For Actors and Directors Jeremiah Comey 9780240805078
SciFier: $43.93This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book...