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Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA) 9780367754310
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett's visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and... -
Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination Alistair D. Swale 9781349553570
SciFier: £82.99Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While... -
Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics Michael Rabiger (Professor Emeritus, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA) 9780815394310
SciFier: £54.56Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television. It's filled with practical advice, essential technical... -
The Divers' Game Jesse Ball 9781783785872
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.31A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be... -
Graffiti South Africa by Cale Waddacor
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £32.73In a visual feast, hundreds of vibrant images showcase the work of South Africa's most influential graffiti artists, which will entertain and inspire graffiti enthusiasts and art fanatics all over... -
Georgia Through Its Folktales - With translations by Ketevan Kalandadze illustrations by Miranda Gray by Michael Berman
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59'Everything shifts in the Caucasus, blown by some of the strongest winds on earth. Even the ground moves, splintered by fault lines. In early Georgian myths, it is said that when the mountains were... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: £42.00Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
How to Make Love to a Movie Star Norman Snider 9781550962451
RRP: £24.50SciFier: £15.61Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspects-dramatic structure, the creation of character, and story development. The nature of the writer's... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: £78.19Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.79In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century... -
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam 9780415065955
SciFier: £39.39First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it... -
The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons by Nichola Dobson
SciFier: £56.30Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have... -
Swedish Folk Tales by Anna Maria, Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.40With their roots in old Norse mythology, the folk tales from Sweden are evocative and reveal ancient beliefs about the wonders and dangers of the natural world. Sweden is a land filled with unearthly... -
The Art and History of Popeye by R.C. Harvey
RRP: £58.99SciFier: £39.39When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know that the world's most famous sailor would still be... -
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide Chris Horrocks 9781848310605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.62Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and... -
Introducing Foucault by Chris Horrocks
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and... -
Lighting for Video Gerald Millerson (BBC, UK) 9780240513034
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £42.73Enables readers to produce top-grade results whether they are lighting off-the-cuff with a portable compact kit or tackling a major project with an extensive heavy-duty rig. It does not assume... -
Pathfinder RPG: Battlecry! (P2) Logan Bonner 9781640786912
PaizoRRP: £58.99SciFier: £41.04Report for Duty! When diplomacy between nations fails and neither side backs down, war is the inevitable result. From border skirmishes to large-scale invasions, conflict comes in many forms-the... -
Wings of Desire by Christian Rogowski (Customer)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.09A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided... -
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Gabriel Solomons 9781841504858
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £16.65The heart of Hollywood's star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales - from the Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundingly relevant to our modern lives. His writings on... -
The Art of the Comic Book by Robert C. Harvey
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.26In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the comic book as a potent form of narrative art. He... -
Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic Mieke Bal 9780300229110
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £44.86In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in... -
A Cast Of Friends by Bill Hanna
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the... -
Catalan Cartoons by Rhiannon McGlade
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £45.99In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humour in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical... -
Carole Lombard by Robert Matzen
SciFier: £87.99Carole Lombard was among the most commercially successfuly and admired film personalities in Hollywood in the 1930s. Carole Lombard includes a biography which brings to life this vivacious,... -
Grand Design by Tino Balio
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.99The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as 'Hollywood's... -
The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film and Television by Ed Andreychuk
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated television series (1949-1957) to a 2013 feature... -
Gone with the Wind on Film: A Complete Reference Cynthia Marylee Molt 9780786472826
SciFier: £32.13This is the definitive collection of data about all aspects of this film. The ten sections focus on characters in the novel, the players and their own histories, costuming (every major garment worn),... -
Documentary Comics by Nina Mickwitz
SciFier: £72.49Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to... -
Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 2 by Pierre Christin
CinebookRRP: £30.99SciFier: £21.72In this book you will find volumes 3 to 5: The Land Without Stars, Welcome to Alflolol and Birds of the Master - three stories that introduce the societal criticism aspect of the series. Battle of... -
Ai in the Movies Paula Murphy 9781474448598
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.61AI in the Movies analyses film representations of artificial intelligence, from their first emergence in the 1950s up to 2020. These strong or general artificial intelligences take different forms:... -
Game Production: Prototyping and Producing Your Board Game Geoffrey Engelstein 9780367527747
SciFier: £45.46Description:Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for information about the nuts and bolts of tabletop game design. While there are many... -
Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool Deirdre O'Neill 9780367887308
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge... -
Secret Violences by Slawomir Maslon (University of Silesia, Poland)
SciFier: £30.99Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure. Unlike his famous... -
Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism by Martina Moeller
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £30.31Traditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality which serve to reaffirm the spectator's image of him or herself as "a good... -
Computers and Art by Stuart Mealing
SciFier: £30.16Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use... -
Game Audio Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Theory, Planning, and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games Keith Zizza 9781032111957
SciFier: £42.86- Uniquely accessible guide to game audio, requiring no pre-existing knowledge from the reader, making it suitable for readers from a range of background, including game design, music technology and... -
Best Karate Volume 2 by Masatoshi Nakayama
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86As well as setting forth the basic rules that must be put into practice when performing kata or applying techniques in kumite, this volume pinpoints the underlying physical and physiological...