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Introduction to Media Production: The Path to Digital Media Production Gorham Kindem (Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) 9780240810829
SciFier: £62.31Introduction to Media Production began years ago as an alternative text that would cover ALL aspects of media production, not just film or just tv or just radio. Kindem and Musburger needed a book... -
Ingmar Bergman: An Enduring Legacy Erik Hedling 9789198557701
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to... -
Studying Comics and Graphic Novels by Karin Kukkonen (University of Turku, Finland)
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £21.15This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout... -
Breaking Bad and Dignity: Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama Elliott Logan 9781137513724
SciFier: £46.99An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around... -
Lucky Luke 21 - The 20th Cavalry by Morris & Goscinny
CinebookRRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.64The Cheyenne are convinced that newly-arrived settlers have been killing the buffalo they traditionally depend on. When the Native Americans surround the 20th Cavalry's fort, Lucky Luke realises that... -
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: £32.41In 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... -
Magic in Theory by Peter Lamont
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35A useful manual for any magician, or for anyone who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician''s work. Exploring the ways in which human... -
Directory of World Cinema: Italy by Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)
SciFier: £56.85Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory... -
South African Cinema 1896-2010 by Martin Botha
SciFier: £36.85Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South... -
The Digital Gaming Handbook Roberto Dillon 9780367513764
SciFier: £59.34The Digital Gaming Handbook covers the state-of-the-art in video and digital game research and development, from traditional to emerging elements of gaming across multiple disciplines. Chapters are... -
Movie Acting, The Film Reader Pamela Robertson Wojcik 9780415310253
SciFier: £39.39Movie Acting: The Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting. Combining classic and recent essays, it examines key issues such as:What... -
Fifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian Andrew J. Rausch 9780786431496
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This book is an extensive collection of original interviews with 50 noted filmmakers. Conducted over a seven-year period expressly for this project, the interviews cover various aspects of film... -
Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology Keith M. Johnston 9780786444328
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The audience's first exposure to a new movie is often in the form of a "coming attraction" trailer, and short previews are also a vanguard for emerging technology and visual techniques. This book... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.99Sun 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... -
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,... -
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... -
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:... -
The Language of Film by Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar (Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University, UK)
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £30.26An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: £36.99The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252080180
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252038594
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
La Mano del Destino by J. Gonzo
Image ComicsRRP: £22.99SciFier: £16.00LA MANO del DESTINO tells the tale of a once-champion Luchador - who, after being betrayed by his friends and unmasked in the ring, agrees to a Faustian bargain with a mysterious promoter. He gains... -
Mark Crilley's Ultimate Book of Drawing Hands by M Crilley
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £13.68Discover the simple secrets to drawing amazing hands, from popular YouTube instructor Mark CrilleyWhether you're drawing superheroes, manga and anime characters, robots, highly detailed... -
Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films: The Intersection of Geography, Ecology, and Slow Cinema Clara Orban 9781793645647
SciFier: £87.99Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Through a close examination of Tarr's... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
SciFier: £47.20This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783319778471
SciFier: £71.49This 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... -
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
SciFier: £44.38Enables 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... -
The Literary Werewolf: An Anthology Charlotte F. Otten 9780815629658
SciFier: £48.58A werewolf anthology that covers new terrain. Its stories span centuries. Its storytellers, from Stephen King to Saki, de Maupassant to Kipling, Seabury Quinn to Ovid, are eclectic. Its premise... -
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...