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An Ethical Guide To Murder: The darkly twisted debut thriller of the year Jenny Morris 9781398534414
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.70How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks: If you had the power between life and death, what would you do? Thea has a secret. She can... -
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies by Frederick Luis Aldama (Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University.)
SciFier: £48.50The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global, and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics,... -
The Eisenstein Universe by Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £33.99Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many identities. Originally cast as a prophet of revolution and the maestro of... -
Grendel Grendel Grendel: Animating Beowulf Dr Dan Torre (RMIT University, Australia) 9781501381119
SciFier: £28.99This open access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design which has attained a national and international cult... -
A People Without Shame by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £13.27Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic... -
Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars by Gustave Le Rouge
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.82Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic... -
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies Blair Davis 9781138590663
SciFier: £46.33Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole... -
The Improv Illusionist: Using Object Work, Environment, and Physicality in Performance David Raitt 9781350326378
SciFier: £21.82Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre. Skilled improvisers can draw audiences into the performance by helping them see things that aren't there. The... -
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, *A Book, Untitled* is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of... -
Under the Shadow of Eve by Christopher Anthony Connell
SciFier: £26.99The authentic testament of the apocalypse. They had been sent there with only one purpose, to save and to protect but the revenge had struck without warning and they had been powerless to... -
Raised by Wolves: Trial by Fire: Book 2 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 9781786542397
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Book 2 in the exhilarating paranormal romance trilogy from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series.Bryn has the usual worries: a new boyfriend, a... -
Grendel Grendel Grendel: Animating Beowulf Dr Dan Torre (RMIT University, Australia) 9781501337826
SciFier: £102.99This open access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design which has attained a national and international cult... -
Film Editing: Emotion, Performance and Story Julie Lambden (Senior Lecturer and Associate Lecturer, Westminster University, UK) 9781474254908
SciFier: £37.88Film editing is part of the long process of formulating, acquiring and presenting the images and sounds that make a film. The film editor makes decisions about the arrangement of the visual and aural... -
The Guardian J.D. Moyer 9781787583689
RRP: £9.95SciFier: £7.32"Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious, engrossing story" -Analog SFReclaimed Earth Book 2In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano,... -
The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments Torill Elvira Mortensen 9781138548671
SciFier: £50.66Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would... -
Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature Giovanni Fanfani 9781789259865
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.69Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and... -
Installation and the Moving Image Catherine Elwes 9780231174503
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have... -
The Little Book of Mahjong: Learn How to Play, Score, and Win Seth Brown 9781507207390
SciFier: £14.86Disconnect from a device-oriented world and rediscover the classic Chinese game of mahjong-while improving focus, creativity and stimulating memory-with this comprehensive yet gifty guide that... -
The Guardian J.D. Moyer 9781787583696
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £12.70"Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious, engrossing story" -Analog SFReclaimed Earth Book 2In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano,... -
Stan Brakhage the realm buster by Marco Lori
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Stan Brakhage's body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, though, diverse and... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: £82.99Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Installation and the Moving Image Catherine Elwes 9780231174510
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have... -
Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen 9780190666514
SciFier: £42.69From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved... -
Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781501377327
SciFier: £34.99Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's... -
The Cambridge Quintet by John L. Casti
SciFier: £16.19In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of the most... -
Conditioning for Esports by Taylor Johnson
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.43Esports continue to captivate audiences worldwide, but few understand the unique demands placed on the athletes. Conditioning for Esports: A Guide to Training and Performance is the first resource of... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746536
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £15.56A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video... -
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture Joseph Packer (Central Michigan University) 9780271082363
SciFier: £35.99In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on... -
![Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575074/646833/9780822323549__83607.1721652778.jpg?c=1 "Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]")
Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic Rachel O. Moore 9780822323549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £35.01Savage Theory articulates the powerful mythology of cinema as the premier medium for magic in modern times. Envisioning the cinema as a form of magical ritual that possesses the power to enliven,... -
Into the Fairy Hill by Michael S. Newton
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries... -
![The Cambridge Quintet John L. Casti 9780738201382 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/578318/650093/9780738201382__72921.1721731699.jpg?c=1 "The Cambridge Quintet John L. Casti 9780738201382 [USED COPY]")
The Cambridge Quintet John L. Casti 9780738201382 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £3.89In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of the most... -
An Ethical Guide To Murder: The darkly twisted debut thriller of the year Jenny Morris 9781398534407
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks: If you had the power between life and death, what would you do? Thea has a secret. She can... -
Hellboy's World by Scott Bukatman
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.02Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our... -
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture Joseph Packer (Central Michigan University) 9780271082356
RRP: £74.95SciFier: £27.99In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on... -
The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror Professor Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada) 9781501316197
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £32.99As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games... -
Danish Directors by Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
SciFier: £19.68Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among... -
The Sky Woman J.D. Moyer 9781787580428
RRP: £9.95SciFier: £7.32"A wonderfully entertaining debut novel."-Compelling Science FictionReclaimed Earth Book 1Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth field assignment, observes a Viking-like village in... -
A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350157002
SciFier: £97.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry Ergin Bulut 9781501746529
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £95.49A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video... -
Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and...