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Bad at the Bijou William R. Horner 9780786409389
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This book is about a group of actors who bring drama to the big screen the way the fair haired hero never could. The granddaddies of Darth Vadar and J.R. Ewing--villains of the Westerns. Witty... -
Thieves Fall Out Gore Vidal 9781783292493
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45An American smuggler in Egypt finds himself at the mercy of killers, femme fatales, and an escalating revolution-a lost pulp crime novel from one of the legends of the genre Lost for more than 60... -
XX by Angela Chadwick
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019FEATURED ON THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018'One of the feminist novels of 2018' Stylist'Handmaid's Tale-shaped hole in your life? Read XX' The Times'A pacy... -
Basquiat Marc Mayer 9781858945194
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.79Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Market Garden by Warlord Games
Osprey GamesRRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.92Market Garden was a bold plan, designed to capture the Rhine crossings along the Dutch-German border and establish a foothold for an advance into Germany. A massive combined arms operation involving... -
The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever Nick Hall 9780813587202
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the... -
Street Art by Simon Armstrong
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its... -
The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.99Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977),movie-maker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual,was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French New Wave, and a television pioneer the maker... -
The Swinging Detective by Henry McDonald
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.39Martin Peters finds himself in Berlin. Once a British spy involved in a controversial loyalist shooting in Belfast, he spent time in Berlin infiltrating the Punk scene just before the Wall came down... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride
RRP: £52.50SciFier: £33.46John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a... -
Nazi Occultism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christian Theology in the Video Game Series Wolfenstein by Frank G. Bosman
SciFier: £87.99The critically acclaimed if controversial game series Wolfenstein is famous for its inclusion of historical objects and figures from the realm of Nazi Occultism, including the Swastika, the Spear of... -
The Oliver Stone Experience Matt Zoller Seitz 9781419717901
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.26Oliver Stone is one of the grand masters of American cinema. A multiple Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden), he... -
The Little Guide to Schiaparelli OH 9781035433575
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95The Schiaparelli brand is nothing short of iconic. The Shocking Pink signature says it all: flamboyant yet simple, luxurious but humorous, and always incredibly stylish.The brand blurs the lines... -
Star Trek FAQ (Unofficial and Unauthorized) by Mark Clark
SciFier: £19.99This book is not endorsed sponsored or affiliated with CBS Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures or the Star Trek franchise. EStar Trek FAQE tells the complete story of EStar TrekE from the before... -
Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.52What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly... -
Richard Attenborough by Sally Dux
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work... -
The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy: The New Alternative Sophie Quirk 9783030011048
SciFier: £51.99This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late... -
No Other Way to Tell it: Docudrama on Film and Television Derek Paget 9780719084461
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £76.99This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new... -
Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground Randolph Lewis 9780803238411
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the earliest and most controversial works of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who travels to the Navajo... -
Pontius Pilate on Screen by Christopher M. McDonough
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Who is Pontius Pilate? Who do the movies say that he is? What is truth? Pontius Pilate On Screen deals with one of history's most controversial characters. From Monty Python's Life of Brian to Mel... -
Hollywood and After: The Changing Face of American Cinema Jerzy Toeplitz 9781032642925
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought... -
Rig by Jon Wallace
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £3.04A fast-moving, filmic and violent SF thriller, perfect for fans of Jack Campbell. A meeting of The Road and Rogue Trooper.'My nanotech is dead. By definition I am no longer Ficial. On the other hand... -
Charlie Chaplin by John W. Fawell
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £81.68Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the... -
Introducing Melanie Klein by R. D. Hinshelwood
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £5.83INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
Little Book of Alexander McQueen: The story of the iconic brand Karen Homer 9781847961006
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83"Give me time and I'll give you a revolution" - Alexander McQueenEver since its creation in 1992, the House of Alexander McQueen has been synonymous with drama, risk-taking and cutting-edge... -
Lindsay Anderson Revisited by Erik Hedling
SciFier: £92.99This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films like This Sporting Life (1963) and If... -
Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture Meaghan Elizabeth Morris 9780253211880
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12What good is history to cultural studies? Meaghan Morris looks at struggles over "history" in social settings created by capitalism: in tourist landscapes and in television time. The materials of her... -
A Moon for the Misbegotten on the American Stage by Laura Shea
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21A Moon for the Misbegotten is one of Eugene O'Neill's most frequently revived works, and major American revivals of the play have been instrumental in securing its esteemed position in theater... -
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Uma McCormack
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45The iconic Star Trek character's lifestory appears for the first time in his own words; perfect for fans of the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Words.One of Starfleet's finest officers and the... -
A Fairytale for Everyone Boldizsar M Nagy 9780008708306
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.99The inclusive LGBTQ+ fairytale collection that has grabbed headlines across the world! Powerful princesses that slay giants,and beautiful princes that find true love.Heroes come in all... -
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good... -
Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s Arnold McMillin 9780367721947
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls... -
The Philosophy of Werner Herzog by M. Blake Wilson
SciFier: £103.99Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a... -
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 9780141199047
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners... -
Refocus: the Films of Steve Mcqueen Thomas Austin 9781399510936
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £88.18Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in... -
Fellini On Fellini by Federico Fellini
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon , and Amarcord. His prodigious... -
The Films of Oshima Nagisa by Maureen Turim
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.49This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For... -
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire Nina Cornyetz 9780415474603
SciFier: £46.33This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new... -
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide Richard Appignanesi 9781840468496 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £1.69What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly...