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The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale 9783030479435
SciFier: £94.93This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British... -
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future Tereza Dedinova 9781793636638
SciFier: £92.99In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction... -
Bitten In Two: Book Seven of the Jaz Parks Series Jennifer Rardin 9780316043786
OrbitRRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Jaz Parks here. I. Am. Pissed. Just as Vayl and I arrive in Morocco to secure an ancient artifact, he wakes up calling me by another woman's name. And it's not even a good one. But since any form of... -
Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film Leger Grindon 9781566391825
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.01Studying popular Hollywood films from "Gone With the Wind" to "Reds" and such distinguished European films as "La Marseillaise" and "The Rise to Power of Louis XIV", Leger Grindon examines how... -
Hooked in Film by John Markert
SciFier: £114.99Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the... -
Soul's Asylum by Derek E. Pearson
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.74"Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the... -
Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350265127
SciFier: £31.99Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is... -
Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry Jade L. Miller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 9781844576913
SciFier: £37.79Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning... -
Leo: A Ghost Story Mac Barnett 9781797239231
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.86A New York Times Best Illustrated Book-now in paperback!"A fearful ghost, a take-charge girl, an interracial friendship, and a tale in which fear is . . . sweetly tied to positive qualities of... -
It Started with Goodbye Christina June 9780310758662
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.74After being falsely accused of a crime, Tatum is confined to her house under the watchful eye of her step-mother. But when a twist of fate comes in the form of a mysterious client to her graphic... -
Bone Gap Laura Ruby 9780062317629
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062317629Author Laura RubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Sebastian P.D. Cacek 9781787586864
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.19"Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The... -
Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales)
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £67.31James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the... -
Framework by Tom Stempel
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text... -
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete Srimati Mukherjee (Temple University, USA) 9781138615786
SciFier: £46.33Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private... -
Campus Life in the Movies by John E. Conklin
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. In the... -
Jesus of Hollywood Adele Reinhartz (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University) 9780195146967
SciFier: £50.58Since the advent of cinema, Jesus has frequently been found in our movie houses and on our television screens. Biblical scholar Adele Reinhartz provides the first comprehensive study of the... -
Colour Revolution by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The... -
Morgoth's Ring by Christopher Tolkien
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. After The Lord of the Rings was at last... -
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
SciFier: £36.99With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
The Fall of Arthur (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £52.74Deluxe collector's edition featuring the first edition text and containing a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript. The book is quarterbound with a gold motif stamped on the front board and... -
The Engagement Aesthetic by PhD Francisco J. Ricardo (Independent scholar, USA)
SciFier: £41.99Long after painting, sculpture, photography, and film developed along with their materials - canvas and panel, marble and bronze, and celluloid film - a new generation of art has emerged in which... -
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema Nicoleta Bazgan 9781835532270
SciFier: £36.03Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city... -
Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far) by Robert C. Sickels
SciFier: £87.99While the work of Sofia Coppola has often been dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far): Anxious and... -
American Scream by Cynthia True
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world,... -
Fedor Khitruk: A Look at Soviet Animation through the Work of One Master Laura Pontieri 9781032058795
SciFier: £19.48This book is a first and long-awaited study of the directorial work of the animation master Fedor Khitruk (1917-2012), an artist who formed in the tradition of classical cel animation only to break... -
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 Ray Zone 9780813124612
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.25Though it may come as a surprise to both cinema lovers and industry professionals who believe that 3-D film was born in the early 1950s, stereoscopic cinema actually began in 1838, more than 100... -
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Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino Emily Leider 9780571218196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.87Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive... -
Futures of Chinese Cinema by Olivia Khoo
SciFier: £30.16In recent years, Chinese film has garnered worldwide attention, and this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints, and shifting viewing... -
Naked Ambition by Kaya Mar
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.40Attentive observers of the past ten years of British politics may not have heard of Kaya Mar, but chances are they will have seen one of his pictures - at a rally, or in an agency photograph... -
World Film Locations: Florence by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations:... -
Gaming as Culture by J. Patrick Williams
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Perhaps the fastest growing facet of American popular culture, the video game industry is Hollywood's premier rival in the entertainment business. But stacks of new releases for gaming enthusiasts... -
Selected Stories by E.M. Forster
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E.M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to his stories as 'fantasies' and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in... -
British War Films, 1939-1945: The Cinema and the Services Prof Paul Mackenzie 9781852855864
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £31.98The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War, when film became a critically important medium for influencing mass opinion. Feature films about the forces, such as... -
A Firing Offense: A Novel David Ignatius 9780393346282
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.39When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting... -
The Art of Color Categorization by Kyoko Hidaka
SciFier: £92.99From Newton's prism spectroscopy to modern color science, the study of color has been rooted in the categorization of colors. Building upon this foundation, this book aims to explore the rich and... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781137408884
SciFier: £46.99As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
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Giles The Collection 2018 Bill Turnbull 9780600629566 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £2.13A perfect gift guaranteed to make dads and granddads chuckle on Christmas morning, this official Giles book, with a foreword by Bill Turnbull, is a great addition to the classic Giles collection... -
History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia) 9780415328289
SciFier: £39.39Can films be used as historical evidence? Do historical films make good or bad history? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama?Written from an international perspective,... -
African American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema Norma Manatu 9780786414314
SciFier: £30.19The representation of African American women is an important issue in the overall study of how women are portrayed in film, and has received serious attention in recent years. Traditionally, "women...