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Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory by Clara Bradbury-Rance
SciFier: £93.01The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema... -
I'm Standing on a Million Lives 17 by Naoki Yamakawa
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The provocative action manga that's now an anime! A teenage loner gets transported into a fantasy world with his two scary female classmates. The girls find themselves as a wizard and a warrior, but... -
Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema A. Tucker 9781137386687
SciFier: £46.99The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and... -
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together Kay Dickinson (Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780195326642
SciFier: £31.39In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches,... -
Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film Katja Krebs 9781032926711
SciFier: £40.26This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage... -
Ralph Steadman (Mini Edition) by Ralph Steadman
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £16.00Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink is the definitive career retrospective of the revered and provocative UK artist. This new edition features the same content as the original at a smaller size and more... -
Blur Martine Beugnet 9781531511739
SciFier: £14.54In cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error - a mistake of focus or a technological failure - or a background effect of shallow focus... -
Indie Cinema Online Sarah E.S. Sinwell 9781978814707
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Indie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and... -
Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City Ranjani Mazumdar 9780816649426
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban... -
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.69A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life? 'A firecracker of a novel' Madeline Miller 'Intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly... -
Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture Mattias Frey 9780813576497
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43Honorable mention, 2017 Best Monograph Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163330
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
Foreign Language Films and the Oscar by Michael S. Barrett
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt... -
Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £48.09Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163323
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
Flatland Edwin Abbott 9780140435313
SciFier: £8.59A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory, the Penguin Classics edition of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland... -
I'm Standing on a Million Lives 9 by Naoki Yamakawa
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.02The provocative action manga that's about to become a major anime! A teenage loner gets transported into a fantasy world with his two scary female classmates. The girls find themselves as a wizard... -
Paris Hollywood by Peter Wollen
SciFier: £25.19In this new collection of essays on film, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of 'Time in Film and Video... -
Childhood and the Cinema by Vicky Lebeau
SciFier: £22.54Since its inception the world of cinema has embraced the image of the child and both extended and challenged its representations. Vicky Lebeau explores the complex and ongoing adventure of childhood... -
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £28.31The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as... -
Hollywood Blackout: The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood Ben Arogundade 9781788405676
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.07Are the Oscars (still) so white? Is it even possible to decolonise the film industry? Why is Hollywood's race problem everyone's problem?Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing... -
Going Zero: An Addictive, Ingenious Conspiracy Thriller from the No. 1 Bestselling Author of The Darkest Hour Anthony McCarten 9781529090215
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49'Provocative, perceptive and ingenious' - A J Finn, author of The Woman in the Window Shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Book Prize, Going Zero is a high-concept thriller from Oscar-nominated... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620821
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
The Will to Battle Ada Palmer 9781786699589
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76The year is 2454. Three centuries of peace and a hard-won golden age have come to an abrupt end. The once steadfast leadership of the seven Hives is crumbling, soured by corruption and deception... -
Starman by Reinhard Kleist
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24In 1972, the rock'n'roll messiah ZIGGY STARDUST was born. His provocative play on sexual identity and gender roles laid the foundation for David Bowie's ascent to becoming one of the most successful... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9780230319387
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar Felicity Colman 9780231169738
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.89Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane,... -
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema Sangita Gopal 9780226304267
SciFier: £26.04Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.99"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
UFO FAQ by David J. Hogan
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.17Since the famed Kenneth Arnold flying saucer sighting of 1947 the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs ... -
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Legacy of Yangchen (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 4): Volume 4 F.C. Yee 9781419756801
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34From F. C. Yee, the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi, comes a thrilling chapter in the... -
Directory of World Cinema: Russia by Birgit Beumers
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.98Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein's... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition James Naremore 9781839024009
SciFier: £95.93In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to... -
Through the Water Curtain and other Tales from Around the World Cornelia Funke 9781782692003
SciFier: £17.53International bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke has long been inspired and fascinated by fairy tales. This wonderful anthology is Funke's personal selection of fairy tales from all around... -
Redder Days by Sue Rainsford
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.10'So immense and beautiful, it's both gorgeously composed and an addictive page-turner. Sue Rainsford is an extraordinary writer' DONAL RYAN'Unnervingly, thrillingly strange . . . a masterpiece of... -
Tender is the Flesh by Sarah Moses
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. ... -
Violence and the Limits of Representation G. Matthews 9781349451913
SciFier: £46.99Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in... -
Messenger (The Giver Quartet) Lois Lowry 9780007597284
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.49The fascinating third companion novel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. In... -
Beauty's Release by A. N. Roquelaure
SciFier: £11.99From Anne Rice, author of Beauty's Kingdom and Interview With the Vampire, the final book in the erotic Sleeping Beauty series Before E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You,...