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Contract with God Trilogy by Will Eisner
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £31.79Will Eisner (1917-2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was... -
Tegan and Sara: Junior High Tegan Quin 9780374313012
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £17.55Before the indie-pop duo Tegan & Sara took the world by storm, Tegan and Sara Quin were identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of... -
Legitimate Cinema by Jon Burrows
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the... -
The Films of Aki Kaurismaki: Ludic Engagements Thomas Austin (University of Sussex, UK) 9781501363160
SciFier: £35.99Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismaki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original... -
Make Comics Like the Pros by G Pak
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.38Every aspiring comic book creator wants to know: what separates the beloved comics of major publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant and Image from all the rest? Fan-favourite comic book writers Greg Pak... -
With Nails Richard E Grant 9781035062768
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.02'You'll laugh, you'll cry, especially if you're in the book like I am' - Steve MartinWhen, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in Withnail and I, his whole world shifted and... -
Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema Steven Rybin 9781438465524
SciFier: £25.79Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point... -
Pixies of the Sixties: You Really Got Me Now by Gihef
HumanoidsRRP: £19.99SciFier: £11.52In the 1960s United Kingdom, as Swinging London is underway, the existence of fairies is exposed to the light of day. Is humanity ready? It's the Swinging Sixties in the UK, and fairies have revealed... -
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 9780520295049
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £74.10The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an... -
Mixed Race Hollywood Mary Beltran 9780814799888
SciFier: £92.99A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and... -
'Grease Is the Word' by Oliver Gruner
SciFier: £25.44Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, 'Grease Is the Word' analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. With essays covering everything from the film's... -
DallerGut Dream Department Store: the joyfully magical Korean bestseller Miye Lee 9781035412761
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34|| THE MAGICAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ||In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night,... -
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Mixed Race Hollywood Mary C. Beltran 9780814799888 [USED COPY]
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £12.38A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and... -
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The Marx Brothers Mark Bego 9781903047590 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.99SciFier: £2.69Wise-cracking Groucho Marx with his trademark cigar and painted on black moustache. Blonde, curly-wigged, mute Harpo, chasing girls, beeping his blub horn and chasing pretty girls. Rubber-faced... -
The Making of The Magnificent Seven by Brian Hannan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. It had everything--actors' strike, writers' strike, Mexican government interference and a row between the screenwriters... -
Mixed Race Hollywood Mary Beltran 9780814799895
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and... -
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by Jennifer M. Bean
SciFier: £28.13A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates... -
Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, gender and art Sangeeta Datta 9780815395522
SciFier: £48.76An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray's legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in... -
Fantasy of Modernity by Aarti Wani
SciFier: £70.23Romantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films... -
Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood Mark Garrett Cooper 9780252077005
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these... -
Below the Stars by Kate Fortmueller
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Longlisted for the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and... -
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me Jamison Shea 9781471414862
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72An unforgettable YA debut by Jamison Shea. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in a thrilling horror novel about the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.Laure Mesny is... -
Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity by Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £34.63Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth... -
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1 Marlon James 9780241981856
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLEREscape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history, this is the story of a lost... -
Marilyn's Monsters by Tommy Redolf
HumanoidsRRP: £24.99SciFier: £16.70The woods are filled with freaks and monsters who all want a taste of Marilyn's dark past. This is Marilyn Monroe's dark journey like you've never seen before.About the AuthorBORN IN 1979, TOMMY... -
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir Leslie Jones 9780008653583
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.79"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody else, they can't f*cking deny you." Leslie Jones is a warrior... -
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir Leslie Jones 9780008654009
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.66"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody else, they can't f*cking deny you." Leslie Jones is a warrior... -
The American Film History Reader Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA) 9780415706889
SciFier: £57.44What do we talk or write about when we talk and write about American film history? The answer is predictably complex and elusive. The American Film History Reader acknowledges and accommodates this... -
Last Words George Carlin 9781439191101
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.61Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with... -
Aya Marguerite Abouet 9781770467019
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Abidjan's favourite daughter returns in the 7th volume of writer Marguerite Abouet's beloved series. Long-time creative team Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie make a stunning comeback after a... -
Flop to the Top! Eleanor Davis 9781935179894
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.26In this modern-day fable, Wanda calls her brother and sister "fans," keeps up with celebrity news, and never misses a chance to share a selfie. She's ready to show the world how Wanda-ful she really... -
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited Professor Catherine Russell 9781441133274
SciFier: £31.99Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated... -
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Mary Simonson 9780199898039
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99In the early twentieth century, female performers regularly appeared on the stages and screens of American cities. Though advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they often exceeded... -
Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 9781009400633
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.18Networked Bollywood provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913... -
White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump Russell Meeuf 9780253060389
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and... -
Networked Bollywood by Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.30Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913... -
The British Film Industry in 25 Careers: The Mavericks, Visionaries and Outsiders Who Shaped British Cinema Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK) 9781350140684
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.43The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against... -
The Star and the Strange Moon Constance Sayers 9780349426006
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £5.65From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal mystery and magic of film. 1968: Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the... -
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The Star and the Strange Moon Constance Sayers 9780349426006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.40From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal mystery and magic of film. 1968: Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the... -
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Still Standing: The Savage Years Paul O'Grady 9780857501028 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.88THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Funny, forthright and sharp as a knife . . . O'Grady writes just as he speaks.' Daily MirrorLilian Maeve Veronica Savage, international sex kitten, was born on the steps...