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Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 Colin Gunckel 9781978801240
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but... -
Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe Ksenya Gurshtein 9781041179078
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg 9780691194943
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story by Jon Stone (Lecturer in Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom))
RRP: £8.00SciFier: £6.55"One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted-"When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, it's as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. We have gathered here ten in one slim book -... -
Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Graphic Novel Steve Barlow 9781445180007
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.27Shakespeare's Macbeth like you've never seen it - or read it - before!Classics in Graphics: Macbeth has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with... -
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre: Foreword by Ang Lee Lenore DeKoven (Columbia University, USA) 9781138490826
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.61The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers... -
Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology: Filmmaking on the Digital Backlot Mark Sawicki 9780367354213
SciFier: £36.79This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to... -
Maintenant 15 by Peter Carlaftes
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86"A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it." -Seattle Book Review The 2021 edition of the premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art considers humankind past and present with a... -
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century Jed Rasula 9780465089963
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.78In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they... -
Maintenant 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art by Peter Carlaftes
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £15.37In MAINTENANT 18, contemporary dada writers and artists from around the world redistribute a wealth of new ideas, to shape public opinion using the theme of PLUTOCRAZY. "Timely and relevant." -Tribe... -
Making the Cut at Pixar: The Art of Editing Animation Bill Kinder 9780367766146
SciFier: £36.79Join industry insiders Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen as they guide readers on a journey through every stage of production on an animated film, from storyboards to virtual cameras and final animation... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687169
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
Von Bek Michael Moorcock 9780575092457
GollanczRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24This is the story of Ulrich von Bek, a cynical mercenary who sells his skills as a soldier in the wars taking place all over Europe. After the particularly horrific destruction of a city in which he... -
The Sparkle Dragons by Emma Carlson Berne
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.59Join the spunky and powerful Sparkle Dragons as they blast their glitter fire and put their brains together to save the queendom from polka-dotted pollution in this hilarious, easy-to-read graphic... -
The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar Bertolt Brecht 9781472582720
SciFier: £25.39Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501354908
SciFier: £36.99Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim,... -
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia Dr Ross Clare (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350194113
SciFier: £31.99This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 by Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth, UK)
SciFier: £48.09Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the... -
All About Me! by Mel Brooks
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.08AVAILABLE NOW - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FATHER'S DAY'Delightful. A great, fun read.' DAVID JASON'Mel Brooks is the king of comedy.' DAVID BADDIEL'Riotous' DAILY MAIL'A jaunty romp across Brooks's... -
David Copperfield's History of Magic David Copperfield 9781982112912
SciFier: £39.91An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art... -
The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella
RRP: £4.99SciFier: £4.89The City of the Sun (1602) is a work of utopian fiction by Tommaso Campanella. Written while the author was imprisoned in Naples for his role in a conspiracy against Spanish rule in Calabria, The... -
The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 9780141327792
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.29A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little... -
Swamplandia! Karen Russell 9780099555834
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion alligator-wrestler Hilola Bigtree, has succumbed to cancer, and Ava, her... -
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance Will Aitken 9780889775213
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.88Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art. In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne... -
Hugo by John Logan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74Director Martin Scorsese, the legendary storyteller, decided to make his first-ever 3D film based on the Brian Selznick illustrated novel which he read four years ago, immediately connected to, and... -
Wannabe Farms by Brian McCann
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.09"A hilarious book for animal lovers and risk takers everywhere! Brian McCann introduces us to Wannabe Farms, and we never want to leave." - Amy PoehlerFrom acclaimed comedy writer Brian McCann comes... -
Ann Sothern: A Bio-Bibliography Margie Schultz 9780313264634
SciFier: £58.49Ann Sothern was often quoted as saying she had played every venue in show business except fairs. For over 60 years, she has captivated audiences from the stage, on radio and television, in film, and... -
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics Ariel Heryanto 9780415572705
SciFier: £44.60This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the... -
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers Alena Amato Ruggerio 9780739193044
SciFier: £51.99Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors... -
Legacies of Indigenous Resistance by Anne Brewster
RRP: £66.55SciFier: £60.49This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who... -
Llama on Holiday by Annabelle Sami
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.64Laugh-out-loud funny and a wonderful story about finding your voice. I loved it! - David Walliams 'Anarchically silly fun!' - Guardian ... -
The Secret Rescuers: The Magic Fox by Paula Harrison
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £4.86A brilliant series for 7+ readers full of adventure, magic and friendship from Paula Harrison, author of the Rescue Princesses and Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue series.Poppy sells candles in the... -
Family Business: A horror full of creeping dread from the mind behind Thirteen Storeys and The Magnus Archives Jonathan Sims 9781473228795
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97A bone-chilling horror from the acclaimed writer of THIRTEEN STOREYS and hit horror podcast THE MAGNUS ARCHIVESJUST ANOTHER DEAD-END JOB.DEATH. IT'S A DIRTY BUSINESS.When Diya Burman's best friend... -
Fire Sail Piers Anthony 9781504058742
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £13.99The New York Times-bestselling series continues with this pun-tastic epic quest and far-flung fantasy adventure. Lydell, a shy, naive man of twenty-one, and world-weary grandmother Grania could... -
The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call Julio Agustin 9781538188866
SciFier: £67.49While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few books that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional. The Professional Actor's... -
Gawky by Margot Leitman
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.49Some tall girls grow up to have perfect posture and are later seen gracing the pages of magazines. Some are natural athletes with toned legs that mask their overlarge feet. Then there are other ... -
Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace Kiene Brillenburg Wurth 9780823239061
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £29.00Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to... -
The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction Samuel Ginsburg 9781978836259
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.78The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and... -
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Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall Spike Milligan 9780241958124 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £5.55VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail ... -
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Easily Distracted Steve Coogan 9781780891712 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.74Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his family with impressions and was often told he should 'be on the telly'...