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Fan Phenomena: Mermaids by Matthieu Guitton
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be 'where the people are', but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like... -
Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games by Nicola Balkind
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26An exciting dystopian fantasy thriller series, The Hunger Games began its life as a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, the first released in 2008. An immediate success, the first instalment had a... -
Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum... -
Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter by Valerie Estelle Frankel
SciFier: £24.44Nineteen years later . . . Even as a new generation embraces the Harry Potter novels for the first time, J.K. Rowling's world is expanding with Fantastic Beasts, Cursed Child and Pottermore... -
Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski Zachary Ingle 9781783202027
SciFier: £24.44Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski examines how this quirky movie evolved from its underwhelming debut to attract a mass following on par with that of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Contributors take a... -
Fan Phenomena: Batman by Liam Burke (Swinburne University of Technology)
SciFier: £24.44From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. The continued... -
Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Marisa C. Hayes
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in 1975, it initially received an indifferent reception in movie theatres, but it began to gain notoriety after it was embraced by audiences at... -
Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones by Kavita Mudan Finn (Independent Scholar)
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely... -
Fan Phenomena: Supernatural by Lynn Zubernis (West Chester University, USA)
SciFier: £31.06Supernatural premiered on September 14, 2005, on what was then called the WB Network. Creator Eric Kripke was inspired by Jack Kerouac's On The Road, putting his heroes, brothers Sam and Dean... -
Fan Phenomena: Star Wars by Mika Elovaara (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
SciFier: £24.44In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success... -
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes by Tom Ue (Cape Breton University, Canada)
SciFier: £24.44Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of... -
Fan Phenomena: Star Trek Bruce E. Drushel (Miami University, USA) 9781783200238
SciFier: £24.44From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry of spin-off series,... -
The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows by Zachary Ingle
SciFier: £39.99This book celebrates the 100 greatest superhero films and tv shows from the early 1940s to the present. Each entry includes a plot summary, background information, production details, critical... -
Twin Peaks by Franck Boulegue
SciFier: £25.53Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and... -
Havana Street Style by Conner Gorry
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £23.99When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781628462036
SciFier: £72.95In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
World Film Locations: Washington D.C. by Katherine Larsen (George Washington University, USA)
SciFier: £24.44Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the... -
Board Games as Media Dr. Paul Booth 9781501357176
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.31Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we... -
Cosplayers by A. Luxx Mishou (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
SciFier: £18.62Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity... -
The Return of Twin Peaks: Squaring the Circle Franck Boulegue 9781789385816
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.14In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series... -
The Return of Twin Peaks: Squaring the Circle Franck Boulegue 9781789382778
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £71.90In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series... -
Superheroes Beyond Cormac McGarry 9781496850102
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron... -
Superheroes Beyond Cormac McGarry 9781496850096
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics Liam Burke 9780813597164
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise,... -
The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics Liam Burke 9780813597171
RRP: £120.00SciFier: £98.71"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise,... -
Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games Dr. Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA) 9781628927436
SciFier: £31.99The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance. At a time when streaming television finds millions of viewers, video games garner billions of dollars, and social media grows ever more intense,...