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Jurassic Park Paul Bullock 9781800348325
SciFier: $128.01Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of... -
Shadows of the Future by Patrick Parrinder
SciFier: $40.17H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critical anticipation'. Shadows of the Future identifies... -
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction Wendy Gay Pearson (Department of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario (Canada)) 9781846315015
SciFier: $46.98Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of... -
Film Nation by James R Russo
SciFier: $50.10Notable writers on literature and culture who occasionally penned opinion pieces on the movies prior to World War II include Clifton Fadiman, Mark Van Doren, Lincoln Kirstein, Edmund Wilson, Louise... -
Street Art Tel Aviv: In a Time of Transition Lord K2 9781789761337
SciFier: $87.31Distinctly unique, Tel Aviv's street art represents a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities. Echoing the uncertainty that permeates Israel's daily existence, it possesses... -
Studying The Lord of the Rings Anna Dawson 9781800348530
SciFier: $142.29Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
Attending Daedalus by Peter Wright (Department of English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education (United Kingdom))
SciFier: $40.17This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe's four-volume The Book of the New... -
Demand My Writing by Jeanne Cortiel
SciFier: $40.17In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ's work and assesses its development. The book will be... -
The Angle Between Two Walls by Roger Luckhurst (School of English & Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London (United Kingdom))
SciFier: $43.87This is the first theoretically informed book on Ballard, reading his work not only within the science fiction genre, but also connecting it to issues of popular culture and legitimisation,... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859258
SciFier: $33.90Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Stalker Jon Hoel 9781800348332
SciFier: $128.01Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
Philip K Dick by Christopher Palmer (School of English, La Trobe University (Australia))
SciFier: $47.59Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he... -
The Mechanics of Wonder by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: $51.05The Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will... -
Understanding Film: A Viewer's Guide James R Russo 9781789761184
SciFier: $53.77This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released between 1922 and 1982. Written for college, high school, and university students,... -
Spanish Screen Fiction by Paul Julian Smith (Hispanic & Luso-Brazillian Languages, CUNY (United States))
SciFier: $43.87This pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is now one... -
The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture Marguerite Corporaal (Department of English, Radboud University (Netherlands)) 9781786941602
SciFier: $46.95The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is... -
Brainstorm Joseph Maddrey 9781800348318
SciFier: $128.01The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with... -
Ex Machina Joshua Grimm 9781800348301
SciFier: $128.01Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial... -
Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction by Chris Pak
SciFier: $66.73An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction... -
Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal Sherryl Vint 9781846318153
SciFier: $47.59Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular... -
Understanding Film: A Viewer's Guide James R Russo 9781789761177
SciFier: $160.16This film analysis textbook contains sixteen essays on historically significant, artistically superior films released between 1922 and 1982. Written for college, high school, and university students,... -
The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews Joanna Russ (Eldercare Research & Consulting (United States)) 9780853238690
RRP: $52.81SciFier: $50.08In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued... -
Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd by John Higgins
SciFier: $41.98Accompanied along the way by John's characteristic wit, and with prints ranging from magazine covers, comics and specialist commissioned pieces, Beyond Watchmen and Judge Dredd presents a tour de... -
Cahiers du Cinema by James R Russo
SciFier: $81.11Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859241
SciFier: $128.01Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 Mike Ashley 9780853238652
SciFier: $50.08Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the... -
Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 Mike Ashley 9781846310034
SciFier: $41.13This third volume in Mike Ashley's four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic... -
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals by Tingting Hu
SciFier: $160.16This book examines the representation of women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of... -
Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to World War II David Seed (Department of English, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)) 9781846318122
RRP: $52.81SciFier: $50.08The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the... -
Transformations by Mike Ashley
SciFier: $41.14This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856936
SciFier: $128.01William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856943
SciFier: $33.90William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction Derek J. Thiess 9781786942227
RRP: $152.21SciFier: $50.61Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the... -
Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction Derek J. Thiess 9781800854772
RRP: $46.27SciFier: $44.26Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the... -
Kubrick and Race Joy McEntee 9781836243502
SciFier: $160.16Kubrick and Race investigates race and racism in Stanley Kubrick's oeuvre. At first glance, Kubrick's films are very white, but his work with race is complex. Sometimes he addressed race covertly,... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859289
SciFier: $128.01Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859432
SciFier: $33.90Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859296
SciFier: $33.90Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
Beyond the Happy Ending by Kathryn Robson
SciFier: $160.16Happiness (and the question of how to define, measure and facilitate it) has become a key theme in political, economic and social discourses in recent decades in France and elsewhere, yet research on... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859425
SciFier: $128.01Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,...