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More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise Bob Rehak 9781479813155
SciFier: £92.99A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic... -
Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way Nickie D. Phillips 9780814767870
SciFier: £93.49Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs deep into these and other celebrated... -
Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters by Per Schelde
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of... -
Handsome Nanda Linda Covill 9780814716830
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £16.35Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for... -
Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism Michael E. Birdwell 9780814713389
SciFier: £92.99During the 1930s many Americans avoided thinking about war erupting in Europe, believing it of little relevance to their own lives. Yet, the Warner Bros. film studio embarked on a virtual crusade to... -
Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts Jonathan Gray 9780814731949
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.08Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and television It is virtually impossible to watch a movie or TV show without preconceived... -
Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender Michael J. Shapiro 9780814797501
SciFier: £92.99In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of... -
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Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film Harry Trosman 9780814782101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £9.32In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. ... -
Fashion: An Introduction Joanne Finkelstein 9780814726839
SciFier: £27.99From the rise of the Fashion Cafe to the phenomenon of the supermodel, from "House of Style" to "Unzipped," the world of fashion has taken center stage in contemporary culture, for better or for... -
Post War Cinema & Modernity John Orr 9780814762035
SciFier: £93.99Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Mahabharata Book Five (Volume 1) by Kathleen Garbutt
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90The Pandavas believe they have completed the terms of their exile, though Duryodhana claims that they did not live unknown for the full thirteenth year, since Arjuna was recognized in the battle at... -
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture Nicole Rafter 9780814776513
SciFier: £92.99Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that... -
Mahabharata Book Five (Volume 2) by Kathleen Garbutt
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.12"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres:... -
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film Harry Trosman M.D. 9780814782101
SciFier: £92.99In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. ... -
Fashion: An Introduction Joanne Finkelstein 9780814726822
SciFier: £92.99From the rise of the Fashion Cafe to the phenomenon of the supermodel, from "House of Style" to "Unzipped," the world of fashion has taken center stage in contemporary culture, for better or for... -
More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise Bob Rehak 9781479856701
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £21.01A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic... -
Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory Annette Kuhn 9780814747728
SciFier: £31.49In the 1930s, Britain had the highest annual per capita cinema attendance in the world, far surpassing ballroom dancing as the nation's favorite pastime. It was, as historian A.J.P. Taylor said, the... -
Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.12The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal... -
Film as Religion by John C. Lyden
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with... -
The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport, and Society Perry B. Johnson 9781479840847
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.75Considers key socio-political moments and figures that highlight the enduring relationship between music, sound, and sportThe collisions of music and sport are so ubiquitous that they often go... -
Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception Janet Staiger 9780814781388
SciFier: £92.99Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge... -
Make Art Not War by Ralph Young
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £21.71An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century. Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-century art are... -
Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance Marilyn DeLaure 9781479806201
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.26A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751619
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Post-War Cinema and Modernity John Orr 9780814762028
SciFier: £31.99Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 2) by Adam Bowles
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90In India's great epic Maha*bharata, the eighth book, "Karna,"; recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Kaurava army. This second volume resumes on... -
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Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts Jonathan Gray 9780814731949 [USED COPY]
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £14.33Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and television It is virtually impossible to watch a movie or TV show without preconceived... -
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film Harry Trosman M.D. 9780814782651
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.78In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. ... -
Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender Michael J. Shapiro 9780814797518
SciFier: £28.99In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of... -
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky 9780814766897
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £38.69Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already... -
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky 9780814766903
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.56Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already... -
How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games Bo Ruberg 9781479832002
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46What video games teach us about building a better world What does it mean to build a world? Worldbuilding is traditionally understood as an expression of storytelling across media forms. Yet, as... -
Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance Marilyn DeLaure 9781479870967
SciFier: £93.49A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751602
SciFier: £93.49Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 1) by Adam Bowles
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90"The Book of Karna" relates the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna, great hero and the eldest Pandava, leads the... -
Mahabharata Book Six (Volume 2) by Alex Cherniak
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.12This second half of Bhishma describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. Despite grandfather Bhishma's... -
Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts Jonathan Gray 9780814731956
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.56Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and television It is virtually impossible to watch a movie or TV show without preconceived... -
Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film Emanuel Levy 9780814751244
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £23.26A deep dive into the emergence and success of independent filmmaking in America A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the... -
Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory Annette Kuhn 9780814747711
SciFier: £92.99In the 1930s, Britain had the highest annual per capita cinema attendance in the world, far surpassing ballroom dancing as the nation's favorite pastime. It was, as historian A.J.P. Taylor said, the... -
New Korean Cinema Julian Stringer 9780814740293
SciFier: £92.99Korean film has been heralded as the "newest tiger" of Asian cinema. In the past year, South Korea became one of the only countries in the world in which local films outsold Hollywood films, and...