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British Comics: A Cultural History James Chapman 9781789149128
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £11.97Now in paperback, this book examines comic publishing and reading in Britain, from the late-Victorian era to the present. Cultural historian James Chapman explores the origins and evolution of these... -
Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging Gonul Donmez-Colin 9781861893703
SciFier: £37.79"Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging" is the first comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey to be published in English. A recurring theme in the book is the Turkish quest for a modern... -
The Wig: A Hairbrained History Luigi Amara 9781789143461
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.41Whether in a court room or a dressing room, wigs come in many forms, and represent many things: from power, to sexuality, to parody, to health, to self-identity, to disguise. Wigs are present at... -
Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain Liz Williams 9781836390602
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.65Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs. It takes in a wide array of examples including Bonfire Night, Wassail, Morris dancing, Mari Lwyd and Twelfth... -
Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning Amy Lyford 9781789147971
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.98Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known... -
Injuns!: Native Americans in the Movies Edward Buscombe 9781861892799
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £11.36The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the 'white' perspective. Many studies have analysed... -
Cinema India by Rachel Dwyer
SciFier: £30.00This is the first book to concentrate on the visual culture of Indian cinema, specifically Bombay-based cinema since 1913. Cinema is one of India's most vibrant cultural products, as well as a major... -
Comics at the Movies: From Flash Gordon to Avengers: Endgame James Chapman 9781836391739
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.99Comics at the Movies explores the rich and often overlooked history of comic-book film adaptations, from 1930s serials like Flash Gordon to today's Marvel and DC blockbusters. It traces how the comic... -
Werner Herzog by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.35Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser... -
Hat by Drake Stutesman
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.49The hat is one of our most beloved pieces of clothing, appearing in virtually every society. Through the centuries, hats have represented the most important structures of culture --- governance (the... -
The Turban by Chris Filstrup
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.41A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. This book follows the turban as it moves from... -
Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes Iain Borden 9781780230269
SciFier: £31.79This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art,... -
Women, Islam, and Cinema by Goenul Doenmez-Colin
SciFier: £19.27This is the first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema. Film critic and author Gonul Donmez-Colin explores the role of women as spectators, images and image... -
Film Music by Peter Larsen
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £18.17Film and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film music?... -
The Perilous Deep by Karl Bell
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £13.75The fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters engendered by the Atlantic ocean.Book InformationISBN 9781836390909Author Karl BellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Zombies: A Cultural History Roger Luckhurst 9781780235288
SciFier: £30.30The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and primitive superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions... -
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.99Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and... -
Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise Sara Piazza 9781780234410
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.55Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise is the first book to examine the films of Jim Jarmusch from a sound-oriented perspective. The three essential acoustic elements that structure a film - music,... -
The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan Donald Richie 9781861891532
SciFier: £30.08Just as a person contrives a style, the purpose of which is integration and the effect of which is presentation, so a nation collectively projects an appearance, a 'national' style. Such styles are... -
The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.41This book unravels the intimate narratives woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. From the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear, the narrative explores the concealed... -
Gloves by Anne Green
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.99A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion. This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their... -
Performance Projections by Stephen Barber
SciFier: £32.81Performance Projections explores the dynamic relationship between film and performance, from the origins of film in Europe and the U.S. to examples in the world of contemporary digital media... -
Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space Stephen Barber 9781861891273
SciFier: £19.27In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. "Projected Cities" looks with particular focus at the cinema of... -
Bollywood's India by Rachel Dwyer
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £19.92Bollywood's India explores the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, now best known as "Bollywood," and its non-realistic depictions of everyday life in India. Rachel Dwyer argues that Hindi cinema's... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: £23.71Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
Akira Kurosawa by Peter Wild
SciFier: £22.70'Most directors have one film for which they are known or possibly two', Francis Ford Coppola has said, 'Akira Kurosawa has eight or nine.' Through his many masterpieces such as Rashomon, Seven... -
Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam Mars-Jones Adam Mars-Jones 9781789141542
SciFier: £19.89The film review can be a little art form, not just a consumer guide, as this collection shows. Covering more than 30 years of film releases, celebrated critic Adam Mars-Jones guides us through the... -
Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion Mari Grinde Arntzen 9781780234397
SciFier: £29.15Oscar Wilde once wrote, 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.' And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful... -
Childhood and the Cinema by Vicky Lebeau
SciFier: £22.54Since its inception the world of cinema has embraced the image of the child and both extended and challenged its representations. Vicky Lebeau explores the complex and ongoing adventure of childhood... -
Peter Greenaway by David Pascoe
SciFier: £22.26In all his films, Peter Greenaway shows obsessive attention to detail, exaggerating the archaic and fabricating his plots out of an artificial realm of caricature and pastiche. This book examines his... -
Street Art World by Alison Young
SciFier: £49.16Street art and graffiti are a familiar sight in cities around the world. Neighbourhoods painted with murals are popular with tourists and tagged walls become backdrops for fashion shoots and music... -
Fashion by Lars Svendsen
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £12.69Donatella Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci: fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether... -
The Suit: Form, Function and Style Christopher Breward 9781789144963
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £14.09The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman... -
The Suit: Form, Function and Style Christopher Breward 9781780235233
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.76For over 400 years the tailored suit has dominated wardrobes the world over. Its simple forms, inspired by royal, military, religious and professional clothing, have provided a functional and often... -
Animals in Film by Jonathan Burt
SciFier: £19.27From Salvador Dali to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the... -
Robert Altman: In the American Grain Frank Caso 9781780235226
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.25'Iconoclast' and 'maverick' are the epithets perhaps most commonly attached to Robert Altman, a director who consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. Throughout his career Altman tested... -
Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself by John Scanlan
SciFier: £23.44When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves... -
A Band with Built-In Hate by Peter Stanfield
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.85'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about. Peter... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerous? by Christopher Frayling
SciFier: £23.57Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you... -
A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk Peter Stanfield 9781789146462
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' - Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It...