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British Comics: A Cultural History James Chapman 9781789149128
RRP: $20.85SciFier: $16.64Now 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: $52.53"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... -
Women, Islam, and Cinema by Goenul Doenmez-Colin
SciFier: $26.79This 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: $33.36SciFier: $25.26Film 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: $25.02SciFier: $19.11The fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters engendered by the Atlantic ocean.Book InformationISBN 9781836390909Author Karl BellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher... -
Zombies: A Cultural History Roger Luckhurst 9781780235288
SciFier: $42.02The 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... -
Cinema India by Rachel Dwyer
SciFier: $41.70This 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... -
Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain Liz Williams 9781836390602
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $17.58Rough 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... -
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: $16.67SciFier: $13.02Zombies: 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: $34.75SciFier: $27.17Jim 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,... -
Werner Herzog by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $40.80Werner 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: $27.80SciFier: $24.31The 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: $27.80SciFier: $21.42A 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: $44.17This 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,... -
The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $21.42This 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: $34.75SciFier: $28.01A 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: $45.44Performance 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: $26.79In 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... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: $31.75Most 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... -
Bollywood's India by Rachel Dwyer
RRP: $31.28SciFier: $27.69Bollywood'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... -
Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam Mars-Jones Adam Mars-Jones 9781789141542
SciFier: $27.76The 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... -
Peter Greenaway by David Pascoe
SciFier: $29.61In 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... -
Animals in Film by Jonathan Burt
SciFier: $26.79From 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... -
Akira Kurosawa by Peter Wild
SciFier: $31.54'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... -
Childhood and the Cinema by Vicky Lebeau
SciFier: $31.32Since 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... -
Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself by John Scanlan
SciFier: $32.48When 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... -
Street Art World by Alison Young
SciFier: $68.29Street 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: $23.56SciFier: $18.50Donatella 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
SciFier: $23.71The 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: $34.75SciFier: $24.69For 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... -
A Band with Built-In Hate by Peter Stanfield
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $26.20'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: $32.76Since 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... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $22.24In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century... -
Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema's Journey to the West Luke White 9781789145335
RRP: $37.53SciFier: $32.79In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong - epitomized by Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon - smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America, and... -
Show People by Michael Newton
SciFier: $51.50Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and... -
Arthur by Christopher R. Fee
RRP: $22.24SciFier: $20.32For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have inspired generations. In the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting... -
Celebrity by Chris Rojek
SciFier: $32.76In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a... -
Dark Places by Barry Curtis
RRP: $22.24SciFier: $17.60Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. With "Dark Places", Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted...