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Hellboy's World by Scott Bukatman
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.02Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our... -
The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit Scott Bukatman 9780520265721
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.14In "The Poetics of Slumberland", Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in... -
Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction Scott Bukatman 9780822313403
SciFier: £40.79Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity-referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Comedy/Cinema/Theory by Andrew Horton
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £23.99The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of... -
Twelve-Cent Archie: New edition with full color illustrations Bart Beaty 9780813590462
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356523
SciFier: £23.99Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory... -
Icons of Grief by Alexander Nemerov
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World... -
Alien Zone by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £18.69This is especially true of the science fiction film-a genre as old as cinema itself-which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently,... -
Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe 9780822356400
SciFier: £105.83Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory... -
Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £23.34On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art... -
Twelve-Cent Archie: New edition with full color illustrations Bart Beaty 9780813590455
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
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... -
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... -
The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 9780816683123
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood... -
The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 9780816683130
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood... -
Disaster Drawn by Hillary L. Chute
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £26.02In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of...