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Film: A Very Short Introduction Michael Wood 9780192803535
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Barr
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial -... -
Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction Donna Kornhaber 9780190852528
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Independent researcher) 9780198723097
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis (Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.37To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that... -
Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction by James Naremore (Emeritus Chancellors' Professor, Indiana University)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.72Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy,... -
French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Dudley Andrew (Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.72It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry... -
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction Kathryn Kalinak (Professor of Film Studies, Professor of Film Studies, Rhode Island College) 9780197628034
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.37The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The first projected moving images were accompanied by music through a variety of performers--from single piano players to small... -
The History of Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.38Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as... -
Horror: A Very Short Introduction by Darryl Jones (Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin)
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.72bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The... -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction James Como (Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus, York College, City University of New York) 9780198828242
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.72Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a... -
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction Marina Warner (Writer, historian, cultural critic, and novelist; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) 9780199532155
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.72From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction Patricia Aufderheide (University Professor of Communication Studies, University Professor of Communication Studies, American University) 9780197798263
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this Very Short Introduction, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively,... -
Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Decherney (Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system... -
American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction by Eric Avila (Associate Professor of Chicano Studies, Urban Planning, and History, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies, Urban Planning, and History, University of California, Los Angeles)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.07In recent decades, culture--the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized--has earned prominent stature in the annals of American... -
Ways of Curating Hans Ulrich Obrist 9780241950968
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.01Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
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Second Lives Tim Guest 9780099493778 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $2.84We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35... -
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jennifer March
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.28What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was the name of the guard-dog of the Underworld? Which two-faced Roman god gave his name to the month... -
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki by Jesse Byock
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.16Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of... -
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel Michio Kaku 9780141030906 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $2.83From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction... -
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $12.73From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction... -
Virtual History by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.73Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history.What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War?What if Germany had invaded... -
Film Studies: The Basics Amy Villarejo 9780367135027
SciFier: $149.22Entertaining, well written, this is a succinct summary of the field, ideal for those studying film for the first time. A substantial glossary helps readers understand key terms and concepts. Fully... -
Film Studies: The Basics Amy Villarejo 9780367135010
SciFier: $27.24Entertaining, well written, this is a succinct summary of the field, ideal for those studying film for the first time. A substantial glossary helps readers understand key terms and concepts. Fully... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $10.16A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics... -
The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience Ad Putter 9780140424140
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $20.44A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous... -
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius Rhodes
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.73Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on... -
The Italian Ann Radcliffe 9780198704430
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.76'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful... -
Philosophy and the Moving Image Noel Carroll (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center) 9780190683306
RRP: $104.52SciFier: $99.35A wide-ranging, eclectic collection of essays on philosophy and the moving image by a pre-eminent philosopher of art This volume presents a selection of philosopher Noel Carroll's essays-several... -
International Politics and Film by Klaus Dodds (Editor, The Geographical Journal)
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $20.09International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of... -
The Monk Matthew Lewis 9780198704454
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $8.94'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir (The Cooper Union, New York, USA)
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.69Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy... -
The Trial Franz Kafka 9780199238293
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.76'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 9780198840824
RRP: $9.37SciFier: $6.82By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
A Companion to Spanish Cinema by Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA)
RRP: $50.85SciFier: $49.85A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic,... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 9780198814047
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $16.07By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
First Light: A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle Dr. G.R. Evans 9781780761558
SciFier: $64.31Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginning of things has forever tested the limits of... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252038945
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $96.82As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social... -
Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema Katherine Spring (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, Canada) 9780199842223
SciFier: $48.66In the late 1920s, Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized-sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252080586
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $25.02As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social...