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John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director Roddy Flynn 9780786458530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.91Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new essays encompasses a variety of topics relating to Huston's lifestyle, political activities and cinematic... -
Tracking Loach: Politics, Practices, Production David Archibald 9781474442121
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.97Tracking Loach presents a ground-breaking and unique contribution to the study of cinema. Archibald was granted unprecedented access to observe one of world cinema's most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, Ken Loach, while he was making the 2012... -
David Lean: Interviews Steven Organ 9781604732351
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.29Along with Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean (1908-1991) is one of the most significant British filmmakers to emerge from the first half of the twentieth century. His use of panoramic landscapes, precision editing, grandiose compositions,... -
Refocus: the Films of Budd Boetticher Gary D Rhodes 9781474437530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.13An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns starring Randolph Scott.Book InformationISBN... -
The Cinema of David Lynch Erica Sheen 9781903364857
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £17.47Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364857Author Erica SheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193030
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.19Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a devoted following. In Play Time, Malcolm Turvey examines... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by John Gianvito
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £18.40Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky is famous for his... -
Fred Zinnemann by Sinyard
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.91Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786417117Author SinyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc -
Diane Kurys by Carrie Tarr
SciFier: £15.02This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.About the AuthorCarrie Tarr is Senior Research Fellow at Thames Valley University, LondonBook... -
Hiroshima Mon Amour by Margueritte Duras
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131041Author Margueritte DurasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Sonja Schenk 9781733150217
RRP: £49.01SciFier: £37.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733150217Author Sonja SchenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Foreing Films PublishingPublisher Foreing Films Publishing -
Moonwatcher's Memoir by Dan Richter
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £20.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716390319Author Dan RichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 12mm -
The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £51.99Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his... -
Avid Uncut: Workflows, Tips, and Techniques from Hollywood Pros Steve Hullfish (Editor/Producer, provideocoalition.com, USA) 9780415827645
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £45.38Leverage the full power of Avid Media Composer with this essential guide from an Avid guru. Master timesaving tricks and techniques that utilize the latest Media Composer features and state-of-the-art workflows. Learn the secrets of the postproduction... -
They Don't Pay Me To Say No: My Life in Film and Television Props Dean Goodine 9781039144323
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £21.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039144323Author Dean GoodineFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen by Oliver Fuke
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.02This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen's collaborative films,... -
Tales from the Cult Film Trenches by Louis Paul
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.61From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex... -
Billy Wilder by Robert Horton
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £18.40Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed greats such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, and Gary Cooper. Billy Wilder: Interviews follows the filmmaking career... -
Hollywood Flatlands by Esther Leslie
SciFier: £23.39With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.Focusing... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.12Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in 1970. The film charts the tragic story of a young boy's... -
Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology: Filmmaking on the Digital Backlot Mark Sawicki 9780367354213
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.53This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to repurpose them to create a virtual studio for filmmaking... -
Working Title Films: A Creative and Commercial History Nathan Townsend 9781474451949
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.61Provides the first history of Working Title Films Offers a detailed history of Working Title's evolution as a film business over almost 40 years Provides a major reconsideration of the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain... -
The Films of Budd Boetticher by Robert Nott
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.91Budd Boetticher was a bullfighter, a bull talker, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman who could, with the right material and passion, make a minor Western film classic as easily as he could kill a bull. But of course, pain and passion mixed... -
Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe by Jerry Ziesmer
RRP: £61.00SciFier: £56.49Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and even made sure that it was trained correctly on the stars... -
Heaven and Hell to Play With by Preston Neal Jones
SciFier: £17.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109745Author Preston Neal JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)... -
The Shut Up and Shoot Video Production Guide: A Down & Dirty DV Production Anthony Artis 9780240811222
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.64Accompanies other Shut Up and Shoot books by Artis, with the same approachable tone and sound advice that suits seasoned professionals, students, and novice filmmakers. Draws on the author's extensive filmmaking experience to comprehensively discuss... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781617036606
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £25.14Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled... -
The Screens of Virtual Production: What is Real? Sian Mitchell 9781032730721
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £34.48This book is the first dedicated edited collection that explores the virtualisation of screen-making processes from pre-production to post-production, while attuning to the aesthetic, ideological and performative contexts upended by these integrated... -
The Steadicam (R) Operator's Handbook Jerry Holway 9780240823805
RRP: £55.99SciFier: £52.06Both informational and inspirational, THE STEADICAM (R) OPERATOR'S HANDBOOK is the number one comprehensive guide to becoming a successful owner and operator of the Steadicam. Packed with interviews and instruction by the world's premier Steadicam... -
I Got You Covered by Beverly Neufeld
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733150231Author Beverly NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Foreing Films PublishingPublisher Foreing Films PublishingSeries The Digital Filmmaking... -
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema William Carroll 9780231204378
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.03In 1968, Suzuki Seijun-a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast-was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the "Suzuki Seijun Incident," his dismissal became a... -
Cassavetes Directs: John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams Michael Ventura 9781842432280
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.47In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael Ventura to write a unique film study - an on-set diary of the making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his expectations. He wanted 'a daring book, a tough book'. In Ventura's... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496823328
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £18.40In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.49Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from... -
The Green Screen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques Jeff Foster (Digital Video and Film Producer, Hercules, CA, USA) 9781138780330
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £51.23The Green Screen Handbook, Second Edition is a comprehensive how-to manual that walks you through the many integral techniques required in preproduction, production, and postproduction to use green screen effectively. Step-by-step instruction and... -
Hollywood Blackout: The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood Ben Arogundade 9781788405676
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.17Are the Oscars (still) so white? Is it even possible to decolonise the film industry? Why is Hollywood's race problem everyone's problem?Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity,... -
Ready for My Close-Up! by Denny Martin Flinn
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.43If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more... -
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Catherine Russell 9780822343127
SciFier: £41.59One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English, and much of the writing about him in Japanese has not... -
Beyond Continuity: Script Supervision for the Modern Filmmaker Mary Cybulski 9780367423377
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £31.85A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate and explain the skills needed by a professional script supervisor. Author Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood's... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 1: Image-making for Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740891
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £53.43Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects of design and discusses in detail their artistic...