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After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176927
RRP: $210.00$165.33Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201049
RRP: $245.70$192.74The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key... -
Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev Catriona Kelly (Professor of Russian, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford) 9780197548370
RRP: $86.08$73.48Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles... -
Digital Filmmaking: An Introduction Peter Shaner 9781936420117
RRP: $90.20$66.89This first book in the series is designed to introduce the techniques used in digital filmmaking. It is aimed at anyone who has an interest in telling stories with pictures and sound and won't assume any familiarity with equipment or concepts. In... -
Film Editing: Theory and Practice Christopher Llewellyn Reed 9781936420100
RRP: $75.50$61.19Designed for the novice or for a course in film editing, the book is the perfect introductory text. Editing is the art of using the building blocks supplied by the writer and director to create a structurally sound and brilliant piece of cinematic dazzle... -
The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema Robert Phillip Kolker 9781906924041
RRP: $75.50$69.28Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906924041Author Robert Phillip KolkerFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World Thomas Zaniello (Northern Kentucky University, USA) 9781501385841
$69.28The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives.It discusses a thorough and definitive... -
FrancOis Ozon Andrew Asibong 9781784992835
RRP: $41.98$37.78Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of Francois Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong's passionate and critical analysis focuses on... -
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your Guide to Armageddon and the Series Based on the Bestselling Novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Matt Whyman 9780062898357
$52.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062898357Author Matt WhymanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 234mm... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: $193.18$160.76The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations,... -
The Search for Sam Goldwyn Carol Easton 9781617039997
$77.68Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films--including such classics... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781618117342
RRP: $222.58$214.47Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781618118363
RRP: $222.58$213.63How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and non-representational art form? Drawing on state-of-the-art... -
Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen William Brigham 9781538120194
RRP: $199.50$185.51Woody Allen has accomplished that which no American filmmaker in the modern era has or perhaps ever will: directing to date 49 films (47 full-length theatrical releases, one short film in an anthology, and one television film), writing 42 of those films... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496826756
RRP: $62.90$61.93Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific directors of his generation, Chabrol averaged more than one... -
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496828132
RRP: $62.90$61.93Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s - as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name; however, these credits came to a halt in 1975. Her ambition... -
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated Lester D. Friedman 9781496824028
RRP: $62.90$61.93More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of... -
Ang Lee: Interviews Karla Rae Fuller 9781496825612
RRP: $62.90$38.70Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze Audiences worldwide. Lee has won an... -
The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophy Barry Monahan (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781501362231
$71.38The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophys of provides a comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson. As well as considering the aesthetics, cultural reflections and... -
Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781501377327
$69.28Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the... -
Frank Wisbar: The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back Henry Nicolella 9781476666884
RRP: $60.88$49.85German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitler came to power. While critics praised his work, Nazi cultural watchdogs were scornful of his attempts to chart ""the landscape of the soul"" in... -
Murder Movie Makers: Directors Dissect Their Killer Flicks Matthew Edwards 9781476676470
RRP: $60.88$49.85Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers and viewers. Since the 1970s, hundreds of films and television movies have been made covering killer from... -
Refocus: The Films of Elaine May Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 9781474440189
RRP: $199.50$183.25Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474440189Author Alexandra Heller-NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Refocus:... -
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema Professor or Dr. Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 9781441138217
$201.58This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take... -
Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781441182166
$81.88The author focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works. Taking a different view from most works on Hitchcock,... -
From El Dorado to Lost Horizons: Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972 Ken Windrum 9781438473963
$55.63Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438473963Author Ken WindrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries SUNY... -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9781349335183
$95.53Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to... -
Hitchcock and Contemporary Art C. Sprengler 9781349351855
$95.53Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more... -
Class, Crime and International Film Noir: Globalizing America's Dark Art D. Broe 9781349450411
$95.53Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781349442539
$95.53A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.Springer Book... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
$95.53Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9781349339952
RRP: $230.98$190.03The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual... -
British Television Animation 1997-2010: Drawing Comic Tradition V. Norris 9781349461226
RRP: $126.00$95.53British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: $104.98$77.26Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112063
$169.03Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches to central issues of human behaviour. In particular,... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
$95.53From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9781349328567
$95.53Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined Hollywood and its alternative 'art' cinema. The work... -
A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow B. Witham 9781349344314
RRP: $94.48$43.03Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
$95.53Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the... -
The American Success Myth on Film J. Levinson 9781349348916
$95.53In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.Springer Book ArchivesAbout...