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Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, USA) 9781350091672
£80.49Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also... -
Take One, Action! Andy Wilkinson 9781913551353
RRP: £9.99£7.54Take One, Action! takes you behind the scenes of swordplay in film - written by professional swordsman and film director Andy Wilkinson who has appeared in over seventy-three films, including many Hollywood blockbusters. Part memoir, part film and... -
The Good Place Erin Giannini 9780814348659
RRP: £19.95£17.99Pobody's nerfect" - or whatever the saying might be! As humans we are constantly worried about how our actions may come back to haunt us. The Good Place (2016-2020) is a high-concept American sitcom that brought light to the dark topic of the afterlife,... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: £98.00£90.49Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846112
RRP: £24.95£15.49Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803794
RRP: £59.00£51.96Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation Oliver Fuke (Independent researcher, UK) 9781839025242
£83.43This 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,... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803787
RRP: £19.99£17.93Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and... -
Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals Beth Tsai 9781474496919
RRP: £85.00£78.29Revisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpoints Look at the productive roles women have played as discursive mediators of the cultural imaginary of the nation, the auteur, and the art of... -
Refocus: the Films of William Wyler John Price 9781399510462
RRP: £95.00£77.76Examines the extensive and diverse oeuvre of American filmmaker William Wyler Explores Wyler's work in connection with current themes and topics in film studies Provides cultural and political contexts for Wyler's films, including representations of... -
Provocation in Women's Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema Janice Loreck 9781474483490
RRP: £85.00£69.76A new critical perspective on the female auteur that considers her place in the avant-garde tradition of provocation Includes close critical analysis of eight contemporary women filmmakers and their provocative works Provides an exploration and... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
£111.49The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially in the international festival circuit, Farhadi is... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: £24.95£15.49The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially in the international festival circuit, Farhadi is... -
Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496844866
RRP: £98.00£92.49The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim around the globe and details his many contributions to... -
Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries John Thornton Caldwell 9780520388987
RRP: £80.00£63.77John Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and... -
Making a Scene in Documentary Film: Iconic Filmmakers Discuss What Works and Why Maxine Trump 9781032184838
RRP: £125.00£107.46- Offers never-before-discussed analysis of specific scenes representing all documentary genres directly from the creators behind them. - Includes exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary from Rachel Lears, Dawn Porter, John Battsek, Bob Eisenhart and more... -
Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray's Films Devapriya Sanyal 9781399511148
RRP: £85.00£78.29The first comprehensive study of men and masculinity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray Links Ray's male characters with India's national trajectory in its early post-independence years Interrogates the director's standing as a national filmmaker ... -
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204583
RRP: £100.00£78.73Paul Thomas Anderson's evolution from a brash, self-anointed "Indiewood" auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent film history. From early efforts to emulate his cinematic... -
Genndy Tartakovsky: Sincerity in Animation Kwasu David Tembo 9781501356292
£95.49Apologies 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 collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,... -
Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema P. Coates 9781349484690
RRP: £60.00£45.49This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205764
RRP: £117.00£103.61What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society's fear of the... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 Century, 2 Volume set Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740921
RRP: £105.00£92.56This book is about composition and its application in animation, illustration, games and film. It covers all various aspects of design and explains in detail the use of the specific aspect and provides examples of its impact. Focus is on the ability of... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252086182
RRP: £19.99£17.93Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle, Lester D. Friedman presents the filmmaker as a major... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 2: Characters in Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740945
RRP: £125.00£108.46Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Characters in Animation focuses on characters and their application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers various technical aspects of character design and their artistic applicability. This book... -
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981
RRP: £121.00£94.84The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss. A wave of films that changed how American movies were... -
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale Darryl Sterk 9781032236391
RRP: £39.99£35.37Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with... -
Storyboarding: Turning Script into Motion Stephanie Torta 9781683920397
RRP: £42.95£31.26This revised text is designed to demonstrate the process of converting static images to an effective animation of characters and effects. Unlike many of its competitors, Storyboarding uses the accompanying DVD to show the storyboards in conjunction with... -
Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art C. Gardner 9781349436811
£45.49An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event - itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
£45.49Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial, cultural and intermedial levels, and the ways in which... -
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998
RRP: £35.00£28.99The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss. A wave of films that changed how American movies were... -
Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature T. Green 9781349448593
£45.49Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary... -
Using Open Scenes to Act Successfully on Stage and Screen Dan Carter 9781032150871
RRP: £49.99£43.75Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology that can be applied to the performance of film or television acting, commercials, and theatrical realism. Unlike other methodologies,... -
Between Film and Screen: Modernism's Photo Synthesis Garrett Stewart 9780226774121
RRP: £40.00£39.23Photography might be called the lost cause of cinema, gone in projection and too soon forgotten. But what is the mysterious region between photography and narrative cinema, between the photogram - a single film frame - and the illusion of motion one... -
Hitchcock and the Censors John Billheimer 9780813180540
RRP: £25.00£23.03Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to... -
Harry Potter: The Creature Vault: The Creatures and Plants of the Harry Potter Films Jody Revenson 9780062374233
RRP: £50.00£34.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062374233Author Jody RevensonPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1293gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 239mm * 25mm -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596273
£65.47Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a... -
The Stage Director's Prompt Book: A Guide to Creating and Using the Stage Director's Most Powerful Rehearsal and Production Tool Leslie Ferreira 9780367861070
RRP: £125.00£107.46Provides a step-by-step approach, a blueprint, to assembling a director's prompt book in a graphically dynamic and creative waySuitable for students in theatre directing, stage management, and producing courses, along with aspiring professional... -
At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life Juliette C. Kitchens 9781476667027
RRP: £28.99£23.74From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron... -
Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation: Big Business Critiqued in the Films and Television Programs Erin Giannini 9781476667768
RRP: £21.99£18.28Joss Whedon may be primarily known for his numerous films and television series that feature villainous vampires, angry gods, and even bloggers who wish to rule the world, but what connects much of his work is the constant presence of a particular type... -
Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking Laura Di Bianco 9780253064646
RRP: £50.00£44.32Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's...