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Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited Philippa Gates 9780814347805
RRP: $199.28SciFier: $188.66More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa... -
Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films Christine Lee Gengaro 9780810885646
SciFier: $166.40The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick... -
The Girl from God's Country by Kay Armatage
RRP: $80.56SciFier: $66.33In The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from... -
Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films Sander H. Lee 9780786476060
SciFier: $66.63While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding his role as one of this generation's more influential... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9780719096471
RRP: $180.20SciFier: $133.03Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9780719095863
RRP: $190.80SciFier: $143.16This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions by Karen Fricker
RRP: $180.20SciFier: $133.03This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a... -
The Documentary Handbook Peter Lee-Wright 9780415434027
SciFier: $99.70'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert... -
Production Management for Television Leslie Mitchell 9780415424653
SciFier: $238.37Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible... -
Authorship and Film David A. Gerstner 9780415939942
SciFier: $79.84Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film,... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9780415726559
SciFier: $231.16Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based... -
Women Do Genre in Film and Television Mary Harrod 9780367889845
SciFier: $92.71Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367784270
SciFier: $90.86This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book... -
The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence Brian Dolber (California State University Saint Marcos, USA) 9780367686222
SciFier: $83.17This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective. Contributions explore how media, technology, and labor are converging to... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043474
RRP: $52.98SciFier: $42.89In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the... -
Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends Charles O'Brien 9780253040404
RRP: $59.34SciFier: $47.83How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252085048
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $31.33Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world,... -
Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends Charles O'Brien 9780253040398
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $118.47How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043467
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $119.95In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252041242
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
Michael Bay Lutz Koepnick 9780252041556
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to... -
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemunden 9780252042836
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252038617
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
SciFier: $186.94By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252043178
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world,... -
Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film Shilyh Warren 9780252042539
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism,... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: $248.04SciFier: $199.94The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195683
SciFier: $171.97Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: $239.56SciFier: $230.93There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
SciFier: $186.94In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its... -
Todd Solondz Julian Murphet 9780252042768
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
SciFier: $99.62Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201049
RRP: $248.04SciFier: $199.94The 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... -
Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev Catriona Kelly (Professor of Russian, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford) 9780197548370
SciFier: $94.47Its 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... -
The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema Robert Phillip Kolker 9781906924041
RRP: $76.21SciFier: $73.12Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906924041Author Robert Phillip KolkerFormat HardbackPage Count 348Impri -
FrancOis Ozon Andrew Asibong 9781784992835
SciFier: $48.74Available 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... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: $195.02SciFier: $169.30The 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... -
The Search for Sam Goldwyn by Carol Easton
SciFier: $78.42Sam 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... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781618117342
RRP: $224.70SciFier: $222.98Largely 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... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781618118363
RRP: $224.70SciFier: $221.50How 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...