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Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen by William Brigham
SciFier: $208.80Woody 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... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496826756
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Claude 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... -
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496828132
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Margarethe 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;... -
Ang Lee: Interviews Karla Rae Fuller 9781496825612
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Taiwanese 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... -
Frank Wisbar by Henry Nicolella
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60German 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... -
Murder Movie Makers: Directors Dissect Their Killer Flicks Matthew Edwards 9781476676470
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60Serial 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... -
Refocus: The Films of Elaine May Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 9781474440189
SciFier: $206.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474440189Author Alexandra Heller-NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 264 -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9781349335183
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $88.09Exploring 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... -
Hitchcock and Contemporary Art C. Sprengler 9781349351855
SciFier: $99.62Hitchcock 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... -
Class, Crime and International Film Noir: Globalizing America's Dark Art D. Broe 9781349450411
SciFier: $99.62Class, 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... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781349442539
SciFier: $99.62A 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,... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
SciFier: $99.62Critical 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... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9781349339952
RRP: $233.18SciFier: $197.14The 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,... -
British Television Animation 1997-2010: Drawing Comic Tradition V. Norris 9781349461226
RRP: $127.20SciFier: $99.62British 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... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: $105.98SciFier: $78.36Sound 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... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: $99.62From 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... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9781349328567
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $88.09Examining 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... -
A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow B. Witham 9781349344314
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $45.56Begun 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... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
SciFier: $99.62Michael 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... -
Take One, Action! by Andy Wilkinson
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $17.00Take 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... -
The Good Place by Erin Giannini
SciFier: $47.68Pobody'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... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: $173.84SciFier: $154.65Christian 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... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen by Oliver Fuke (Independent researcher, UK)
SciFier: $191.67This 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... -
Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals Beth Tsai 9781474496919
SciFier: $185.69Revisits 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... -
Provocation in Women's Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema Janice Loreck 9781474483490
RRP: $180.20SciFier: $169.58A 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... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
RRP: $173.84SciFier: $153.17The 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,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $41.26The 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,... -
Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496844866
RRP: $173.84SciFier: $153.17The 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... -
Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries John Thornton Caldwell 9780520388987
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $140.09John 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... -
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204583
RRP: $212.00SciFier: $171.97Paul 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... -
Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema P. Coates 9781349484690
RRP: $127.20SciFier: $99.62This 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... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252086182
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $34.66Steven 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,... -
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale Darryl Sterk 9781032236391
SciFier: $92.71Indigenous 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... -
Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art C. Gardner 9781349436811
SciFier: $99.62An 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... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
SciFier: $99.62Undertaking 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,... -
Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature T. Green 9781349448593
SciFier: $99.62Oprah 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... -
Using Open Scenes to Act Successfully on Stage and Screen Dan Carter 9781032150871
SciFier: $129.45Using 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,... -
Between Film and Screen by Garrett Stewart
SciFier: $87.09Photography 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... -
At Home in the Whedonverse by Juliette C. Kitchens
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60From 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... -
Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation by Erin Giannini
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $40.73Joss 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...