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Explores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era popular serialityAbout the AuthorFeli Brinker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Film Studies, Leibniz University Hannover.Book...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cinematic Nihilism both challenges and builds upon past scholarship that has scrutinised nihilism in the media,...

The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror filmsDumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462778Author Dominic LashFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women's amateur practice.Book InformationISBN 9781474420730Author...

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis book, like its twin volume 'Female Authorship and the Documentary Image', centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary...

A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic empires set in far-off galaxies, today's fantasy...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429481Author Keith CorsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The American...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474416795Author Elisa MandelliFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Edinburgh Studies in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456395Author Azadeh FatehradFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.Book...

Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in most of his films under budget and under schedule. An energized director who captured the heart of New York like no other, Lumet created a vast canon of work...

Examining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O'Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that `talk is cheap'. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, 'Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema' focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456012Author Marcelline BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410102461Author Sergei EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781365077784Author Peter John RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema from Portuguese-speaking countries, exploring how...

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250034762Author Tom ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919852785Author Raquel V Benitez RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Centennial College PressPublisher Centennial College PressWeight(grams)...

Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, from his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop, through the action-adventures of the early 1920s, his work with Buster Keaton, the grand and elegant...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820333496Author Thomas M. LeitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 465g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312181178Author Gregory GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 610g

Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and...

The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and...

This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has...

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the...

In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal...

Raul Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's...

America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies...

In this comprehensive portrait of horror's definitive director, Tony Williams ties George A. Romero's films to the development of literary naturalism and American culture, expanding the artist's creative footprint beyond his mastery of the "splatter...

Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2016), has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. From his earliest productions to his...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985674736Author Brian Medwin Trenchard-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 582Imprint Brian Trenchard-SmithPublisher Brian Trenchard-SmithWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887710075Author R J CardulloFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887710693Author Tommy Lee WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798738057625Author Abbie GeorgannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798729183074Author David M LorenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798648658646Author Cait CortelyouFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Filmmaking, the Hard...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798642966396Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries The Lost Films Fanzine (B&w...