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Cinema-Monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French Michael Gott 9781474414982
RRP: €113.05€103.84A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinemaThe first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, 'Cinema-monde' picks up on the... -
Refocus: the Films of William Castle Murray Leeder 9781474424264
RRP: €113.05€103.84The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and '60s, including... -
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 9781474425261
RRP: €113.05€103.84'Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers' examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood - Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly... -
Francophone Belgian Cinema Jamie Steele 9781474420761
RRP: €107.10€98.51Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both... -
French Film in the Blockbuster Era: Globalization and the Cultural Politics of a Popular Cinema Charlie Michael 9781474424233
RRP: €107.10€98.51The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular... -
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics Boel Ulfsdotter 9781474419444
RRP: €107.10€98.51This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected questions of gender and female authorship. It examines a wide array of documentary phenomena through global... -
Moving Figures: Class and Feeling in the Films of Jia Zhangke Corey Schultz 9781474421614
RRP: €107.10€98.51The "Reform Era" (1979-present) in China has been a time of massive social and economic change, and has witnessed China's transition from socialism to capitalism. This book focuses on how this period of change has been constructed in the films of Jia... -
The Other Side of Glamour: The Left-wing Studio Network in Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Era and Beyond: 2020 Vivian Lee 9781474424622
RRP: €107.10€98.51Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other... -
Directing Screen Performances Robert Klenner 9781350096363
RRP: €113.05€77.20The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration of the major approaches to contemporary screen acting, you will learn how to formulate your own effective... -
Fast, Cheap & Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies John Gaspard 9781088080481
RRP: €16.65€12.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088080481Author John GaspardFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkSeries Fast, Cheap Filmmaking BooksWeight(grams)... -
What You Don't Learn In Film School: A Complete Guide To (Independent) Filmmaking Shane Stanley 9781087947044
RRP: €19.22€15.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087947044Author Shane StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Don't F*ck Up Your No Budget Movie!: Inexpensive Filmmaking In This Content-Hungry Age Ivan Peric 9781039105263
RRP: €24.98€18.55Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039105263Author Ivan PericFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 9780857287823
RRP: €29.75€28.83Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287823Author Rini Bhattacharya MehtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressSeries Anthem Global Media and Communication... -
Lars Von Trier Jack Stevenson 9780851709024
€118.67With the international success of Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000), Lars von Trier has established himself as a one of the most provocative and daring film directors working today. The founding father of Dogma 95, he made the... -
Youssef Chahine Ibrahim Fawal 9780851708591
€118.67A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine's work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and how such films as "Cairo Station" (1958), "The Earth"... -
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame Sarah Keller 9780814348598
RRP: €111.86€107.09Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a series of films representing lesbian subjects and... -
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini Daniel Humphrey 9780814346068
RRP: €102.34€96.97In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes... -
After Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski 9780814333266
RRP: €39.21€35.09This title traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died unexpectedly in March 1996 at precisely the moment he had... -
Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the ""Hitchcock Annual Sidney Gottlieb 9780814330616
RRP: €39.21€33.31In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This... -
Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When it Went to Hollywood Thomas S. Hischak 9780810850187
RRP: €79.73€70.20In this personal and opinionated book Tom Hischak takes a close look at what happens when a Broadway musical goes to Hollywood, and less often when Hollywood comes to Broadway. The musicals discussed range from The Desert Song (1927), the first sound... -
Directing: Learn from the Masters Tay Garnett 9780810830462
RRP: €85.68€76.15An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini,... -
Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere Clodagh Brook 9780802096517
RRP: €38.08€36.99Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective... -
Hollywood Art: Art Direction in the Days of the Great Studios Beverly Heisner 9780786467068
RRP: €36.83€21.75The heyday of Hollywood studio art departments was in the 1930s and 40s when strong art directors like Cedric Gibbons and Hans Dreier brought together more artists and artisans under one roof working on the same projects than any other enterprise in the... -
The Cinema of Tsui Hark Lisa Morton 9780786444601
RRP: €29.74€24.54Tsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a... -
A Wonderful Heart: The Films of William Wyler Neil Sinyard 9780786435739
RRP: €42.83€36.10Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honoured and successful directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little Foxes, Roman Holiday and Ben-Hur. He won three... -
The Six Day Horror Movie: A No-Nonsense Guide to No-Budget Filmmaking Michael P. DiPaolo 9780786419050
RRP: €26.17€21.75When someone offered Michael DiPaolo USD5,000 to make a Digital Video horror film, he jumped at the chance to test a theory: an ultra-low budget feature, shot in less than a week, with both a paid cast and crew, could be successful if meticulously... -
The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 9780375756139
RRP: €15.46€14.15Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756139Author Vachel LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncSeries Modern Library MoviesWeight(grams)... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
RRP: €89.25€70.28Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a devoted following. In Play Time, Malcolm Turvey examines... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185882
RRP: €89.25€70.28Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in... -
A Search for Belonging: The Mexican Cinema of Luis Bunuel Marc Ripley 9780231182348
RRP: €104.72€82.71As one of the foremost Spanish directors of all time, Luis Bunuel's filmography has been the subject of innumerable studies. Despite the fact that the twenty films he made in Mexico between 1946 and 1965 represent the most prolific stage of his career as... -
Sweet and Lowdown: Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret Lloyd Michaels 9780231178549
RRP: €104.72€82.71Over a career that has spanned more than six decades, Woody Allen has explored the emotion of regret as a response to the existentialist dilemma of not being someone else. Tracing this recurrent theme from his stand-up comedy routines and apprentice work... -
The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place Deane Williams 9780231176248
RRP: €104.72€82.71Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174985
RRP: €104.72€82.71Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is... -
Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film Ivan Villarmea Alvarez 9780231174527
RRP: €95.20€75.41While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting... -
Latin Hitchcock: How Almodovar, Amenabar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious Dona Kercher 9780231172080
RRP: €95.20€75.89This study explores how five major directors-Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan Jose Campanella-modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics. In shadowing Hitchcock, their works... -
Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema Guy Westwell 9780231172028
RRP: €95.20€75.41Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks... -
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America David Sterritt 9780231172004
RRP: €83.30€66.22He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book... -
The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox Jeremi Szaniawski 9780231167345
RRP: €83.30€66.22One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through... -
The Cinema of Michael Mann: Vice and Vindication Jonathan Rayner 9780231167284
RRP: €83.30€65.75Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood... -
Eastwood's Iwo Jima: Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima Anne Gjelsvik 9780231165648
RRP: €104.72€82.71With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two...