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Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers Michael Berry (Book Review Editor, Modern Chinese Literature & Culture) 9780231133319
SciFier: $61.54"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you... -
Seconds Jez Conolly 9781800859289
SciFier: $172.21Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the... -
Trouble Every Day Kate Robertson 9781800859241
SciFier: $172.21Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant... -
Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker David James 9781592132720
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $42.54Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements, and reminiscences about the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four... -
Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Dolores Tierney
RRP: $44.86SciFier: $42.58Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book brings a new... -
Framing Empire by Jerod Hollyfield
RRP: $41.12SciFier: $39.85Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429955Author Jerod HollyfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Short Films from a Small Nation by C. Claire Thomson
SciFier: $172.21The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the... -
Quentin Tarantino by Aaron Barlow
SciFier: $115.92This book places Quentin Tarantino at the heart of Hollywood, showing a director who speaks film through film, who examines the world beyond the movies in a way few have previously attempted, and at... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780313305641
SciFier: $115.92Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
SciFier: $115.92Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured... -
Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-Makers and Films by Rafael de Espana
SciFier: $108.44This new book catalogues some 215 prominent film directors from both countries, giving accurate bio-filmographies and providing an in-depth reference source. Full attention is given to the propaganda... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063213
RRP: $37.38SciFier: $35.83"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275972912
SciFier: $71.04The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
Satyajit Ray by Ben Nyce
SciFier: $145.84With 26 films to his credit and numerous international prizes, Satyajit Ray is India's most recognized filmmaker--yet, no extended study of his films has previouly been published in English in the... -
Directory of Eastern European Film-Makers and Films 1945-91 by Grzegorz Balski
SciFier: $129.95This book is an original and highly detailed reference work on Eastern European films and is the first of its kind to provide such a wealth and breadth of information. There is full coverage of over... -
Master Space by Barbara Bowman
SciFier: $82.26This is a unique study of the use of cinematic space by four important directors in American cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s: Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, and William Wyler... -
John Ford by Bill Levy
SciFier: $128.08John Ford (1894-1973) is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. He is the only person to win four Academy Awards for Direction, for The Informer (1935),... -
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1981 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $129.95General accessibility to motion picture credit information continues with Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits, 1981 the fourth issue to be published by Greenwood Press. The Academy collects... -
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1980 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $129.95Since 1934, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has organized motion picture credit information and published it, primarily for distribution to the motion picture community, in the Screen... -
The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman
SciFier: $99.09The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: $115.92Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: $69.17William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: $145.84Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs... -
Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures by Carlo Testa
SciFier: $145.84The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of... -
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1982 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $129.01The Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits covers films eligible for the Academy Awards, as well as other films, released in the Los Angeles area, which do not meet the Academy's requirements. Each... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: $115.92Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
The Hanging Figure by Christopher Morris
SciFier: $146.78In a radical new interpretation of the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Morris argues that suspense-the fundamental component of Hitchcock's cinema-is best understood through deconstruction of... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: $145.84In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg Michael Grant 9780275970581
SciFier: $145.84In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass... -
From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley
SciFier: $145.84This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory,... -
Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects by Patricia D. Netzley
SciFier: $146.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573561679Author Patricia D. NetzleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: $158.50The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998-2018: Lighting, Production Design and Camera Movement Ari Purnama 9781474496612
SciFier: $163.79Examines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinema The first scholarly work that considers Indonesian cinema as an artistic field with significant aesthetic... -
They Made the Movies by James Bawden
SciFier: $69.94For decades, James Bawden and Ron Miller have established themselves as maestros of provocative interviews, giving fans unmatched insights into the lives of Hollywood A-listers. In their fourth... -
Refocus: the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by G n l D nmez-Colin
RRP: $168.30SciFier: $157.25Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity... -
Refocus: the Films of Claire Denis by Peter Sloane
RRP: $177.65SciFier: $164.90Updates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent work Features essays on all of Denis's fiction and documentary World leading... -
The Warner Brothers by Chris Yogerst
SciFier: $70.80One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its formation in the early twentieth century, the studio has... -
The Performative Representations of Masculinity in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema by Justin Russell Greene
SciFier: $145.84In this book, Justin Russell Greene examines how Quentin Tarantino uses his auteur identity to further cement the masculine tropes of Hollywood - and ultimately, society - through language, visual... -
Designing Hollywood by Christian Esquevin
SciFier: $87.10Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by... -
Directed By Allen Smithee by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: $39.25SciFier: $32.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816635344Author Jeremy BraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint