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Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture John Powers 9780197683392
SciFier: $42.06The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental... -
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence by Douglas Mulliken (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa)
SciFier: $42.87This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century's distinctly political filmmakers... -
Phenomenology's Material Presence by Gabrielle A. Hezekiah
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience is an exploration of phenomenology and the aesthetics of the moving image. Drawing on the insights of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger... -
Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker David James 9781592132713
RRP: $96.48SciFier: $91.08Stan 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... -
The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema Iain Robert Smith 9781474441339
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, 'The Hollywood Meme' is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have... -
Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century Stacey Abbott 9781474438377
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $28.31Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the 'reluctant'... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion Catherine O'Brien (Kingston University, UK) 9781350141605
SciFier: $49.57This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine O'Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy to explore... -
Karel Reisz by Colin Gardner
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $25.67Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957445
SciFier: $97.81Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
The Making of Alternative Cinema Mario Falsetto 9780275994587
SciFier: $40.19The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended primarily... -
Digital Video Camerawork Peter Ward 9780240516059
SciFier: $73.69This manual introduces digital camerawork techniques used in television and video production. Written as a practical guide, the author's step-by-step instructions take you through everything you need... -
Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers Michael Berry (Book Review Editor, Modern Chinese Literature & Culture) 9780231133319
SciFier: $44.10"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: $123.40Seconds (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: $123.40Transgressive 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: $37.51SciFier: $30.49Stan 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... -
Darkening the Italian Screen by Eugenio David Ercolani
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $34.72The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have... -
Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Dolores Tierney
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51Through 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: $29.47SciFier: $28.56Apologies 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: $123.40The 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: $83.07This 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: $83.07Theo 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: $83.07Motion 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... -
In a Door, into a Fight, Out a Door, into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door William Witney 9780786422586
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $18.48Early in 1937, a young film editor went on-location to St. George, Utah, for the filming of Republic's The Painted Stallion. Rain and cast problems put the production hopelessly behind schedule. The... -
Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-Makers and Films by Rafael de Espana
SciFier: $77.71This 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: $26.79SciFier: $25.67"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: $50.91The 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: $104.51With 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: $93.12This 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: $58.95This 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: $91.78John 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: $93.12General 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: $93.12Since 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: $71.01The 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: $83.07Although 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: $49.57William 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: $104.51Film 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: $104.51The 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: $92.45The 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: $83.07Despite 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,...