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The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: $69.91William 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: $148.35Film 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: $148.35The 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: $130.39The 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: $117.16Despite 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: $148.35In 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: $147.40In 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: $148.35In 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: $148.35This 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: $148.35Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573561679Author Patricia D. NetzleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Art of the Film Dermot Power 9780062571335
SciFier: $84.71Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062571335Author Dermot PowerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: $160.20The 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: $165.55Examines 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... -
Refocus: the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by G n l D nmez-Colin
RRP: $170.10SciFier: $158.93Examines 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: $179.55SciFier: $166.66Updates 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... -
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur Elsie Walker 9780190495916
SciFier: $63.24Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences,... -
The Performative Representations of Masculinity in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema by Justin Russell Greene
SciFier: $147.40In 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... -
Directed By Allen Smithee by Jeremy Braddock
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $32.36Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816635344Author Jeremy BraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films: The Intersection of Geography, Ecology, and Slow Cinema Clara Orban 9781793645661
SciFier: $64.24Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Through a close examination of Tarr's... -
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa Calum Waddell 9781474450034
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part... -
Refocus: the Films of Mary Harron Kyle Barrett 9781474494427
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Offers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works Argues that Harron's work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts,... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: $60.48SciFier: $52.18Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have... -
The Complete Guide to Writing, Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film by Gini Graham Scott
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $24.89EThe Complete Guide to Writing Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short FilmE is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and promote a low-budget short film. It begins with how... -
Film Noir the Directors by Alain Silver
SciFier: $40.62Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini acting as editors concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic noir period. These include well-known luminaries such... -
The Philosophy of David Lynch by William J. Devlin
SciFier: $80.29From his cult classic television series Twin Peaks to his most recent film Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch is best known for his unorthodox narrative style. An award-winning director, producer,... -
Chroma: A Book of Color Derek Jarman 9780816665938
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $25.50Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299481
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $53.85In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299474
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $137.95In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 9780520298637
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $137.95After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and... -
Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs 9780231163477
RRP: $52.92SciFier: $47.38The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for... -
Nothing Dies For Film by Joe Wallenstein
RRP: $33.93SciFier: $27.90When people think of the movie business, they tend to conjure up images of glitz and glamor, of hundred-thousand-dollar swag-bags, outrageously expensive gowns and beautiful people leading... -
The AutoCADET's Guide to Visual LISP by Bill Kramer
SciFier: $102.44AutoCADet: A person who uses AutoCAD directly or indirectly to create or analyze graphic images and is in possession of one or more of the following traits: wants to learn; has an interest in... -
The Films of Denys Arcand Jim Leach 9780813598864
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $44.11Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989),... -
Editing and Special/Visual Effects by Charlie Keil
SciFier: $55.06Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle... -
Producing by Jon Lewis
SciFier: $59.27Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and... -
Directing Virginia Wright Wexman 9780813564296
SciFier: $61.10When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. ... -
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen by Peter J. Bailey
SciFier: $54.73For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen... -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish 9780813181196
SciFier: $64.09Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the... -
Otto Preminger by Foster Hirsch
RRP: $66.06SciFier: $47.61Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813152905Author Foster HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint -
Double Lives, Second Chances by Annette Insdorf
RRP: $47.16SciFier: $30.90Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects...