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David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818201
SciFier: $136.67David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored... -
Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction David Roche 9781496819161
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $97.75Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of... -
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496815613
SciFier: $136.67Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s-as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name; however,... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781496820419
RRP: $138.02SciFier: $136.67Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496824684
SciFier: $136.67Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific... -
The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophy Barry Monahan (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781501362231
SciFier: $48.23The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophys of provides a comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson. As well as... -
Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781501377327
SciFier: $46.89Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's... -
Coen by Elijah Siegler
RRP: $57.55SciFier: $34.05Raising Arizona , Fargo , The Big Lebowski , No Country for Old Men , True Grit aJoel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.60The New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry... -
Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema Nicole Beth Wallenbrock 9781474456760
RRP: $120.60SciFier: $99.95Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons... -
Refocus: the Films of Albert Brooks Christian B. Long 9781474434256
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $97.27This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy and Hollywood film comedy. Analysing every film... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9781474425865
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $30.51Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Funny Frames by Oliver C. Speck
SciFier: $46.89Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is... -
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema Professor or Dr. Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 9781441138217
SciFier: $138.68This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is... -
Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781441182166
SciFier: $54.93The author focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112070
SciFier: $39.13Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches... -
Kenneth Lonergan: Filmmaker and Philosopher Todd May 9781350112063
SciFier: $117.91Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9781349351176
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $143.37This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, USA) 9781350091672
SciFier: $117.91Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature,... -
Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History John Wyver (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350174078
SciFier: $40.59No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803794
RRP: $79.06SciFier: $53.71Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
Black Sunday Martyn Conterio 9781906733834
SciFier: $32.68Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to... -
The Movie Musical Desiree J. Garcia 9781978803787
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $16.68Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin' in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores... -
Charlie Chaplin by John W. Fawell
SciFier: $138.01Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the... -
Sofia Coppola: Interviews Amy N. Monaghan 9781496834577
RRP: $131.32SciFier: $96.82Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of... -
Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema Michael Zryd 9780231201575
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.41Hollis Frampton was an American filmmaker, photographer, and theorist who bridged the experimental film and contemporary art worlds in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for avant-garde films including... -
Genndy Tartakovsky: Sincerity in Animation Kwasu David Tembo 9781501356292
SciFier: $138.01Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205764
RRP: $156.78SciFier: $126.38What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 Century, 2 Volume set Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740921
SciFier: $146.97This book is about composition and its application in animation, illustration, games and film. It covers all various aspects of design and explains in detail the use of the specific aspect and... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252044137
RRP: $138.02SciFier: $109.63Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle,... -
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"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981
RRP: $162.14SciFier: $144.22The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
Richard Linklater David T. Johnson 9780252078507
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.81Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have... -
Storyboarding by Stephanie Torta
RRP: $57.55SciFier: $41.38This revised text is designed to demonstrate the process of converting static images to an effective animation of characters and effects. Unlike many of its competitors, Storyboarding uses the... -
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"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $40.82The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
Jerry Lewis Chris Fujiwara 9780252076794
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.81Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201056
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.59The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In... -
Hitchcock and the Censors John Billheimer 9780813180540
SciFier: $37.51Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all... -
City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures Bernard F. Dick 9780813153445
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $31.37Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET. Apollo 13. These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures. In... -
Sergio Leone: Cinema as Political Fable Christian Uva (Professor of Film, Professor of Film, University of Rome) 9780190942694
SciFier: $55.32Spectacle, myth, fable - these words instantly leap to mind when considering director Sergio Leone's celebrated films. His popularization of the Spaghetti Western genre, through works like A Fistful... -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596273
RRP: $79.06SciFier: $53.71Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises...