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Women in the Western Sue Matheson 9781474444132
SciFier: $131.64As the Western matured, women's roles became more complex and modern - transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American... -
Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image, 1960-1980 Matilde Nardelli 9781474444040
SciFier: $124.63Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474444040Author Matilde NardelliFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Youssef Chahine by Ibrahim Fawal
SciFier: $144.68A 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... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $17.73The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
SciFier: $108.70Jacques 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... -
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion 9780231185882
SciFier: $108.70Michel 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... -
The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick Robert Niemi 9780231176279
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $28.26In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's... -
Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema Guy Westwell 9780231172028
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $87.56Parallel 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 Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox Jeremi Szaniawski 9780231167345
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $88.43One 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... -
The Cinema of Michael Mann: Vice and Vindication Jonathan Rayner 9780231167284
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $76.49Michael 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... -
The Cinema of Aki Kaurismaki: Contrarian Stories Andrew Nestingen 9780231165587
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $76.49Aki Kaurismaki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismaki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has... -
Hitchcock's America by Jonathan Freedman (Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Michigan)
SciFier: $65.91Alfred Hitchcock has long been understood as an inspired technician and master of abnormal psychology. The authors of this volume sugges, through new readings of his American films, that he is also a... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949754
SciFier: $152.60How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for... -
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media Angela J. Aguayo (Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Southern Ililinois University) 9780190676216
SciFier: $153.54Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections... -
The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro by Woojeong Joo
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.53This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of... -
Marcel Pagnol Brett Bowles 9780719073816
SciFier: $96.47Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, the first...