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Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices Andrew Knight-Hill 9780367271466
SciFier: £50.66Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both... -
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back J.W. Rinzler 9780345509611
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345509611Author J.W. RinzlerFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint -
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemunden 9780252084669
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works... -
Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology: Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer 9780253043948
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £66.57In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of... -
Hitchcock's Music Jack Sullivan 9780300136180
SciFier: £39.49For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed... -
Six Turkish Filmmakers Laurence Raw 9780299315405
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £52.71Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and... -
Jane Campion Kathleen McHugh 9780252074479
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78In considering Jane Campion's early award-winning short films on through international sensation The Piano and beyond, Kathleen McHugh traces the director's distinctive visual style as well as her... -
Cristi Puiu Monica Filimon 9780252082276
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement,... -
Francis Ford Coppola Jeff Menne 9780252080371
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative American directors, Francis Ford Coppola is also lionized as a maverick auteur at war with Hollywood's power structure and an ardent critic of... -
Jan Svankmajer Keith Leslie Johnson 9780252083020
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation,... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252038594
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Jacques Rivette Mary M. Wiles 9780252078347
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78As a pioneer of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette was one of a group of directors who permanently altered the world's perception of cinema by taking the camera out of the studios and into the... -
Michael Haneke Peter Brunette 9780252077173
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon, winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps... -
Spike Lee Todd McGowan 9780252038143
SciFier: £104.26Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in... -
Roman Polanski James Morrison 9780252074462
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A new take on an eclectic and controversial directorJames Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the... -
Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Terence McSweeney 9780231186254
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.11We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172813
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and... -
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee 9780231196154
SciFier: £25.77From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial... -
Dario Argento by L. Andrew Cooper
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
SciFier: £52.84There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Celestino Deleyto 9780252077616
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus. Working in... -
Manoel de Oliveira Randal Johnson 9780252074424
SciFier: £21.56Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer Manoel de Oliveira's eighty-five year career made him a filmmaking icon and a cultural giant in his native Portugal. A lifelong... -
John Sayles David R. Shumway 9780252078569
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has... -
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176927
SciFier: £114.58Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The University of Hong Kong) 9780195374711
SciFier: £62.00Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the... -
The Advanced Projection Manual by Torkell Saetervadet
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £47.89The Advanced Projection Manual is designed to provide cinema engineers and projectionists with the necessary technical know-how and hands-on advice. The book also includes a much needed introduction... -
Digital Filmmaking by Peter Shaner
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £30.88This first book in the series is designed to introduce the techniques used in digital filmmaking. It is aimed at anyone who has an interest in telling stories with pictures and sound and won't assume... -
Film Editing by Christopher Llewellyn Reed
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £26.08Designed for the novice or for a course in film editing, the book is the perfect introductory text. Editing is the art of using the building blocks supplied by the writer and director to create a... -
Hollywood Studio Production Techniques by Winnie Wong
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £26.08This book provides the in-depth information, exercises, and worksheets that will provide readers with the tools to become successful, enlightened filmmakers. Most novices are unaware of the... -
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World Thomas Zaniello (Northern Kentucky University, USA) 9781501385841
SciFier: £34.99The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of... -
Real Images by Josephine Woll
SciFier: £27.99This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry... -
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman
SciFier: £25.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062898357Author Matt WhymanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
SciFier: £23.29The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
William Wyler by Gabriel Miller
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.43William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards,... -
Mercy in Her Eyes by John Kenneth Muir
SciFier: £16.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836496Author John Kenneth MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint -
Joss Whedon FAQ by John Kenneth Muir
SciFier: £20.99Providing a career-spanning view of everyone s favourite geek writer and director, Joss Whedon FAQ offers answers to fans questions about one of the most significant pop culture auteurs of the past... -
David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818201
SciFier: £101.99David 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: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Quentin 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: £101.99Margarethe 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: £103.00SciFier: £101.99Jeffrey 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...