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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... -
"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... -
Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps J. P. Telotte (Professor of Film and Media Studies, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190949655
SciFier: $149.13What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp... -
At Home in the Whedonverse by Juliette C. Kitchens
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.78From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the... -
Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation by Erin Giannini
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $26.14Joss Whedon may be primarily known for his numerous films and television series that feature villainous vampires, angry gods, and even bloggers who wish to rule the world, but what connects much of... -
Lady Director by Joyce Chopra
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34An intimate account of a seminal filmmaker's development-as a creator and as a woman-both in art and in life."Joyce Chopra, what a gift of an extraordinary filmmaker you are, and one of our great... -
I Am Onir and I Am Gay by Irene Onir
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $17.26Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094738Author Irene OnirFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking Rustin Thompson (Founder, Founder, White Noise Productions) 9780190909895
SciFier: $148.22A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9781526163974
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $25.67Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840721
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $96.82On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror Todd K. Platts 9781786838636
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $31.85Apologies 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... -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish 9780813195346
SciFier: $37.40In Vitagraph, Andrew A. Erish provides a comprehensive examination and reassessment of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. This history challenges... -
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington George Stevens 9780813195247
SciFier: $69.55George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, director George Stevens Sr., who cast the longest... -
Mike Leigh Sean O'Sullivan 9780252078194
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.81In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative... -
The Films of Budd Boetticher by Robert Nott
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.78Budd Boetticher was a bullfighter, a bull talker, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman who could, with the right material and passion, make a minor Western film classic as easily as he could... -
Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 9781843318330
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $81.53Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318330Author Rini Bhattacharya MehtaFormat HardbackPage Count 210I -
Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran Gary Morris 9781843313298
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.80Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843313298Author Gary MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident by Vlastimir Sudar
RRP: $70.95SciFier: $67.12Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia. He was by far the most awarded director on a national level, winning three Golden... -
World Film Locations: Washington D.C. by Katherine Larsen (George Washington University, USA)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the... -
The Anarchist Cinema by James Newton (University of Kent, UK)
RRP: $103.11SciFier: $95.62The Anarchist Cinema examines the complex relationships that exist between anarchist theory and film. No longer hidden in obscure corners of cinematic culture, anarchy is a theme that has traversed... -
The Visceral Screen by Robert Furze
RRP: $95.07SciFier: $89.32Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining... -
Cahiers du Cinema by James R Russo
SciFier: $78.19Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
Directing the Narrative and Shot Design: The Art and Craft of Directing (Paperback, B&W) Lubomir Kocka 9781622734962
SciFier: $73.02Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622734962Author Lubomir KockaFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint -
Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy Thomas Deane Tucker 9781628928419
SciFier: $54.93Terrence Malick's four feature films have been celebrated by critics and adored as instant classics among film aficionados, but the body of critical literature devoted to them has remained... -
The Politics of Insects: David Cronenberg's Cinema of Confrontation Scott Wilson (Unitec, Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand) 9781623563394
SciFier: $60.29Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy. Bursting into view with a trio of shocking horror films in the 1970s, Cronenberg's work has... -
The Cinema of Hal Hartley Sebastian Manley 9781501307263
SciFier: $54.93One of the most significant contributors to the American independent cinema that developed over the late 1980s and 1990s, Hal Hartley has throughout his career created films that defy convention and... -
Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications, Independent Scholar, USA) 9781501378539
SciFier: $45.55By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film... -
Film Directors and Emotion by Darragh Greene
RRP: $53.59SciFier: $47.25Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority... -
Beyond Eastern Noir: Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas Anna Estera Mrozewicz 9781474418102
SciFier: $124.63The first comprehensive conceptualisation of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic filmAddressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic... -
Sidney Lumet by Aubrey Malone
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.78Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in most of his films under budget and under schedule. An energized director who captured the heart of New... -
Screen Acting Skills: A Practical Handbook for Students and Tutors Mr Roger Wooster 9781350093041
SciFier: $111.21Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won't involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf... -
Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real by David Forgacs
SciFier: $59.58A master of modern European cinema and a key figure in the Italian neorealist movement, Roberto Rossellini had one of the longest and most varied careers of all major directors. From "Rome Open City"... -
Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Patrick Rumble 9780802072191
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $28.15The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his...