Film, TV & Music

Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were...

March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth Century-Fox was one of the preeminent producers of films, stars, and filmmakers. Its unique...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506734842Author Alex CalvinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832277Author Barry SonnenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters...

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in...

Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sibling visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen. Since 1984's Blood Simple, the inscrutable brothers have effortlessly...

'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988576407Author Melissa SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Women & HollywoodPublisher Women & HollywoodSeries In Her VoiceWeight(grams)...

The highly anticipated first book from award-winning comedian, writer, producer and actress, Amy Schumer. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good - and bad - sex,...

Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893150Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An unprecedented look at women s everyday clothes from Sylvia Plath s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, business suits, and fast-food workers uniforms this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked,...

Bethan Ash's rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down, then adds stitching later. Each quilt is cut freehand,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786275776Author Maria PramaggioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584238027Author Alex GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Are we designers or artists? Maybe it's possible to be both For more than three decades, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have been exploring with breathtaking virtuosity the boundaries between the worlds of haute couture and art. The book reflects the...

Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the...

First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by...

Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged into...

In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book Liza Dalby traces the history of the kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance. The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612331720Author Andrew AshendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Brought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study...

Brought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study...

Enter the world of gravity-defying 3D street art and the artists who have defined the movement. Featuring full colour photography throughout and an exclusive list of graffiti artists from around the world. 3D Street Art is the first book to bring...

This collection offers an expansive, multiplatform exploration of the rapidly-expanding area of motion design and motion graphics, taking into account both theoretical questions and creative professional practice. Spanning interaction design, product...

How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary mannequin? How can paintings help you analyse historic silhouettes and the corsets and petticoats worn underneath? Conservation and...

Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834526Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377803Author Robert BressonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the 2016 film musical La La Land. Directed by Damien Chazelle with music by Justin Hurwitz, the film tells the...

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837910625Author Andy Frankham-AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Andrews UK LimitedSeries Lethbridge-StewartWeight(grams)...

Offering a new perspective on British fashion history, Wholesale Couture demonstrates that these couturiers were vital in cementing London's status as a ready-to-wear fashion centre. The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629338323Author Simon LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm

Knit unique beanies inspired by the jaw-dropping and unique landscapes from each of the 63 US National Parks.From the brightly colored pebbles of Lake McDonald in Montana's Glacier National Park to the regal granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316070355Author Quentin TarantinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

This first collection devoted to Susan Seidelman director, producer and visionary of feminist American cinema and television includes never-before-published archival material and an interview with insights into her process and thoughts on #timesup...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756257178Author TanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and...