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"Night and Fog": A Film in History Sylvie Lindeperg 9780816679928
RRP: £21.99£19.59Francois Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the... -
Mechademia 10: World Renewal Frenchy Lunning 9780816699155
RRP: £21.99£19.59Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11-the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises-and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken Japan. Because anime and manga have long proposed (and... -
Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp: The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media Erica F. Battle 9780300238716
RRP: £16.99£14.57Presenting an ambitious new project by Rachel Rose (b. 1986) commissioned jointly by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, this book offers a rare behind-the-scenes perspective on one of the most striking... -
Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat. Orianna Cacchione 9780300226225
RRP: £20.00£17.35Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (b. 1957) manipulates perspective, close-ups, and framing to create astonishing recordings of banal repeated actions, such as breaking glass, reading, washing, shaving, and blowing bubble... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170734
RRP: £28.00£22.24Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political... -
Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance Garrett Stewart 9780226201498
RRP: £26.00£24.83The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power - and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits, Garrett Stewart... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169615
RRP: £28.00£22.24Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India."... -
Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again Susan Beth Lehman 9781841504902
RRP: £23.95£12.54Despite the increasing popularity of academic filmmaking programs in the United States, some of contemporary America's most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world. Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again features a series of... -
The Child in Spanish Cinema Sarah Wright 9781784993795
RRP: £19.99£17.99In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692714
RRP: £24.99£18.99Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume's... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
RRP: £21.99£21.86The 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 global stage. During these years four generations,... -
Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film Art Simon 9781439910443
RRP: £23.99£21.25On the historic 50th Anniversary, this reissued edition looks at the contemporary meanings and influences of images of the JFK assassination by filmmakers, photographers, and artistsConsiders the contemporary meanings and influences of images of the JFK... -
Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory Victor Fan 9780816693573
RRP: £20.99£18.76In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure... -
The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine Liat Berdugo 9780755637454
£31.02Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to... -
Hollis Frampton Michael Zryd 9780262543576
RRP: £27.00£18.57Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543576Author Michael ZrydFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries October Files -
Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Leshu Torchin 9780816676231
RRP: £21.99£19.59Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not... -
Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram Mike Chasar (Willamette University) 9780231188951
RRP: £25.00£19.99It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts... -
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong 9780231183390
RRP: £22.00£17.74The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales... -
Screening the Stage: Case Studies of Film Adaptations of Stage Plays and Musicals in the Classical Hollywood Era, 1914-1956 Steven Neale 9780861967261
RRP: £29.99£24.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967261Author Steven NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 9780816678051
RRP: £21.99£19.59The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. In particular, this work explores how racial difference became central to the resolving of... -
Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts Holly Willis 9780231178938
RRP: £28.00£22.24Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia" introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and... -
The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Andre Gaudreault 9780231173575
RRP: £28.00£22.24Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161077
RRP: £25.00£19.99A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073639
RRP: £30.00£24.14Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These... -
Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781350145481
£83.83Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the... -
Do the Right Thing Ed Guerrero (New York University, USA) 9781838719883
RRP: £12.99£10.62Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the film's ensemble cast, including Lee himself,... -
Seeing Is Believing - The Revelation of God Through Film Richard Vance Goodwin 9781514002001
RRP: £26.99£21.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514002001Author Richard Vance GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 402gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 147mm *... -
Bullet Train: The Art and Making of the Film Abbie Bernstein 9781789099560
Titan BooksRRP: £29.99£21.28The official companion to the film Bullet Train from Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch, starring Brad Pitt. Screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. Assassin-for-hire Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is filling in for a colleague and... -
Suspense Thriller: How to Write Chase, Spy, Legal, Medical, Psychological, Political & Techno-Thrillers Paul Tomlinson 9781717768711
RRP: £16.99£15.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717768711Author Paul TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Genre WriterWeight(grams)... -
The Guide to Managing Postproduction for Film, TV, and Digital Distribution: Managing the Process Barbara Clark 9781138482814
RRP: £36.99£33.25The updated third edition of this popular book offers a clear and detailed overview of the postproduction process, showing readers how to manage each step in taking a film, TV, or media project from production to final delivery, from scheduling and... -
All Souls' Day Cees Nooteboom 9781529421774
RRP: £10.99£7.55"An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on... -
The Magician-The Series Scott V Palmer 9781087989464
RRP: £30.99£30.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087989464Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Writing Television Sitcoms: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Go-to Guide Evan S. Smith (Evan S. Smith) 9780399535376
RRP: £16.99£14.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399535376Author Evan S. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics Michael Rabiger (Professor Emeritus, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA) 9780815394310
RRP: £52.99£47.26Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television. It's filled with practical advice, essential technical information, and inspiring case studies for every stage of... -
VHS: Video Cover Art: 1980s to Early 1990s Thomas Hodge 9780764348679
RRP: £31.99£21.83Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the 1980s to early 1990s. The art explodes with a succulent, indulgent blend of design, illustration, typography, and... -
Script Analysis: Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals James Bang (The New School, USA) 9780367687397
RRP: £29.99£26.98Demonstrates how to analyse a screenplay through a seven-steps method: character, story elements, story world and setting, main plot and subplots, structure, screenwriting tools, and genre, tone and style. Offers step by step guidance, case study... -
Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays: From TV Pilot to Feature Film Lucy Hay 9780857305527
RRP: £19.99£13.31Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays has the lowdown on how to get your thriller feature script on to the page, and how to get it in front of producers and investors. First published in 2013, this new edition offers an all-new resources section and a... -
The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook Chris Jones 9780826479884 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99£3.85Brand new edition of this bestseller - the only book an amateur film maker needs! An entirely new, updated, and expanded third edition of the UK's best-selling filmmaker's bible, last updated in 2000. This new edition builds upon the most successful... -
Annihilation Alex Garland 9780571346158
RRP: £12.99£8.97Following on from the success of his thriller, Ex Machina, Alex Garland returns to cerebral sci-fi with his adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's cult novel -a tale of a biologist attempting to uncover the mystery of her husband's disappearance into a... -
Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality Adam Daniel 9781474456364
RRP: £20.99£17.50Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage' to post-cinematic new media forms such as YouTube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms...