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Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: £28.00£26.02Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
RRP: £92.00£72.58Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally... -
Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman 9780231166027
RRP: £88.00£69.50William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
RRP: £92.00£72.98Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing... -
The History of Japanese Cinema Zang Shi 9781501074349
RRP: £7.99£7.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501074349Author Zang ShiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
50 Ways To Mega Crush Your Media Career Dan Lothian 9780615349626
RRP: £19.95£16.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615349626Author Dan LothianFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Lau Lapides Casting & Actor's StudioPublisher Lau Lapides Casting & Actor's... -
Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics Julie A. Turnock 9780231163521
RRP: £88.00£69.90Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects,... -
Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs 9780231163460
RRP: £92.00£72.58The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162203
RRP: £88.00£69.50Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160995
RRP: £28.00£22.52The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160988
RRP: £92.00£72.58The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
RRP: £92.00£72.58Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157681
RRP: £92.00£72.98Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical... -
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) Nathaniel Greenberg 9780739183694
RRP: £88.00£77.49Apologies 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 collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,... -
366 Weird Movies 2018 Yearbook Gregory J Smalley 9781093761221
£7.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781093761221Author Gregory J SmalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries 366 Weird Movies... -
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World Peter Szendy 9780823264810
RRP: £27.99£24.89Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to... -
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World Peter Szendy 9780823264803
RRP: £70.00£61.69Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to... -
Self-Projection: The Director's Image in Art Cinema Linda Haverty Rugg 9780816691241
RRP: £21.99£19.84In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, Francois Truffaut called for a new era in which films would "resemble the person who made" them and be "even more personal" than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades... -
Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video Ming-Yuen S. Ma 9780816670833
RRP: £23.99£21.92Resolutions 3 explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. It is the third volume in a series composed of Resolution: A Critique of Video Art (1986) and Resolutions: Contemporary Video... -
Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image John David Rhodes 9780816665167
RRP: £68.00£59.98Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film, television, video, and installation art from diverse... -
White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiro 9780816645848
RRP: £62.00£54.51Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814345429
RRP: £86.00£81.49Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave films research that puts cinemas on 1968 into dialogue... -
The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814344903
RRP: £85.00£80.99Apologies 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 collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,... -
Projecting the World: Representing the ""Foreign"" in Classical Hollywood Russell Meeuf 9780814343067
RRP: £36.95£35.99Apologies 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 collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814342930
RRP: £31.95£31.49Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave films research that puts cinemas on 1968 into dialogue... -
The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films Qinna Shen 9780814339039
RRP: £32.95£31.99From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length,... -
Christophe Honore: A Critical Introduction David A. Gerstner 9780814338636
RRP: £34.95£33.99French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside of Europe has left him largely unknown to U.S... -
The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema Murray Pomerance 9780814335130
RRP: £33.95£31.99For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic,... -
Film and Risk Mette Hjort 9780814334638
RRP: £34.95£29.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814334638Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressSeries Contemporary... -
Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century James Tweedie (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington) 9780190873882
RRP: £43.49£36.99Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a... -
The Film Testament Abhijit Naskar 9781548165352
RRP: £9.24£8.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548165352Author Abhijit NaskarFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Fade In, Crossroads: A History of the Southern Cinema Robert Jackson 9780190660185
RRP: £39.99£34.49Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era to midcentury. Examining the ways in which the South contributed to the development of the film medium from the late nineteenth century through... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University) 9780190244613
RRP: £45.99£31.99Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping... -
Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil Luciana Martins 9780719089916
RRP: £85.00£61.41Photography and documentary film in the making of modern Brazil provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four decades of the twentieth century, when the camera played a... -
How to Sell Your Film: Interviews about Marketing with Successful Indie Filmmakers Nathan March 9781521486344
£6.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781521486344Author Nathan MarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries How to Sell Your Creative... -
Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema Lisa Shaw 9780719083808
RRP: £90.00£64.90In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic... -
Marcel Carne Jonathan Driskell 9780719079979
RRP: £85.00£60.91This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a number of which were made in... -
The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema David Archibald 9780719078088
RRP: £85.00£60.91The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miro - rallied to support... -
Film Festival Secrets: The Ultimate Handbook for Independent Filmmakers Jarod Neece 9780971835665
RRP: £29.95£24.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971835665Author Jarod NeeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Stomp TokyoPublisher Stomp TokyoWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Negotiating the Auteur: Dominique Cabrera, NoeMie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux Julia Dobson 9780719072185
RRP: £80.00£57.44This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into...