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Directors and Directions: Cinema for the Seventies John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138967731
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.46This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit Ray, Miklos Jancso, and Dusan Makavejev - representing... -
Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy Lane Roth 9781138969773
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.13Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct... -
Novel Images: Literature in Performance Peter Reynolds 9781138977310
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £39.95Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.49This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood... -
The Decline of the Cinema: An Economist's Report John Spraos (University of London, UK) 9781138997790
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.46Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was little more than half the pre-war total. Nearly 1500 of the 4500 cinemas functioning in 1955 had closed... -
The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950 James C. Robertson 9781138997707
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £26.65The secrecy in which the British Board of Film Censors enveloped itself until 1948 resulted in a glaring vacuum in British cinematic history. Originally published in 1985, this book filled this important gap, drawing on the detailed registers of films... -
Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear: Some Key Film-makers of the Sixties John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138991316
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.46Since the cinema first began to be taken seriously as an art form, there has been a constant debate on the question: who is the real creator of the film, the writer or the director? This study of a group of key film-makers in the sixties suggests that... -
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980 Gary Edgerton 9781138966550
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.96This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late '40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.46A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.13This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as... -
Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK.University of Lancaster, UK.) 9781138996663
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.83This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars... -
Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions Giuliana Bruno (Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9781138994584
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.96This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9781138989863
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £26.65This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption,... -
Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies Herbert Marshall 9781138980563
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £38.31Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin and October; to Pudovkin Mother and The End of St... -
Film Propaganda and American Politics: An Analysis and Filmography James Combs 9781138991033
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.46Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9781138990968
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £26.65Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its interests. Dealing with a period from about 1924-1945, it... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.13This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £39.95This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made... -
Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide Bernard A. Drew 9781138976504
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £27.35In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order,... -
Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 Colin Shindler (Cambridge University, UK) 9781138971905
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £38.31A historian's view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry, this book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe to the end of the war... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.13Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on... -
Movies and Politics: The Dynamic Relationship James E. Combs 9781138976528
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £38.30Collecting together some of the best thinking about the relationship between movies and politics, this book, originally published in 1993, encourages an awareness of the political dimension of film, both for film scholars and those entering the film... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9781138993402
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £24.24Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of those who knew him... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.95This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on... -
Greek Tragedy into Film Kenneth MacKinnon 9781138975484
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £39.95If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9781138989436
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £24.24When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where American films have always dominated cinema screens, both... -
The Epic Film: Myth and History Derek Elley 9781138989177
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.96As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and... -
Cinema and Ireland Kevin Rockett 9781138970731
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.13This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and 'Irishness' in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book... -
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film Randall Clark 9781138964051
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £40.79Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films... -
Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History Maureen Turim 9781138974371
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.13The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning.Taking as... -
The Cinema Ideal: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator Harriet E. Margolis 9781138988897
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £37.86This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late '60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book... -
Film & TV Tax Incentives in the U.S.: Courting Hollywood Glenda Cantrell (The University of Alabama, USA) 9781138489684
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £48.28Entertainment tax incentives are one of the greatest tools in the arsenal of filmmaking. They pay a portion of production expenditures back to the filmmaker, while creating powerful economic engines for the states who implement them properly. They are... -
American Cinematographer Manual 9th Ed. Vol. I ASC Stephen H. Burum 9780935578317
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £37.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935578317Author ASC Stephen H. BurumFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint American CinematographerPublisher American CinematographerWeight(grams)... -
Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide: Surviving and Thriving at America's Most Important Film Festival (3rd Edition) Benjamin Craig 9780954173784
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £21.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954173784Author Benjamin CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Cinemagine Media PublishingPublisher Cinemagine Media Ltd -
People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley Jim Ridley 9780826522061
RRP: £27.50SciFier: £20.79Combining a cineaste's encyclopedic knowledge of film with a child's sense of wonder, Jim Ridley wrote about movies in a way few others can.He reveled in the joy and mischief of cinema, dwelled on its beauty and violence, and navigated the full breadth... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9780815392385
RRP: £115.00SciFier: £102.29Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre... -
A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States Jeannie Gayle Pool 9780810876880
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £52.49Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described introductions to the field and articles that summarize the... -
Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary Thomas S. Hischak 9780786462711
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.44This encyclopedia is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film Tangled. More than 900 men, women, and child actors... -
Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 350 Films About the Vietnam War Jeremy M. Devine 9780786476022
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.23Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced over 400 features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to... -
Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties Tom Lisanti 9780786471652
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.23During the 1960s, a bushel of B-movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience. At first teens couldn't get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, but by 1966 young...