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Film & TV Tax Incentives in the U.S.: Courting Hollywood Glenda Cantrell (The University of Alabama, USA) 9781138489684
RRP: £54.99£47.93Entertainment 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: £42.00£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: £29.95£21.49Apologies 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: £25.95£20.19Combining 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... -
Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition Keith Aoki 9780822344186
£18.15A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9780815392385
RRP: £115.00£99.01Film 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: £60.00£52.99Unlike 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: £28.99£24.14This 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: £21.99£18.68Beginning 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: £21.99£18.91During 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... -
The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second Terence McSweeney 9780748693092
RRP: £90.00£83.18This is an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. Where could one turn for a more effective cultural barometer than to Hollywood cinema? American film in the first decade of the new millennium became a cultural... -
East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema Michael Gott 9780748694150
RRP: £90.00£83.18This book re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinema. In East, West and Centre the world's leading scholars in the field assemble to consider the ways in which notions such as East and West, national and transnational, central... -
American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture Michele Schreiber 9780748693368
RRP: £90.00£82.78This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why do most contemporary American films aimed at women... -
Spaghetti Westerns - The Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977 Thomas Weisser 9780786424429
RRP: £28.99£24.14Spaghetti Westerns - mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe - were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering... -
The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934-1942 Duane Byrge 9780786411061
RRP: £21.99£18.51My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee, these movies are examples of what became known as "screwball" comedies. This study focuses on... -
The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema Iain Robert Smith 9780748677467
RRP: £90.00£82.78This is the uncharted history of Hollywood reworkings from a Turkish Star Trek to a Bollywood Godfather. Did you know that there was a Turkish remake of The Exorcist in which Catholicism was replaced with Islam? Or that in 1966, a film was produced in... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema Qi Wang 9780748692330
RRP: £90.00£83.18A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over 16 selected works that range from... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9780748640720
RRP: £90.00£82.78This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Ian Garwood provides a comprehensive account of existing work on film narration and offers an overview of the sensuous aspects of cinematic storytelling - for... -
From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema Malini Guha 9780748656462
RRP: £90.00£83.18Investigates London and Paris as 'migrant cities' in contemporary British and French cinema. The study of globalisation in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities to the burgeoning 'world cinema turn' within film... -
The Besieged Ego: Doppelgangers and Split Identity Onscreen Caroline Ruddell 9780748692026
RRP: £90.00£82.78This book examines the representation of fragmentary identities in film. The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation of identity in contemporary film and television, with a focus on doppelgangers, doubling and split or fragmentary characters... -
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe Aga Skrodzka 9780748639168
RRP: £90.00£82.78This is a critical analysis of magic realism in the cinema of East Central Europe. This survey explores the interlocking complexities of two concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a fascinating hybrid that resonates with dominant... -
Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliche, Convention and the Final Couple James MacDowell 9780748680177
RRP: £90.00£82.78This is a critical study of the happy ending in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema. The Hollywood happy ending has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet this overused... -
Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers Melinda Corey 9780671775384
RRP: £14.99£11.99If you're a movie or television fan - how many of these questions can you answer? What was the last picture show in The Last Picture Show? Where was the stagecoach headed in Stagecoach? What was the name of the dinosaur bone in Bringing Up Baby? What... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
£71.42Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988)... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
£71.42Bringing 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... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9780415726559
£78.38Of 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... -
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780415778565
RRP: £46.99£42.73The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one-volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s. These early years of the history of cinema have... -
Spanish National Cinema Nuria Triana-Toribio 9780415220606
RRP: £35.99£32.01The first book in the English language to investigate the national cinema of Spain in its entiretyIncludes full discussion of regional Basque and Catalan cinemasFeatures discussion on key international filmmakers such as Almodovar and Bunuel. Will be... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9780367821050
RRP: £120.00£103.24Film 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... -
Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous Mithuraaj Dhusiya (Department of English, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India) 9780367345198
RRP: £43.99£38.72This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in India. It uncovers some unique and diverse themes that these films deal with, including the fear of the unknown, the supernatural, occult practices, communication with spirits of the... -
Horror, The Film Reader Mark Jancovich 9780415235617
RRP: £115.00£99.01Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235174
RRP: £115.00£99.01From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film Reader traces the emergence of a culture of moviegoing,... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235181
RRP: £36.99£32.85From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film Reader traces the emergence of a culture of moviegoing,... -
Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures Madhuja Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, India) 9780367330828
RRP: £86.99£75.35Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including:... -
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader Frank Krutnik 9780415235525
RRP: £39.99£35.37Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and... -
Fifty Key British Films Sarah Barrow 9780415433297
RRP: £105.00£90.56In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This is essential reading for anyone interested in quality,... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939 Colin Crisp 9780253016966
RRP: £27.99£24.99This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically... -
Dictionary of African Filmmakers Roy Armes 9780253351166
RRP: £54.00£48.71Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary covers African feature filmmaking from the first locally... -
The A List: The National Society Of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films Jay Carr 9780306810961
£21.49People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a... -
Directory of World Cinema: Finland Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK) 9781841506173
RRP: £46.95£41.90An important addition to Intellect's popular series, Directory of World Cinema: Finland provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Over the course of their contributions to this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines...