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Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
SciFier: $68.01This 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... -
Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide Bernard A. Drew 9781138976504
SciFier: $44.88In 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... -
Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 Colin Shindler (Cambridge University, UK) 9781138971905
SciFier: $63.19A 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... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: $65.61Taking 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,... -
Movies and Politics: The Dynamic Relationship James E. Combs 9781138976528
SciFier: $63.19Collecting 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,... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9781138993402
SciFier: $42.71Of 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... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
SciFier: $65.61This 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... -
Greek Tragedy into Film Kenneth MacKinnon 9781138975484
SciFier: $64.40If 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 Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9781138989436
SciFier: $42.71When 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... -
The Epic Film: Myth and History Derek Elley 9781138989177
SciFier: $65.61As 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... -
Cinema and Ireland Kevin Rockett 9781138970731
SciFier: $65.61This 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... -
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film Randall Clark 9781138964051
SciFier: $65.61Millions 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... -
The Cinema Ideal: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator Harriet E. Margolis 9781138988897
SciFier: $64.16This 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... -
Film & TV Tax Incentives in the U.S.: Courting Hollywood Glenda Cantrell (The University of Alabama, USA) 9781138489684
SciFier: $84.87Entertainment 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... -
Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide: Surviving and Thriving at America's Most Important Film Festival (3rd Edition) by Benjamin Craig
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $31.26Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954173784Author Benjamin CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint < -
People Only Die of Love in Movies by Jim Ridley
RRP: $38.23SciFier: $29.73Combining 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... -
A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States by Jeannie Gayle Pool
SciFier: $86.17Unlike 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... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: $130.26A 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... -
Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers by Melinda Corey
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $16.67If 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... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: $122.97Providing 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... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
SciFier: $122.97Bringing 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... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9780415726559
SciFier: $151.57Of 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... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235181
SciFier: $54.75From 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... -
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader Frank Krutnik 9780415235525
SciFier: $60.78Hollywood 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... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939 Colin Crisp 9780253016966
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.33This 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... -
Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain Ofelia Ferran 9780415512794
SciFier: $76.45Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic,... -
Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial Gary D Rhodes 9781474460682
SciFier: $135.58The American television commercial has an aesthetic and historical dynamic linking it directly to cinematic and media cultures. Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial... -
Movie Emojis: 100 Cinematic Q and As Robb Pearlman 9780789339522
RRP: $16.61SciFier: $10.77Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis that must be deciphered, Movie Emoji tests readers movie and emoji IQ. Thinking Face and Hands in the Air! In... -
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert by Iggy Cortez
SciFier: $121.75Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory Offers new... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen by Oliver Fuke (Independent researcher, UK)
SciFier: $125.67This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for... -
Movie Emojis: 100 Cinematic Q&As Robb Pearlman 9780789344007
SciFier: $8.48Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis that must be deciphered, Movie Emoji tests readers' movie and emoji IQ. Thinking Face and Hands in the Air! In... -
Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals Beth Tsai 9781474496919
SciFier: $121.75Revisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpoints Look at the productive roles women have played as discursive mediators of the... -
Provocation in Women's Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema Janice Loreck 9781474483490
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $111.19A new critical perspective on the female auteur that considers her place in the avant-garde tradition of provocation Includes close critical analysis of eight contemporary women filmmakers and... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: $121.75Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
Refocus: the Films of Kim Ki-Young Chung-kang Kim 9781399512947
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $116.89The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English Offers an innovative critical analysis of Kim Ki-young's films from a range of fresh and nuanced perspectives ... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: $60.78Film 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... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174310
SciFier: $60.78Film 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... -
Sundancing: Hanging out and Listening in at America's Most Important Film Festival John Anderson 9780380804801
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.93Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380804801Author John AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896 Deac Rossell 9780861967162
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $28.12Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967162Author Deac RossellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint