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The Decline of the Cinema: An Economist's Report John Spraos (University of London, UK) 9781138997790
SciFier: €54.55Between 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... -
The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950 James C. Robertson 9781138997707
SciFier: €37.91The 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... -
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
SciFier: €54.55Since 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... -
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980 Gary Edgerton 9781138966550
SciFier: €56.64This 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... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: €54.55A 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... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: €54.55This 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... -
Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK.University of Lancaster, UK.) 9781138996663
SciFier: €55.39This 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,... -
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
SciFier: €56.64This 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... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9781138989863
SciFier: €37.91This 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... -
Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies Herbert Marshall 9781138980563
SciFier: €54.55Eisenstein, 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... -
Film Propaganda and American Politics: An Analysis and Filmography James Combs 9781138991033
SciFier: €54.55Originally 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... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
SciFier: €56.64This 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... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
SciFier: €58.72This 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: €38.75In 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: €54.55A 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: €56.64Taking 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: €54.55Collecting 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: €36.88Of 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: €56.64This 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: €55.60If 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: €36.88When 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: €56.64As 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: €56.64This 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: €56.64Millions 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: €55.39This 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: €73.27Entertainment 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: €35.94SciFier: €26.99Apologies 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: €33.00SciFier: €25.67Combining 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: €74.39Unlike 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: €112.45A 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: €17.99SciFier: €14.39If 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: €106.16Providing 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: €106.16Bringing 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: €130.85Of 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: €47.27From 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: €52.48Hollywood 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: €33.59SciFier: €27.91This 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: €66.00Women'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: €15.59SciFier: €14.05Mehboob 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: €117.05The 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...