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Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 Colin Shindler (Cambridge University, UK) 9781138971905
SciFier: £45.46A 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: £47.20Taking 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: £45.46Collecting 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: £30.73Of 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: £47.20This 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: £46.33If 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: £30.73When 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: £47.20As 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: £47.20This 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: £47.20Millions 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: £46.16This 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: £61.06Entertainment 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: £29.95SciFier: £22.49Apologies 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: £27.50SciFier: £20.99Combining 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: £61.99Unlike 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... -
Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary Thomas S. Hischak 9780786462711
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51This 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... -
Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second by Jeremy M. Devine
SciFier: £32.13Beginning 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... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: £93.71A 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: £14.99SciFier: £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... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: £88.47Providing 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: £88.47Bringing 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: £109.04Of 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... -
Horror, The Film Reader Mark Jancovich 9780415235617
SciFier: £117.75Horror, 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... -
Exhibition, The Film Reader Ina Rae Hark 9780415235181
SciFier: £39.39From 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: £43.73Hollywood 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: £27.99SciFier: £23.26This 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... -
Directory of World Cinema: Finland Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK) 9781841506173
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28An 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... -
Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain Ofelia Ferran 9780415512794
SciFier: £55.00Women'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... -
World Film Locations: Vancouver Rachel Walls 9781841507217
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Vancouver highlights the work of such Canadian filmmakers who have received less attention than they merit, whilst bringing insight into how so-called 'runaway' productions from... -
Directory of World Cinema: Iran by Parviz Jahed
SciFier: £47.39Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema... -
Christoph Schlingensief by Tara Forrest
SciFier: £30.16The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art... -
French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film Susan Hayward 9781841503189
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £34.35When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Mehboob 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,... -
Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern Frank Burke (Queen's University, Canada) 9781789382204
SciFier: £79.32Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned... -
Havana Street Style by Conner Gorry
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £23.99When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales... -
World Film Locations: Athens Anna Poupou 9781783203598
SciFier: £24.44A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens - popular... -
The Films of Jean Harlow by James L. Neibaur
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21One of the great icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death in 1937 at age 26. During her brief career, she delivered memorable performances in such MGM classics as Red... -
Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial Gary D Rhodes 9781474460682
SciFier: £97.54The 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: £11.95SciFier: £7.75Featuring 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: £87.59Engages 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...