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A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point and a cultural hub where goods, inventions and ideas are shared and traded. Though Singapore was home to a flourishing...

Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned...

Like its predecessors, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 endeavours to move scholarly criticism of Japanese film out of the academy and into the hands of cinephiles the world over. This volume will be warmly welcomed by those with an interest in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739615208Author Ricky BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Eastern HeroesPublisher Eastern HeroesWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716654008Author Thalassa HighbrouFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647864361Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626015562Author Cecilia TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Riverdale Avenue BooksPublisher Riverdale Avenue BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337234Author Michael B DruxmanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

For more than five decades, Woody Allen has been one of the most critically acclaimed talents in American cinema. Allen has been nominated for best director seven times by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-winning for his 1977 film Annie...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503062801Author Lijun WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505894806Author Arthur H TaferoFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another...

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in...

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema'Celluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the...

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and video installations.Book InformationISBN...

An extensive critical study of cinematic representations of Irish queer masculinitiesIn recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social changes taking place both...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474446044Author Michelle DevereauxFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in...

A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's workThe award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the...

Examines the American exploitation film blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation between 1959-1977What is an exploitation film? 'The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466950Author Patricia PistersFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.About the AuthorMurray Pomerance is an independent scholar living...

The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and worksOver her six-film career, including works like 'Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff' and 'Certain Women', the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established a highly individual perspective on questions...

The first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka KinuyoPraised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka's career spanned the industrial development of cinema from silent to sound, monochrome to colour...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452038Author Michael StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt directly with specific categories beyond Best Picture...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474447621Author Kim WilkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The American...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474413039Author David ForrestFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in World...

Metaphysics and the Moving Image is an exploration of how the medium of film inherits metaphysics, the ancient tradition of Western thought, and why it does so at the very moment philosophy sought to overcome it. As the age of metaphysics comes to a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467568340Author Stephen H. BurumFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 162gDimensions(mm)...

From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411650671Author John ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 611gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649705334Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874785Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474438056Author Anna Westerstahl StenportFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions...

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.Book...

In 'Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image', Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of torture Offers synergised knowledge through comparative angle, exploring differences and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474409292Author Thomas Deane TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781094860619Author Larkspur & Tea PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...