Reference Books

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...

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...

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)...

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)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893235Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945604607Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein's anti-tsarist drama, The Battleship Potemkin, to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684182282Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649705396Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649705419Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649705372Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874747Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874761Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror.Book InformationISBN...