Reference Books

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 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...

Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474437035Author Philip-Edward PhillisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinemaThe first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, 'Cinema-monde' picks up on the...

The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and '60s, including...

'Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers' examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood - Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly...

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected questions of gender and female authorship. It examines a wide array of documentary phenomena through global...

The "Reform Era" (1979-present) in China has been a time of massive social and economic change, and has witnessed China's transition from socialism to capitalism. This book focuses on how this period of change has been constructed in the films of Jia...

Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087976310Author Scott PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893266Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893426Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm