Reference Books

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

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087912271Author Scott PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781073100682Author John V WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 774Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries The History of Widescreen...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015768222Author Epes Winthrop SargentFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

When someone offered Michael DiPaolo USD5,000 to make a Digital Video horror film, he jumped at the chance to test a theory: an ultra-low budget feature, shot in less than a week, with both a paid cast and crew, could be successful if meticulously...

Offers a transnational comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film. Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema. It discusses a range of internationally renowned...

This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual...

British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595339259Author Carl RollysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with...

In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by more than 250 filmmakers, and short and documentary films by another 900 filmmakers, this volume...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805081817Author Barry HampeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525536192Author Leonard MaltinFormat PaperbackPage Count 1648Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 49mm

TARGET CONSUMER: Roger EbertThe definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted filmcritics. Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible thanever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard...