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From Silents to Sound: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Performers Who Made the Transition to Talking Pictures Roy Liebman 9780786440627
RRP: $69.00SciFier: $60.00Garbo talked, Gilbert self-destructed and Chaplin refused - that's about all many people know about silent film actors who faced the transition into talking pictures. Yes, Greta Garbo's talkie debut... -
Researching Historical Screen Audiences Kate Egan 9781474477826
RRP: $47.58SciFier: $44.46Considers the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies Outlines and expands on the wide range of sources which can be employed to research and capture the... -
Machinima by Phylis Johnson
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $46.43Unlike traditional animation techniques that use specialized 3D animation software, machinima --a term derived from the words ""machine"" and ""cinema""--records the action in real-time interactive... -
Best Movie Scenes by Sanford Levine
SciFier: $46.43When movie fans talk about their favorite films, they most often mention one or two particular scenes that spurred their adoration. This witty and engaging volume catalogs more than 500 of the most... -
POV Horror by Duncan Hubber
RRP: $111.84SciFier: $97.72Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre. It reconceptualises landmark films--including The Blair Witch Project... -
Special Effects Artists by Rolf Giesen
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $48.10Throughout the course of film history, artists have used matte painting, stop-motion animation, model photography, process cinematography, in-camera effects, travelling mattes, optical printing and... -
Visible Nations by Chon A. Noriega
RRP: $49.96SciFier: $40.75Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633487Author Chon A. NoriegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Film Music Sergio Miceli 9788875929244
RRP: $116.62SciFier: $108.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788875929244Author Sergio MiceliPage Count 835Imprint -
Secret History of the Wizarding Phenomenon by Patricio Tarantino
RRP: $26.16SciFier: $22.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889921660Author Patricio TarantinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint
Neosentience by Bill Seaman (Rhode Island School of Design)
RRP: $57.00SciFier: $55.50The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system,...
The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema Iain Robert Smith 9781474441339
RRP: $57.10SciFier: $54.19With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, 'The Hollywood Meme' is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have...
Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema Alison Taylor 9781474440981
RRP: $57.10SciFier: $54.19Troubled Everyday' offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such...
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods Sabrina Qiong Yu 9781474440974
RRP: $69.00SciFier: $66.19From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of...
Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century Stacey Abbott 9781474438377
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $50.29Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the 'reluctant'...
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: $69.00SciFier: $66.19A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of...
The First Hollywood Musicals by Edwin M. Bradley
RRP: $85.66SciFier: $77.71As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of a song and dance film. In 1929 and...
The Sounds of Commerce by Jeff Smith
RRP: $71.40SciFier: $59.67The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry...
A Reader In Animation Studies by Jayne Pilling
RRP: $66.62SciFier: $55.81Cartoons-both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series-offer a rich field for detailed investigation and analysis. Contributors draw on theories...
Don't Look Now by Paul Newland (University of Worcester, United Kingdom)
RRP: $68.90SciFier: $66.59While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don't Look Now uncovers forgotten...
A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series by David Kalat
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $46.43This thoroughly updated and revised critical account of the Godzilla movie franchise explores the fascinating story behind Japan's most famous movie monster and its development from black-and-white...
Film and the Imagined Image by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: $219.17This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage...
Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Dolores Tierney
RRP: $57.10SciFier: $54.19Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book brings a new...
Framing Empire by Jerod Hollyfield
RRP: $52.34SciFier: $50.72Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429955Author Jerod HollyfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint
Short Films from a Small Nation by C. Claire Thomson
SciFier: $219.17The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the...
Blockbusters by Mark A. Graves
SciFier: $174.91Blockbusters: A Reference Guide to Film Genres offers both film specialists and film fans an in-depth look at 12 popular genres of film. With a separate chapter dedicated to each of the 12 commonly...
Film It with Music by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: $163.01This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them. Film entries range from the legendary The Jazz Singer in 1927 to...
A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema Charles P. Mitchell 9780313315275
SciFier: $163.01This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that...
Entertainers in British Films by Dennis Gifford
SciFier: $138.02Representing the first attempt to compile a complete catalog of the entertainers who appeared on film in Great Britain from the invention of the cinema in the mid-1890s to the present, this...
Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema by Christophe P. Jacobs
SciFier: $163.01The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers...
The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: $163.01Independent filmmaking is often regarded as a relatively recent phenomenon, yet the so-called movement has actually existed as long as movies themselves. In this indispensable single-volume reference...
Video Versions by Thomas L. Erskine
SciFier: $163.01Many of our favorite films began as plays-some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video...
Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions by John F. Kelson
SciFier: $135.64Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for...
Cinema Arthuriana
RRP: $69.00SciFier: $61.67The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes of the legends. Clearly, soon after...
Guide to American Cinema, 1965-1995 by Daniel Curran
SciFier: $163.01This is a critical collection of key films, directors, and performers in American film, 1965-1995, a period that spans the demise of the studio system to the rise of the independents. The guide...
James Mason by Kevin Sweeney
SciFier: $163.01James Mason broke into British films in 1935 after a few years working on the stage. For the rest of the decade, he alternated unsuccessful theatre ventures with increasingly important movies. Though...
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1981 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $165.39General accessibility to motion picture credit information continues with Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits, 1981 the fourth issue to be published by Greenwood Press. The Academy collects...
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1980 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $165.39Since 1934, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has organized motion picture credit information and published it, primarily for distribution to the motion picture community, in the Screen...
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1982 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: $164.20The Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits covers films eligible for the Academy Awards, as well as other films, released in the Los Angeles area, which do not meet the Academy's requirements. Each...
Horror Films of 2000-2009 by John Kenneth Muir
RRP: $128.50SciFier: $111.53Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested...
Guide to the Cinema of Spain by Marvin D'Lugo
SciFier: $163.01This guide to Spanish film documents the film industry's interpretation of the isolating effects of the cultural traditionalism of the early twentieth century to the expanding international...