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Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century Geoff King 9781850438144
SciFier: $43.62Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765082
SciFier: $158.45One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retained much of its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also... -
The Waltons by Mike Chopra-Gant
SciFier: $43.62The period in which The Waltons appeared on television screens was socially and politically volatile; a testing time in which Americans grappled with 'stagflation', rising oil prices, defeat in... -
Real Images by Josephine Woll
SciFier: $38.91This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry... -
Stairways to Heaven by Mr Geoffrey Macnab
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $12.66What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a... -
Producing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA) 9781784534356
SciFier: $43.62Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done... -
A Spanish Labyrinth by Mark Allinson
SciFier: $38.91AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and... -
Cinema and Soviet Society by Peter Kenez
SciFier: $41.69The story of Soviet film over the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of World Cinema. In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the... -
Fashioning the City by Dr Agnes Rocamora
SciFier: $40.30While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755635429
SciFier: $47.25Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
The TV Detective: Voices of Dissent in Contemporary Television Helen Piper 9781780762951
SciFier: $38.912016 Winner - BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Best BookWhat makes British television crime drama so perennially popular, both in the UK and internationally? What... -
Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor
SciFier: $31.26The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The... -
Marvel's Mutants by Miles Booy
SciFier: $28.48In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the... -
The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border Marjorie Vecchio 9781848859548
SciFier: $37.52The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including Chocolat, Beau travail and White Material... -
Television Comedy and Femininity by Rosie White
SciFier: $144.55Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' - playing the underdog or misfit - does a woman seem stranger in his... -
The Man with the Movie Camera by Graham Roberts
SciFier: $34.74The "KINO Russian Cinema" series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings... -
Delivering Dreams by Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK)
SciFier: $40.59Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan 9781788312080
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $39.20Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories Michael Rouland 9781845119010
SciFier: $38.91Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing... -
Gendering History on Screen by Julia Erhart
SciFier: $156.29Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female... -
Contemporary New Zealand Cinema by Ian Conrich (University of Vienna, Austria)
SciFier: $43.62Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of both national and international... -
Dress Behind Bars by Juliet Ash
SciFier: $40.59From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over... -
British Cinema and the Cold War by PhD Tony Shaw
SciFier: $42.10Cinema was one of the Cold War's most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured... -
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle Lina Khatib 9781848852822
SciFier: $34.74Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing... -
Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK) 9781848852808
SciFier: $37.59Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises", Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. Brooker's close... -
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir Mike Chopra-Gant 9781850438380
SciFier: $40.30This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge... -
Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Claudia Springer 9781784534035
SciFier: $43.62Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760056
SciFier: $157.06The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
Art and Laughter by Sheri Klein
SciFier: $40.30This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Kathryn Kalinak 9781784534059
SciFier: $43.62Sound in cinema is a fascinating area that is just beginning to get the attention it deserves. This innovative book highlights the workers who collaborated inside and outside Hollywood to produce... -
Black & White Cinema: A Short History Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781784534523
SciFier: $43.62Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the... -
Repentance by Professor Emerita Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
SciFier: $39.10Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical film, made in Georgia, is the best known film of the perestroika and glasnost years. With its outspoken and controversial reference to the Stalin era and Stalin's place... -
Burnt by the Sun by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: $34.74Nikita Mikhalkov's film about the Stalin period has received wide attention inside and outside Russia, being shown at Cannes, winning an Oscar, and reaching cinemas worldwide. Mikhalkov is a fine and... -
Saints and Avengers by James Chapman
SciFier: $40.30Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766669
SciFier: $40.30The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly... -
Les Diaboliques: French Film Guide Susan Hayward 9781845111021
SciFier: $39.10Hugely enjoyable and exciting, long awaited book by top world authority on French cinema. This is the first book to focus on this very contemporary film. "Les Diaboliques" is often shown and is... -
Religion and Film by Melanie Wright
SciFier: $37.52From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional... -
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity Richard Tapper 9781860648045
SciFier: $38.91Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf... -
Film England by Andrew Higson (University of York, UK)
SciFier: $38.91In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson... -
Spectacular Narratives by Geoff King
SciFier: $34.74What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park,...