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Framing Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.99In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £10.25Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his... -
Essay'd 3 by Matthew Piper
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.99Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of Detroit artists.Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists is the third volume in a series of collections that present short, illustrated essays about artists... -
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order by James Peterson
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £18.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814324578Author James PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint < -
Sayles Talk by Diane Carson
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £27.99His name is synonymous with ""independent film,"" and for more than twenty-five years filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American... -
Film and Risk by Mette Hjort
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814334638Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The Last Laugh by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £31.49For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But... -
The Politics of Magic by Qinna Shen
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814345429
RRP: £86.00SciFier: £80.99Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Vincente Minnelli by Joe McElhaney
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £33.49This book offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of Vincente Minnelli, one of American cinema's central filmmakers.Widely known for innovative films like ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", ""An American... -
Queer Enchantments by Anne E. Duggan
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy colour schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation... -
Erotic Infidelities by Kimberly J. Lau
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99In the thirty-five years since the publication of The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of criticism. Yet none has addressed the ways her fairy... -
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones by Nancy L. Canepa
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £35.99The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid... -
To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa Isabel Balseiro 9780814330012
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £27.99With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. This collection offers an exploration of a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both... -
Transnational Cinema in a Global North by Andrew Nestingen
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £33.49Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on such auteurs as Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman. Recent work has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the... -
More than a Method by Cynthia L. Baron
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary... -
Cinema and Community by Moya Luckett
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £33.49Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet... -
After Kieslowski
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49This title traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died... -
Ingmar Bergman by Robin Wood
SciFier: £30.49At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman's films that demonstrated the... -
Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity Alistair Fox 9780814334324
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity a diverse group of contributors challenge the view that Campion's body of work lacks coherence or unity to instead examine the important characteristics and... -
Arthur Penn by Robin Wood
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £24.99Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood's analysis of the American director was... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814342930
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Tales in Context by Rella Kushelevsky
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £80.49A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma'asim.About the AuthorRella Kushelevsky is a distinguished professor of medieval and rabbinic studies at Bar-Ilan University. She is also the author of... -
Montgomery Clift, Queer Star by Elisabetta Girelli
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.03Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talented, Montgomery Clift was at the peak of his fame in 1956 when a devastating car crash nearly destroyed his face. While this traumatic event robbed him of... -
Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff
SciFier: £22.49While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the... -
Zones of Anxiety by Vicki Callahan
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within early cinematic paradigms. Made during 1913 to... -
Imitations of Life by Marcia Landy
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £21.71Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the... -
Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by Andreea Marinescu
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raul Ruiz.Most widely known for his filmic productions, Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) was a highly prolific, erudite, and innovative artist, whose work is located at... -
From Tinseltown to Bordertown by Celestino Deleyto
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the... -
Red Alert by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and filmshare important connections concerning... -
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films by Walter Raubicheck
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323267Author Walter RaubicheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint -
Light Motives by Randall Halle
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £33.49Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of films like ""Das Boot"" (1981), ""The Never-Ending Story"" (1984) ""Run Lola Run"" (1998) and recent... -
There She Goes by Corinn Columpar
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Following in the footsteps of the filmmakers whose work it features-including Miranda July, Janie Geiser, Tracey Moffatt, Sally Potter, Cindy Sherman, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sadie Benning, Agnes Varda,... -
Cinema at the Periphery by Dina Iordanova
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £20.23This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to... -
Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters by Nir Cohen
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £25.99A cultural history of gay filmmaking in Israel that explores its role in the rise of gay consciousness over the past three decades.Book InformationISBN 9780814334782Author Nir CohenFormat... -
Before the Crash by Mark Wolf
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium's golden age.Book InformationISBN 9780814334508Author Mark WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Im Kwon-Taek by David E. James
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making... -
Christophe Honore by David A. Gerstner
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside... -
Britton on Film
RRP: £44.95SciFier: £31.09For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are... -
Mother Goose Refigured by Christine A. Jones
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passe ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales produced by learned French...