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Classic Chinese Animated Film and Ideology by Olga Bobrowska
SciFier: £58.18This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong's... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9780748640720
SciFier: £93.01This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Ian Garwood provides a comprehensive account of existing work on film narration and offers an overview... -
Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video Eric Hoyt 9780520282643
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries... -
The Contemporary Superhero Film by Terence McSweeney
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.89Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has... -
100 Essential Indian Films by Rohit K. Dasgupta
SciFier: £50.99Although the motion picture industry in India is one of the oldest and largest in the world-with literally thousands of productions released each year-films from that country have not been as well... -
Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972 Peter Stanfield 9780813599021
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized... -
Film Reboots Daniel Herbert 9781474451369
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451369Author Daniel HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Film School Survival Guide: The Ultimate Manual for Student Filmmakers Kieron Evans 9781041003700
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Film School Survival Guide is a comprehensive and approachable resource designed to address common mistakes made by film students and provide straightforward, practical solutions.Drawing upon the... -
The Business of Film: A Practical Introduction Stephen R. Greenwald 9781032108742
SciFier: £44.43- Offers a practical introduction to business practices of the film industry from planning through production and distribution using graphics, charts, and sample financing scenarios, offering readers... -
The Computer-Animated Film by Christopher Holliday
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions... -
Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing Vincent LoBrutto 9780275933784
SciFier: £78.49Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide... -
Film and Comic Books by Ian Gordon
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic... -
Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe Thomas Austin 9781474448512
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across a continent in flux. This urgent and necessary collection brings together scholars from Spain... -
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory by Nick Jones
SciFier: £46.33"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
SciFier: £48.93This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H... -
Film Essays and a Lecture Sergei Eisenstein 9780691614359
SciFier: £35.33Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a... -
Refocus: the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad Maryam Ghorbankarimi 9781474477628
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Offers the first English language book on the films and the career of Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad Devotes specific attention to Banietemad's long career in documentary filmmaking, which... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493826
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater Analyses both Linklater's celebrated and understudied work in dialogue with ongoing debates in film studies ... -
Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Christian Metz 9780231173674
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the... -
Becoming AFI: 50 Years Inside the American Film Institute Jean Picker Firstenberg 9781595801463
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.49For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals... -
Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film Edward Lamberti 9781789389425
RRP: £109.95SciFier: £108.51Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493833
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from... -
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925 Luke McKernan 9780859892964
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £20.49Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world's first successful natural colour moving picture... -
Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film by H. Zeng
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring Fred Karlin 9780415941365
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £84.50On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of... -
Refocus: the Films of Ken Russell Matthew Melia 9781474477666
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.51Ken Russell was among the most provocative, creative, original and important directors in British film and television history but his career and legacy have long suffered under the media cliches of... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195935
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video Eric Hoyt 9780520282636
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries... -
The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre by Brad Windhauser
SciFier: £87.99In The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre, Brad J. Windhauser argues for the existence of this genre and, using a genre and queer theory lens, investigates how the initial, classic cluster of this... -
Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £71.80By merging three (inter)disciplinary areas of documentary film studies, women's and gender studies, and Iranian studies, this book looks at how Iranian women documentarians have engaged with gender... -
General History of Chinese Film I: 1896-1949 Ding Yaping 9781032069524
SciFier: £40.96The early years of the history of Chinese film have lately been the subject of resurgent interest and a growing body of scholarship has come to recognise and identify an extraordinarily diverse and... -
Refocus: the Films of Kelly Reichardt E. Dawn Hall 9781474452243
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent... -
Classic Hollywood: Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 Veronica Pravadelli 9780252038778
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £81.81Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in... -
Classic Hollywood: Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 Veronica Pravadelli 9780252080340
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in... -
The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977 Calum Waddell 9781474409254
SciFier: £93.01Examines the American exploitation film blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation between 1959-1977What is an exploitation film? 'The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and... -
Screened Stages: On Theatre in Film Rachel Joseph 9780367498269
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940300
SciFier: £88.49In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader Edward Lamberti 9781474444002
SciFier: £97.54Emmanuel 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... -
Financing Your Film by Trisha Curran
SciFier: £35.99This practical guide addresses the needs of aspiring, beginning and veteran independent producers, as well as film students. The author covers such topics as sources of money, ways to structure...