Filter By
Books (10000)
- Title
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Films That Made Me... by Peter Bradshaw
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.39'Like a pizza delivery driver who travels everywhere by moped, or a volcanologist who keeps turning the central heating up, I'm a film critic who loves going to the cinema.' - Peter Bradshaw. ... -
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... -
![Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/583378/655151/9780415375146__66079.1721756484.jpg?c=1 "Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]")
Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £1.29This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool Deirdre O'Neill 9780367887308
SciFier: £40.26Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge... -
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 Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film Mikhail Iampolski 9780520085305
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £26.49The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In "The Memory of... -
Refocus: the Films of Fran Ois Ozon by Lo c Bourdeau
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.50Examines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon's work is... -
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... -
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film Sonja Fritzsche 9781800349087
SciFier: £38.95The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational... -
Refocus: the Films of Jocelyne Saab by Mathilde Rouxel
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinema Offers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artistic Positions Saab's work as... -
ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple Jeff Jaeckle (Portland Community College) 9781474439947
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01As the first woman to win two Best Documentary Oscars and the recipient of numerous lifetime achievement awards, Barbara Kopple deserves scholarly attention. Two of her early documentaries, Harlan... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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 Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Marcel Broodthaers and Film by Steven Jacobs
SciFier: £34.98Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental filmMarcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a... -
Refocus: the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky Sergei Toymentsev 9781474437233
SciFier: £97.54This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.Book InformationISBN 9781474437233Author Sergei ToymentsevFormat... -
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... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780312229917
SciFier: £92.99A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film... -
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... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: £61.99This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
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... -
Classics in Film and Fiction Deborah Cartmell 9780745315881
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.39This book negotiates the notion of a 'classic' in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term 'classic'... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201049
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In...