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Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275967574
SciFier: £78.49Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481847
SciFier: £93.01Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s... -
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'... -
The Films of Pablo Larrain by Laura Hatry
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474448284Author Laura HatryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Teaching Film Censorship and Controversy Mark Readman 9781844570799
SciFier: £49.96Provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy; offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological... -
Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art Denise K. Cummings 9780870139994
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.16In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253025593
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
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... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174310
SciFier: £43.73Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
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... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274129
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £51.60What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic,... -
Film, Faith, and Cultural Conflict by Thomas Robin Riley
SciFier: £61.99Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ arguably generated more resistance and conflict upon its release than any film before or since, engendering intense debate and even hatred between... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781349487226
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £77.99Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253026101
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film John Bodnar (Indiana University) 9780801885372
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.13From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless,... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory Edward Branigan 9781138849150
SciFier: £56.30The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to... -
Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook David Cooper 9780313314902
SciFier: £72.99This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Chinese Films Abroad: Distribution and Translation Yves Gambier 9781032739595
SciFier: £40.36This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of the international exchange of the Chinese national film industry to the emergence... -
Far-Flung Families in Film by Daniela Berghahn
SciFier: £93.01Why have films with diasporic family narratives increased in popularity in recent years? How do representations of the diasporic family differ from those of more dominant social groups? How does... -
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 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... -
Film Studies: A Global Introduction Glyn Davis 9781405859189
SciFier: £68.96Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and... -
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275968137
SciFier: £36.99Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
Refocus: the Films of Annemarie Jacir by Iqra Shagufta Cheema
SciFier: £87.59Takes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie Jacir An entirely different approach to Palestinian film culture, in that the focus on a singular woman... -
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... -
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 ... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9781349333059
SciFier: £46.99The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
British Film Culture in the 1970s by Sue Harper
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This is an authoritative history of 1970s British Cinema. This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the... -
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... -
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 -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781137404138
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £93.49Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201339
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
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"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981
RRP: £121.00SciFier: £107.63The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss...