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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... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274143
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07What 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,... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780333754122
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... -
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... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive Mark Kermode 9780099543480
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as... -
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... -
The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958 Jan G. Swynnoe 9780851158624
SciFier: £94.63A study of the British contribution to film music, detailing the idiosyncracies of British film, and showing how the differences between it and Hollywood affected composers on both sides of 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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy: Architecture, Innovation, Labour, Politics, 1930-60 Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781839025341
SciFier: £97.23This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime... -
The Film Club: No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week David Gilmour 9780091937997
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.64Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940317
SciFier: £41.13In 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... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346433
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £23.26Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher...