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The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch Kathryn Fuller-Seeley 9781477333129
RRP: £36.00SciFier: £30.59The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas. In 1910, the MEliEs Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio... -
The Crime Films of Anthony Mann Max Alvarez 9781617039249
SciFier: £102.49Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe... -
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... -
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... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949556
SciFier: £37.99By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents... -
Nordic Genre Film by Tommy Gustafsson
SciFier: £93.71Offers a transnational comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film. Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Film Firsts by Ethan Alter
SciFier: £53.49This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future. ... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253026101
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £24.33A 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... -
Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948: The Untold History of the Film Industry Brian Yecies 9780415740487
SciFier: £47.20Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) and US Army Military (1945-1948) periods within the larger... -
Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel by Norberto Minguez-Arranz
SciFier: £78.49The novel and the film are two modes of representation based on different aesthetic tools, but both are capable of articulating narrative discourses. In Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel, author... -
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... -
Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production Budhaditya Chattopadhyay 9781041186397
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book is the first ever systematic attempt to study film sound in the Indian subcontinent by artistic research. The book aims to fill the scholarly void on the issues of sound and listening in... -
Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania: Studies in the Sociology of Film Roxana Cuciumeanu 9798888905449
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.99Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989. This book provides rich... -
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... -
Cinema's Original Sin: D. W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture Paul McEwan 9781477325490
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation,... -
Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects Barry Monahan 9781041180777
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346426
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Victor 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... -
Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film Craig Ian Mann 9781474441124
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the... -
The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne by John Hanhardt
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £64.29The provocative pop artist's on-screen experiments, newly brought to light in this essential reference work In the 1960s, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) produced hundreds of film and video works-short and... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949549
SciFier: £78.49By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents... -
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors Peter S. Donaldson 9781138981799
SciFier: £48.93Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and... -
The Nickel Was for the Movies: Film in the Novel from Pirandello to Puig Gavriel Moses 9780520079434
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £49.49The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human... -
Making Movies Without Losing Money: Practical Lessons in Film Finance Daniel Harlow 9780367369781
SciFier: £57.18This book is about the practical realities of the film market today and how to make a film while minimizing financial risk. Film is a risky investment and securing that investment is a huge challenge... -
Carry On Regardless: Getting to the Bottom of Britain's Favourite Comedy Films Caroline Frost 9781526774781
SciFier: £25.72The definitive history of Carry On, Britain's largest film franchise, including exclusive interviews with stars including Bernard Cribbins, Angela Douglas and Kenneth Cope. For the first time,... -
History and Story in the American Political Thriller Film: Hollywood in the Labyrinth Pablo Castrillo Maortua 9781793654700
SciFier: £87.99In this book, Pablo Castrillo Maortua analyzes the emergence of the political thriller in Hollywood at a time of angst and turmoil in the United States. The Cold War, the nuclear age, domestic and... -
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema Robert Geal 9781032027760
SciFier: £42.86This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... -
Performance and Spanish Film by Dean Allbritton
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on... -
Producing for Film and Television by Sue Austen
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.13Producing for Film and Television offers a comprehensive overview of the different stages of film production, from development of an idea to delivery, distribution and festival entry. Written from... -
Indie Film Producing by Suzanne Lyons
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.96Indie Film Producing explains the simple, basic, clear cut role of the independent film producer. Raising funds to do your dream project, producing award-winning films with a low budget, putting name... -
How to Work the Film & TV Markets: A Guide for Content Creators Heather Hale 9781138800656
SciFier: £39.23How to Work the Film & TV Markets takes independent filmmakers, television and digital content creators on a virtual tour of the entertainment industry's trade shows - the circulatory system of the... -
The Films of Bill Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive Bernd Herzogenrath 9781041187851
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the... -
Contemporary Thai Horror Film: A Monstrous Hybrid Mary Ainslie 9781474484466
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This book focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and the central role this plays in Thailand's... -
Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency Stephen Lee Naish 9781643150956
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.73Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency offers a vibrant and accessible collection of essays that explore how films and changes in the media industries reflect and influence our political,... -
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It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive Mark Kermode 9780099543480 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.12In 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... -
Contemporary American Science Fiction Film Terence McSweeney 9781032039657
SciFier: £40.26This book explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millenniumIt offers a ground-breaking... -
Making Movies Without Losing Money: Practical Lessons in Film Finance Daniel Harlow 9781032173719
SciFier: £23.74This book is about the practical realities of the film market today and how to make a film while minimizing financial risk. Film is a risky investment and securing that investment is a huge challenge... -
Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood Julie K. Allen 9781905816873
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9781349321209
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book - the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy- provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in...