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Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy Emma Pett (University of York, UK) 9781501374883
SciFier: £33.99Film is often conceived as a medium that is watched rather than experienced. Existing studies of film audiences, and of media reception more broadly, have revealed the complexity of viewing practices... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre Novotny Lawrence 9780415540957
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £48.93During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin' and jivin' caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks,... -
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... -
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... -
Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom Agnieszka Rasmus 9781474448796
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not only share a language but also a history of film... -
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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Reconceptualising Film Policies Nolwenn Mingant (Universite de Nantes, France) 9780367409180
SciFier: £46.33This volume explores and interrogates the shifts and changes in both government and industry-based screen policies over the past 30 years. It covers a diverse range of film industries from different... -
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... -
The Children's Film Foundation: History and Legacy Robert Shail (Leeds Beckett University, UK) 9781844578580
SciFier: £87.99From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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. ... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film M. Flanagan 9780230202962
SciFier: £92.99Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative... -
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,... -
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... -
The American Film in the Crisis of Confidence by John P. McCombe
SciFier: £87.99American Film in the Crisis of Confidence: Hollywood Malaise, 1976-1983 examines how Hollywood films depict and respond to what U.S. President Jimmy Carter deemed a national "crisis of confidence" in... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284357
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film Ryan Bishop 9780748643073
SciFier: £93.01This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the... -
Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere: Imperfect Aesthetics Nicholas Balaisis 9781137590367
SciFier: £96.99This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed ... -
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... -
Nonfiction Film by Richard Barsam
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major... -
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,... -
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...