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From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley
SciFier: £78.49This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory,... -
The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: £78.49The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of... -
Martin Scorsese by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £47.99Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered... -
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg Michael Grant 9780275970581
SciFier: £78.49In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass... -
The Celluloid Courtroom by Ross D. Levi
SciFier: £61.99The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: £61.99Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite... -
The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman
SciFier: £52.99The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history... -
Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography Kathy M. Jackson 9780313258985
SciFier: £73.49When Life magazine unveiled its list of the one hundred most influential Americans of the 20th century, the selection committee was guided by one question: How would our lives be different if each of... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940317
SciFier: £37.99In 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... -
Becoming Film Literate by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £52.99Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto... -
Alternate Americas by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £52.99For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780313296987
SciFier: £78.49Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780313305641
SciFier: £61.99Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records Tim Hollis 9781578068494
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a... -
Jennifer Lopez: A Biography Kathleen A. Tracy 9780313355158
SciFier: £36.99One of Hollywood's first openly Latin stars, Jennifer Lopez has held fast to her New York Bronx roots, while rising above them to become the highest paid Latina actress in history. Her expansive body... -
King of the Half Hour by David Everitt
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.23Nat Hiken was the driving force behind the 1950s and 1960s series ""Sgt Bilko"" and ""Car 54, Where Are You?"". This biography of the television pioneer places him in broadcast history, drawing on... -
George A. Romero by Tony Williams
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After recently relocating to Canada, he shows no signs of slowing up:... -
An Index to Short and Feature Film Reviews in the Moving Picture World by Annette M. D'Agostino
SciFier: £68.99The Moving Picture World magazine was the industry standard during the silent cinema era. This is the first index compiled for all the films reviewed in the early volumes of this journal. In 1916,... -
The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography by Charles P. Mitchell
SciFier: £58.49The influence of science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft is widely felt in modern literature; authors from Robert E. Howard to Stephen King can claim him as their ancestor. But cinema too has seen... -
Mort Walker by Jason Whiton
SciFier: £27.99When Mort Walker (b. 1923) was ten years old, he received an inscribed Moon Mullins cartoon from its creator Frank Willard that read, ""Say Morton, those drawings you sent me were swell-I'll bet... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262409
SciFier: £92.99Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
W. C. Fields by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £58.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.All students of the 'Great Man's'career will have to rely on this work... Perhaps Gehring's greatest contributio here is his... -
Agent of Challenge and Defiance: The Films of Ken Loach George McKnight 9780275960360
SciFier: £37.99For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These invariably controversial film and television... -
The Cross and the Cinema by James M. Skinner
SciFier: £78.49Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In... -
Screening the Past by Tony Barta
SciFier: £78.49Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of... -
By Angels Driven by Chris Lippard
SciFier: £36.99Derek Jarman was one of the most innovative British filmmakers of his generation. Working largely outside the British film establishment and within tight budgetary constraints, he produced a series... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275969745
SciFier: £78.49The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
The Hanging Figure by Christopher Morris
SciFier: £78.49In a radical new interpretation of the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Morris argues that suspense-the fundamental component of Hitchcock's cinema-is best understood through deconstruction of... -
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 Infernal Return by Rodney Farnsworth
SciFier: £61.99George Lukas and other leading filmmakers acknowledge their indebtedness to mythographic scholarship on archetypes. In his new study, author Rodney Farnsworth identifies a pattern of filmmakers'... -
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... -
Celluloid Heroes Down Under by Theodore F. Sheckels
SciFier: £78.49With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as... -
Movies and the Reagan Presidency by Chris Jordan
SciFier: £51.99The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States president-a former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activist-served as a... -
The DVD Revolution by Aaron Barlow
SciFier: £51.99The introduction of the DVD marked the beginning of one of history's most successful technological innovations, and capped a 75-year development of home-viewing possibilities. Never before have film... -
From Box Office to Ballot Box by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as... -
Future Imperfect by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: £78.49Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining authors of the last half of the twentieth century, and the increasing levels of respect and interest that his fiction and... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944438
SciFier: £37.99Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
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... -
Controversial Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips
SciFier: £43.99At the heart of any history of controversial films is a strange paradox: while films, especially popular and mainstream films, are often portrayed as meaningless products of popular culture, those... -
Audrey Hepburn: A Biography Martin Gitlin 9780313359453
SciFier: £36.99From the moment she appeared on the American silver screen as a runaway princess in Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn was beloved by critics and audiences alike. From her childhood activism in the Dutch...