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Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing Frederick Wiseman 9780520244573
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €30.50Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a... -
Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains Brian McNair 9780748634477
RRP: €33.31SciFier: €30.98We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of... -
The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972 Ernest Betts 9781032602585
SciFier: €41.52First published in 1973 The Film Business makes a factual survey of British films from their beginnings in 1896 to 1972. Ernest Betts offers character studies of men who have built the film industry... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781349437818
SciFier: €55.92We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards John Dorney 9781538163108
SciFier: €42.05A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780313361821
SciFier: €35.69Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically-every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come... -
Horror, The Film Reader Mark Jancovich 9780415235624
SciFier: €53.07Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The... -
Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film Geetha Ramanathan 9781474440691
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €19.31A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise... -
Refocus: the Films of William Castle Murray Leeder 9781474424264
SciFier: €116.07The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781137294326
RRP: €53.54SciFier: €53.48Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Trees in European and American Cinemas Prof Thomas Austin (Professor of Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK) 9781399564939
RRP: €107.10SciFier: €96.39This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160627
SciFier: €43.78The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781349451500
SciFier: €55.92Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
A Look at Film and Social Justice in Cinema Today by Stephen Dest
RRP: €82.11SciFier: €67.82A Look at Film and Social Justice in Cinema Today navigates the intersection of filmmaking and its role in highlighting social justice issues. This book examines how some modern cinema has shifted... -
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam 9780415065955
SciFier: €46.87First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it... -
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto
Titan BooksRRP: €47.59SciFier: €32.42An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, featuring rare and previously unseen production art and new and exclusive interviews.Over 40 years ago, in Star Trek III: The... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9780230301054
SciFier: €55.92Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline Peter C. Pugsley 9781474494618
SciFier: €110.68Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline explores how these contemporary films capture a distinct view of Japanese adolescent life, uncovering significant links with the... -
The Hammer Vault: Treasures From the Archive of Hammer Films by Marcus Hearn
Titan BooksRRP: €41.64SciFier: €28.91This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotional material and private correspondence. Hundreds of... -
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film Sulgi Lie 9781041189671
RRP: €57.11SciFier: €52.87Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema... -
The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films With a Foreword by Sir John Akomfrah Ashley Clark 9781529438253
RRP: €41.65SciFier: €28.00The World of Black Film is an entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe, from to the early days of cinema to now. Starting... -
A History of Early Film V1 by Stephen Herbert
SciFier: €37.59Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781349463343
SciFier: €55.92Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781137336033
SciFier: €55.92Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
SciFier: €55.92Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780313305641
SciFier: €73.77Theo 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... -
Hollywood Puzzle Films Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415622462
SciFier: €60.29From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time... -
Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema Jill Murphy 9781041189503
RRP: €57.11SciFier: €52.04As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into... -
British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance Stephen Shafer 9780415754989
SciFier: €47.91Shafer's study challenges the conventional historical assumption that British feature films during the Thirties were mostly oriented to the middle-class. Instead, he makes the critical distinction... -
Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film R. Garrett 9781403998194
SciFier: €110.66In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way... -
Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film R. Garrett 9781349546787
SciFier: €113.10In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way... -
Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger 9780415575287
SciFier: €65.45Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women's... -
Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios Patrick Humphries 9781803990187
RRP: €23.80SciFier: €17.46There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of... -
Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture Siegfried Kracauer 9780520271838
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780313302794
SciFier: €92.81Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and... -
Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature by Ian Conrich
RRP: €142.79SciFier: €135.65This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and... -
Invisible Visual Effects: An Enlightenment Education Book on Film Visual Effects Jin Zhi 9781032124537
RRP: €47.59SciFier: €46.58This book aims to provide readers with a systematic understanding of traditional visual effects production, covering both internal VFX studio operations and external collaborations.It is divided into... -
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film Peter Verstraten 9781041181118
RRP: €57.11SciFier: €52.87Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a Hollandse school, a term... -
Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film Helena Goscilo 9781793641670
SciFier: €45.21Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry... -
Acting For Film by Mel Churcher
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €17.91The author uses her wide experience as an acting and voice coach an major movies to offer insights into the film acting process. She provides tasks, techniques and tips that are designed specifically...