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Adaptation Theory and Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA Gordon E. Slethaug (University of Waterloo, Canada) 9781623564407
SciFier: £37.99Traditional critics of film adaptation generally assumed a) that the written text is better than the film adaptation because the plot is more intricate and the language richer when pictorial images... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: £78.49This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
SciFier: £32.74In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal... -
A Lateral View by Donald Richie
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man Time magazine calls "the dean of art critics in Japan." Spanning more than... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709938
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games Agata Waszkiewicz 9783110716474
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £66.39Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that... -
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... -
Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television Monique Rooney 9781783480470
SciFier: £43.99Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and... -
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing Frederick Wiseman 9780520244573
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Frederick 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... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709969
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £72.49Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
A Criminology of Videogames: Playing at Crime and its Control Vladimir Rizov (University of Sussex) 9781529245424
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £63.00This innovative book examines how videogames engage with crime and its control. It treats games as ideological representations, in which ideas about policing, justice, and criminality are formed and... -
Ozu by Donald Richie
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.16"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Stephen Cox
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Paperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.Book InformationISBN 9781581824346Author... -
Teaching To Transgress Bell Hooks (Berea College, USA) 9780415908085
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo FreireIn Teaching to... -
Snape by Lorrie Kim
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.65While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J.K... -
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue Vida T. Johnson 9780253208873
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.78"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films-a very difficult task in any case-must read it." -The Russian Review"This book is a model of... -
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... -
Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place Julia Hallam 9780253011053
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial... -
Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place Julia Hallam 9780253010971
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial... -
Re-viewing Fascism by Jacqueline Reich
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda... -
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99An eye-opening portrait of a vibrant film culture, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film is the most comprehensive study of the Japanese filmmaking scene yet written. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp... -
Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399433
SciFier: £21.24Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
Allegro non troppo: Bruno Bozzetto's Animated Music Marco Bellano (University of Padova, Italy) 9781501376283
SciFier: £28.99"A film that will let you see the music and listen to drawings; in a word, a film full of Fantasia!" Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo tips its hand right away: it is an unabashed, yet full of... -
The Women Could Fly: The must read dark, magical - and timely - critically acclaimed dystopian novel Megan Giddings 9781035001583
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24"Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness." - Raven LeilaniReminiscent of the works of Margaret... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766652
SciFier: £113.99The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly... -
The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales Megan DeVirgilis 9781837721689
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £69.23This book exposes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hispanic authors broke from European and American Gothic models to contend with their own anxieties over modernity and rising first-wave feminisms... -
Critical Role: Smiley Day!: A Good Advice Book From Your Favorite Robot Therapist Sam Riegel 9780593157442
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.53Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593157442Author Sam RiegelFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House WorldsPublisher Random... -
Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work Scott Allen Nollen 9780786440733
SciFier: £30.89This comprehensive analysis of Boris Karloff's life and career incorporates criticism, in-depth production information and discussions of cinematic themes and characters, with an account of the... -
The Pitt: Season Two: A Critical Exploration of Real-Time Storytelling, Medical Ethics, and Human Limits Evan Hartwell 9798241577047
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798241577047Author Evan HartwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
The Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography of Theatrical Releases Based on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe Don G. Smith 9780786417032
SciFier: £30.19Who can forget haunting tales like "The Oblong Box," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "Torture Garden"? This is a critical filmography of the 81 features from 13... -
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else David Balzer 9780745335971
SciFier: £11.72*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to... -
Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games Agata Waszkiewicz 9783111353081
RRP: £14.00SciFier: £9.83Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that... -
Manga: A Critical Guide Dr Shige (CJ) Suzuki (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA) 9781350072343
SciFier: £28.13A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its... -
Manga: A Critical Guide Dr Shige (CJ) Suzuki (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA) 9781350072350
SciFier: £78.49A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers move beyond manga available in translation to more fully explore the incredible... -
The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News D. Michael Rivage-Seul 9781433149528
RRP: £39.15SciFier: £36.49D. Michael Rivage-Seul's eye-opening new book, The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News, invites readers to try out what Baba Dick Gregory calls the "magic... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781349495955
SciFier: £95.29This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era Amanda Wasielewski (Stockholm University) 9781835950487
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £24.65Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis (City University of New York, USA.) 9781839026201
SciFier: £107.90Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1927's silent The... -
Lynda Barry: A Critical Guide Dr Maaheen Ahmed (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ghent University, Belgium) 9781350453678
SciFier: £25.02A complete introduction to the comics and graphic narratives of Lynda Barry, this book maps the historical and biographical contexts, key texts, the critical themes and debates surrounding her... -
Eastwood's Iwo Jima: Critical Engagements with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima Anne Gjelsvik 9780231165648
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event...