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Horror Film Poems by Christoph Paul
RRP: $26.44SciFier: $21.53A love letter to horror films where poems are the paragraphs. Featuring hilarious and chilling persona poems about iconic horror films with accompanying art by Joel Amat Guell.TOCAlienAmerican... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781349437818
SciFier: $91.06We 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... -
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film Sulgi Lie 9781041189671
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $83.97Towards 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... -
Refocus: the Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman Lisa Dombrowski 9781474478861
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Examines an under-analysed period of Robert Altman's career Provides new critical perspectives on the Altman oeuvre Features original interviews with key Altman collaborators Offers case studies... -
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema J. Chamarette 9780230299535
SciFier: $88.81Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and... -
Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema Jill Murphy 9781041189503
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65As 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... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780313302794
SciFier: $147.40Senegalese 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... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443115
RRP: $47.23SciFier: $32.58This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Kim Knowles 9783030443085
RRP: $170.08SciFier: $79.36This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence. It argues for the continued relevance of material engagement... -
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam 9780415065955
SciFier: $74.45First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it... -
The Hammer Vault: Treasures From the Archive of Hammer Films by Marcus Hearn
Titan BooksRRP: $66.13SciFier: $45.91This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotional material and private correspondence. Hundreds of... -
Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger 9780415575287
SciFier: $103.95Feminist 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... -
Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Russell J.A. Kilbourn 9780415520300
RRP: $103.93SciFier: $94.12Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a 'reflection' but an indispensable index of human experience - especially our experience of time's passage, of the present moment, and, most... -
Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea Dong Hoon Kim 9781474437547
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $52.56In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity,... -
Post-Catastrophe Film: Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster Stephen Lee Naish (Independent Scholar, Canada) 9781835952832
RRP: $188.91SciFier: $170.76Why can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances? This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called 'post-catastrophe' is emerging that displays narratives ... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781137022189
SciFier: $88.81We 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... -
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema J. Chamarette 9781349335220
SciFier: $88.81Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and... -
Film and the Imagined Image Sarah Cooper (King's College London) 9781474452793
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $39.94Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452793Author Sarah CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207294
SciFier: $47.12In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg Michael Grant 9780275970581
SciFier: $148.35In 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... -
Invisible Visual Effects: An Enlightenment Education Book on Film Visual Effects Jin Zhi 9781032124537
RRP: $75.58SciFier: $73.97This 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... -
Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere Anna Westerstahl Stenport 9781474438063
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $46.10Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked... -
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Montre Aza Missouri 9781137454171
SciFier: $88.81Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author... -
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia Ian Aitken 9781474431965
RRP: $45.34SciFier: $43.04Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780313296987
SciFier: $148.35Czech 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 Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown 9780415899413
SciFier: $95.75The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored... -
Wildlife Films Derek Bouse 9780812217285
RRP: $51.01SciFier: $43.00If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the... -
Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton Michael Lee 9781474497039
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474497039Author Michael LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Colours of Film by Charles Bramesco
RRP: $35.89SciFier: $26.44'What's so wonderful about Bramesco's book, outside of a visually splendid layout that embraces the first word of that title with detailed color breakdowns of each palette, is how much it enhances... -
Politics Go to the Movies: International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television Joel R. Campbell 9781793635181
SciFier: $75.58Movies and television series are excellent tools for teaching political science and international relations. Understanding how stories in various film and television genres illustrate political ideas... -
Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611475173
SciFier: $186.15Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster's novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207287
SciFier: $178.25In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film Peter Verstraten 9781041181118
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $83.97Dutch 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... -
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media by K. Marciniak
SciFier: $88.81This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art,... -
British Women Film Directors in the New Millennium by Stella Hockenhull
SciFier: $197.49This book focuses on the output of women film directors in the period post Millennium when the number of female directors working within the film industry rose substantially. Despite the fact that... -
Young Soviet Film Makers by Jeanne Vronskaya
SciFier: $206.09Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing... -
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Montre Aza Missouri 9781349554515
SciFier: $88.81Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: $85.92A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475133
RRP: $79.38SciFier: $78.51This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the... -
Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934 Steve Neale 9780859892919
RRP: $51.03SciFier: $47.23A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced...