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Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Russell J.A. Kilbourn 9780415520300
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £49.80Since 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... -
Film and the Imagined Image Sarah Cooper (King's College London) 9781474452793
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452793Author Sarah CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
European Film Remakes Eduard Cuelenaere 9781474460644
SciFier: £97.54Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460644Author Eduard CuelenaereFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Post-Catastrophe Film: Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster Stephen Lee Naish (Independent Scholar, Canada) 9781835952832
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £90.35Why 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 ... -
Refocus: the Films of Susanne Bier Missy Molloy 9781474428736
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £25.21Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier,... -
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia Ian Aitken 9781474431965
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Based 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... -
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown 9780415899413
SciFier: £50.66The 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... -
Cheap Movie Tricks: How To Shoot A Short Film For Under $2,000 (Filmmaker gift) Rickey Bird 9781633535435
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £10.74How to Make a Movie on a Tight BudgetToday's indie film market is growing by leaps and bounds and filmmaker Rickey Bird and screenwriter and novelist Al Guevara are on a mission to help indie... -
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... -
Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934 Steve Neale 9780859892919
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99A 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... -
Colours of Film by Charles Bramesco
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.99'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... -
Filming the Children's Book: Adapting Metafiction Casie Hermansson 9781474413565
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Just as a work of self-reflexive 'metafiction' and the experience of reading it differ from other types of literature, the work and the experience of viewing films that adapt metafiction are... -
Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton Michael Lee 9781474497039
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474497039Author Michael LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Montre Aza Missouri 9781349554515
SciFier: £46.99Black 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... -
Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611475173
SciFier: £98.49Filming 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... -
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... -
Where we Came In: Seventy Years of the British Film Industry Charles Allen Oakley 9781138987104
SciFier: £45.46Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood... -
Refocus: The Films of Zoya Akhtar Aakshi Magazine 9781474476423
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474476423Author Aakshi MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207287
SciFier: £94.31In 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 British Horror Film from the Silent to the Multiplex by Ian Fryer
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.11When Hammer Films broke box office records in 1957 with `The Curse of Frankenstein', the company not only resurrected the gothic horror film, but also created a particularly British-flavoured form of... -
British Women Film Directors in the New Millennium by Stella Hockenhull
SciFier: £104.49This 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... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: £45.46A 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... -
Nosferatu (1922) by Kevin Jackson (late writer, broadcaster and film-maker)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing... -
Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals Beth Tsai 9781474496919
SciFier: £87.59Revisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpoints Look at the productive roles women have played as discursive mediators of the... -
Refocus: the Films of Mary Harron Kyle Barrett 9781474494410
SciFier: £93.01Mary Harron's diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first... -
The American Film Musical by Charles (Rick) F. Altman
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.86" . . . a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and Television"The American Film Musical is a truly admirable book... -
The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship J. Buchanan 9781349339341
SciFier: £46.99Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other... -
The Political Gesture in Pedro Costa's Films by Fiona Handyside
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.49This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa's formal procedures generate a... -
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University) 9781138107847
SciFier: £49.03The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere... -
Meta in Film and Television Series David Roche 9781399508049
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.77"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the... -
100 Greatest Film Scores by Matt Lawson
SciFier: £52.99The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's... -
Refocus: the Films of Budd Boetticher Gary D Rhodes 9781474437530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns... -
The British Official Film in South-East Asia by Ian Aitken
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British... -
The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text M. Parker 9780230110441
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan,... -
Young Soviet Film Makers Jeanne Vronskaya 9781032877808
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £31.59Based 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... -
The American Film Institute and the Cultural Politics of Experimental and Independent Cinema by Gracia Ramirez
SciFier: £82.99This book examines the role that the American Film Institute (AFI) had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a key moment of change in the history of American film. Weaving a rich... -
The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 9780816683123
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood... -
Remembering the Occupation in French film: National Identity in Postwar Europe L. Hewitt 9780230601307
SciFier: £92.99When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. This work shows how French film has... -
Klossowski Pasolini Gurrola: A Genealogy of Late Surrealist Film Theory Michael Newell Witte (Lecturer, California State University, Northridge) 9781399558747
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.78Beginning with an exploration of Klossowski's unconventional approach to literary and philosophical production, Michael Newell Witte traces the international impact that Klossowski and his cohorts in... -
The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad 9780415455374
SciFier: £48.93Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and detailed ethnographic research, this book explores...