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Parody as Film Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview... -
Master Space by Barbara Bowman
SciFier: £43.99This is a unique study of the use of cinematic space by four important directors in American cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s: Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, and William Wyler... -
Songs of Love and Death by Michael Sevastakis
SciFier: £78.49This book examines eleven horror films in-depth and their relationships to Romantic Gothic literary conventions--mainly, but not solely, found in works dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth... -
Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar Barbara Morris 9780313292453
SciFier: £78.49The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The... -
Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema by Christophe P. Jacobs
SciFier: £68.99The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers... -
The Cowboy Way by Robert J. Higgs
SciFier: £78.49Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River, Shane, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, Wyatt Earp, and Dances with Wolves, this work examines traditional leadership theories as... -
The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook by Caroline Picart
SciFier: £68.99The endurance of the Frankenstein narrative as a modern cinematic myth is undeniable. Its flexibility has produced classic and contemporary horror film-most notably the Universal films of the... -
Hollywood's Image of the South by David Ebner
SciFier: £56.99From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of... -
Retrofitting Blade Runner by Judith Kerman
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £17.90In this volume, almost two dozen essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film.Book InformationISBN 9780879725105Author Judith KermanFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Freaks' Squeele Vol. 2 Florent Maudoux 9781962413657
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.91Shadow, Chance, and Xiong Mao enter the final semester of their first year at Hero University, and their teachers impose a crazy end-of-year project on them. They'll have to step into the shoes of... -
Parallel by K T Seto
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087882024Author K T SetoFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Octopus Dog PressPublisher Octopus Dog... -
Butter, Sugar, Magic by Jessica Rosenberg
SciFier: £14.03Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736722930Author Jessica RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Blue Octopus PressPublisher... -
Nyx by Loren Walker
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997392272Author Loren WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Octopus and Elephant BooksPublisher... -
Sweet and Sour Spells by Jessica Rosenberg
SciFier: £13.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959897002Author Jessica RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Blue Octopus PressPublisher... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 29 Karuho Shiina 9781421599502
Viz MediaSciFier: £8.30Sawako "Sadako" Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie.It's finally time for Kazehaya and Sawako to take their university entrance exams. On a fateful day that will determine the course... -
Learn to Draw True Beauty: Learn to draw your favorite characters from the popular webcomic series with behind-the-scenes and insider tips exclusively revealed inside! Yaongyi Yaongyi 9780760389690
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Embark on a creative journey through the enchanting world of WEBTOON Originals True Beauty series through exclusive content, step-by-step drawing tutorials, and artistic advice from its creator. ... -
Feeding the Eye by Anne Hollander
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Since the advent of cinema, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion. Artists now create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film and tape, on the dance stage, or in... -
The Manifesto on How to be Interesting Holly Bourne 9781409562184 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.83Apparently I'm boring. A nobody. But that's all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you're very welcome.Bree is by... -
The Pocket Pop Art
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Pop Art lives all around us - in the hearts and minds of those that created it and through the influence it has in our world today, visibly in art, advertising and popular culture.This book provides... -
Janet Gaynor by Connie J. Billips
SciFier: £83.49Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for three films in 1927-28, Seventh Heaven, Sunrise, and Street Angel, Janet Gaynor may be better known for her roles as the endearing orphan, Judy... -
Anne Baxter by Karin J. Fowler
SciFier: £68.99Actress Anne Baxter made her Broadway debut at age thirteen and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in films at age twenty-three. In a long and successful career on stage, screen, radio,... -
Irene Dunne by Margie Schultz
SciFier: £68.99Often called the First Lady of Hollywood, Irene Dunne, in a long and distinguished screen career, juggled comedies, dramas, and musicals with aplomb, and all three genres were represented in her five... -
America on Film and Tape by Howard B. Hitchens
SciFier: £68.99Product information not available.an excellent resource on locating audiovisual materials covering a wide variety of topics in American Studies. Both librarians and teachers should find it quite... -
Carole Lombard by Robert Matzen
SciFier: £87.99Carole Lombard was among the most commercially successfuly and admired film personalities in Hollywood in the 1930s. Carole Lombard includes a biography which brings to life this vivacious,... -
John Ford by Bill Levy
SciFier: £68.99John Ford (1894-1973) is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. He is the only person to win four Academy Awards for Direction, for The Informer (1935),... -
Fred Astaire by Larry E. Billman
SciFier: £68.99One of the most dynamic figures of the entertainment industry, Fred Astaire's career spanned most of the twentieth century. For some, he brings to mind the world of Broadway. For others, he... -
Animation: A Reference Guide Thomas W. Hoffer 9780313210952
SciFier: £68.99Product information not available.This book fills a very basic and useful function in its bibliographic essays surveying the literature... A comprehensive guide for lovers and students of animation... -
Working with Walt by Don Peri
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.49This book includes interviews with Ken Anderson, Les Clark, Larry Clemmons, Jack Cutting, Don Duckwall, Marcellite Garner, Harper Goff, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Huemer, Wilfred Jackson, Eric Larson,... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262324
SciFier: £40.99Politics 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... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: £51.99Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
Hollywood Auteur by Jeffrey Chown
SciFier: £78.49In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies... -
A Moving Picture Feast by Charles Oliver
SciFier: £67.49The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: £78.49Sound-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... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: £37.99Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: £61.99This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
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... -
The American War Film by Frank McAdams
SciFier: £78.49McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: £77.99In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: £61.99The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: £78.49Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs...