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Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou Nadir Lahiji (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9780367762827
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as 'mass art', they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing 'mass art'. In... -
Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and as Image-Makers Gonul Donmez-Colin (Independent scholar, France) 9780367784973
SciFier: £42.86This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical point of view, it provides detailed readings of works by... -
Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard Nathan Andersen 9780415742122
SciFier: £39.39Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of... -
Refocus: the Films of Sohrab Shahid-Saless: Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image Azadeh Fatehrad 9781474456401
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944 98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this the... -
New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory Dara Waldron (Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland) 9781501362163
SciFier: £35.99New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics... -
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity Richard Tapper 9781860648045
SciFier: £27.99Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf... -
An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema James Naremore 9780520279735
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £49.19In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema... -
An Invention without a Future by James Naremore
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema... -
Gus Van Sant by Katya Tylevich
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.42The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directorsFrom Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the... -
Film World: The Directors' Interviews Julie Rose 9781845204587
SciFier: £41.49Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: £87.59Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
Filmmakers on Film: Global Perspectives Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) 9781839024863
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.59This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory.It brings together primary sources by filmmakers... -
Filmmakers on Film by Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
SciFier: £102.13This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory. It brings together primary sources by filmmakers... -
After Kieslowski
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49This title traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died... -
New Waves in Cinema by Sean Martin
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The term 'New Wave' conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s: Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, the young Jean-Pierre Leaud, the three protagonists of Jules and Jim capering across a bridge,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.46The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £72.25The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Dr Howard Finn
SciFier: £106.94Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly... -
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Dr Howard Finn (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £31.99Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly... -
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between by Christopher Gow
SciFier: £28.99The New Iranian Cinema has had a fascinating success story in world cinema and critics have hailed Iranian films as alternatives to the homogenising global influence of mainstream Hollywood cinema... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph: Levinas and Realisms of the Body Keyvan Manafi (Arts Academic Programs Advisor, University of New South Wales) 9781399507257
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.68The Eye of the Cinematograph investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the body's image by the camera. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas' thought, Manafi asks what... -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695881
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695843
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.45In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic Blake Atwood 9780231178174
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted... -
Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action Ira Jaffe 9780231169783
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and... -
Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema Matthias Wittmann 9781474479769
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective Establishes a new framework of understanding the tensions between hegemonial and excluded aesthetics and... -
Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies
SciFier: £25.68Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not... -
The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama Scott MacDonald (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History, Hamilton College) 9780190052133
SciFier: £46.91The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between... -
Independent Filmmaking and Digital Convergence: Transmedia and Beyond Vladan Nikolic 9781138938106
SciFier: £38.53Independent Filmmaking and Digital Convergence: Transmedia and Beyond offers a comprehensive analysis of the technological changes of the past few decades in independent film and media-making, and... -
Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino 9781474624244
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New... -
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude William Brown (University of Roehampton, UK) 9781501361654
SciFier: £35.99Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide... -
The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814342008
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors... -
The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (Professor of Film History, Sarah Lawrence College)
RRP: £30.50SciFier: £22.47In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the...