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Chinatown by Michael Eaton
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson stars as J. J... -
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) by Jon Hughes
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930) is now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema, which... -
Visual and Other Pleasures by Laura Mulvey
SciFier: £56.99The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with... -
Red River Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues 9780851708195
SciFier: £11.50Red River (1947) is one of Howard Hawks' near-perfect films. A sweeping, fast-moving Western, it's stunningly shot and stars John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in complex roles set off by typically fine... -
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson (late writer, broadcaster and film-maker)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time... -
Cure by Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into... -
Hester Street Julia Wagner 9781839028069
SciFier: £11.50Joan Micklin Silver's debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), depicts the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (played by Carol Kane),a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York... -
Marnie Murray Pomerance 9781844576548
SciFier: £11.50A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many... -
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson (Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University, Long Island University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the ... -
Nosferatu (1922) by Kevin Jackson (late writer, broadcaster and film-maker)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50F.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... -
The Night of the Hunter by Simon Callow
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford,... -
Riddles of the Sphinx by Kimberly Lamm (Duke University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place... -
The Gold Rush by Matthew Solomon
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it in the context of the turn-of-the-century Alaska... -
Akira Michelle Le Blanc 9781844578085
SciFier: £11.50Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle... -
Kes by David Forrest (University of Sheffield, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling... -
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781839027062
SciFier: £11.50Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti... -
The 'Before' Trilogy Lucas Hilderbrand (University of California, Irvine, USA) 9781839028021
SciFier: £11.50In Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a... -
The Terminator Sean French 9781839022128
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Made on a low budget, The Terminator was one of the most influential films of the 1980s. Combining explosive special effects and an intricate time-travel plot, it set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the... -
Letter from an Unknown Woman by James Naremore (Indiana University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many... -
The Thing by Anne Billson (writer, photographer, and film critic, Belgium)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.48An extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
Point Blank by Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its... -
Midnight Cowboy by James Kendrick (Baylor University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50John Schlesinger's 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naive would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), set against the gritty backdrop of... -
Singin' in the Rain Geoff Andrew (Programmer-at-Large for BFI Southbank) 9781844575145
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of critical... -
The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as 'one of the great classics of world cinema' (Adrian Martin), and 'one of the five or six greatest melodramas in... -
The Parallax View Mark Campbell (Royal College of Art, UK) 9781839026300
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy... -
The Silence of the Lambs by Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.95Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its... -
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Often hailed as the 'best' James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963) is celebrated for its direction by Terence Young, memorable performances from Sean Connery in his second outing as 007, Pedro... -
The Empire Strikes Back by Rebecca Harrison (Open University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on... -
Easy Rider Lee Hill 9781805750291
SciFier: £11.50Lee Hill's meticulously-researched study of the 1969 cult road movie Easy Rider analyses both the circumstances surrounding the film's making and the social and cultural forces that found expression... -
Velvet Goldmine Professor Katherine Reed (Associate Professor of Musicology, California State University, Fullerton, USA) 9781839027475
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.69It's 1984, and investigative reporter Arthur Stuart is trying to locate Brian Slade, the glam-rock superstar who faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight ten years earlier... Todd Haynes's... -
Xala by James S. Williams (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University London Program, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
Soleil O Noah Tsika (Queens College, CUNY, USA) 9781839029592
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.69Med Hondo's debut feature, Soleil O (1970), follows an unnamed African immigrant as he travels to Paris in search of work and a better life. Instead, he faces unemployment, exploitation and a deep... -
Black Girl (La noire de...) by Vlad Dima (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Ousmane Sembene was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century. Black Girl... -
Lawrence of Arabia by Kevin Jackson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. This monograph argues that popular wisdom is... -
Vertigo by Charles Barr (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions... -
The Tales of Hoffmann by Professor William Germano (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an... -
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study... -
Rushmore Kristi Irene McKim (Hendrix College, USA) 9781839024498
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic...