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American Classic Screen Features by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: £67.49First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
Post-9/11 Cinema by John Markert
SciFier: £78.49In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth,... -
Altman and After by Peter F. Parshall
SciFier: £77.99In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s,... -
Hooked in Film by John Markert
SciFier: £114.99Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the... -
International Westerns by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: £113.99The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired... -
The Jarmusch Way by Julian Rice
SciFier: £103.49Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema... -
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin by Dan Kamin
SciFier: £44.99From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin:... -
Dracula's Daughters by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £78.49Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire-male or female-has represented the libido, a "repressed force"... -
A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema Paul Monaco 9780810874336
SciFier: £98.49In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book... -
Reel Women by Jane Sloan
SciFier: £93.99In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken... -
The Science of Science Fiction Writing by James Gunn
SciFier: £38.99Written by one of the leading authorities on writing, publishing and teaching science fiction, The Science of Science Fiction Writing offers the opportunity to share in the knowledge James Gunn has... -
A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema Paul Monaco 9780810874343
SciFier: £68.99In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: £82.99Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Horror and Science Fiction Films III (1981-1983) by Donald C. Willis
SciFier: £97.99The third volume in the author's Horror and Science Fiction Films series, covering new titles released from 1981 to 1983, as well as updating entries in the original list.Book InformationISBN... -
Back Lot by Maurice Rapf
SciFier: £56.99Son of pioneer movie producer Harry Rapf, Maurice Rapf grew up in Hollywood in that city's golden age. After moving from independent filmmaking to Warner Bros., in 1924 the senior Rapf joined Louis... -
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £67.49Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as... -
The First Film Makers by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £78.49Again Richard Dyer MacCann has brought his editorial skills to the task of presenting for the students and the general reader what movie making was like in the earliest days of America. This time he... -
A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States by Jeannie Gayle Pool
SciFier: £61.99Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described... -
That's Enough Folks by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: £114.49An authoritative and valuable resource for students and scholars of film animation and African-American history, film buffs, and casual readers. It is the first and only book to detail the history of... -
Monty Python's Flying Circus by Darl Larsen
SciFier: £84.99In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a... -
Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence by Nigel West
SciFier: £113.99Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched... -
The A to Z of Italian Cinema by Gino Moliterno
SciFier: £52.99The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented... -
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing by Kendra Preston Leonard
SciFier: £58.49When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of... -
Appraising Moving Images by Sam Kula
SciFier: £77.99In recent years the commercial value of moving images for use in new film and television productions has increased enormously, and gifts of moving images to cultural institutions have developed... -
The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928) by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £77.99Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891173
SciFier: £113.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
The Creative Producer by James Curtis
SciFier: £77.99In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a... -
Screening Science by Errol Vieth
SciFier: £92.99Screening Science removes the science fiction genre from considerations of monsters and aliens, to an examination of humans and their relationship with science, technology and change. The book is... -
Gillo Pontecorvo by Carlo Celli
SciFier: £67.49Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is best known for his films about anti-colonial insurgency and terrorism. In this book, containing several black and white photos, author Carlo Celli examines... -
Bernard Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by David Cooper
SciFier: £40.99Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film. His work with Alfred Hitchcock produced a slew of classics... -
Outcasts by Howard Good
SciFier: £97.99This book examines how representative films about journalism from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s allegorized the working life of the journalist. The central chapters deal with three popular images... -
Neo-Noir by Ronald Schwartz
SciFier: £51.99According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later,... -
They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction Joni Richards Bodart 9780810882270
SciFier: £56.99Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial, since they... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
SciFier: £77.99Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810843486
SciFier: £61.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
Walter C. Mycroft by Walter C. Mycroft
SciFier: £72.49Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the Scenario... -
The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema by Peter Rollberg
SciFier: £53.99Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia's last... -
The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia by James M. Welsh
SciFier: £99.49Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam... -
The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £98.49Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro by Andrew J. Rausch
SciFier: £56.99In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them...