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Refocus: The Films of William Wyler John Price 9781399510479
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $52.14Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510479Author John PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
Badiou and Cinema by Alex Ling
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $55.85Applies Badiou's philosophy to films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The Matrix. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film... -
Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov by Barbara Straumann
SciFier: $233.74This comparative study of Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748643462
SciFier: $212.99This book presents a new approach to the issue of temporality in film. Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality,... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and... -
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
SciFier: $212.99A compelling story of father-son confrontation, Stevenson was working on this novel the day he died. This new edition is based on careful research of Stevenson's notes and drafts to continue the... -
Text, Knowledge, and Wonder in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Stephen Bamforth by Neil Kenny
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $42.78With eight contributions, this volume sheds new light on text, knowledge, and wonder in early modern France, which were more fundamentally intertwined than their modern counterparts.About the... -
Japanese Horror Cinema by Jay McRoy
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $62.70A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the... -
Ranciere and Film by Paul Bowman
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $57.23This is the first collection of critical essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's recent work on film. Jacques Ranciere (1940) rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748685912
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is a unique and fascinating characteristic of cinema... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I Michele Aaron 9781474402750
SciFier: $58.33This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image provides the first in depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream... -
Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation Tessa Dwyer 9781474440998
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $52.14This study argues that the contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Through examples ranging from avant-garde dubbing to crowdsourced subtitling, it proposes that... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I Michele Aaron 9780748624430
SciFier: $214.60This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image reveals the ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the ongoing split... -
Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity Victoria L. Evans 9781474409391
SciFier: $212.99The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474431705
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $52.14This book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.Book... -
Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity Victoria L. Evans 9781474452021
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $52.14With detailed case studies of 'Final Chord' and 'All That Heaven Allows', Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde... -
Speaking in Subtitles by Tessa Dwyer
SciFier: $212.99Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of media speak are far from universal and the complexities of translation are rarely acknowledged by the industry,... -
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film Ryan Bishop 9780748643073
SciFier: $212.99This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the... -
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings John Marmysz 9781474424561
RRP: $206.10SciFier: $192.57Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cinematic Nihilism both challenges and builds upon past... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $40.33The New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry... -
From Empire to the World by Malini Guha
SciFier: $214.60Investigates London and Paris as 'migrant cities' in contemporary British and French cinema. The study of globalisation in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Impossible Puzzle Films by Miklos Kiss
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $52.14Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $52.14This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and... -
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition Stephen Teo 9781474400084
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474410892
RRP: $229.00SciFier: $212.99Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9780748692507
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $40.92The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: $214.60A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $52.14This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and... -
The New Soundtrack by Professor Stephen Deutsch
RRP: $43.49SciFier: $40.92The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 7, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474424387
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $42.78The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: $59.52SciFier: $55.85Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
European Cinemas in the Television Age by Graham Roberts
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $69.36European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television's impact on the... -
Bollywood and Postmodernism by Neelam Sidhar Wright
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the twenty-first century. Equipping readers... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620821
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9780748694846
SciFier: $212.99Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620814
SciFier: $223.37This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $42.78Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly... -
Film's Musical Moments Ian Conrich 9780748623440
RRP: $286.25SciFier: $264.88The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9781474402781
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $69.36This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature length fiction film. The Sense of Film Narration examines films that combine different types of images and sounds in a way...