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Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema: Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique Lindsay Coleman 9781780766409
SciFier: £29.20With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives... -
Chasing Dragons by David West
SciFier: £24.99"The art of fighting without fighting."- Bruce Lee on his martial arts style in "Enter the Dragon". Written for both interested filmgoers and established aficionados, "Chasing Dragons" is the... -
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Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution Geoffrey MacNab 9781784534899 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £5.11Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Claudia Springer 9781784534035
SciFier: £31.38Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760056
SciFier: £112.99The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
Art and Laughter by Sheri Klein
SciFier: £28.99This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Kathryn Kalinak 9781784534059
SciFier: £31.38Sound in cinema is a fascinating area that is just beginning to get the attention it deserves. This innovative book highlights the workers who collaborated inside and outside Hollywood to produce... -
Black & White Cinema: A Short History Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781784534523
SciFier: £31.38Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the... -
Repentance by Professor Emerita Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
SciFier: £28.13Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical film, made in Georgia, is the best known film of the perestroika and glasnost years. With its outspoken and controversial reference to the Stalin era and Stalin's place... -
Burnt by the Sun by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £24.99Nikita Mikhalkov's film about the Stalin period has received wide attention inside and outside Russia, being shown at Cannes, winning an Oscar, and reaching cinemas worldwide. Mikhalkov is a fine and... -
Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait by David Lavery
SciFier: £24.49Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After... -
Saints and Avengers by James Chapman
SciFier: £28.99Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766669
SciFier: £28.99The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly... -
Les Diaboliques: French Film Guide Susan Hayward 9781845111021
SciFier: £28.13Hugely enjoyable and exciting, long awaited book by top world authority on French cinema. This is the first book to focus on this very contemporary film. "Les Diaboliques" is often shown and is... -
Religion and Film by Melanie Wright
SciFier: £26.99From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional... -
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... -
Film England by Andrew Higson (University of York, UK)
SciFier: £27.99In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson... -
Spectacular Narratives by Geoff King
SciFier: £24.99What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park,... -
Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns Howard Hughes 9781850438960
SciFier: £25.99The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created... -
Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Chris D. 9781845110864
SciFier: £29.99"Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late... -
Children, Cinema and Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids Sarah J. Smith (The Glasgow School of Art, UK) 9781850438137
SciFier: £28.99Children have long been one of cinema's largest audiences yet, from its infancy, cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied a succession of pastimes and new technologies as catalysts for... -
Street Art in the Middle East Sabrina de Turk 9780755638505
SciFier: £34.99Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation... -
Art and Trauma in Africa by Lizelle Bisschoff
SciFier: £34.99The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well-known are their artistic representations. A number of recent films, novels and other art forms have... -
The Golden Age of Pantomime by Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK)
SciFier: £78.99Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s,... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765099
SciFier: £22.89One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de souffle (1960) has retained its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also as... -
Video Art, A Guided Tour: A Guided Tour Shirin Neshat 9781850435464
SciFier: £34.99Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked often unknown. Video Art, a Guided Tour is an essential and... -
Doctor Who - The Eleventh Hour: A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era Andrew O'Day 9781780760193
SciFier: £21.49In 2010, the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, first appeared on TV; in 2013, the year of the 50th anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who, he regenerated into his successor, Peter Capaldi. This... -
Hollywood's New Radicalism: War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush Ben Dickenson 9781845111038
SciFier: £29.20Provides an up-to-date, insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan's, Clinton's and both Bush's administrations. George W.Bush, Clinton and Ronald Reagan's... -
Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult Howard Hughes 9781848856080
SciFier: £28.99Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to... -
Superheroes! by Roz Kaveney
SciFier: £21.49Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what they know is heavily filtered through film... -
Stagecoach to Tombstone by Howard Hughes
SciFier: £25.99This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the... -
Delft Blue to Denim Blue by Anneke Smelik
SciFier: £29.49Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue to Denim Blue maps the landscape of Dutch fashion... -
Authorship and the Films of David Lynch by Antony Todd
SciFier: £26.99This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality and authorial essence have shaped... -
Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body Professor Francesca Granata 9781784533786
SciFier: £112.99Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between... -
Spaghetti Westerns by Christopher Frayling
SciFier: £29.99"Christopher Frayling's Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti... -
Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University London, UK) 9781845118259
SciFier: £26.99In this book, the author has published extensively on American cinema. It covers a range of well-known films and film-makers. This is the first book to analyse the relationship and interaction... -
Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema So Mayer 9781784533724
SciFier: £24.49Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and... -
Iranian Cinema: A Political History Hamid Reza Sadr 9781845111472
SciFier: £27.99Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet... -
On the Button by Nina Edwards
SciFier: £67.49What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully... -
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema Robert Robertson 9781848857315
SciFier: £31.38The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his remarkable and extensive...