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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... -
On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz, USA) 9781784537418
SciFier: £145.27Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755603145
SciFier: £112.99Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle Lina Khatib 9781848852815
SciFier: £87.99Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing... -
Hitchcock and the Spy Film Prof James Chapman 9781780768441
SciFier: £52.68Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of... -
Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University London, UK) 9781848853171
SciFier: £29.20What is the state of American indie cinema in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Some have forecast an end to the viability of an indie sector marked by the appearance of films with... -
Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK) 9781860642883
SciFier: £30.29The new, revised and expanded paperback edition of this widely-used textbook for film history brings up to date its authors' demonstration of how a close study of films in their historical and... -
Outer Limits: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films Howard Hughes 9781780761664
SciFier: £32.08HOWARD HUGHES'S NEW FILMGOERS' GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AVATAR AND BEYOND, AND COVERS OVER 250 MORE Outer... -
Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between Zeena Feldman 9781780769066
SciFier: £145.27How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the... -
Screenwriting by Horton Andrew
SciFier: £31.38Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, craft, business and history of filmmaking from... -
The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture Joanne Finkelstein 9781845113964
SciFier: £27.99Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the... -
Un Chien Andalou by Elza Adamowicz
SciFier: £24.59In 1929 Dali and Bunuel produced a seventeen-minute film "Un chien andalou". On its first screening, Federico Garcia Lorca called it 'a tiny little shit of a film'. Produced from a script said to be... -
Pain in the Arts by John Tusa
SciFier: £61.74Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it... -
Art and Advertising by Joan Gibbons
SciFier: £28.99Over the past twenty-five years the relationship between art and advertising has become increasingly varied and complex, with artists appropriating the billboards and neon displays of the ad world,... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766652
SciFier: £112.99The 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... -
Banned in the U.S.A. by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £102.99Making use of the recently-opened files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960. Film by film, it... -
Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger
SciFier: £28.13Eisenstein's last, unfinished masterpiece is a strange, complex and haunting film. Commissioned personally by Stalin in 1941, the project placed Eisenstein in the paradoxical situation of having to... -
Reading Little Britain by Sharon Lockyer
SciFier: £22.89'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satirical genius created this character-based sketch show -... -
Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond Lina Khatib 9781845116286
SciFier: £27.99Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes... -
Mamma Mia! The Movie by Louise FitzGerald
SciFier: £28.99Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008) was one of the top international box-office hits of its year and the fastest selling DVD in British history. Responses were passionate but polarized: while legions of fans... -
The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK) 9781860646270
SciFier: £26.99This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of... -
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film John Riley 9781850434849
SciFier: £24.99Of all the major Soviet composers who worked in the cinema, the most prominent was Dmitri Shostakovich who, in addition to over a hundred works for the stage and concert hall, wrote scores for almost...