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A Guide to American Silent Crime Films Daniel Finn 9780313288586
SciFier: £68.49The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre. The authors of this Guide have compiled for the first time in one... -
Whose Improv Is It Anyway? by Amy E. Seham
SciFier: £32.49On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781617036606
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £27.43Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image by Alfred Richard
SciFier: £69.49Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film... -
Understanding Comedy through College Comedies by Norman Kagan
SciFier: £38.99Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.99Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they owe a large debt to the early crime talkies such as The Public Enemy,... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.49The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime. The... -
Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young Bernard F. Dick 9781496861603
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her... -
David Lean: Interviews Steven Organ 9781604732351
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £20.34Along with Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean (1908-1991) is one of the most significant British filmmakers to emerge from the first half of the twentieth century. His use of panoramic... -
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication Aidan McGarry 9781041187141
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and... -
Dennis Hopper by Nick Dawson
RRP: £65.00SciFier: £43.43The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
David Lynch: Interviews Richard A. Barney 9781604732375
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they... -
An Index to Short and Feature Film Reviews in the Moving Picture World by Annette M. D'Agostino
SciFier: £68.99The Moving Picture World magazine was the industry standard during the silent cinema era. This is the first index compiled for all the films reviewed in the early volumes of this journal. In 1916,... -
The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography by Charles P. Mitchell
SciFier: £58.49The influence of science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft is widely felt in modern literature; authors from Robert E. Howard to Stephen King can claim him as their ancestor. But cinema too has seen... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781496843432
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes... -
Hitchcock's Music Jack Sullivan 9780300136180
SciFier: £39.49For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781617033063
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £27.43In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, totally original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, seemingly without formal art training, produced works that... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036620
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £102.49Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other... -
A Guide to Silent Westerns by Larry Langman
SciFier: £68.99This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930... -
With a Crooked Stick-The Films of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green
SciFier: £25.79With a "crooked stick," filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) sought to hit a "straight lick" by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or "uplift," for African Americans. A theme in... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781617031830
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £27.19Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes... -
Dennis Hopper: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781617036569
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.64The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts by Nobuko Anan
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their... -
Memorable Film Characters by Estelle Bornstein
SciFier: £58.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.A fascinating one-volume reference source that identifies and describes the key characters (and their performers) from some of... -
The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen by Alfred Richard
SciFier: £69.49This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with indepth annotations, cross-references and... -
Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image by Alfred Richard
SciFier: £68.99An annotated filmography of more than 3,000 entries each focusing on the film's Hispanic content, connection, or characters. Four separate indexes, more than 6,000 cross references, and as many film... -
Imperial War Museum Film Catalogue I by Roger Smither
SciFier: £88.99The First World War film archive at the Imperial War Museum, London, is one of the oldest in the world, celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1994. It comprises official films produced by Great... -
A Guide to Charlie Chan Films by Charles P. Mitchell
SciFier: £68.99There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. This guide reviews the forty-four extant Chan films. Entries, alphabetically arranged, include a unique annotated... -
American Film Cycles by Larry Langman
SciFier: £68.49Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036637
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.34Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other... -
Movie Musicals on Record by Richard C. Lynch
SciFier: £68.99This discography provides a comprehensive listing of the songs from motion picture musicals, and the singers who performed them on commercially available albums. Covering the period from The Jazz... -
Opera Mediagraphy by Sharon G. Almquist
SciFier: £58.49Opera Mediagraphy lists operas released as motion pictures, both as theatrical feature films on 35mm film and educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format... -
Hollywood Unknowns by Anthony Slide
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £28.13Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first... -
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia Thomas S. Hischak 9780313307379
SciFier: £68.99Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781496857965
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781496857996
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the... -
D. W. Griffith by Anthony Slide
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207294
SciFier: £24.93In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
The Shining by Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror... -
Anthony Minghella by Mario Falsetto
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every...