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Movies and the Modern Psyche by Sharon Packer MD
SciFier: £51.99By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our... -
Satyajit Ray by Ben Nyce
SciFier: £77.99With 26 films to his credit and numerous international prizes, Satyajit Ray is India's most recognized filmmaker--yet, no extended study of his films has previouly been published in English in the... -
Clint Eastwood by John H. Foote
SciFier: £46.99Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in... -
The Hidden Art of Hollywood by John Fawell
SciFier: £51.99Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in... -
Postmodern Hollywood by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even... -
Classic American Films by William Baer
SciFier: £53.49Classic American Films explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote... -
Hollywood in Transition by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £51.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorcCann /f Richard /i DyerBook InformationISBN 9780837196169Author Richard Dyer MacCannFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing Vincent LoBrutto 9780275933784
SciFier: £78.49Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949549
SciFier: £78.49By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780275958015
SciFier: £37.99Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and... -
Signifying Female Adolescence by Georganne Scheiner
SciFier: £78.49Motion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture-they help to create it. So it is worth looking at films to see... -
The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein by Caroline Picart
SciFier: £78.49The Frankenstein narrative is one of cinema's most durable, and it is often utilized by the studio system and the most renegade independents alike to reveal our deepest aspirations and greatest... -
Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures by Carlo Testa
SciFier: £78.49The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of... -
Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform by Ying Zhu
SciFier: £77.99The political economy and culture of Chinese cinema during the era of China's prolonged economic reform has not until now been examined in detail. Ying Zhu's new and comprehensive study examines the... -
Cinematic Savior by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks
SciFier: £61.99From Cecil B. DeMille's production of King of Kings in 1927, to Mel Gibson's recent The Passion of the Christ, films that discuss the meaning of Jesus have provoked interest, discussion, and... -
Post-Pop Cinema by Jesse Fox Mayshark
SciFier: £46.99Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film,... -
Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: £77.99In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre. In the past, Jungian archetypes have been used to interpret... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780275952990
SciFier: £37.99Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
Red, White, and Spooked by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99America has always attempted to define itself through a network of invented myths and national narratives. Historically, this national mythmaking has focused on the building of the nation itself as a... -
Wes Anderson by Mark Browning
SciFier: £43.99This is the first full-length study devoted to the films of Wes Anderson, one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today. This first full-length consideration of this noted director's work,... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957445
SciFier: £72.99Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780313361821
SciFier: £29.99Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically-every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come... -
The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats by Marsha Mccreadie
SciFier: £78.49This collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published film critic, examines the shifting portrayals of women from... -
Financing Your Film by Trisha Curran
SciFier: £35.99This practical guide addresses the needs of aspiring, beginning and veteran independent producers, as well as film students. The author covers such topics as sources of money, ways to structure... -
Chinese Film Theory by Xia Hong
SciFier: £78.49This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides... -
Poet of Civic Courage: The Films of Francesco Rosi 9780275958008
SciFier: £37.99Rosi's films consistently and directly address the themes of political and institutional corruption and the complex relationship between the individual, the mafia, and the state. Whether evoking the... -
From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley
SciFier: £78.49This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory,... -
The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: £78.49The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of... -
Martin Scorsese by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £47.99Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered... -
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg Michael Grant 9780275970581
SciFier: £78.49In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass... -
The Celluloid Courtroom by Ross D. Levi
SciFier: £61.99The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: £61.99Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite... -
The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman
SciFier: £52.99The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940317
SciFier: £41.13In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and... -
Becoming Film Literate by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £52.99Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto... -
Alternate Americas by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £52.99For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780313296987
SciFier: £78.49Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780313305641
SciFier: £61.99Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
Victorian Needlework by Kathryn Ledbetter
SciFier: £46.99Marrying two exceptionally popular topics-needlework and women's history-this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian... -
The Brothers Coen by Ryan P. Doom
SciFier: £43.99This examination of the distinctive cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen explores the theme of violence in their wide-ranging body of work.The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence spans the career...