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Wife of the Life of the Party by Lita Grey Chaplin
SciFier: £62.99Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary... -
Stars of the Silents by Edward Wagenknecht
SciFier: £72.99A contagious passion pervades the pages of this volume..ReviewsA contagious passion pervades the pages of this volume. * Griffithiana *Book InformationISBN 9780810819924Author Edward... -
A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States by Jeannie Gayle Pool
SciFier: £61.99Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described... -
That's Enough Folks by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: £114.49An authoritative and valuable resource for students and scholars of film animation and African-American history, film buffs, and casual readers. It is the first and only book to detail the history of... -
Monty Python's Flying Circus by Darl Larsen
SciFier: £84.99In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a... -
Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence by Nigel West
SciFier: £113.99Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched... -
The A to Z of Italian Cinema by Gino Moliterno
SciFier: £52.99The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented... -
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing by Kendra Preston Leonard
SciFier: £58.49When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of... -
Appraising Moving Images by Sam Kula
SciFier: £77.99In recent years the commercial value of moving images for use in new film and television productions has increased enormously, and gifts of moving images to cultural institutions have developed... -
The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928) by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £77.99Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891173
SciFier: £113.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
The Creative Producer by James Curtis
SciFier: £77.99In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a... -
Screening Science by Errol Vieth
SciFier: £92.99Screening Science removes the science fiction genre from considerations of monsters and aliens, to an examination of humans and their relationship with science, technology and change. The book is... -
Gillo Pontecorvo by Carlo Celli
SciFier: £67.49Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is best known for his films about anti-colonial insurgency and terrorism. In this book, containing several black and white photos, author Carlo Celli examines... -
Bernard Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by David Cooper
SciFier: £40.99Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film. His work with Alfred Hitchcock produced a slew of classics... -
Outcasts by Howard Good
SciFier: £97.99This book examines how representative films about journalism from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s allegorized the working life of the journalist. The central chapters deal with three popular images... -
Neo-Noir by Ronald Schwartz
SciFier: £51.99According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later,... -
They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction Joni Richards Bodart 9780810882270
SciFier: £56.99Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial, since they... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
SciFier: £77.99Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810843486
SciFier: £61.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
Walter C. Mycroft by Walter C. Mycroft
SciFier: £72.49Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the Scenario... -
The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema by Peter Rollberg
SciFier: £53.99Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia's last... -
The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia by James M. Welsh
SciFier: £99.49Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam... -
The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £98.49Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro by Andrew J. Rausch
SciFier: £56.99In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them... -
Conversations with Cinematographers by David A. Ellis
SciFier: £77.99David A. Ellis has interviewed some of the most influential and highly regarded cameramen of the last half century and more, and he has assembled these exchanges in Conversations with... -
A Cast of Shadows by Ronnie Maasz
SciFier: £77.99This is Ronnie Maasz's account of his more than fifty years in the film business as a cameraman. With candid humor, Maasz offers a light-hearted collage of the international locales, quirky people,... -
The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History Laurence E. MacDonald 9780810883970
SciFier: £83.99Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response,... -
Surveillance on Screen by Sebastien Lefait
SciFier: £87.99The theme of surveillance has become an increasingly common element in movies and television shows, perhaps as a response to the sense that the world is now virtually under watch. But the recent... -
Adaptation Studies and Learning by Laurence Raw
SciFier: £67.49Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship. With its roots in literature and film, this discipline can be applied to much broader uses,... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891180
SciFier: £56.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £77.99In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time, spawning an unprecedented merchandising phenomenon. It was followed by two... -
Contemporary Westerns by Andrew Patrick Nelson
SciFier: £92.99Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small... -
Miklos Rozsa's Ben-Hur by Roger Hickman
SciFier: £45.99In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema. Nearly 25 years later, the biblical epic was remade... -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood by Ben Winters
SciFier: £51.99Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most. Winner of the Academy Award (TM) for best... -
The Ultimate Directory of Silent Screen Performers by Billy H. Doyle
SciFier: £113.99Libraries abound with books on silent film history and numerous biographies on the legendary stars, but what about the thousands and thousands of actors who never obtained legendary status? Film... -
Black on Black by Celeste A. Fisher
SciFier: £44.99Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of... -
Costuming for Opera by Leo Van Witsen
SciFier: £84.76Profusely illustrated. Reproductions of paintings and engravings in the period of a given opera's historical setting illuminate the author's interpretations.Reviews...a valuable handbook for those... -
Rungs on a Ladder by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £67.49Rungs on a Ladder looks at part of the movie industry from a unique perspective. Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his career (in the early 1960s) at the very bottom, but... -
Film Musings by Royal S. Brown
SciFier: £78.49For nearly twenty years, scholar and critic Royal S. Brown contributed a regular column, "Film Musings," to Fanfare magazine. This single volume assembles the material from these columns and presents...