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Twentieth Century-Fox by Peter Lev
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that followed however,... -
Understanding Indian Movies by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world,... -
History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny by Susan E. Linville
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23History films were a highly popular genre in the 1990s, as Hollywood looked back at significant and troubling episodes from World War II, the Cold War era, and the techno-war in the Persian Gulf. As... -
Left of Hollywood by Chris Robe
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood... -
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting Jill Chamberlain 9781477303733
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a... -
From Walt to Woodstock by Douglas Brode
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become... -
Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age Claudia Springer 9780292776975
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic... -
Driving Visions by David Laderman
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide... -
Selznick's Vision by Alan David Vertrees
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer... -
Veni, Vidi, Video by Frederick Wasser
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many... -
Cinema of Solitude by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented... -
Cinema and Painting by Angela Dalle Vacche
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new... -
Experimental Latin American Cinema by Cynthia Tompkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46While there are numerous film studies that focus on one particular grouping of films-by nationality, by era, or by technique-here is the first single volume that incorporates all of the above,... -
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.19The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon... -
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil David William Foster 9781477310847
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine... -
Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America Blanton Museum of Art 9781477323977
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.592023 Honorable Mention, Jonathan Brown Award, Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA)Painted Cloth explores the production, meaning, and representation of garments used in civil and religious settings... -
On Story-The Golden Ages of Television by Maya Perez
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." -Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the... -
On Story-Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films by Barbara Morgan
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." -Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the... -
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism by Richard A. Gordon
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon's Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released... -
Latino Images in Film by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady-these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century... -
American Films of the 70s by Peter Lev
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation,... -
Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477310687
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature Christopher Pizzino 9781477309773
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £59.04Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino... -
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema Todd Berliner 9780292722798
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.61In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as... -
Generation Multiplex by Timothy Shary
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Generation Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine's Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded... -
Performing Piety by Karin van Nieuwkerk
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and... -
Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film Sergio de la Mora 9780292712973
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile... -
A Poetics for Screenwriters by Lance Lee
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting... -
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film Martha McCaughey 9780292752511
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's... -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good... -
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV Diana Adesola Mafe 9781477315224
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades... -
Orpheus by Nazli Eray
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.37Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphee makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Eray's... -
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement by Jorge Santos, Jr.
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £59.04Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold... -
Alien Constructions by Patricia Melzer
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social... -
The Making of Gone With The Wind by Steve Wilson
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £39.80Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives... -
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes by Margot Blum Schevill
RRP: £37.00SciFier: £32.08In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and... -
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23From a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in... -
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by David William Foster
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian...