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Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film Daniela Berghahn 9781474474221
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Exotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the... -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072210
SciFier: £61.06This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory R. Rushton 9780230244580
SciFier: £46.99The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era,... -
The Casting Handbook: For Film and Theatre Makers Suzy Catliff 9780415688246
SciFier: £46.33Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: £78.49What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9781349351176
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £106.99This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9780230389489
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
The Search for Meaning in Film and Television: Disenchantment at the Turn of the Millennium M. Maloney 9781137499288
SciFier: £46.99This book is concerned with the difficulties faced by modern Westerners in their search for a meaningful life. It sheds light on this enduring cultural dilemma through a close reading of four popular... -
French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema Timothy Scheie 9781399520386
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.42The production of films that may be called both 'French' and 'western' spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early... -
Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes Charles Bramesco 9780711279384
SciFier: £19.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711279384Author Charles BramescoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072487
SciFier: £19.48This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
Contemporary Lusophone African Film: Transnational Communities and Alternative Modernities Paulo de Medeiros 9780367523169
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £39.39Offering a range of critical perspectives on a vibrant body of films, this collection of essays engages with questions specific to the various cinemas and films addressed while putting forward an... -
A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film, Television, and Digital Streaming Stephen V. Duncan 9781538128923
SciFier: £46.99A Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing-and rewriting-a screenplay or teleplay and writing for digital content. Duncan's handy book teaches new... -
Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Independence in the Films and Working Life of Stanley Kubrick Jeremy Carr 9781805966982
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £31.56Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick, as well as in his personal life and working habits. This study explores the ways... -
Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition Brian Neve 9780415026208
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties... -
Refocus: the Films of Pedro Costa: Producing and Consuming Contemporary Art Cinema Nuno Barradas Jorge 9781474444538
SciFier: £97.54This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and... -
Composing for Silent Film Jack Curtis Dubowsky 9781032184227
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.89Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition... -
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins W. Wilms 9780230608252
SciFier: £46.99This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181922
SciFier: £27.74What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Independence in Practice Shweta Kishore 9781474433075
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474433075Author Shweta KishoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9780230217768
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body Eileen Rositzka 9783110709124
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £15.60Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider... -
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology Roger Hillman 9780253217547
SciFier: £18.79"Hillman's groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing." -Klaus Phillips, Hollins UniversityUnsettling... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9781349304011
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom Sabrina Qiong Yu 9781474402804
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is A study of Chinese stars and transnational stardom focussing on the career of Jet Li. Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive, and his career has crossed numerous cultural and... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film Mia Mask 9780252034220
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £82.51This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi... -
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2 by Richard Abel
SciFier: £45.16These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has... -
A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler Victoria Sturtevant 9780252076220
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At... -
The Ritual: An Unsettling, Spine-Chilling Thriller, Now a Major Film Adam Nevill 9781509883448
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34From Britain's 'master of horror', Adam Nevill, comes The Ritual, winner of the August Derleth Award and perfect for fans of Stephen King. Now a major film with Rafe Spall.Four old university friends... -
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film by Barbara Gurr
SciFier: £111.32This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production,... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781349442539
SciFier: £46.99A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781137263346
SciFier: £95.21A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
The Films of Michel Gondry by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £93.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456012Author Marcelline BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Bisexual Characters in Film: From Ana's to Zee Wayne M Bryant 9781560238942
SciFier: £50.66How far have we progressed from the days when showing a film such as Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures landed the cinema's programmer, projectionist, and ticket taker in jail? What are some of the... -
Ponyo Film Comic, Vol. 3 by Hayao Miyazaki
Viz MediaSciFier: £7.43Loosely based on Hans Christan Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Ponyo, is about a female fish who runs away from her home in the sea and ends up stranded on the shore. Sosuke, a five-year-old boy who... -
Ponyo Film Comic, Vol. 4 by Hayao Miyazaki
Viz MediaSciFier: £7.51Loosely based on Hans Christan Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Ponyo, is about a female fish who runs away from her home in the sea and ends up stranded on the shore. Sosuke, a five-year-old boy who... -
ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Gnl Dnmez-Colin
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey's most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have... -
Transcendental Style in Film by Paul Schrader
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.27With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism,... -
Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War Alice Lovejoy 9780520402935
SciFier: £20.49The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famous...