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A Moving Picture Feast by Charles Oliver
SciFier: £67.49The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: £78.49Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: £37.99Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: £61.99This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: £78.49This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
The American War Film by Frank McAdams
SciFier: £78.49McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: £77.99In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: £61.99The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: £78.49Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs... -
Screens Fade to Black by David J. Leonard
SciFier: £51.99The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was... -
John Wayne by Judith Riggin
SciFier: £35.99John Wayne--the man, actor, and icon--remains synonymous with certain American values. He represents conservative political views, aggressive militarism, and a masculine bravado which seemed... -
Film Directors on Directing by John A. Gallagher
SciFier: £32.46Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780275961190
SciFier: £37.99Theo 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... -
The Films of Kenneth Branagh by Samuel Crowl
SciFier: £78.49Between the release of Henry V in 1989 and Love's Labour's Lost in 2000, Kenneth Branagh directed eight major films in a wide variety of genres, ranging from film noir to horror to comedy, and... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780313302794
SciFier: £77.99Senegalese 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... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780313361333
SciFier: £29.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Politics and Politicians in American Film by Phillip L. Gianos
SciFier: £36.99Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century-a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780275983536
SciFier: £46.99Movie 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... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275924799
SciFier: £28.99One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA) 9780415391672
SciFier: £47.20Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half... -
Arthur by Christopher R. Fee
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £14.62For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have inspired generations. In the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting... -
Feeding the Eye by Anne Hollander
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Since the advent of cinema, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion. Artists now create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film and tape, on the dance stage, or in... -
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The Manifesto on How to be Interesting Holly Bourne 9781409562184 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.83Apparently I'm boring. A nobody. But that's all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you're very welcome.Bree is by... -
The Pocket Pop Art
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Pop Art lives all around us - in the hearts and minds of those that created it and through the influence it has in our world today, visibly in art, advertising and popular culture.This book provides... -
Li'l Abner by Arthur Asa Berger
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £20.49Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip ""Li'l Abner,"" From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed, riled, and... -
Comic Book Culture by Matthew J. Pustz
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture world have in common?This book provides good... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617038235
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
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... -
The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball
RRP: £29.50SciFier: £25.68The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both... -
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Marc Singer 9781617031366
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.56One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular... -
Jon Stewart by Michael Blitz
SciFier: £36.99This biography profiles Jon Stewart, television's most incisive deliverer of the fake news. As the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he has attracted a vast audience that sees him as one of... -
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... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940300
SciFier: £88.49In 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... -
Jungian Reflections within the Cinema by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: £78.49Exploring the relevance of Jungian theory as it applies to science fiction, horror and fantasy films, this text demonstrates the remarkable correlation existing between Jung's major archetypes and... -
Korean Film by Eungjun Min
SciFier: £78.49Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the... -
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275967574
SciFier: £78.49Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: £61.99Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
Stars in Our Eyes by Angela Ndalianis
SciFier: £78.49The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system. Today's film... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: £36.99William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging... -
Charlie Chaplin: A Bio-Bibliography Wes D. Gehring 9780313232886
SciFier: £56.99Product information not available.The biography is as good an introduction to Chaplin's life and films as has been published. The bibliographical essay ... offers clear and reliable evaluations of...