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Fifty Contemporary Film Directors Yvonne Tasker 9780415554336
SciFier: £28.83Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema,... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: £69.41Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for... -
Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide Jonathan Sadler 9780857306128
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.26Breaking into the world of independent filmmaking is one thing - getting your film seen is another. In this essential guide, you'll discover how to navigate the often overlooked, yet critical,... -
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... -
Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film Simon Braund 9781835414019
Titan BooksRRP: £50.00SciFier: £29.79The official retrospective of one of cinema's most important films - Night of the Living Dead.The full story of the first "zombie" movie, the 1968 George A. Romero cult film that denoted the birth of... -
A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film, Television, and Digital Streaming Stephen V. Duncan 9781538128916
SciFier: £88.99A 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... -
Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo by Inela Selimovic
SciFier: £81.99This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo. Such tensions,... -
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter W. Rea (NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.65Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Sixth Edition is the definitive book on producing and directing short films for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold... -
Refocus: the Films of Pedro Costa: Producing and Consuming Contemporary Art Cinema Nuno Barradas Jorge 9781474444545
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32This 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... -
The Book Was Better: The Triumphs and Travesties of Book to Film Adaptation Louise Willder 9780861547722
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.49Is the book always better than the film? Yes, book lovers cry! Hollywood never gets it right - they gloss over crucial moments, the dialogue sounds bizarre and the characters never look like... -
Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema Katharina Loew 9781041186526
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special... -
Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity Rachel Moseley (University of Warwick, UK) 9781844570683
SciFier: £36.99Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film Mia Mask 9780252076190
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90This 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... -
Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary Sean W. Maher 9780367547998
SciFier: £42.86This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history... -
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films Kellie Deys 9781793622105
SciFier: £87.99Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells... -
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,... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: £45.46This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the... -
Art and the Historical Film by Dr Gillian McIver
SciFier: £31.99Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
Music and Sound in Silent Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9781138245358
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.96Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and... -
Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Film, 1968-2021 by Christian B. Long (The University of Queensland)
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £91.95Dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 usually conclude with optimism, with a window into what is possible in the face of social dysfunction - and worse. The infrastructure that... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £38.68What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
The Search for Meaning in Film and Television: Disenchantment at the Turn of the Millennium M. Maloney 9781349698455
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... -
A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler Victoria Sturtevant 9780252076220
SciFier: £19.46In 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... -
Channel 4 and British Film Culture: Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 11, Issue 4 Paul McDonald 9780748692514
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87This title considers aspects of the legacy that makes Film4 synonymous with a rejuvenated national cinema. When Channel 4 was launched in 1982 its policy of commissioning new feature films for... -
Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Michael Dear 9780520391932
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an... -
Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films Vlad Dima 9780253024213
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £52.71The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins W. Wilms 9781349375042
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... -
Harry Potter Film Wizardry by Warner Bros
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.18This stunning package is a truly immersive reading experience with unseen imagery, concept art and exclusive insights from the cast and crew. It includes exclusive and removable photographs,... -
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... -
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... -
De-Westernizing Film Studies Saer Maty Ba 9780415687843
SciFier: £39.39De-Westernizing Film Studies aims to consider what form a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium - and film studies as a discipline - modelled on 'Western' ideologies, theoretical and... -
Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China Paul G. Pickowicz 9781442270244
SciFier: £40.99This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...