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Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9781107405103
SciFier: £40.89This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics Stephen Vaughn 9780521440806
SciFier: £86.35Ronald Reagan in Hollywood explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros. During the Depression, World... -
Theorizing the Moving Image by Noel Carroll (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
RRP: £94.99SciFier: £90.55A selection of essays written by a leading film critic, this 1996 volume examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary,... -
The Films of Orson Welles Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) 9780521640145
SciFier: £76.58This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted... -
The Historian and Film by Paul Smith
SciFier: £41.79Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important... -
Chinese Clothing by Mei Hua (Tianjin Normal University, China)
SciFier: £20.04Chinese clothing has undergone continuous transformations throughout history, providing a reflection of the culture in place at any given time. A wealth of archaeological findings coupled with... -
The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror Paul Coates 9780521384094
RRP: £114.00SciFier: £111.75The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War... -
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Ray Carney (Boston University) 9780521388153
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.87The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces,... -
The Business of TV Production by Craig Collie (Queensland University of Technology)
SciFier: £45.76Television is the dominant mass medium of the current era. Its lifeblood in whatever form it takes is content - the programs it broadcasts to the public. This book is an insider's view of the... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521153065
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such... -
When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics Donald T. Critchlow (Arizona State University) 9780521199186
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £20.04Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy Oliver Double (University of Kent) 9781009009737
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £21.71Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been... -
A Zombie Theory of Translation: Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation? Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) 9781009678230
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.69In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees... -
Ingmar Bergman's Persona by Lloyd Michaels (Allegheny College, Pennsylvania)
SciFier: £16.69Long held to be among the world's greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman shaped international art cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among his many works, Persona is often considered to be his... -
Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia) 9781107043930
RRP: £69.00SciFier: £68.21Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no... -
On the Waterfront Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma) 9780521790796
SciFier: £76.58On the Waterfront comprehensively examines one of the most important films of the Hollywood canon. Providing the historical context for the film, this volume emphasizes film making as a collaborative... -
Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City Sidney Gottlieb (Sacred Heart University, Connecticut) 9780521836647
SciFier: £76.58Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9781108059411
SciFier: £28.19This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875-1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935)... -
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy Nick Browne (University of California, Los Angeles) 9780521550840
SciFier: £57.99The Godfather trilogy is among the most significant works of Hollywood cinema of the last quarter century. They provide a richly complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning... -
The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946 Paul Swann (Temple University, Philadelphia) 9780521063234
SciFier: £34.59The most important and internationally influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. Paul Swann's study is a political and... -
Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York) 9780521173544
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.22Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be... -
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film Susan McCabe (University of Southern California) 9780521846219
SciFier: £92.70Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window John Belton (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 9780521564533
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.85Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging piece of entertainment as well as a fascinating... -
Thomas Hardy on Screen T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780521840811
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £57.99The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing adaptations of fiction for the big screen. This collection... -
Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, South Carolina) 9780521542302
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £23.38The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films... -
The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity Darius Cooper (San Diego Mesa College) 9780521620260
SciFier: £77.28Satyajit Ray is India's greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied... -
The Films of D. W. Griffith Scott Simmon 9780521388207
SciFier: £20.04The Films of D. W. Griffith serves as an introduction to, and a cultural argument for, the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker. Situating D. W. Griffith within film history and... -
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, South Carolina) 9780521842211
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £72.95The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected in this 2007 volume... -
Thrillers Martin Rubin 9780521588393
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.19The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9781108060516
SciFier: £79.50Since it was first published in 1897, this infamous Gothic horror novel, which brought its author international acclaim, has spawned a global following, inspiring hundreds of films and setting the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) 9781107476493
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £26.59This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film... -
Ozu's Tokyo Story David Desser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521484350
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.85Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural... -
Documentary Film Classics by William Rothman (University of Miami)
SciFier: £20.04Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films, such as Nanook of the North, Land Without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the... -
Melodrama and Asian Cinema Wimal Dissanayake 9780521612081
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £43.84Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521383660
SciFier: £49.89The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
Inside Soviet Film Satire by Andrew Horton
SciFier: £38.19Inside Soviet Film Satire is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first indepth examination of an important genre... -
John Ford's Stagecoach Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Ontario) 9780521793315
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £42.69Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a... -
Avant-Garde Film by Scott MacDonald (Syracuse University, New York)
SciFier: £20.04The past thirty years have seen the proliferation of forms of independent cinema that challenge the conventions of mass-market commercial movies from within the movie theatre. Avant-Garde Film... -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholms Universitet) 9781316518793
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £70.23In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the... -
Science Fiction and Christian Theology Victoria Lorrimar (University of Notre Dame, Australia) 9781009565585
SciFier: £52.18Theologians often struggle to engage with scientific and technological proposals meaningfully in our contemporary context. This Element provides an introduction to the use of science fiction as a...