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George Gallup in Hollywood Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame) 9780231121330
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
Designing Women by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the... -
Film Sound: Theory and Practice Elisabeth Weis 9780231056373
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £32.91This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from... -
Reflexivity in Film and Culture by Robert Stam
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of... -
The Impossible David Lynch Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) 9780231139557
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £22.66Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd... -
Film, a Sound Art Michel Chion 9780231137768
SciFier: £108.33French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes,... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture Alison Griffiths 9780231116961
SciFier: £108.33The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
Suburban Fantastic Cinema by Angus McFadzean
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.25Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural... -
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture Alison Griffiths 9780231116978
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.46The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the... -
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema Rick Warner 9780231212717
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred... -
George Cukor's People by Joseph McBride
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.89The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto, Innis College) 9780231213592
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive processes. The film industry of Hollywood,... -
New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel Elizabeth Weber 9780231203463
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £81.12One of China's first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as... -
The Passion of Pedro Almodovar by James Miller
SciFier: £18.92The films of Pedro Almodovar teem with characters who at once are and are not alter egos of the director. In film after film, the Spanish auteur mines his past for alternative selves, telling and... -
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion Mark Goble (Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley) 9780231219150
SciFier: £97.45Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or other experiences outside ordinary time. We... -
Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System Katherine Fusco 9780231220927
SciFier: £23.54We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver... -
The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.73The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought... -
The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out Wayne Byrne 9780231185356
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.81The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director's entire oeuvre, addressing and analyzing themes such as identity,... -
Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman 9780231144643
SciFier: £89.36America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: £113.00SciFier: £108.93There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170734
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161060
SciFier: £95.61A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231179201
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of... -
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood by Neil Archer (University of Keele)
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.65Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated... -
Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context Carol Vernallis 9780231117999
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.59Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139946
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £94.31Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Francesco Casetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 9780231139953
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco... -
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration Thomas Doherty 9780231143592
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156745
SciFier: £107.63The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles... -
Brazilian Cinema by Randal Johnson
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.80From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning... -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales Keller Kimbrough 9780231184472
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.89Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215053
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £21.25Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215046
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £81.12Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Terroir of Whiskey: A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place Rob Arnold 9780231194594
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.71Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers... -
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World Sidney Perkowitz 9780231142816
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £19.19Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and... -
The Cinema of Jonathan Demme: Champion of the Soul Louis Black 9780231223522
SciFier: £25.07Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148702
SciFier: £108.33It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
The Shining by Kevin Donnelly
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.06Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is an esteemed member of the twentieth century's pantheon of outstanding films while also perhaps being the director's most accessible film. It is a rarity in...