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The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out Wayne Byrne 9780231185356
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.06The 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... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169639
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
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... -
Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context Carol Vernallis 9780231117999
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.46Music 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... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Hunter 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... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93The 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: £18.69Whether 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
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £27.69Jonathan 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: £11.40Stanley 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... -
The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Andre Gaudreault 9780231173575
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £21.91Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double... -
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong 9780231183383
SciFier: £68.52The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers... -
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness Lily Wong 9780231183390
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu 9780231191821
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.99Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee 9780231196154
SciFier: £25.77From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial... -
Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Terence McSweeney 9780231186247
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
SciFier: £88.18By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy Priya Joshi 9780231169615
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and... -
The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty, and Romance Sookja Cho 9780231186117
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £21.91The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Choson Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protagonist Cho Ung as he fearlessly confronts and... -
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University) 9780231157483
SciFier: £94.31Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early... -
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier Theodore Hughes (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Columbia University) 9780231157490
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early... -
Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics Julie A. Turnock 9780231163521
SciFier: £101.27Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165068
SciFier: £101.27Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178211
SciFier: £29.76Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Film Censorship: Regulating America's Screen Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231183130
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.65Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and... -
Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman 9780231144650
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39America'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... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque 9780231156509
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £108.33Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events... -
Negotiations, 1972-1990 by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £17.29Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key... -
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond by Robin Wood
SciFier: £30.88This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters...