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Blacks in Black and White by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: £83.99Since its publication in 1977 to acclaim as a pioneering work, this has remained the first and only book to detail all aspects of a unique era in the history of motion pictures-the only time in the U... -
Showdown at High Noon by Jeremy Byman
SciFier: £77.99For more than fifty years, High Noon has been a touchstone in the popular imagination and a source of endless controversy about film art. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece. But film... -
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Charles Leinberger
SciFier: £40.99Although five-time Academy-Award nominee Ennio Morricone has scored numerous films in various genres, his westerns will undoubtedly remain his most memorable cinematographic accomplishments. This... -
Hong Kong Cinema by Law Kar
SciFier: £113.99Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in... -
William Desmond Taylor by Bruce Long
SciFier: £78.49Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered... -
Principal Characters by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £61.99As the grandson of actress Ivy Close and son of director Ronald Neame (Straight from the Horse's Mouth; Scarecrow, 2003), Christopher Neame's roots in the film business were already firmly... -
Danny Elfman's Batman by Janet K. Halfyard
SciFier: £40.99Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his... -
Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson Alan L. Gansberg 9780810849501
SciFier: £65.39Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Romania and from the age of ten grew up in New York's Lower East Side. He trained at the legendary Theater Guild, changed his name, and starred in many successful... -
Directing by Tay Garnett
SciFier: £77.99An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin... -
Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red by Nicholas W. Reyland
SciFier: £68.99Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity,... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £61.99Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with... -
Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
SciFier: £72.99Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did... -
Worms in the Winecup by John Bright
SciFier: £82.99Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic... -
Zombie Culture by Shawn McIntosh
SciFier: £67.49Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing... -
The A to Z of Horror Cinema by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: £52.99Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to... -
The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema Paul Varner 9780810868885
SciFier: £51.99When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun,... -
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock by Herbert Coleman
SciFier: £51.99As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and... -
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry Anthony Slide 9781578860159
SciFier: £53.19Now in Paperback! The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a unique reference work, a 'what's what' of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United... -
Some Cutting Remarks by Ralph E. Winters
SciFier: £68.49Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810844902
SciFier: £68.49Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
Jerome Moross's The Big Country by Mariana Whitmer
SciFier: £43.99With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Produced in 1958, this epic film featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton... -
Verse, Voice, and Vision by Marlisa Santos
SciFier: £97.99Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and... -
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film Ennio Morricone 9780810892415
SciFier: £61.99With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for... -
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront by Anthony Bushard
SciFier: £56.99Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards-including Best Picture-and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's... -
A Treasure Hard to Attain by David Howard Day
SciFier: £77.99A Treasure Hard to Attain covers the archaeological content of approximately 120 popular films, most of which have been produced in the United States since 1912. Extensive commentaries appear for the... -
The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema by Sanchez-H., Jose, Sanchez-H., Jose
SciFier: £97.99In Bolivia, politics have always shaped art, particularly when it comes to film. This book presents Bolivia's most significant filmmakers largely in their own words. Since 1981, Jose Sanchez-H. has... -
Republic Studios by Richard M. Hurst
SciFier: £67.49The Hollywood studios of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were rarely concerned with film as an art form; this was especially true of those specializing in the B film. Of these, Republic Pictures... -
Celluloid Ivy by David B. Hinton
SciFier: £72.99Because of their tremendous mass audience, Hollywood feature films help mold, shape, and direct popular beliefs and attitudes. They also serve as frozen pieces of time that preserve the concerns of... -
Friend or Foe? by Michael J. Strada
SciFier: £102.99During the nearly sixty years of filmmaking, the always uneasy and often fractious Soviet-American relationship has been mirrored in Hollywood's portrayal of Russians and the Soviet Union. Friend or... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: £92.99A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers... -
Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction James Gunn 9780810854208
SciFier: £56.99Harvard's George C. Simpson called the late Isaac Asimov "one of our natural wonders and national resources," for his hundreds of nonfiction works on science, mathematics, history, and literature... -
A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States by Jeannie Gayle Pool
SciFier: £61.99Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described... -
That's Enough Folks by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: £114.49An authoritative and valuable resource for students and scholars of film animation and African-American history, film buffs, and casual readers. It is the first and only book to detail the history of... -
Monty Python's Flying Circus by Darl Larsen
SciFier: £84.99In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a... -
Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence by Nigel West
SciFier: £113.99Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched... -
The A to Z of Italian Cinema by Gino Moliterno
SciFier: £52.99The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented... -
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing by Kendra Preston Leonard
SciFier: £58.49When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of... -
Appraising Moving Images by Sam Kula
SciFier: £77.99In recent years the commercial value of moving images for use in new film and television productions has increased enormously, and gifts of moving images to cultural institutions have developed... -
The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928) by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £77.99Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891173
SciFier: £113.99Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent...