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A Level Film Studies: The Essential Introduction Sarah Casey Benyahia 9781032801933
RRP: $55.59SciFier: $52.81Building confidence through a careful, step-by-step approach, this book is an essential companion for students undertaking A Level Film Studies.This book begins by establishing a basic understanding... -
Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-Makers and Films by Rafael de Espana
SciFier: $80.61This new book catalogues some 215 prominent film directors from both countries, giving accurate bio-filmographies and providing an in-depth reference source. Full attention is given to the propaganda... -
Refocus: the Films of Pablo Larrain Laura Hatry 9781474448291
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's... -
Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence Nikolaj Lubecker (Professor of French and Film Studies, University of Oxford) 9781399557122
RRP: $132.05SciFier: $122.01This book studies the relation between documentary film and political violence, treating images not as representations, but as original experiences that are a part of a reality that they both present... -
Impossible Puzzle Films by Miklos Kiss
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $31.65Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520377479
RRP: $58.38SciFier: $44.34Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
British Film Music and Film Musicals by K. Donnelly
SciFier: $65.32In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's... -
The Natural History of Film Form Pansy Duncan 9781399548243
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $99.80The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid helped shape early film aesthetics. Drawing on fan and industry periodicals, as... -
Hong Kong Documentary Film Ian Aitken 9781474405591
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $38.66Offers a comprehensive study of the lost genre of Hong Kong documentary film. Does Hong Kong have a significant tradition in documentary filmmaking? Until recently, many film scholars believed not... -
A Companion to the Gangster Film by George S. Larke-Walsh
RRP: $262.64SciFier: $227.95A companion to the study of the gangster film's international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest... -
European Film Noir by Andrew Spicer
SciFier: $31.96European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: $109.10Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
SciFier: $45.63In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal... -
Chinese Film Festivals by Chris Berry
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $104.93This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking... -
Directory of Eastern European Film-Makers and Films 1945-91 by Grzegorz Balski
SciFier: $96.59This book is an original and highly detailed reference work on Eastern European films and is the first of its kind to provide such a wealth and breadth of information. There is full coverage of over... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting Patrick Keating 9781978810266
RRP: $150.12SciFier: $122.57More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting Patrick Keating 9781978810259
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $34.86More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each... -
The Film of the Islamic State by Yorck Beese
SciFier: $129.26The film of the so-called Islamic State is part of the still relatively opaque history of radical Sunni Islamist video propaganda, a field in which it is simultaneously its strongest exponent... -
Hong Kong Documentary Film Ian Aitken 9780748664696
SciFier: $129.28This is a comprehensive study of the lost genre of Hong Kong documentary film. Does Hong Kong have a significant tradition in documentary filmmaking? Until recently, many film scholars believed not... -
The History of British Film (Volume 5) by Rachael Low
SciFier: $76.45This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520276741
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $92.63Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887596
SciFier: $79.22Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944438
SciFier: $52.81Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films by Chris Fellner
SciFier: $203.62Dracula and Frankenstein. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. These are just a few of the icons of Hammer Films. To horror fans, the name "Hammer" conjures visions of hissing vampires and buxom... -
Contemporary Musical Film K. J. Donnelly (Professor of Film and Film Music, University of Southampton) 9781474413121
RRP: $139.00SciFier: $129.28Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen musical. This edited collection, bringing together a... -
World Film Locations: Paris by Marcelline Block
SciFier: $34.19'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former... -
The Theological Power of Film James Lorenz 9781032575636
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78This book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887589
SciFier: $143.16Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are... -
Horror Film by Steffen Hantke
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $31.62In large part due to its emphasis on gore, screaming teenage girls, and otherworldly elements, horror films have received little critical attention from mainstream movie magazines and film-studies... -
Composing for Silent Film Jack Curtis Dubowsky 9781032184210
SciFier: $84.87Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition... -
Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema David Scott Diffrient 9780748695652
SciFier: $130.26Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are... -
Empire and Film Lee Grieveson 9781844574216
SciFier: $58.21'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9780415726580
SciFier: $250.70Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
The Appreciation of Film by Richard Lowell MacDonald
RRP: $104.25SciFier: $88.95This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film... -
Film and Faith by Micah Watson, long-time policy analyst
SciFier: $116.05Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion's continuing manifestations in a secularizing... -
Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing: A FilmSnobbery Field Guide Nicholas LaRue 9781032507866
SciFier: $51.14This book provides current and incoming filmmakers with a comprehensive overview of how to create business and marketing plans to prepare their movies for distribution. Nicholas LaRue combines... -
European Film Remakes Eduard Cuelenaere 9781474460651
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $33.90Combines historical and contemporary approaches to film remakes in Europe Investigates, next to the textual, socio-cultural and political dimensions, the often neglected industrial, financial and... -
Medieval Film Anke Bernau 9780719077029
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $92.89Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create... -
Teaching Film by Lucy Fischer
SciFier: $46.93Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic... -
Film Studies in China 2 by Contemporary Cinema (China Film Archive)
RRP: $207.04SciFier: $204.15Film Studies in China 2 is a collection of selected articles chosen from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema published throughout the year and translated for an English-speaking audience. As...