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European Film Noir by Andrew Spicer
SciFier: £22.99European 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... -
Directory of Eastern European Film-Makers and Films 1945-91 by Grzegorz Balski
SciFier: £69.49This 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... -
The Film of the Islamic State by Yorck Beese
SciFier: £92.99The 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... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting Patrick Keating 9781978810266
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £88.18More 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: £29.99SciFier: £25.08More 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... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944438
SciFier: £37.99Sound-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... -
Film and Faith by Micah Watson, long-time policy analyst
SciFier: £83.49Film 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... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887589
SciFier: £102.99Although 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... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520276741
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.64Film 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... -
Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing: A FilmSnobbery Field Guide Nicholas LaRue 9781032507866
SciFier: £36.79This 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... -
World Film Locations: Paris by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.60'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... -
Chinese Film Festivals by Chris Berry
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £75.49This 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... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887596
SciFier: £56.99Although 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... -
Hong Kong Documentary Film Ian Aitken 9780748664696
SciFier: £93.01This 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... -
Contemporary Musical Film K. J. Donnelly (Professor of Film and Film Music, University of Southampton) 9781474413121
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Since 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... -
Composing for Silent Film Jack Curtis Dubowsky 9781032184210
SciFier: £61.06Composing 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: £93.71Omnibus 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... -
Horror Film by Steffen Hantke
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.75In 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... -
Empire and Film Lee Grieveson 9781844574216
SciFier: £41.88'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... -
Medieval Film Anke Bernau 9780719077029
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Medieval 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... -
Feminist Ethics in Film by Joseph H. Kupfer
SciFier: £24.44Popular films can do more than merely entertain us; they can contribute to our understanding of human nature and the ethical theory that informs it. Feminist Ethics in Film explores a varied group of... -
Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity Jayson Beaster-Jones 9781138929364
SciFier: £53.26Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India's... -
European Film Remakes Eduard Cuelenaere 9781474460651
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Combines 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... -
The Appreciation of Film by Richard Lowell MacDonald
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This 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... -
Medieval Film Anke Bernau 9780719086472
SciFier: £22.99Medieval 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... -
Film and History by James Chapman (University of Leicester, Leicester)
SciFier: £28.99Film is the pre-eminent mass medium of the modern age. It is a valuable source of evidence for the study of both the past and the contemporary world, and is a social practice that has affected the... -
Alex Cox's Introduction to Film by Alex Cox
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Picasso apparently said, "when critics get together, they talk about theory. When painters get together, they talk about turpentine.' That has been my experience, as far as film and film studies are... -
Beijing Film Academy 2022 Journal of Beijing Film Academy 9781835951569
RRP: £89.95SciFier: £81.53The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing... -
Ultimate Film: The UK's 100 Most Popular Films Jonathan Ross 9781844571055
SciFier: £45.16One of the most revealing snapshots of British cinema-going ever produced, The Ultimate Film is the definitive list of the all-time top 100 films based on UK cinema admissions. From the 1930s to the... -
Teaching Film by Lucy Fischer
SciFier: £33.76Film 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... -
The Metamodern Slasher Film by Steve Jones
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics... -
Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014 by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £29.00Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged - and most controversial - film directors of... -
The 12-Hour Film Expert by Noah Charney
SciFier: £27.55The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation.If you are looking at this book, then you probably love watching movies and television shows. Who doesn't? But... -
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99An eye-opening portrait of a vibrant film culture, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film is the most comprehensive study of the Japanese filmmaking scene yet written. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp... -
A Short History of Film, Third Edition Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813595139
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £102.24With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema-especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers-an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated... -
Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression Allan Havis 9780761839675
SciFier: £38.99Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult films history within American culture. By highlighting three films per decade including a brief summary of the decade's identity and... -
The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Film Editing and Technological Change Marc Furstenau 9781041187134
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage. It is commonly argued that the changes to the technical apparatus of... -
Transnational Film Culture in New Zealand by Simon Sigley (Massey University)
SciFier: £24.44In this innovative work of cultural history, Simon Sigley tells the story of film culture in New Zealand from the establishment of the Auckland Film Society in the 1920s to the present day. Rather... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance Lea Jacobs 9780520279643
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
Film Freak Christopher Fowler 9780857501790
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the...