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Joel and Ethan Coen by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: €108.29SciFier: €85.98With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a... -
Screenplay: Building Story Through Character Jule Selbo 9781138935976
SciFier: €55.13Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters. Based on... -
What Is Cinema? Volume II Andre Bazin 9780520242289
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.28Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
Joel and Ethan Coen R. Barton Palmer 9780252071850
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €17.59With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a... -
US Youth Films and Popular Music by Tim McNelis
SciFier: €48.94This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre,... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: €49.98Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Journalism in the Movies by Matthew C. Ehrlich
RRP: €21.41SciFier: €17.59From cynical portrayals like The Front Page to the nuanced complexity of All the President's Men, and The Insider, movies about journalists and journalism have been a go-to film genre since the... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: €52.04This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the... -
Dark City Dames by Eddie Muller
RRP: €33.32SciFier: €24.32Film noir was the dark side of the movies' happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough, independent dame. Determined, desirable, dangerous when cornered, she... -
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited Philippa Gates 9780814347805
RRP: €111.86SciFier: €94.59More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa... -
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited Philippa Gates 9780814347799
RRP: €43.97SciFier: €35.69More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa... -
Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities Anders Engberg-Pedersen 9780367322731
SciFier: €49.98Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a... -
Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres Christopher Holliday 9780367590741
SciFier: €48.94This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy... -
American Dark Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: €93.40From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and... -
Cine-Ethiopia by Michael W. Thomas
SciFier: €48.68Over the past decade, Ethiopian films have come to dominate the screening schedules of the many cinemas in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa, as well as other urban centres. Despite undergoing... -
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 9781474425292
RRP: €34.50SciFier: €33.09Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of... -
Genre Screenwriting by Stephen V. Duncan
SciFier: €34.50This book reveals the secrets of writing a successful screenplay across a range of genres. It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them... -
British Music Videos 1966 - 2016 by Emily Caston
RRP: €24.98SciFier: €24.18Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016,... -
Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Keith M. Johnston 9781847884763
SciFier: €42.83Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential... -
Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: €92.81In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre. In the past, Jungian archetypes have been used to interpret... -
British Music Videos 1966 - 2016: Genre, Authenticity and Art Emily Caston 9781474435321
RRP: €119.00SciFier: €110.68Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016,... -
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction Murray Leeder (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501314421
SciFier: €123.75Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical... -
Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Barry Jordan
SciFier: €27.36Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and... -
Academic Films for the Classroom by Geoff Alexander
RRP: €34.50SciFier: €29.52Exploring a realm of film often dismissed as campy or contrived, this book traces the history of classroom educational films from the silent era through the 1980s, when film finally began to lose... -
The Hollywood Romantic Comedy by Leger Grindon (Middlebury College, USA)
RRP: €32.07SciFier: €30.25The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the... -
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction Murray Leeder (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501314438
SciFier: €49.40Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical... -
Australian Genre Film Kelly McWilliam 9780367755263
RRP: €46.40SciFier: €45.85Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in... -
Overhearing Film Dialogue by Sarah Kozloff
RRP: €32.13SciFier: €26.92Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, 'When a motion picture is at its best, it... -
Music and Mythmaking in Film by Timothy E. Scheurer
RRP: €29.74SciFier: €25.72This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical... -
Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema Benjamin A. Bigelow 9780295751641
SciFier: €36.45Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans... -
Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema Benjamin A. Bigelow 9780295751634
SciFier: €135.90Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans... -
Action Figures by M. Gallagher
SciFier: €55.92What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve... -
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity Frances Smith 9781474413091
RRP: €119.00SciFier: €110.68Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156516
RRP: €39.21SciFier: €38.60Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production... -
Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art Doris Berger (Academy Museum in Los Angeles, USA) 9781501315732
SciFier: €48.78Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201616
RRP: €142.80SciFier: €123.39Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient... -
Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s Thomas Schatz 9780520221307
RRP: €41.65SciFier: €41.25"Boom and Bust" traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system - including the shift to independent production - and... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201623
SciFier: €40.45Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas.Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history... -
Mexican National Cinema Anastassios Perdicoulis (Oxford Brookes University, England, UK) 9780415230100
RRP: €58.30SciFier: €53.07From Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien, this books delves into the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the 'Golden Age' of the... -
Games of Terror by Vera Dika
SciFier: €82.38This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the...