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What Is Cinema? Volume II Andre Bazin 9780520242289
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $48.64Andre 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... -
US Youth Films and Popular Music by Tim McNelis
SciFier: $94.19This 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,... -
Joel and Ethan Coen R. Barton Palmer 9780252071850
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $33.85With 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... -
Joel and Ethan Coen by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $208.39SciFier: $165.45With 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... -
Mary Poppins by Leslie H. Abramson
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $44.61This volume examines Mary Poppins as a 1960s film reflecting and invested in its radically changing times, a largely but not unmitigatedly antiestablishment musical resonant with conditions and... -
Journalism in the Movies by Matthew C. Ehrlich
RRP: $41.20SciFier: $33.85From 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... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: $96.18Film 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... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: $100.14This 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: $64.12SciFier: $46.81Film 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: $215.26SciFier: $182.03More 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: $84.62SciFier: $68.68More 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: $96.18Wars 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: $94.19This 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: $179.74From 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: $93.68Over 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 Screenwriting by Stephen V. Duncan
SciFier: $66.39This 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... -
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 9781474425292
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $63.68Examining 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... -
Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Keith M. Johnston 9781847884763
SciFier: $82.42Science 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... -
British Music Videos 1966 - 2016: Genre, Authenticity and Art Emily Caston 9781474435321
RRP: $229.00SciFier: $212.99Based 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,... -
Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: $178.60In 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 by Emily Caston
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $46.53Based 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: $238.14Throughout 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... -
The Hollywood Romantic Comedy by Leger Grindon (Middlebury College, USA)
RRP: $61.72SciFier: $58.21The 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... -
Academic Films for the Classroom by Geoff Alexander
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $56.81Exploring 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... -
Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Barry Jordan
SciFier: $52.65Contemporary 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... -
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction Murray Leeder (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501314438
SciFier: $93.73Throughout 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... -
Overhearing Film Dialogue by Sarah Kozloff
RRP: $61.83SciFier: $51.80Since 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... -
Australian Genre Film Kelly McWilliam 9780367755263
RRP: $89.29SciFier: $88.23Australian 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... -
Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema Benjamin A. Bigelow 9780295751641
SciFier: $69.46Known 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: $261.52Known 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: $107.61What 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... -
Music and Mythmaking in Film by Timothy E. Scheurer
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $49.49This 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... -
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity Frances Smith 9781474413091
RRP: $229.00SciFier: $212.99Rethinking 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: $75.46SciFier: $74.29Genre - 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: $93.87Biopics 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... -
Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s Thomas Schatz 9780520221307
RRP: $80.15SciFier: $79.37"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: $77.84Italian 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... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201616
RRP: $274.80SciFier: $237.45Italian 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... -
Mexican National Cinema Anastassios Perdicoulis (Oxford Brookes University, England, UK) 9780415230100
RRP: $112.19SciFier: $102.13From 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: $158.54This 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...