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British Film Design: A History Laurie N. Ede 9781848851085
SciFier: £26.99"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: Dr. No's Hideaway, the buffet of 'Brief Encounter', Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School.... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755603145
SciFier: £112.99Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle Lina Khatib 9781848852815
SciFier: £87.99Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing... -
Hitchcock and the Spy Film Prof James Chapman 9781780768441
SciFier: £52.68Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of... -
Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University London, UK) 9781848853171
SciFier: £29.20What is the state of American indie cinema in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Some have forecast an end to the viability of an indie sector marked by the appearance of films with... -
Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK) 9781860642883
SciFier: £30.29The new, revised and expanded paperback edition of this widely-used textbook for film history brings up to date its authors' demonstration of how a close study of films in their historical and... -
Outer Limits: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films Howard Hughes 9781780761664
SciFier: £32.08HOWARD HUGHES'S NEW FILMGOERS' GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AVATAR AND BEYOND, AND COVERS OVER 250 MORE Outer... -
Screenwriting by Horton Andrew
SciFier: £31.38Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, craft, business and history of filmmaking from... -
The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture Joanne Finkelstein 9781845113964
SciFier: £27.99Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the... -
Un Chien Andalou by Elza Adamowicz
SciFier: £24.59In 1929 Dali and Bunuel produced a seventeen-minute film "Un chien andalou". On its first screening, Federico Garcia Lorca called it 'a tiny little shit of a film'. Produced from a script said to be... -
Pain in the Arts by John Tusa
SciFier: £61.74Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it... -
Art and Advertising by Joan Gibbons
SciFier: £28.99Over the past twenty-five years the relationship between art and advertising has become increasingly varied and complex, with artists appropriating the billboards and neon displays of the ad world,... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766652
SciFier: £112.99The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly... -
Banned in the U.S.A. by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £102.99Making use of the recently-opened files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960. Film by film, it... -
Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger
SciFier: £28.13Eisenstein's last, unfinished masterpiece is a strange, complex and haunting film. Commissioned personally by Stalin in 1941, the project placed Eisenstein in the paradoxical situation of having to... -
Reading Little Britain by Sharon Lockyer
SciFier: £22.89'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satirical genius created this character-based sketch show -... -
Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond Lina Khatib 9781845116286
SciFier: £27.99Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes... -
Mamma Mia! The Movie by Louise FitzGerald
SciFier: £28.99Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008) was one of the top international box-office hits of its year and the fastest selling DVD in British history. Responses were passionate but polarized: while legions of fans... -
The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK) 9781860646270
SciFier: £26.99This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of... -
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film John Riley 9781850434849
SciFier: £24.99Of all the major Soviet composers who worked in the cinema, the most prominent was Dmitri Shostakovich who, in addition to over a hundred works for the stage and concert hall, wrote scores for almost... -
The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine Liat Berdugo 9780755637454
SciFier: £29.99Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo... -
Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa Tijen Tunali 9780755650699
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.09Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic... -
The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict Liam Kennedy (Bloomsbury author, no email.) 9781780767895
SciFier: £39.35Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others... -
Light and Photomedia: A New History and Future of the Photographic Image Jai McKenzie 9781780762784
SciFier: £23.74Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding... -
Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography Jonas Larsen 9781780763323
SciFier: £23.74Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate... -
Mass Photography by Annebella Pollen
SciFier: £105.26With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish... -
Styling South Asian Youth Cultures by Lipi Begum (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK)
SciFier: £35.99For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,... -
The British Film Industry in 25 Careers: The Mavericks, Visionaries and Outsiders Who Shaped British Cinema Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK) 9781350140691
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £44.38The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against... -
The British Film Industry in 25 Careers: The Mavericks, Visionaries and Outsiders Who Shaped British Cinema Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK) 9781350140684
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.43The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739232
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739263
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £61.99This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Martin Lister 9780415535298
SciFier: £48.93This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially... -
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self Marco Bohr 9780367592202
SciFier: £43.73This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that... -
Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998) Gaik Cheng Khoo 9781041186427
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £41.26After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories... -
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction by James E. Bennett (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
SciFier: £105.26For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual... -
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Mark Gallagher 9781844577811
SciFier: £24.99In this fascinating study, Mark Gallagher explores the dynamics of media stardom in Hong Kong, mainland China and the East Asian region. This includes the importance of television series for training... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.99The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance James E. Bennett (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 9781350289871
SciFier: £30.99For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual... -
Robert Redford and American Cinema by Dr Michael Allen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £102.99Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and TV to his contemporary status as an iconic and... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709938
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there...