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Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film Edward Lamberti 9781789389425
RRP: £109.95SciFier: £108.51Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release... -
Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game by Graeme Kirkpatrick
SciFier: £20.07This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780253214799
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema Robert Robertson 9781848857315
SciFier: £31.38The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his remarkable and extensive... -
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics Sydney Ladensohn Stern 9781496840851
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £18.60Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz FoundationNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library... -
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction by Thomas G. Deveny
SciFier: £83.49Now available in paperback! Cinema often relies on novels or short stories for narrative material. Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction examines cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that... -
ReFocus: The Films of Kira Muratova Irina Gradinari (Junior Professor, University of Hagan) 9781399545709
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £85.50Spanning six decades, her seventeen features and four shorts move from the late Soviet era to post-Soviet Ukraine, breaking cinematic rules with repetition, collage, unruly performance and a tactile,... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
SciFier: £94.31Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252083051
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252041242
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
SciFier: £101.27Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934)... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney (Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina) 9780190459963
RRP: £120.00SciFier: £110.49Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney 9780190459970
SciFier: £33.24Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of... -
Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Michael Z. Newman 9780231169516
SciFier: £12.06Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a... -
William Beaudine by Wendy L. Marshall
SciFier: £78.49William Beaudine began his tenure in film as an assistant to the legendary D. W. Griffith. At the height of his career, Beaudine worked for every major studio and directed many greats of the silent... -
Women Do Genre in Film and Television Mary Harrod 9780367889845
SciFier: £42.00Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201049
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In... -
Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony Rochona Majumdar 9780231201056
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201339
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has... -
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee 9780231196154
SciFier: £25.77From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial...