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Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9781526139528
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End by Akos Farkas
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971... -
The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema David Archibald 9780719096532
SciFier: £22.99The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo... -
The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema David Archibald 9780719078088
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo... -
There is No Soundtrack: Rethinking Art, Media, and the Audio-Visual Contract Ming-Yuen S. Ma 9781526142122
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It... -
Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors Todd Reeser 9781526141064
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century... -
Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist Simon Grennan 9781526133540
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Emilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary... -
Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays Jonathan Bignell 9780719064203
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected... -
The Cinema of Pedro AlmodoVar Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9780719074424
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including... -
Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist Simon Grennan 9781526178930
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Emilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary... -
Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays Jonathan Bignell 9780719064210
SciFier: £22.99This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected... -
The Legacy of John Polidori by Sam George
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a... -
The Cinema of Pedro AlmodoVar Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9781526167125
SciFier: £22.99This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including... -
Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors Todd Reeser 9781526182388
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century... -
The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny Sam George 9781526198228
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.50John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a... -
Julien Duvivier Ben McCann 9780719091148
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films... -
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film Andrew Klevan 9781784991258
SciFier: £22.99This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between... -
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film Andrew Klevan 9781784991241
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £76.99This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between... -
David Lean by Melanie Williams
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.' One of the best known and most admired of British film makers,... -
Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris John Potvin 9781526134790
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £78.49Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism,... -
Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris John Potvin 9781526164902
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism,... -
Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions by Karen Fricker
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a... -
Hollywood Romantic Comedy by Kathrina Glitre
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire. Kathrina Glitre moves beyond the usual screwball territory to consider cycles of... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9780719096471
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can... -
Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy John Mundy 9780719083150
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.99Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy,... -
The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolome: Feminism and Francoism Sally Faulkner 9781526169716
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolome's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnes Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9781526163974
SciFier: £22.99Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in... -
Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: £22.99Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher... -
The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolome: Feminism and Francoism Sally Faulkner 9781526194817
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolome's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnes Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the... -
Jacques Audiard by Gemma King
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques... -
Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde Rebecca Binns 9781526147912
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.66As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary... -
More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form Barry Atkins 9780719063657
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.66The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural... -
Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde Rebecca Binns 9781526147899
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072369
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072376
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity Andrew Spicer 9781526119117
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.86Sean Connery was one of cinema's most iconic stars. Born to a working-class family in Edinburgh, he held jobs as a milkman and an artist's model before making the move into acting. The role of James... -
The Films of Costa-Gavras by Homer B. Pettey
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Costa-Gavras is a seminal figure in French and international cinema. A master of the political thriller, he explores historical events through individual human stories, thereby involving his audience... -
Surrealism and Film After 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries Kristoffer Noheden 9781526149985
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £82.49This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collection features eleven original contributions by... -
The Cinema of ALex De La Iglesia Andy Willis 9780719071379
SciFier: £23.99Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526163424
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £76.99Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring...