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The Brothers Coen by Ryan P. Doom
SciFier: £43.99This examination of the distinctive cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen explores the theme of violence in their wide-ranging body of work.The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence spans the career... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940300
SciFier: £88.49In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and... -
Jungian Reflections within the Cinema by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: £78.49Exploring the relevance of Jungian theory as it applies to science fiction, horror and fantasy films, this text demonstrates the remarkable correlation existing between Jung's major archetypes and... -
Korean Film by Eungjun Min
SciFier: £78.49Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the... -
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275967574
SciFier: £78.49Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: £61.99Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
Stars in Our Eyes by Angela Ndalianis
SciFier: £78.49The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system. Today's film... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: £36.99William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging... -
Quentin Tarantino by Aaron Barlow
SciFier: £61.99This book places Quentin Tarantino at the heart of Hollywood, showing a director who speaks film through film, who examines the world beyond the movies in a way few have previously attempted, and at... -
The Making of Alternative Cinema Mario Falsetto 9780275994587
SciFier: £29.99The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended primarily... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957452
SciFier: £37.99Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Designing Movies by Sylvia Townsend
SciFier: £51.99This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood & Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275923839
SciFier: £51.99One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
The Golden Apples of the Sun
SciFier: £46.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837151601Format HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: £51.99Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
Hollywood Auteur by Jeffrey Chown
SciFier: £78.49In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies... -
A Moving Picture Feast by Charles Oliver
SciFier: £67.49The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: £78.49Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: £37.99Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: £61.99This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: £78.49This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
The American War Film by Frank McAdams
SciFier: £78.49McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: £77.99In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: £61.99The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: £78.49Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs... -
Screens Fade to Black by David J. Leonard
SciFier: £51.99The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was... -
Film Directors on Directing by John A. Gallagher
SciFier: £32.46Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780275961190
SciFier: £37.99Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
The Films of Kenneth Branagh by Samuel Crowl
SciFier: £78.49Between the release of Henry V in 1989 and Love's Labour's Lost in 2000, Kenneth Branagh directed eight major films in a wide variety of genres, ranging from film noir to horror to comedy, and... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780313302794
SciFier: £77.99Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780313361333
SciFier: £29.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Politics and Politicians in American Film by Phillip L. Gianos
SciFier: £36.99Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century-a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780275983536
SciFier: £46.99Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically-every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275924799
SciFier: £28.99One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
Shooting the Truth by James McEnteer
SciFier: £46.99Political documentaries are more popular now than ever- Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), the top-grossing documentary film of all time, is one of many such recent films. In this incisive book,... -
Financing Your Film by Trisha Curran
SciFier: £35.99This practical guide addresses the needs of aspiring, beginning and veteran independent producers, as well as film students. The author covers such topics as sources of money, ways to structure... -
Chinese Film Theory by Xia Hong
SciFier: £78.49This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides... -
Poet of Civic Courage: The Films of Francesco Rosi 9780275958008
SciFier: £37.99Rosi's films consistently and directly address the themes of political and institutional corruption and the complex relationship between the individual, the mafia, and the state. Whether evoking the... -
From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley
SciFier: £78.49This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory,... -
The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: £78.49The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of...