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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century Jean-Luc Godard 9781845201968
SciFier: £112.59Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in... -
Dennis Hopper: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781617036569
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.64The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
Arrival David Roche 9781477330159
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35A study of Denis Villeneuve's genre-transcendent film. In Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters Salva Rubio 9780984157662
RRP: £19.50SciFier: £18.79In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50... -
MASH FAQ by Dale Sherman
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.87Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. EM*A*S*HE began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After... -
Arrival David Roche 9781477330142
RRP: £87.00SciFier: £69.06A study of Denis Villeneuve's genre-transcendent film. In Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth... -
Karl Lagerfeld: A Graphic Biography Michele Botton 9783791393476
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.10Through intertwined narratives and evocative illustrations, this graphic biography reveals the life and influence of Karl Lagerfeld, the legendary designer who revolutionized fashion. The book's... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray
SciFier: £34.05Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
Independent Cinema by D K Holm
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Just what is 'independent' cinema? D. K. Holm aims to define a term all too carelessly used both by media commentators and marketers, and distinguish it from categories such as avant-garde,... -
Critical Perspectives on the Western by Lee Broughton
SciFier: £87.99For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue... -
World Film Locations: Vienna by Robert Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperical capital. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays... -
Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University London, UK) 9781845118259
SciFier: £26.99In this book, the author has published extensively on American cinema. It covers a range of well-known films and film-makers. This is the first book to analyse the relationship and interaction... -
Postmodern Hollywood by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even... -
Dear Orson Wells and Other Essays by Mark Cousins
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.53In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflects on his prolific career in documentary-making, meditating on the philosophers,... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 3 by John Berra (Renmin University of China)
SciFier: £47.39This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside... -
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 9780241953198
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON'S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSICThe future is small. The future is nano . . .And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and... -
David Fincher: Interviews Laurence F. Knapp 9781628460360
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781628466973
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.95Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Mel Brooks FAQ by Dale Sherman
SciFier: £15.83Born to be the center of attention Mel Brooks grew up learning the ropes of entertainment in the Catskills during its biggest days. He later emerged as a skilled comedy writer by literally muscling... -
David Fincher: Interviews Laurence F. Knapp 9781496802682
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble... -
An Aesthetics of Injury by Ian Fleishman
SciFier: £36.74An Aesthetics of Injury exposes wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound-texts that aim not only to depict but also to... -
The Loose End Dave Dwonch 9781787746442
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97In-debt screenwriter Steven Hollis is handed a ticket out of his dead-end lifestyle when the mob tasks him with killing the biggest exec in Hollywood. Fans of Goodfellas will love this Hard Case... -
Vanishing Point Forever by M. Rubin
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.93Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (20th Century Fox, 1971) is the ultimate analog car chase movie with that hard-to-pin-down something extra. Written by renowned Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera... -
The Night Watch: (Night Watch 1) Sergei Lukyanenko 9780099489924
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.42Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world... -
The Off-Screen by Eyal Peretz
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting... -
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Abarat Clive Barker 9780006513704 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £2.40A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of... -
John Ford by Gerald Peary
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46This is the first collection of interviews with John Ford (1895--1973), whom many aficionados of fine films consider not only the major American filmmaker but also one of the most extraordinary... -
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The Night Watch: (Night Watch 1) Sergei Lukyanenko 9780099489924 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.71Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world... -
The Art of DreamWorks Animation by DreamWorks Animation
RRP: £145.00SciFier: £99.20Celebrate 30 years of DreamWorks Animation's visually rich worlds with this luxurious edition of the studio's artistic achievements in both film and television DreamWorks Animation's teams of... -
Abarat 2: Days of Magic, Nights of War Clive Barker 9780007227723
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.49A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings... -
Abarat Clive Barker 9780006513704
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of... -
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors David Thomson 9781780228280
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was... -
Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV Arved Ashby (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) 9780199827350
RRP: £35.49SciFier: £34.49Movies have never been the same since MTV. While the classic symphonic film score promised direct insight into a character's mind, the expanded role of popular music has made more ambiguous the... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586260
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.19"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV Arved Ashby (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) 9780199827336
RRP: £130.00SciFier: £119.49Movies have never been the same since MTV. While the classic symphonic film score promised direct insight into a character's mind, the expanded role of popular music has made more ambiguous the... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586284
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781496809728
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Art History for Filmmakers by Dr Gillian McIver (Independent Scholar, UK)
SciFier: £48.33Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781617033063
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £27.43In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, totally original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, seemingly without formal art training, produced works that... -
Contemporary Musical Film K. J. Donnelly (Professor of Film and Film Music, University of Southampton) 9781474413121
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen musical. This edited collection, bringing together a...