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A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot Darl Larsen 9781442245532
SciFier: $85.75Monty Python's Flying Circus aired from 1969 until 1974, but the conclusion of the series did not mark the end of the troupe's creative output. Even before the final original episodes were recorded... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary Martin McQuillan 9781783480043
SciFier: $124.61Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
The Walking Dead Live! by Philip L. Simpson
SciFier: $117.91In 2010, The Walking Dead premiered on AMC and has since become the most watched scripted program in the history of basic cable. Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead... -
The Sanity of Satire by Al Gini
SciFier: $45.55Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self. Satire is confrontational. It's about push back, descent,... -
Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China Paul G. Pickowicz 9781442270244
SciFier: $54.93This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous player in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two... -
Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film by John Alexander Williams
SciFier: $138.01Over the past several decades, liberal western Europe's attempts to improve human rights, social equality, and political democracy have increasingly conflicted with countervailing tendencies. The... -
Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons by Nichola Dobson
SciFier: $118.58Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons is intended to provide an overview of the animation industry and its historical development. The animation industry has been in existence as long (some... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary Martin McQuillan 9781783480050
SciFier: $45.55Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262409
SciFier: $124.61Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
The Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women's Cinema and Continental Philosophy Caroline Godart 9781783486557
SciFier: $69.67The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference... -
Tyler Perry's America: Inside His Films Shayne Lee 9780810896222
SciFier: $45.55Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry's America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven... -
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions Sylvie Magerstadt 9781783482511
SciFier: $62.97Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstadt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262324
SciFier: $54.93Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
Create Video with Media Composer by Avid Technology Avid Technology
SciFier: $41.53Create Video with Avid Media Composer introduces users to the power of Media Composer software and marks the first steps toward developing core skills in video editing. The book covers the basic... -
The Kingdom of Rattlesnake Mountain by Karel Hayes
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.42The exhilarating second book in acclaimed children's author Karel Hayes' Lake Kanakonda trilogy.Spring has come again to Lake Kanakondah, but it is not a peaceful spring. Amenacing presence has... -
Intensities and Lines of Flight by Antonio Calcagno, King's University College
SciFier: $69.67The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought. However, these writings... -
The Essential Jack Nicholson by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: $57.61For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance by Ken McMullen
SciFier: $45.55Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance: The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri Ken McMullen 9781783482689
SciFier: $111.88Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Make It Memorable: Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style Bob Dotson 9781538174890
SciFier: $97.81In Make It Memorable, former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual... -
Urban Noir by James J. Ward
SciFier: $118.58Film noir has always been associated with urban landscapes, and no two cities have been represented more prominently in these films than New York and Los Angeles. In noir and neo-noir films since the... -
Charlie Chaplin by John W. Fawell
SciFier: $138.01Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the... -
The Artist as Inventor by Valentino Catricala, Researcher at Fondazione Mondo Digitale
SciFier: $45.55Today the media arts not only address the great themes of our times, they inhabit the very media of which they speak. The contemporary is global, but only because of the media that enable... -
Make It Memorable: Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style Bob Dotson 9781538174906
SciFier: $46.89In Make It Memorable, former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual... -
The Artist as Inventor by Valentino Catricala
SciFier: $151.41Today the media arts not only address the great themes of our times, they inhabit the very media of which they speak. The contemporary is global, but only because of the media that enable... -
Cultivating Creativity through World Films: Exploring Cinematic Narratives Featuring Child Protagonists David Campos 9781475851731
SciFier: $111.21With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of... -
100 Greatest American and British Animated Films by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: $64.98Animation has been a staple of the filmmaking process since the early days of cinema. Animated shorts had been produced for decades, but not until 1937 did a major studio venture into animated... -
Great Britons of Stage and Screen: In Conversation Barbara Roisman Cooper 9781442246201
SciFier: $71.01Although there are encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries of contemporary British film and theatre actors, most lack the intimacy of face-to-face interviews. Typically drawn from secondary... -
A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film, Television, and Digital Streaming Stephen V. Duncan 9781538128916
SciFier: $119.25A Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing-and rewriting-a screenplay or teleplay and writing for digital content. Duncan's handy book teaches new... -
Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television Monique Rooney 9781783480470
SciFier: $58.95Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and... -
A Guide to Screenwriting Success: Writing for Film, Television, and Digital Streaming Stephen V. Duncan 9781538128923
SciFier: $62.97A Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing-and rewriting-a screenplay or teleplay and writing for digital content. Duncan's handy book teaches new... -
Moving Pictures by Darl Larsen
SciFier: $46.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538160374Author Darl LarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint -
A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Darl Larsen
SciFier: $71.68This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python's Meaning of Life, the Pythons' third and final original feature as a complete group... -
The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film Robert Appelbaum, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Uppsala University 9781786610904
SciFier: $56.27Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis,... -
Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance Lisa B. Y. Calvente 9781783485062
SciFier: $69.67What is the significance of the visual representation of revolution? How is history articulated through public images? How can these images communicate new histories of struggle? Imprints of... -
The Silence of the Lambs: Critical Essays on a Cannibal, Clarice, and a Nice Chianti Cynthia J. Miller 9781442277854
SciFier: $117.91One of only three films to-date to win Academy Awards in all five major categories, The Silence of the Lambs marked a sea change in horror films when it debuted, shifting the genre from teen slasher... -
A Year of Movies by Ivan Walters
SciFier: $77.71While watching a movie, how many viewers notice some of the finer details of the film, such as the time of day during a scene-or even the date itself? For instance, does anyone remember what day... -
Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen by William Brigham
SciFier: $131.98Woody Allen has accomplished that which no American filmmaker in the modern era has or perhaps ever will: directing to date 49 films (47 full-length theatrical releases, one short film in an... -
The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache Anthony Slide 9781538165508
SciFier: $37.51The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors.Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) is a... -
Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes by Michael Bliss
SciFier: $111.21One of America's most beloved comic duos, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have entertained generations of viewers with their unique, heartwarming brand of slapstick comedy. The pair's teamwork and...