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The Silent Films of Harry Langdon (1923-1928) by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: €92.81Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other. Slower in pace, more studied in movement, and quirkier in nature, Langdon challenged the comic norm by offering comedies that were... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891173
SciFier: €135.65Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent... -
The Creative Producer by James Curtis
SciFier: €92.81In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a... -
Screening Science by Errol Vieth
SciFier: €110.66Screening Science removes the science fiction genre from considerations of monsters and aliens, to an examination of humans and their relationship with science, technology and change. The book is... -
Gillo Pontecorvo by Carlo Celli
SciFier: €80.31Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is best known for his films about anti-colonial insurgency and terrorism. In this book, containing several black and white photos, author Carlo Celli examines... -
Bernard Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by David Cooper
SciFier: €48.78Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film. His work with Alfred Hitchcock produced a slew of classics... -
Outcasts by Howard Good
SciFier: €116.61This book examines how representative films about journalism from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s allegorized the working life of the journalist. The central chapters deal with three popular images... -
Neo-Noir by Ronald Schwartz
SciFier: €61.87According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later,... -
They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction Joni Richards Bodart 9780810882270
SciFier: €67.82Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial, since they... -
Through the Screen Door by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: €86.26In this personal and opinionated book Tom Hischak takes a close look at what happens when a Broadway musical goes to Hollywood, and less often when Hollywood comes to Broadway. The musicals... -
Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films Christine Lee Gengaro 9780810885646
SciFier: €93.40The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick... -
The Silents of God: Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1925 Terry Lindvall 9780810839540
SciFier: €93.40Covering the historical period from 1908 to 1925, this study showcases pamphlets, magazine articles (from both religious and film periodicals), sermons, and other discourse that chronicle an early... -
Queen Kelly by Bret Wood
SciFier: €98.76A rare and fascinating view into the creative process of one of the most notorious, talented and colorful figures of American cinema. When production began in 1928, writer/director Erich von Stroheim... -
The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever James Gunn 9780810846708
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €23.06Now in Paperback! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide... -
Conversations with Directors by Elsie M. Walker
SciFier: €98.76Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors: An... -
Ken Russell by Kevin M. Flanagan
SciFier: €93.40For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered... -
Medieval Fantasy as Performance by Michael A. Cramer
SciFier: €80.31In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval... -
Redefining Adaptation Studies by Dennis Cutchins
SciFier: €80.31Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays. Likewise, the study of film adaptations has also been fairly... -
The A to Z of German Cinema by Robert C. Reimer
SciFier: €63.06German film is diverse and multi-faceted; its history includes five distinct German governments (Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the... -
The A to Z of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof
SciFier: €61.87In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse... -
The A to Z of Spanish Cinema by Alberto Mira
SciFier: €63.65Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish... -
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: €92.81By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked... -
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton
SciFier: €46.40After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the... -
Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: €86.86In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became... -
Border Visions by Jakub Kazecki
SciFier: €111.25Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon
SciFier: €93.40New in Paperback! In 1935, two film production companies merged to form one of the most influential corporations in the world-Twentieth Century-Fox. Here is the story of that dynamic company and of... -
Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy by Franco Sciannameo
SciFier: €61.87Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of Hollywood cinema. The... -
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film Ennio Morricone 9780810892408
SciFier: €124.34With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for... -
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction by Thomas G. Deveny
SciFier: €99.35Now 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... -
The Big V by Anthony Slide
SciFier: €122.56This is a completely new, revised, and expanded version of the book first published by Scarecrow in 1976. It documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings... -
Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies Harry Keyishian 9780810858824
SciFier: €61.87This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over fifty movies about American politics and politicians. In his introduction, author Harry Keyishian describes how the political genre has... -
Examining Lois Lane by Nadine Farghaly
SciFier: €80.31In June 1938, Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1, which also featured his romantic interest-and Clark Kent's journalistic rival-Lois Lane. In the decades since, the intrepid reporter has... -
The Stars Appear Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810825284
SciFier: €67.82'A splendid anthology' -Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By and Hollywood: The Pioneers. This pathbreaking work will become our most valuable resource on the performers of the American... -
Blacks in Black and White by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: €99.95Since its publication in 1977 to acclaim as a pioneering work, this has remained the first and only book to detail all aspects of a unique era in the history of motion pictures-the only time in the U... -
Showdown at High Noon by Jeremy Byman
SciFier: €92.81For more than fifty years, High Noon has been a touchstone in the popular imagination and a source of endless controversy about film art. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece. But film... -
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Charles Leinberger
SciFier: €48.78Although five-time Academy-Award nominee Ennio Morricone has scored numerous films in various genres, his westerns will undoubtedly remain his most memorable cinematographic accomplishments. This... -
Hong Kong Cinema by Law Kar
SciFier: €135.65Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in... -
William Desmond Taylor by Bruce Long
SciFier: €93.40Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered... -
Principal Characters by Christopher Neame
SciFier: €73.77As the grandson of actress Ivy Close and son of director Ronald Neame (Straight from the Horse's Mouth; Scarecrow, 2003), Christopher Neame's roots in the film business were already firmly... -
Danny Elfman's Batman by Janet K. Halfyard
SciFier: €48.78Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his...