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Reel Women by Jane Sloan
SciFier: £93.99In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken... -
The Science of Science Fiction Writing by James Gunn
SciFier: £38.99Written by one of the leading authorities on writing, publishing and teaching science fiction, The Science of Science Fiction Writing offers the opportunity to share in the knowledge James Gunn has... -
A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema Paul Monaco 9780810874343
SciFier: £68.99In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: £82.99Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Horror and Science Fiction Films III (1981-1983) by Donald C. Willis
SciFier: £97.99The third volume in the author's Horror and Science Fiction Films series, covering new titles released from 1981 to 1983, as well as updating entries in the original list.Book InformationISBN... -
Back Lot by Maurice Rapf
SciFier: £56.99Son of pioneer movie producer Harry Rapf, Maurice Rapf grew up in Hollywood in that city's golden age. After moving from independent filmmaking to Warner Bros., in 1924 the senior Rapf joined Louis... -
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £67.49Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as... -
The First Film Makers by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £78.49Again Richard Dyer MacCann has brought his editorial skills to the task of presenting for the students and the general reader what movie making was like in the earliest days of America. This time he... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
SciFier: £77.99Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810843486
SciFier: £61.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
Walter C. Mycroft by Walter C. Mycroft
SciFier: £72.49Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the Scenario... -
The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema by Peter Rollberg
SciFier: £53.99Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia's last... -
The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia by James M. Welsh
SciFier: £99.49Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam... -
The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £98.49Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro by Andrew J. Rausch
SciFier: £56.99In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them... -
Conversations with Cinematographers by David A. Ellis
SciFier: £77.99David A. Ellis has interviewed some of the most influential and highly regarded cameramen of the last half century and more, and he has assembled these exchanges in Conversations with... -
A Cast of Shadows by Ronnie Maasz
SciFier: £77.99This is Ronnie Maasz's account of his more than fifty years in the film business as a cameraman. With candid humor, Maasz offers a light-hearted collage of the international locales, quirky people,... -
The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History Laurence E. MacDonald 9780810883970
SciFier: £83.99Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response,... -
Surveillance on Screen by Sebastien Lefait
SciFier: £87.99The theme of surveillance has become an increasingly common element in movies and television shows, perhaps as a response to the sense that the world is now virtually under watch. But the recent... -
Adaptation Studies and Learning by Laurence Raw
SciFier: £67.49Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship. With its roots in literature and film, this discipline can be applied to much broader uses,... -
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Kylo-Patrick R. Hart 9780810891180
SciFier: £56.99Over 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... -
Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £77.99In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time, spawning an unprecedented merchandising phenomenon. It was followed by two... -
Contemporary Westerns by Andrew Patrick Nelson
SciFier: £92.99Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small... -
Miklos Rozsa's Ben-Hur by Roger Hickman
SciFier: £45.99In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema. Nearly 25 years later, the biblical epic was remade... -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood by Ben Winters
SciFier: £51.99Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most. Winner of the Academy Award (TM) for best... -
The Ultimate Directory of Silent Screen Performers by Billy H. Doyle
SciFier: £113.99Libraries abound with books on silent film history and numerous biographies on the legendary stars, but what about the thousands and thousands of actors who never obtained legendary status? Film... -
Black on Black by Celeste A. Fisher
SciFier: £44.99Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of... -
Costuming for Opera by Leo Van Witsen
SciFier: £84.76Profusely illustrated. Reproductions of paintings and engravings in the period of a given opera's historical setting illuminate the author's interpretations.Reviews...a valuable handbook for those... -
Rungs on a Ladder by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £67.49Rungs on a Ladder looks at part of the movie industry from a unique perspective. Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his career (in the early 1960s) at the very bottom, but... -
Film Musings by Royal S. Brown
SciFier: £78.49For nearly twenty years, scholar and critic Royal S. Brown contributed a regular column, "Film Musings," to Fanfare magazine. This single volume assembles the material from these columns and presents... -
The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series Lincoln Geraghty 9780810881303
SciFier: £78.49In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama... -
Through the Screen Door by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £72.49In 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: £78.49The 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: £78.49Covering 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: £82.99A 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: £19.99SciFier: £19.38Now 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: £82.99Founded 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: £78.49For 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: £67.49In 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: £67.49Since 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...