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Voices of Labor by Michael Curtin
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $39.60Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality-all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood's craft and... -
The Inland Whale by Theodora Kroeber
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.41Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the... -
Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers Miranda Banks 9780520412873
SciFier: $90.82A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood workWhen Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the... -
Frame by Frame by Hannah Frank
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In... -
A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann Steven C. Smith 9780520071230
RRP: $73.67SciFier: $61.86No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In... -
The Most Typical Avant-Garde by David E. James
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $45.16Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film... -
Grand Design by Tino Balio
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $47.25The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as 'Hollywood's... -
Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood Shawna Kidman 9780520297555
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $102.15Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the... -
The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson
RRP: $31.97SciFier: $28.13"Once in a lifetime." The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings". The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and... -
Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood Shawna Kidman 9780520297562
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the... -
Overtones and Undertones by Royal S. Brown
RRP: $44.48SciFier: $39.07Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers... -
More than Night by James Naremore
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $35.82"Film Noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James... -
An Evening's Entertainment by Richard Koszarski
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $46.55The silent cinema was America's first modern entertainment industry, a complex social, cultural, and technological phenomenon that swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century... -
Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 9780520298644
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.32After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and... -
The Haunted Screen by Lotte H. Eisner
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85The golden age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" onwards the principal films of this period were... -
Stalag 17 Billy Wilder 9780520218574
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96"Stalag 17" (1953), the riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951. Billy Wilder developed the play and made the film version... -
Movies and Methods, Volume 1 Bill Nichols 9780520031517
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $40.17Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to... -
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $48.59Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939... -
Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 9780520298637
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and... -
The Cine Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914, Updated and Expanded Edition Richard Abel 9780520079366
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $53.50Richard Abel's magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathe-Freres, the first major corporation in the new... -
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
SciFier: $45.02In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At... -
Sundance to Sarajevo by Kenneth Turan
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $32.71Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world - from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. "Sundance to Sarajevo" is a tour of the world's film... -
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction Robert L. Carringer 9780520078574
RRP: $73.67SciFier: $61.86Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, "They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios... -
Acting in the Cinema by James Naremore
RRP: $40.31SciFier: $33.58In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the... -
Feeding the Eye by Anne Hollander
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96Since the advent of cinema, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion. Artists now create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film and tape, on the dance stage, or in... -
Endless Night by Janet Bergstrom
RRP: $37.53SciFier: $34.74The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness that these two disciplines face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This collection emphasizes the history... -
Hitchcock and Selznick by Leonard J. Leff
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $44.47"Hitchcock and Selznick" is the story of one of the oddest partnerships in Hollywood history, the union of a reticent, overweight Englishman with a flair for striking detail and a penchant for the... -
The World History of Animation Stephen Cavalier 9780520261129
SciFier: $58.44Lavishly illustrated and encyclopedic in scope, "The World History of Animation" tells the genre's 100-year-old story around the globe, featuring key players in Europe, North America, and Asia. From... -
Hollywood Made in China Aynne Kokas 9780520294011
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create entertainment on an... -
Sensational Movies by Birgit Meyer
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in... -
Brass Diva by Caryl Flinn
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $35.63Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of "La Merm" as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and... -
Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium Thomas Stubblefield 9780520339620
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302730
RRP: $52.82SciFier: $45.59Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
An Unspeakable Betrayal by Luis Bunuel
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.85Although Luis Bunuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote - and wrote well - on many subjects over the years. This... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302723
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $92.69Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
A Critical Cinema 5 by Scott MacDonald
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $41.69A "Critical Cinema 5" is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's "Critical Cinema" series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of... -
The Black Hole of the Camera by J.J. Murphy
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them - "Sleep", "Empire", "Blow Job", "The Chelsea Girls", and "Blue... -
Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians Johannes Wilbert 9780520032996
RRP: $73.67SciFier: $53.52"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par... -
Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium Thomas Stubblefield 9780520339613
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $90.88What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing... -
A New Pot of Gold by Stephen Prince
RRP: $52.82SciFier: $46.43Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found...