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Ithaca Forever: Penelope Speaks, A Novel Luigi Malerba 9780520383197
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.24After twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the homecoming he had hoped for finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with his faithful and... -
University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus Curtis Marez 9780520304581
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas... -
Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399426
SciFier: £65.34Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus Curtis Marez 9780520304574
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas... -
Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399433
SciFier: £20.35Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies Lara Gabrielle 9780520384200
SciFier: £25.07Northern California Book Awards ShortlistThe comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul." From Marion... -
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge James Naremore 9780520285521
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the LA Rebellion group of African American... -
Telematic Embrace by Roy Ascott
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.77Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term 'telematic art' to describe the use of online computer networks as an... -
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge James Naremore 9780520285538
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the LA Rebellion group of African American... -
Frame by Frame by Hannah Frank
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93At 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: £53.00SciFier: £50.33No 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: £33.00SciFier: £32.49Los 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... -
Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern Anne Friedberg 9780520089242
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.05Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern... -
Golden Days by Carolyn See
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £21.49Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See... -
Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s Thomas Schatz 9780520221307
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.19"Boom and Bust" traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system - including the shift to independent production - and... -
Placing Movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.49Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today... -
More than Night by James Naremore
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.77"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: £35.00SciFier: £33.49The 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... -
Warhol and the West by heather ahtone
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.72Even ardent fans of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) may be surprised to learn that the artist created a significant body of western work. In fact, Warhol was drawn to the lore and lure of the American West... -
For Documentary by Dai Vaughan
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99These essays, which span twenty-five years of writing and a lifetime of experience, offer fresh and challenging insights into documentary. Dai Vaughan, one of the most highly regarded documentary... -
Voices of Labor by Michael Curtin
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Motion 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: £25.00SciFier: £22.60Nine 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 9780520412880
SciFier: £17.43A 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... -
The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £20.24"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: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Comic 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: £32.00SciFier: £30.99Since 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... -
Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood Shawna Kidman 9780520297555
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Comic 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... -
Grand Design by Tino Balio
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.99The 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... -
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.96Here 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: £80.00SciFier: £72.99After 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: £40.00SciFier: £38.49Richard 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... -
Sundance to Sarajevo by Kenneth Turan
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Almost 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... -
Stalag 17 Billy Wilder 9780520218574
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.71"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: £33.00SciFier: £31.99Film 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... -
Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting Daniel Steinhart 9780520298644
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24After 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: £30.00SciFier: £28.49The 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... -
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction Robert L. Carringer 9780520078574
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £44.50Orson 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: £29.00SciFier: £24.16In 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... -
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans by Vicki Mayer
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first... -
The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay Billy Wilder 9780520218567
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99"The Lost Weekend" swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It...