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Conversations with Steve Martin by Robert E. Kapsis
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.64Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four decades in show... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840844
SciFier: £28.99On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840721
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Celebrity by Chris Rojek
SciFier: £23.57In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a... -
The Road to Comedy by Donald McCaffrey
SciFier: £46.99Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s... -
Scenes from the City by James Sanders
SciFier: £44.14Scenes from the City is a celebration of the rise of New York-shot films, particularly after the MOFTB was formed in 1966 making the city a much more welcoming film location. New York could, once... -
Over the Edge: Movies, Madness, Gambling, and other Celestial Pleasures James Toback 9781648211331
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.50Robert Downey Jr., Warren Beatty, Mike Tyson, Rudolf Nureyev, Norman Mailer, Barry Levinson, David Begelman, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DeCaprio, Alec Baldwin, George Cukor, Quentin... -
Only Fools and Horses: The Story of Britain's Favourite Comedy Graham McCann 9780857860569
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain's most-watched and best-loved sitcom. Del Boy's overwhelming... -
Cinematic Cold War by Tony Shaw
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £22.56The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood... -
World Film Locations: New York by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £18.79Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played - and continues to play - a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide... -
Altman and After by Peter F. Parshall
SciFier: £78.49In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s,... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475126
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £40.24From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic... -
What The Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley by David Shrigley
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.95A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book gathers together the best of Shrigley's work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest... -
The Art of Robert E. McGinnis Robert E. McGinnis 9781781162170
Titan BooksRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.69A Modern Master Robert E. McGinnis began his career in 1947 as a cartoonist, and produced his first cover illustrations for 1956 issues of the magazines True Detective and Master Detective. Then in... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £10.04Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his... -
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine Sam B. Girgus 9780231147651
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive... -
Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9781501320118
SciFier: £40.99Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of Animation Studying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French... -
Movie Anecdotes by Peter Hay
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £27.99Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors. Always looking for an angle, always, scheming, always the scene of clashing egos, the movie industry is... -
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine Sam B. Girgus 9780231147644
SciFier: £95.42In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive... -
Opera as Soundtrack Jeongwon Joe 9781138251526
SciFier: £50.66Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America by Scott Eyman
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.89The "shocking" (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling... -
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence Lee Siegel 9780300244540
SciFier: £12.85A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be... -
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto David Shrigley 9781782114055
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.95A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don't know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running... -
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America David Sterritt 9780231172011
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.78He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475133
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £41.54This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the... -
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America David Sterritt 9780231172004
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £57.78He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful... -
World Film Locations: Paris by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former... -
The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next Book 1 Jasper Fforde 9780340733561
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.20The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap... -
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The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next Book 1 Jasper Fforde 9780340733561 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.57The first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap... -
A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan Carl Rollyson 9781496862198
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.35Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in... -
James Ivory in Conversation by Robert Emmet Long
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best... -
Trumbo by Bruce Cook
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.83NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR)Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era,... -
Fun City Cinema by Jason Bailey
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £21.75A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and...