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Futures of Chinese Cinema by Olivia Khoo
SciFier: $69.07In recent years, Chinese film has garnered worldwide attention, and this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints, and shifting viewing... -
On the History of a Film Aesthetic Concept: Decoupage Guido Kirsten 9789048563227
RRP: $286.25SciFier: $255.04Unlike editing, decoupage does not take place after the film has been shot, but before. The French term refers to the breakdown of a scene into a sequence of shots. In order to translate the written... -
SAW by Ben Poole
RRP: $37.76SciFier: $29.77Like all game changers within the horror genre, SAW was an independent success, a low-budget champion that flourished without the patronage of a big studio. Not bad for the most successful horror... -
Docudrama on European Television by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
SciFier: $56.08This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by... -
100 Years of Spanish Cinema Tatjana Pavlovic (Tulane University) 9781405184205
RRP: $182.06SciFier: $165.57100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day. A glossary of film... -
More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise Bob Rehak 9781479813155
SciFier: $212.95A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic... -
More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise Bob Rehak 9781479856701
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $48.11A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic... -
Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture Hester Baer (Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Maryland, USA, University of Maryland, USA) 9781350370050
SciFier: $61.92The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual culture. Since its inception in 2017 the series, a... -
Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts C. Felando 9781137488473
RRP: $206.08SciFier: $190.05As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Felando discusses the historical significance of the... -
International Horror Film Directors by Danny Shipka
SciFier: $77.84Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia M. Hjort 9781349344277
SciFier: $107.61Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and... -
A Look at Film and Social Justice in Cinema Today by Stephen Dest
RRP: $158.01SciFier: $130.51A Look at Film and Social Justice in Cinema Today navigates the intersection of filmmaking and its role in highlighting social justice issues. This book examines how some modern cinema has shifted... -
Lindsay Anderson by John Izod
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $176.31In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital... -
In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments Brian R. Jacobson 9780520297593
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $168.29Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that... -
In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments Brian R. Jacobson 9780520297609
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that... -
Japanese Cinema and Punk: Intermedial Exchanges Mark Player (University of Reading, UK) 9781350378568
SciFier: $219.68In this book, Mark Player explores how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a time of crisis and change for Japan's film industry. Drawing on... -
Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film Katie Barnett (University of Chester, UK) 9781350383357
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $175.19Siblings are everywhere in film, but their place in cinema has largely gone unstudied. This book turns attention to the brother-sister dynamic on screen and the many ways it shapes how stories are... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia M. Hjort 9780230341432
SciFier: $107.61Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and... -
Australian Genre Film Kelly McWilliam 9780367755263
RRP: $89.29SciFier: $88.23Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in... -
Who's Who in Research: Film Studies by Intellect Books
RRP: $242.63SciFier: $240.79Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,' noted the online... -
Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood Joerg Metelmann 9781041182733
RRP: $105.32SciFier: $97.78Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making... -
New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch Brigitte Peucker 9781041183525
RRP: $105.32SciFier: $97.78This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520377479
RRP: $96.18SciFier: $73.05Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns Pablo Gomez-Munoz (Faculty of Arts, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) 9780367759063
SciFier: $88.23Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel,... -
Sensing the City through Television by Peter Billingham
SciFier: $55.97An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws... -
On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations Ivone Margulies (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) 9781501332456
SciFier: $75.55On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valerie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan... -
Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski Zachary Ingle 9781783202027
SciFier: $55.97Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski examines how this quirky movie evolved from its underwhelming debut to attract a mass following on par with that of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Contributors take a... -
Everything but the Script by Jason Davids Scott
SciFier: $141.96Everything but the Script: Professional Writing in the Entertainment Industry introduces readers to the lesser known yet critically important forms of writing within the industry. The book offers... -
Cinematic Articulation in Motion Graphics Michael Betancourt 9781032037011
RRP: $91.58SciFier: $88.23This book develops a critical and theoretical approach to the semiotics of motion pictures as they are applied to a broader range of constructions than traditional commercial narrative productions... -
Metaphysics and the Moving Image: Paradise Exposed Trevor Mowchun 9781474493901
SciFier: $210.89Metaphysics and the Moving Image is an exploration of how the medium of film inherits metaphysics, the ancient tradition of Western thought, and why it does so at the very moment philosophy sought to... -
Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity Esther Wright 9783110716467
RRP: $186.64SciFier: $123.87For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media... -
Toni Erdmann by Professor Gerd Gemunden (Series Editor)
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $37.19The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes... -
Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies Mia Mask 9781138795099
RRP: $112.19SciFier: $110.06Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray
SciFier: $77.97Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 9783030659035
RRP: $228.98SciFier: $105.32This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments... -
Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film Oliver Leaman 9780415757553
SciFier: $124.94The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film is a unique, one volume work which illuminates a fascinating variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. The... -
Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement Carl Plantinga (Professor of Film and Media, Professor of Film and Media, Calvin College) 9780190867140
SciFier: $125.97The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about... -
100 Years of Spanish Cinema Tatjana Pavlovic (Tulane University) 9781405184199
RRP: $89.20SciFier: $86.20100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day. A glossary of film... -
Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition Gregory A. Waller (University of Kentucky) 9780631225928
RRP: $102.94SciFier: $95.72Pairing significant research with primary documents, Moviegoing in America charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity,... -
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability Gerald Sim 9781041184560
RRP: $105.32SciFier: $96.18Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark...