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Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526163424
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £76.99Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
Five Directors by Kate Ince
SciFier: £22.99Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever... -
The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson: Keeping the Best Place by the Fire Andrea Wright 9781526166111
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson: The best place by the fire is the first book to specifically consider Henson, best known for the immensely popular The Muppet Show, as an important creator of screen... -
Threads of Globalization: Fashion, Textiles, and Gender in Asia in the Long Twentieth Century Melia Belli Bose 9781526194770
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures... -
Anthony Asquith by Tom Ryall
SciFier: £22.99This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and... -
Screenwriters in French Cinema by Sarah Leahy
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99Screenwriters have been central figures in French cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market to lavish literary adaptations of the notorious... -
Montage by Sam Rohdie
SciFier: £15.66Montage enters into a dialogue with the cinema, probing and playing with its language of motion and stillness, continuity and discontinuity, constraint and openness, time and duration. Comprised of... -
The Films of Bigas Luna Santiago Fouz-Hernandez 9780719090431
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £90.99The films of Bigas Luna is the first comprehensive English-language study of the complete filmography of Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna, spanning from Tatuaje (1976) to DiDi Hollywood (2010).Engaging... -
Charles Crichton by Quentin Falk
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career... -
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith
SciFier: £22.99The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of... -
Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. His deeply... -
Threads of Globalization by Melia Belli Bose
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £68.13Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures... -
Ida Lupino by Gillian Kelly
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This book contributes to a welcome new wave focusing on the importance of female filmmakers, providing a reappraisal of Ida Lupino, a cinematic figure of significant importance. Given her ability to... -
Robert Bresson Keith Reader 9780719053665
SciFier: £22.99This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear... -
Medieval Film Anke Bernau 9780719086472
SciFier: £22.99Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069451
SciFier: £22.99Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069444
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
Medieval Film Anke Bernau 9780719077029
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create... -
Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 Jeffrey Richards 9781784991104
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.67Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis... -
Negotiating the Auteur by Julia Dobson
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work... -
Luc Besson by Susan Hayward
SciFier: £22.99Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film... -
Film Audiences by Bridgette Wessels
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience preferences and demographics. But little attention has... -
The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel Deborah Martin 9780719090349
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since... -
Georges Melies by Elizabeth Ezra
SciFier: £22.99Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Melies began making movies.. Directing, editing, producing, designing, and starring in over... -
Tony Garnett by Stephen Lacey
SciFier: £22.99Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and... -
Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain by Dr Anna Ariadne Knight
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause,... -
Toronto New Wave Cinema and the Anarchist-Apocalypse by David Christopher
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with... -
Claude Chabrol by Guy Austin
SciFier: £22.99This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living... -
Spanish Cinema 1973-2010 by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period... -
Cinematic Perspectives on International Law by Olivier Corten
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49Why are constitutionalist ideals so prominent in science fiction? Does Independence Day depict self-defence as a legal concept with absolute limits? Is international law lost in space?This innovative... -
Derek Jarman by Rowland Wymer
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema... -
Roger Michell Brian McFarlane 9781526185297
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell's career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the... -
Marcel Pagnol Brett Bowles 9780719073816
SciFier: £72.49Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, the first... -
Humphrey Jennings by Keith Beattie
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of... -
From Perversion to Purity by Prof. Lisa Downing
SciFier: £22.99Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world. Her career has spanned five decades during which she has worked... -
Wendy Toye Iram Kamran Qureshi 9781526165794
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This groundbreaking book delves into the remarkable career of Wendy Toye, one of Britain's most prolific, versatile and pioneering directors. Spanning a fascinating journey through her work in... -
Coline Serreau by Brigitte Rollet
SciFier: £19.16Coline Serreau became famous in 1985 when her third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby), the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her... -
Bertrand Blier by Sue Harris
SciFier: £22.99The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and... -
Film Editing - History, Theory and Practice by Don Fairservice
SciFier: £22.99The first-ever comprehensive examination of the film editor's craft from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Of all the film-making crafts, editing is the least understood. Using examples...