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Through the Screen Door by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £72.49In this personal and opinionated book Tom Hischak takes a close look at what happens when a Broadway musical goes to Hollywood, and less often when Hollywood comes to Broadway. The musicals... -
Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films Christine Lee Gengaro 9780810885646
SciFier: £78.49The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick... -
The Silents of God: Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1925 Terry Lindvall 9780810839540
SciFier: £78.49Covering the historical period from 1908 to 1925, this study showcases pamphlets, magazine articles (from both religious and film periodicals), sermons, and other discourse that chronicle an early... -
Queen Kelly by Bret Wood
SciFier: £82.99A rare and fascinating view into the creative process of one of the most notorious, talented and colorful figures of American cinema. When production began in 1928, writer/director Erich von Stroheim... -
The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever James Gunn 9780810846708
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.38Now in Paperback! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide... -
Conversations with Directors by Elsie M. Walker
SciFier: £82.99Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors: An... -
Ken Russell by Kevin M. Flanagan
SciFier: £78.49For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered... -
Medieval Fantasy as Performance by Michael A. Cramer
SciFier: £67.49In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval... -
Redefining Adaptation Studies by Dennis Cutchins
SciFier: £67.49Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays. Likewise, the study of film adaptations has also been fairly... -
The A to Z of German Cinema by Robert C. Reimer
SciFier: £52.99German film is diverse and multi-faceted; its history includes five distinct German governments (Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the... -
The A to Z of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof
SciFier: £51.99In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse... -
The A to Z of Spanish Cinema by Alberto Mira
SciFier: £53.49Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish... -
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £77.99By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked... -
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton
SciFier: £38.99After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the... -
Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £72.99In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became... -
Border Visions by Jakub Kazecki
SciFier: £93.49Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and... -
Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon
SciFier: £78.49New in Paperback! In 1935, two film production companies merged to form one of the most influential corporations in the world-Twentieth Century-Fox. Here is the story of that dynamic company and of... -
Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy by Franco Sciannameo
SciFier: £51.99Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of Hollywood cinema. The... -
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film Ennio Morricone 9780810892408
SciFier: £104.49With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for... -
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction by Thomas G. Deveny
SciFier: £83.49Now available in paperback! Cinema often relies on novels or short stories for narrative material. Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction examines cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that... -
The Big V by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £102.99This is a completely new, revised, and expanded version of the book first published by Scarecrow in 1976. It documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings... -
Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies Harry Keyishian 9780810858824
SciFier: £51.99This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over fifty movies about American politics and politicians. In his introduction, author Harry Keyishian describes how the political genre has... -
Examining Lois Lane by Nadine Farghaly
SciFier: £67.49In June 1938, Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1, which also featured his romantic interest-and Clark Kent's journalistic rival-Lois Lane. In the decades since, the intrepid reporter has... -
The Stars Appear Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810825284
SciFier: £56.99'A splendid anthology' -Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By and Hollywood: The Pioneers. This pathbreaking work will become our most valuable resource on the performers of the American... -
Blacks in Black and White by Henry T. Sampson
SciFier: £83.99Since its publication in 1977 to acclaim as a pioneering work, this has remained the first and only book to detail all aspects of a unique era in the history of motion pictures-the only time in the U... -
Showdown at High Noon by Jeremy Byman
SciFier: £77.99For more than fifty years, High Noon has been a touchstone in the popular imagination and a source of endless controversy about film art. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece. But film... -
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Charles Leinberger
SciFier: £40.99Although five-time Academy-Award nominee Ennio Morricone has scored numerous films in various genres, his westerns will undoubtedly remain his most memorable cinematographic accomplishments. This... -
Hong Kong Cinema by Law Kar
SciFier: £113.99Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in... -
William Desmond Taylor by Bruce Long
SciFier: £78.49Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered... -
Principal Characters by Christopher Neame
SciFier: £61.99As the grandson of actress Ivy Close and son of director Ronald Neame (Straight from the Horse's Mouth; Scarecrow, 2003), Christopher Neame's roots in the film business were already firmly... -
Danny Elfman's Batman by Janet K. Halfyard
SciFier: £40.99Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his... -
Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson Alan L. Gansberg 9780810849501
SciFier: £63.39Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Romania and from the age of ten grew up in New York's Lower East Side. He trained at the legendary Theater Guild, changed his name, and starred in many successful... -
Making Music with Charlie Chaplin: An Autobiography Eric James 9780810837416
SciFier: £61.99Although many books have been written about Charlie Chaplin, most are the products of research gathered from second-hand sources and various archives. Eric James had the privilege of knowing and... -
Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star Diana Serra Cary 9780810859111
SciFier: £51.99Discovered by Charlie Chaplin in 1919, four-year-old Jackie Coogan soared to overnight stardom for his title role in the silent masterpiece, The Kid. A string of successes followed, including Peck's... -
Becoming Jack Nicholson by Shaun R. Karli
SciFier: £67.49One of the most celebrated figures in the world of cinema, Jack Nicholson has appeared in more than fifty films, stamping each with his larger-than-life presence. Because Nicholson brought a set of... -
Too Bold for the Box Office by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: £91.11Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order... -
Life Lessons from Slasher Films by Jessica Robinson
SciFier: £61.99Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887589
SciFier: £102.99Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are... -
Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second by Julien R. Fielding
SciFier: £115.49Traditionally, university students have gained access to world religions by reading primary texts. Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second takes students beyond the written page, offering... -
The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films Peter Rothbart 9780810887596
SciFier: £56.99Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are...