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The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated Donald Richie 9780520220379
RRP: €45.22SciFier: €35.02In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a... -
Masks, Transformation, and Paradox A.David Napier 9780520045330
RRP: €34.51SciFier: €33.33Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299481
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €33.90In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Masters of Light by Dennis Schaefer
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.28Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film... -
Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence Daniel Bernardi 9780520285651
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €27.36Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the... -
Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories Karen L. Ishizuka 9780520248076
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €34.50The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, "Mining the Home Movie" makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home... -
Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 9780520228948
RRP: €41.65SciFier: €39.85Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film... -
Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
RRP: €47.60SciFier: €45.21The publication by the University of California Press of Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges and Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges has been applauded by cinephiles and admirers of the... -
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction Robert L. Carringer 9780520078574
RRP: €63.07SciFier: €52.96Orson 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: €34.51SciFier: €28.75In 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... -
Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence Daniel Bernardi 9780520285644
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €86.86Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299474
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €86.86In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
RRP: €27.37SciFier: €22.36"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay... -
Precarious Creativity by Michael Curtin
RRP: €40.46SciFier: €34.49At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' new open access publishing program. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting... -
Dangerous Games by Joseph P. Laycock
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €27.36The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the... -
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil Maite Conde 9780520290990
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent films released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational... -
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil Maite Conde 9780520290983
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €86.86In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent films released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational... -
In the Heart of the Valley of Love by Cynthia Kadohata
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €17.99Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for... -
Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics Dan Bashara 9780520298132
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic,... -
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms by Bert O. States
RRP: €32.13SciFier: €29.74This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a... -
The Fun Factory by Rob King
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €30.50From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company - home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties - made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302723
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €79.35Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
A Critical Cinema 5 by Scott MacDonald
RRP: €36.89SciFier: €35.69A "Critical Cinema 5" is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's "Critical Cinema" series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of... -
The Black Hole of the Camera by J.J. Murphy
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them - "Sleep", "Empire", "Blow Job", "The Chelsea Girls", and "Blue... -
Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians Johannes Wilbert 9780520032996
RRP: €63.07SciFier: €45.82"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par... -
The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 Charles Musser 9780520085336
RRP: €41.65SciFier: €40.45The origins of motion picture technologies are described and analyzed by Charles Musser in this lavishly illustrated volume. He considers social and economic as well as aesthetic aspects of the... -
It's All True by Catherine L. Benamou
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €34.50Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, "It's All True", shot in Mexico and Brazil between... -
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after... -
Transmedia Frictions: The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities Marsha Kinder 9780520281851
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €79.35Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term... -
I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies Nicholas Ray 9780520201699
RRP: €34.51SciFier: €33.33One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of... -
Beyond the Multiplex by Barbara Klinger
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €33.90Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520241183
RRP: €59.50SciFier: €50.91Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Hollywood by Blaise Cendrars
RRP: €53.55SciFier: €44.70Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". Already a well-known poet, Cendrars was a celebrity journalist... -
Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Marsha Kinder 9780520077768
RRP: €32.13SciFier: €29.74How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to... -
Carnal Thoughts by Vivian Sobchack
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual... -
The Passion of Montgomery Clift by Amy Lawrence
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67From his 1948 film debut in "Red River" through such classics as "The Heiress", "A Place in the Sun", and "From Here to Eternity", Montgomery Clift exemplified a new masculinity and - leading the way... -
Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative by Clodagh Brennan Harvey
RRP: €32.13SciFier: €29.74Social Change and the Storytelling Tradition. Modernization and Economic Change. Factors Effecting the Decline of Traditional Storytelling. Technological Innovations. Dance Halls and Public Houses... -
Distribution Revolution: Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television Michael Curtin 9780520283244
RRP: €59.50SciFier: €54.73Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These... -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books Michael Barrier 9780520283909
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €30.50Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it... -
Earth Sound Earth Signal by Douglas Kahn
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas...