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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema Professor or Dr. Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 9781441138217
SciFier: £104.49This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is... -
David Mamet and Male Friendship: Buddy Plays and Buddy Films Arthur Holmberg 9781137305183
SciFier: £46.99Using insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who... -
Refocus: the Films of William Friedkin Steve Choe 9781474431378
SciFier: £92.09William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), controversial productions like Cruising (1980) and Killer Joe (2011), as well as... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9781138993402
SciFier: £28.99Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based... -
Darkening the Italian Screen II by Eugenio Ercolani
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This work is a detailed portrait of one of the most important, bustling and absurd industries that cinema has ever known: colorful essays and nine career-spanning interviews with Italian genre... -
The Real Herge by Sian Lye
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.10Herge created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide. The Real Herge: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes... -
Sergei Paradjanov by Joshua First
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £20.89Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema - yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture... -
The Spike Lee Enigma by Bill Yousman
RRP: £73.70SciFier: £68.49The Spike Lee Enigma is an exploration of ideology and political economy in the films and career of one of America's most controversial filmmakers. Since the 1980s Spike Lee has created numerous... -
Hollywood Auteur by Jeffrey Chown
SciFier: £78.49In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies... -
Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 9781496820235
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £28.99Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b. 1964) has delivered a resolute Latino viewpoint. Of Mexican descent, Alcaraz fights... -
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Oliver Stone 9781913183196
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.21*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio"Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his... -
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Oliver Stone 9781913183189
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.13*** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show "Riveting." - The New York Times "... a Hollywood movie... -
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance J. E. Smyth 9781617039645
SciFier: £91.49Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of... -
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance J. E. Smyth 9781496802552
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £22.56Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of... -
Garry Trudeau by Kerry D. Soper
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Since 1968, Garry Trudeau (b. 1948) has brought his brand of political satire to bear on public figures, movie stars, heads of state, and even on himself. Trudeau has also advocated for artists'... -
Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014 by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £29.00Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged - and most controversial - film directors of... -
The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick Robert Niemi 9780231176279
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's... -
On the Waterfront Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma) 9780521790796
SciFier: £76.58On the Waterfront comprehensively examines one of the most important films of the Hollywood canon. Providing the historical context for the film, this volume emphasizes film making as a collaborative... -
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... -
David Mamet and Male Friendship: Buddy Plays and Buddy Films Arthur Holmberg 9781349454761
SciFier: £46.99Using insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who... -
Catherine Breillat Douglas Keesey 9780719075308
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and most recently, The Last Mistress... -
Design and Aesthetics: A Reader Mo Dodson 9780415072335
SciFier: £36.79Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these... -
Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, the Controverssy Jorge J. E. Gracia 9780812695717
SciFier: £20.39Few - including director Mel Gibson - were prepared for the firestorm of controversy that followed the release of the long-awaited Passion of the Christ. Reviled by many, but so popular with others... -
Westerns in a Changing America, 1955-2000 by R.Philip Loy
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social... -
Queer (un)friendly Film and Television
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This work studies recent cinematic and television depictions of gays and lesbians. It examines the gay male conversion fantasy in Get Real, Beautiful Thing, I Think I Do, and Billy's Hollywood Screen... -
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 9780393358438
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.44Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound adaptation of Joseph Conrad's controversial classic that "doesn't just retell the book [but] destabilizes it, forcing a... -
Cultural Studies Lawrence Grossberg 9780415903455
SciFier: £62.36Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies... -
Bakuman., Vol. 14 by Tsugumi Ohba
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Is Moritaka and Akito's newest rival also their greatest fan?! The duo is asked to judge a manga contest and the best entry reminds them of their own creations. But who is this mysterious new artist... -
Moving Images by David Buckingham
SciFier: £22.99Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's... -
Peter Greenaway by David Pascoe
SciFier: £22.26In all his films, Peter Greenaway shows obsessive attention to detail, exaggerating the archaic and fabricating his plots out of an artificial realm of caricature and pastiche. This book examines his... -
Film Censorship in a Cultural Context by Daniel Sacco
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This book examines a sampling of cinematic works that provoked censorious impulses throughout the shift away from formal film censorship in the late modern West. The public controversies surrounding... -
The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick Robert Niemi 9780231176262
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's... -
Catherine Breillat Douglas Keesey 9780719085628
SciFier: £22.99This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume... -
On the Waterfront Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma) 9780521794008
SciFier: £20.04On the Waterfront comprehensively examines one of the most important films of the Hollywood canon. Providing the historical context for the film, this volume emphasizes film making as a collaborative... -
Rape-Revenge Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £28.18Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive... -
The Tailor And Ansty Eric Cross 9780853420507
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £13.74The Tailor and Ansty was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor... -
Louis Malle: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496839619
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.46A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the... -
Louis Malle: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496839602
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the... -
I Am (Not) A Number by Alex Cox
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.24The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as 'surreal' or 'Kafkaesque.' Alex Cox watched all the episodes of The Prisoner on... -
Banksy: The Man behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.07In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic...