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God on the Big Screen: A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today Terry Lindvall 9781479892617
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.43Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America's broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood... -
Sidney Lumet by Joanna E. Rapf
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.64Sidney Lumet (b. 1924) is considered one of the most gifted and socially conscious American filmmakers of his generation. His best-known movies--including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, 12... -
This is Called Moving by Abigail Child
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: £35.39Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood... -
Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520241527
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520284463
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Among early Hollywood's most renowned film makers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg 9780691194943
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin Cooper C. Graham 9780253052926
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £53.41In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg 9780691241838
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.89A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin Cooper C. Graham 9780253052940
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.78In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to... -
The Men Who Made the Movies by Richard Schickel
SciFier: £16.49One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation, reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of... -
Douglas Fairbanks by Ralph Hancock
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.45Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a ... -
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' Melvyn Stokes 9780195336795
RRP: £35.49SciFier: £25.99In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet... -
A Guide to American Silent Crime Films Daniel Finn 9780313288586
SciFier: £68.49The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre. The authors of this Guide have compiled for the first time in one... -
The Hollywood Trust by Kia Afra
SciFier: £103.49As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the studio system. These producer-distributor trade... -
Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £35.00Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Straight Lick by J. Ronald Green
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £23.26A critical examination of the films of Oscar Micheaux.One of the most original and successful filmmakers of all time, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in... -
With a Crooked Stick-The Films of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green
SciFier: £25.79With a "crooked stick," filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) sought to hit a "straight lick" by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or "uplift," for African Americans. A theme in... -
A Moving Picture Feast by Charles Oliver
SciFier: £67.49The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780313361333
SciFier: £29.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780275983963
SciFier: £51.99The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside... -
The Analysis of Film by Raymond Bellour
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"No serious student of film should miss the great work collected in this volume."-W. A. Vincent, Choice"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes... -
William Beaudine by Wendy L. Marshall
SciFier: £78.49William Beaudine began his tenure in film as an assistant to the legendary D. W. Griffith. At the height of his career, Beaudine worked for every major studio and directed many greats of the silent... -
The Attractions of the Moving Image by Tom Gunning
SciFier: £31.51An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have... -
The Coffin of Honey Geoffrey D. Morrison 9781552455180
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Annihilation in this poetic space-age fable of proletarian internationalism.At the end of the twenty-first century, on the shores of the Indian Ocean, a minor... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165068
SciFier: £101.27Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's...