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Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781349481866
SciFier: £95.00A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781137387707
SciFier: £95.21A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
LukaCsian Film Theory and Cinema by Ian Aitken
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Lukacsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukacs' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukacs is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the... -
Refocus: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Michael Witte
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.09Examines the film practice of the Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky The first scholarly collection dedicated to the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky Offers theoretical... -
Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History Maureen Turim 9781138974371
SciFier: £47.20The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an... -
Australian Genre Film Kelly McWilliam 9780367755263
SciFier: £40.26Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781349490165
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition by Mette Kramer (Independent Scholar, Denmark)
SciFier: £77.99Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "feminine".The author uses attachment theory... -
Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion Carl Plantinga (Associate Professor of Theater Arts, Calvin College) 9780801860119
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.17The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the anxiety induced by thrillers to the... -
The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 Anton Kaes 9780520219076
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £102.56Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts,... -
Ranciere and Film by Paul Bowman
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99This is the first collection of critical essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's recent work on film. Jacques Ranciere (1940) rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political... -
Independent Film Finance: A Research-Based Guide to Funding Your Movie David Offenberg 9781032426051
SciFier: £35.93Provides the financial knowledge that you need to communicate intelligently with potential investors.Based on the wisdom and career data of more than 60 successful producers, whose diverse opinions... -
Prepping and Shooting Your Student Short Film: A Brief Guide to Film Production Rory Kelly 9780367771201
SciFier: £37.45* A concise and accessible guide written with the specific constraints of a student production in mind, this book will equip any filmmaker with the tools to produce an impactful short film.* Offers... -
Jewish Film Directory by Matthew Stevens
SciFier: £69.49Jews have played a constant and diverse role in the growth of cinema and film-making. This unique book provides a catalogue of over 1,200 films about Jews and Jewish history, culture, personalities,... -
Encyclopedia of Film Noir by Geoff Mayer
SciFier: £83.99When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir... -
A Critical History of German Film, Second Edition by Professor Stephen Brockmann (Royalty Account)
SciFier: £60.19The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for students and teachers of German film history. From... -
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital Grazia Ingravalle 9781041175698
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship... -
The Films of Aleksandr Rou by Deborah Allison (University of East Anglia.)
RRP: £89.95SciFier: £89.08Fifty years after his death, the Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Rou remains a cinematic icon in Russia and many other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dubbed 'King of the Fairy... -
Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News Tommy Gustafsson 9781399517348
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. ... -
The Cinematographer's Canvas: Aspect Ratios and Framing the Film Timo Heinanen 9781041043508
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26This is a groundbreaking book that sheds light on the roles of cinematographers in terms of using aspect ratios and framing in films. This book offers a fresh look on the processes associated with... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781137414168
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Write to Shoot: Writing Short Films for Production Marilyn Beker 9781138844636
SciFier: £33.33Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to... -
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy Rami Kimchi 9780253063427
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.03A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas Films, author and filmmaker Rami Kimchi sets out a... -
Films that Sell by Patrick Vonderau (University of Halle, Germany)
SciFier: £39.99While moving image advertising has been around us, everywhere, for at least a century, the topic has tended to be overlooked by cinema studies. This far-reaching new collection makes an incisive... -
Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology Julia Vassilieva 9781041176176
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
SciFier: £47.20This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African... -
Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks by Sarah-Mai Dang
SciFier: £53.06This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas... -
The Global Film Book Roy Stafford 9780415688970
SciFier: £72.73The Global Film Book is an accessible and entertaining exploration of the development of film as global industry and art form, written especially for students and introducing readers to the rich and... -
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury Sarah Street 9781978836815
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Most... -
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury Sarah Street 9781978836808
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Most... -
Film and Authorship by Virginia Wright Wexman
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £23.99During the 1960s, when cinema first entered the academy as a serious object of study, the primary focus was on auteurism, or on films authorship. Burgeoning cinema studies courses demonstrated how... -
Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century Nolwenn Mingant 9781844578382
SciFier: £34.99How do you sell British humour to a French audience? Could piracy actually be good for the film business? Why are The Hobbit's revolutionary technologies not mentioned in some adverts? Exploring... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy John Hill 9780367892890
SciFier: £42.86The past two decades have witnessed major changes in film industries worldwide in response to both economic globalisation and technological developments. The dominant position of Hollywood movies in... -
Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition Mette Kramer (Independent Scholar, Denmark) 9798765113134
SciFier: £30.99Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "feminine".The author uses attachment theory... -
Superman: The Art and Making of the Film James Gunn 9781419780752
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £23.53James Gunn's Superman marks the triumphant theatrical return of Smallville's favorite son, kicking off a bold new era of DC storytelling under the umbrella of DC Studios. In Superman: The Art and... -
Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa Steve Ryfle 9780819570871
SciFier: £36.79Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. From the... -
Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence Oliver Kenny 9781474483940
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis but as artefacts that ought to be... -
Korean Film by Eungjun Min
SciFier: £78.49Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the... -
Approaches to Popular Film by Joanne Hollows
SciFier: £18.74An invaluable introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to...