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Europe and Love in Cinema by Luisa Passerini
SciFier: £24.44Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love-in its broadest... -
Peter Weir by Serena Formica (University of Derby)
SciFier: £19.74The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim - from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he's helmed since... -
The Roots of Modern Hollywood by Nick Smedley
SciFier: £36.85In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema... -
Lure of the Big Screen by Karina Aveyard
RRP: £57.95SciFier: £57.90Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can... -
Directory of World Cinema: India by Adam Bingham
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India's major cinematic... -
The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki by Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK)
SciFier: £30.16Mika Kaurismaki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different... -
Danish Directors by Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
SciFier: £19.68Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among... -
World Film Locations: Las Vegas by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers - and... -
Educating Film-makers by Duncan Petrie
SciFier: £50.95A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible Chris Dumas 9781841505541
SciFier: £30.16Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
World Film Locations: Dublin by Jez Conolly
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26With its rich political and literary history, Dublin is a sought after destination for cinematographers who have made use of the city's urban streetscapes and lush pastoral settings in many memorable... -
World Film Locations: Beijing John Berra (Renmin University of China) 9781841506425
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26In a series of spotlight essays and illustrated scene reviews, a cast of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices explore the vast range of films - encompassing drama, madcap comedy, martial arts... -
World Film Locations: Marseilles by Marcelline Block
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £20.43As France's oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s,... -
Fan Phenomena: Star Wars by Mika Elovaara (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
SciFier: £24.44In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success... -
World Film Locations: Moscow Birgit Beumers 9781783201969
SciFier: £17.86A megalopolis of more than twelve million inhabitants, Moscow is a city with a rich and varied history. In 1918, following the Revolution, Moscow became the capital of the Soviet Union, and it... -
Historical Comedy on Screen by Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)
SciFier: £24.44In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history "the cruelest goddess of all." This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless... -
The Art and Science of Screenwriting by Philip Parker
SciFier: £24.60In an age where many see screenwriters as the storytellers of the new century and everyone appears to be trying to write a screenplay, this book provides the framework for you to write a great... -
Aleksandr Sokurov by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £24.44Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de... -
World Film Locations: Cleveland by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
SciFier: £29.53The prototypical rust belt city, Cleveland has long served as an emblem of late twentieth-century urban decay. But recent decades have brought a cultural and economic renaissance - a revival that has... -
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil by Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)
SciFier: £56.93Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD... -
World Film Locations: Melbourne by Neil Mitchell
SciFier: £24.44An illuminating and visually led guide to a selection of the films set wholly or in part in Melbourne, World Film Locations: Melbourne covers the big screen representations of life in the city from... -
Frames of Mind by Luke Hockley
SciFier: £29.33The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully... -
Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary by John Timberlake
SciFier: £24.44There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalyzed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the... -
Phenomenology's Material Presence by Gabrielle A. Hezekiah
SciFier: £30.16Phenomenology's Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience is an exploration of phenomenology and the aesthetics of the moving image. Drawing on the insights of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger... -
Beauty and the Beast by Elisabetta Girelli
SciFier: £30.86Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in... -
Politics of Contemporary European Cinema by Mike Wayne (Brunel University (UK).)
SciFier: £30.16How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of... -
World Film Locations: Istanbul by Ozlem Koksal
SciFier: £24.44From Fatih Akin's Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural... -
World Film Locations: Liverpool by Jez Conolly
SciFier: £24.44Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing... -
Global Fashion Brands by Joseph H. Hancock II (Drexel University, USA)
SciFier: £56.69Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While historically fashion branding has primarily focused on... -
The Global Road Movie by Jose Duarte (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
SciFier: £77.38The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before, exploring the motif... -
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger, Williams
SciFier: £13.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411602199Author Roger, WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
Intellect: User Repair by Jill Thrussell
SciFier: £22.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957113237Author Jill ThrussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 772Imprint Uziel Productions LimitedPublisher... -
Get Off My L@wn by Perry Kivolowitz
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £12.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989212816Author Perry KivolowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Psk Intellect, LLCPublisher Psk... -
The Phantom Paradigm by M J Waters
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945190056Author M J WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Intellect Publishing, LLCPublisher... -
An Intellection on the Post Mechanics of Death by Gordon McWhorter
SciFier: £10.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535560542Author Gordon McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Createspace Independent... -
(Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds, UK) 9781783204069
SciFier: £77.98Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns - including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre and stardom in a transnational age - this reassessment of... -
World Film Locations: Malta by Jean Pierre Borg
SciFier: £24.60Malta has served as a beautiful backdrop for films for nearly as long as there has been a film industry. This entry in the World Film Locations series traces the history of Malta on screen, from... -
Mind You the Chaos of Intellect Geoff Duck 9781806341320
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32It's 2049 and in a rural North Devon village, a retired Tech entrepreneur wistfully reflects on the ravages of old age and the lost wonder of youth. Following a strange visit from an old colleague... -
The Philosophical Actor by Donna Soto-Morettini
SciFier: £29.33There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the... -
The Swedish Porn Scene by Mariah Larsson, Ph.D. (Linnaeus University)
SciFier: £33.99This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmoe between 1971 and 1976. How, Mariah Larsson asks,...