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Refashioning the Renaissance by Paula Hohti
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.11How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives... -
Jean Renoir by Martin O'Shaughnessy
SciFier: £22.99Accessible and original analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood - this is the first major study to appear for a number of years and brings new light on some of... -
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet
SciFier: £22.99Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been... -
Roger Michell Brian McFarlane 9781526185297
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell's career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the... -
Carol Reed by Peter William Evans
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining... -
Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the Creation of British Cloth for the Global Market Regina Lee Blaszczyk 9781526119315
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.37Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain... -
The British Working Class in Postwar Film by Philip Gillett
SciFier: £22.99An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model, The British working class in postwar film looks at how working-class... -
Francois Truffaut by Diana Holmes
SciFier: £22.99First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular... -
Marcel Pagnol Brett Bowles 9781784992842
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £19.16Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, now... -
Karel Reisz by Colin Gardner
SciFier: £22.99Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of... -
Julio Medem Robert Stone 9780719072017
SciFier: £22.99This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red... -
Georges Franju Kate Ince 9780719068287
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967. Born in 1912, but... -
Georges Franju Kate Ince 9780719068294
SciFier: £22.99'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967. Born in 1912, but... -
J. Lee Thompson by Steve Chibnall
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio... -
Alain Resnais by Emma Wilson
SciFier: £22.99Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating... -
Diane Kurys by Carrie Tarr
SciFier: £22.99This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.About the AuthorCarrie Tarr is Senior... -
Alejandro AmenaBar Barry Jordan 9781526139412
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenabar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences... -
Eric Rohmer by Derek Schilling
SciFier: £22.99Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons... -
Marcel Carne Jonathan Driskell 9780719079979
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of... -
Fashioning Gothic Bodies by Catherine Spooner
SciFier: £22.99This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s... -
The Child in Spanish Cinema Sarah Wright 9781784993795
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.09In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child... -
FrancOis Ozon Andrew Asibong 9781784992835
SciFier: £22.99Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of Francois Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew... -
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... -
Colour Steven Peacock 9780719076435
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Colour remains one of the few uncharted territories in writing about film style. Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. Through... -
Leos Carax by Fergus Daly
SciFier: £22.99The first book in any language to study the films of this enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema, best known for his film Les Amants du Pont Neuf. Examines key ingredients in the worlds of... -
Joseph Losey by Colin Gardner
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt... -
Algerian National Cinema Guy Austin 9781526106872
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.38This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political... -
The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel Deborah Martin 9781526139429
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since... -
Marcel Carne Jonathan Driskell 9781784992859
SciFier: £22.99Newly available in paperback, this study provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the... -
John Ford's America by Jeffrey Richards
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £72.94By the time of his death in 1973, John Ford was probably the most celebrated director of Hollywood's golden age. The winner of four best director Oscars, he was the first filmmaker to be awarded his... -
Lance Comfort by Brian McFarlane
SciFier: £22.99In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter's Castle (1941) and... -
She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves Hannah Priest 9781526116895
SciFier: £22.99She-wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes... -
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... -
The Child in Spanish Cinema Sarah Wright 9780719090523
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child... -
Chris Marker by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £22.99Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He... -
Alain Robbe-Grillet John Phillips 9781784991081
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the... -
Jean-Jacques Beineix by Philip Powrie
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinema du look, with cult films, such as Diva and... -
Contemporary Australian Cinema by Jonathan Rayner
SciFier: £22.99Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent... -
She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves Hannah Priest 9780719089343
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49She-wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes... -
European Film Noir by Andrew Spicer
SciFier: £22.99European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an...