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Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780275952990
SciFier: £37.99Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
Red, White, and Spooked by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99America has always attempted to define itself through a network of invented myths and national narratives. Historically, this national mythmaking has focused on the building of the nation itself as a... -
Wes Anderson by Mark Browning
SciFier: £43.99This is the first full-length study devoted to the films of Wes Anderson, one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today. This first full-length consideration of this noted director's work,... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957445
SciFier: £72.99Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780313361821
SciFier: £29.99Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically-every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come... -
The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats by Marsha Mccreadie
SciFier: £78.49This collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published film critic, examines the shifting portrayals of women from... -
Chuck Jones by Maureen Furniss
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Chuck Jones: Conversations brings to life the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shape the history of American animation, defining our impressions of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,... -
Oggetto Metallico by A.J. Schaar
SciFier: £9.74"Perhaps today we learn the answer to one of humanity's biggest and most universally, yes, if I may say so, a UNIVERSALLY shared question: ARE WE ALONE?" Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, got... -
Working with Walt by Don Peri
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.49This book includes interviews with Ken Anderson, Les Clark, Larry Clemmons, Jack Cutting, Don Duckwall, Marcellite Garner, Harper Goff, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Huemer, Wilfred Jackson, Eric Larson,... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262324
SciFier: £40.99Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: £51.99Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
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... -
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... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: £78.49Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: £37.99Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: £61.99This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: £78.49This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
The American War Film by Frank McAdams
SciFier: £78.49McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: £77.99In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: £61.99The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: £78.49Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs... -
Screens Fade to Black by David J. Leonard
SciFier: £51.99The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was... -
John Wayne by Judith Riggin
SciFier: £35.99John Wayne--the man, actor, and icon--remains synonymous with certain American values. He represents conservative political views, aggressive militarism, and a masculine bravado which seemed... -
Film Directors on Directing by John A. Gallagher
SciFier: £32.46Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780275961190
SciFier: £37.99Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
The Films of Kenneth Branagh by Samuel Crowl
SciFier: £78.49Between the release of Henry V in 1989 and Love's Labour's Lost in 2000, Kenneth Branagh directed eight major films in a wide variety of genres, ranging from film noir to horror to comedy, and... -
A Call to Action: The Films of Ousmane Sembene Shelia Petty 9780313302794
SciFier: £77.99Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and... -
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... -
Politics and Politicians in American Film by Phillip L. Gianos
SciFier: £36.99Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century-a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great... -
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture Kendall R. Phillips 9780275983536
SciFier: £46.99Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically-every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275924799
SciFier: £28.99One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
Andy Warhol Wayne Koestenbaum 9781474620161
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can... -
SubZero Vol. 1 by Junepurrr
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £16.79From debut creator Antonia Crupa, also known as Junepurrr, comes the first printed edition of the smash-hit Webtoon SubZero! To save her people, Princess Clove will have to do the... -
Seeing the Bigger Picture by David A. Schultz
RRP: £114.95SciFier: £104.49Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the political dilemmas and debates shaping our world. Reviewing... -
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You: Soulmate, Vol. 1 by Karuho Shiina
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72The story of Kimi ni Todoke continues in this sequel starring Sawako and her former rival Kurumi in college.With her jet-black hair, sinister smile, and silent demeanor, Sawako "Sadako" Kuronuma... -
Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema Barbara Quart 9780275929626
SciFier: £68.49Quart here extends her previous writings on what she terms `the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking. Quart addresses American, Western European, and Eastern European... -
Current Research in Film by Bruce Austin
SciFier: £78.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913199Author Bruce AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936624
SciFier: £37.99Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275949556
SciFier: £37.99By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents... -
The First Female Stars by David W. Menefee
SciFier: £51.99The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era rediscovers the fascinating lives and pioneering achievements of 15 women who dared to venture into early motion pictures, an industry dominated by...