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Celluloid Symphonies by Julie Hubbert
RRP: £36.00SciFier: £31.24"Celluloid Symphonies" is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created... -
Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles' career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic... -
The Cinema of Ann Hui: Aesthetics, Gender, and Displacement Zhaoyu Zhu (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) 9781350514430
SciFier: £29.20A central figure in Hong Kong cinema since her debut with The Secret (1979), Ann Hui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020. This... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345337
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345320
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £86.99Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
The Hollywood Interviews John Flower 9781845204402
SciFier: £103.99"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The... -
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood by Neil Archer (University of Keele)
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.65Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated... -
I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies Nicholas Ray 9780520201699
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.01One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of... -
Wes Craven: Interviews Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496825964
SciFier: £101.99With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema Norman K. Denzin 9780202303451
SciFier: £48.93To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie... -
The Films of Jess Franco Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780814344934
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of... -
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan by Claire Parkinson
SciFier: £98.49A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines... -
Wes Craven: Interviews Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496826107
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Alfred Hitchcock All the Films by Bernard Benoliel
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £36.70Organized chronologically and covering every short film, television episode, and classic film that the "Master of Suspense" directed over the course of his illustrious, 60-year career, Alfred... -
The Hollywood Interviews John Flower 9781845204419
SciFier: £24.99"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284357
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
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... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160627
SciFier: £36.79The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Shoot the Piano Player by Peter Brunette
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful... -
Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime Elisa Pezzotta 9781617038938
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to... -
The Corporate Media Toolkit: Advanced Techniques for Producers, Writers and Directors Ray DiZazzo (DiZazzo Media, USA) 9780415787796
SciFier: £35.93This book offers corporate writers, producers and directors an accessibly-written, hands-on guide to practical techniques important in producing high-quality, nuanced work in a corporate environment... -
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... -
Great Directors at Work by David Richard Jones
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.62The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook-all were monarchs of... -
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Noah Isenberg 9780520235779
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the... -
Bong Joon Ho Joseph Jonghyun Jeon 9780252088575
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the... -
Bong Joon Ho Joseph Jonghyun Jeon 9780252046483
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the... -
Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 9780520239524
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £64.49Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, Revised & Updated Anthony Kaufman 9781628462098
SciFier: £101.99The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) defies easy categorization. From his breakout beginnings in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape to 2013, when he retired from big-screen... -
Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime Elisa Pezzotta 9781496807892
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £22.56Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to... -
Orson Welles Portfolio by Simon Braund
Titan BooksRRP: £34.99SciFier: £23.00A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writer, producer and visionary director, had originally... -
Refocus: the Films of Budd Boetticher Gary D Rhodes 9781474437530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns... -
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.74The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against... -
Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Dolores Tierney
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book brings a new... -
What Is Cinema? Volume II Andre Bazin 9780520242289
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.54Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
Doing Film Studies Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602709
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £28.13Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an... -
Don Coppola by Don Coppola
Titan BooksRRP: £21.99SciFier: £14.35From Amazing Ameziane, the creator of Quentin by Tarantino and Muhammad Ali, comes volume 2 of his Cine Trilogy of graphic novels. Based on the lives and films of acclaimed cinema icons, this book... -
Martin Scorsese Ameziane Amazing 9781787743243
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £16.39From Amazing Ameziane, the creator of Quentin by Tarantino and Muhammad Ali, comes the final volume in his Cine Trilogy of graphic novels. Based on the lives and films of acclaimed cinema icons, this... -
Sergio Leone: The Revolution Of The Western Amazing Ameziane 9781787747562
Titan BooksRRP: £21.99SciFier: £14.62From Amazing Ameziane, the creator of Quentin by Tarantino and Don Coppola, comes the next insightful instalment of biographical graphic novels. Based on the lives and films of acclaimed cinema...