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Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 by Joan Hawkins
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £25.00Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate... -
World Film Locations: Los Angeles: Volume 2 Gabriel Solomons 9781835950296
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £16.99World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and... -
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Tim Summers
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.86Some 22 years after its creation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of the video game medium. The same is true of the game's... -
The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking by Lars Gustaf Andersson (Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University)
RRP: £88.95SciFier: £88.12This book will be released as Open Access. Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book examines 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John... -
Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life Aysegul Akcay Kavakoglu 9781789387490
SciFier: £35.90Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore... -
Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life Aysegul Akcay Kavakoglu 9781789382716
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £68.34Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore... -
Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television Annachiara Mariani (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781789383751
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £22.40The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he... -
On Stage by Mathilde Roman
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £25.71In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre - stage, decor, space, gaze and more - have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions of theatre both as points of... -
Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television Annachiara Mariani (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781789383966
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £71.90The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he... -
The Lure of the Social by Gretchen Coombs (RMIT University)
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £31.99This new and original book is a creative practice ethnography, which navigates a spectrum where at one end the author works closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic research,... -
Directory of World Cinema: Italy by Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)
SciFier: £57.66Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory... -
Artist Teacher by James Daichendt
SciFier: £24.44The philosophy of the artist-teacher is not a new phenomenon. In fact, many artists working within the Bauhaus, nineteenth century Schools of Design, and The Basic Design Movement all applied this... -
Architecture, Film, and the In-between by Vahid Vahdat (Washington State University, USA)
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.49The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between. Apart from architecture informing scenography... -
Connecting Metal to Culture: Unity in Disparity Mika Elovaara (University of North Carolina Wilmington) 9781783207008
SciFier: £46.99Though it's given little attention - and even less serious attention - by the mainstream press, metal music has for decades been a major creative and cultural force around the world. This book brings... -
Dark Film, Blood Money: The Economic Unconscious of American Neo-Noir Cinema Vernon Shetley 9781835952290
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £91.95The book presents an interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking through the lens of economics, based on readings of central neo-noir works from the noir revival of the early 1970s to recent films... -
Andrei Tarkovsky: 'Ivan's Childhood' by Robert Efird
SciFier: £33.25KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students,... -
The Ned Kelly Films by Stephen Gaunson (RMIT University)
SciFier: £20.44Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly led one of the most spectacular outbreaks the tradition has ever experienced, culminating in a siege at Glenrowan on June 28, 1880. Donned in homemade metal armor... -
Directory of World Cinema: Iran by Parviz Jahed
SciFier: £47.39Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema... -
Directory of World Cinema: Spain by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28Though loved by moviegoers worldwide, Spanish cinema has thus far suffered from a relative lack of critical attention. Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations... -
Why Would Anyone Wear That? by Celia E. Stall-Meadows
SciFier: £13.36Bustles. Tight-laced Corsets. Caged crinolines that encased the hapless wearer in hoops of steel. Why would anyone want to wear such things? Yet, you can be certain that no lady of the Victorian... -
Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women Adriana Margareta Dancus 9781783209880
SciFier: £29.20This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in... -
Transnational Film Culture in New Zealand by Simon Sigley (Massey University)
SciFier: £24.44In this innovative work of cultural history, Simon Sigley tells the story of film culture in New Zealand from the establishment of the Auckland Film Society in the 1920s to the present day. Rather... -
Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad' by Stephen Norris
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students,... -
The Many Meanings of Mina by Rachel Haworth (University of Hull)
SciFier: £85.14Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the... -
Shiny Things by Leonard Diepeveen
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £20.49Shiny Things combines an interest in visual art with a broad attention to popular culture - the wideness of its range is striking. It is more than just an expansion of subject matter, which many of... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood by Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth, UK)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures... -
The Human Shutter by Robert L. Bowen
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.49This book provides four key insights, beginning with how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged en masse, departing from the gradualist narratives familiar in histories of photography and... -
Aleksei Balabanov: 'Brother' by Ira Osterberg
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £24.70KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students,... -
Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Volume 1: Critical Positions Deane Williams 9781841505817
SciFier: £24.44The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period... -
Directory of World Cinema: Britain Emma Bell 9781841505572
SciFier: £47.39Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports... -
Directory of World Cinema: Germany by Michelle Langford
SciFier: £48.09From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2 by John Berra (Renmin University of China)
SciFier: £48.09From Andy Warhol's Factory films to Roger Corman's exploitation productions to contemporary features backed by Hollywood studio subdivisions, American independent cinema has undergone several... -
Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations Christopher S. Wilson 9781789389647
SciFier: £40.34Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban... -
Outback: Westerns in Australian Cinema Brian McFarlane (Swinburne University of Technology,Melbourne) 9781835952672
SciFier: £36.00Focusing on the incidence of the 'Westerns' film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social,... -
Multimodal Comics by Madeline B. Gangnes (University of Scranton, USA)
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £90.99Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships to other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection... -
Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781789387834
SciFier: £29.20Copenhagen has long been celebrated for its unique fashion, design, innovation, and sustainability practices, and yet there has never been a comprehensive history of Copenhagen fashion and its... -
MASKS by James Curcio
SciFier: £42.13This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist's life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that... -
Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations Christopher S. Wilson 9781789386875
RRP: £109.95SciFier: £99.17Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban... -
Producing Children's Television in the On Demand Age by Anna Potter (nUniversity of Southern California)
SciFier: £29.24This book provides a detailed account of the creative, economic and regulatory processes underlying the production of children's television in a multi-platform era. Its collection of integrated case... -
Beijing Film Academy 2020 by Journal of Beijing Film Academy
RRP: £94.95SciFier: £85.94The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing...