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The Life of Mise-En-SceNe by John Gibbs
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99The life of mise-en-scene offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the post-war period. It reclaims an often-ignored or misrepresented history,... -
Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre by Jay Beck
SciFier: £22.99This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the... -
Wartime Cinema, Englishness and Propaganda: Michael Powell and the 'Pressburger Touch' Ina Habermann 9781526179500
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83This book provides a fresh analysis of the wartime work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team 'the Archers'. It argues that in their earlier work, Powell and Pressburger should be... -
Julien Duvivier Ben McCann 9781526139559
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films... -
Globalgothic Glennis Byron 9780719087950
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.49'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an... -
Modern European Cinema and Love Richard Rushton 9781526149435
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
No Other Way to Tell it: Docudrama on Film and Television Derek Paget 9780719084461
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £76.99This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new... -
Jean Vigo by Michael Temple
SciFier: £22.99Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zero de conduite still inspire young audiences today.Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career... -
Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid 9780719077166
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of the most original and important directors working in Europe today. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she has produced a diverse and... -
Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid 9781526116864
SciFier: £20.07Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of cinema's boldest visionaries. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she produced a diverse and intensely personal body of work ranging... -
Jean-Luc Godard by Douglas Morrey
SciFier: £22.99This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the French New Wave to the... -
No Other Way to Tell it: Docudrama on Film and Television Derek Paget 9780719084478
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new... -
Jean Cocteau by James S. Williams
SciFier: £22.99This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light... -
Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Theory, Practice and Difference Parvati Nair 9781784991043
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day. It establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical... -
Global London on Screen by Keith B. Wagner
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49Global London on screen presents a melange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious, or extraordinary in terms of circumstances... -
Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Barry Jordan
SciFier: £22.99Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and... -
Contemporary Korean Cinema by Hyangjin Lee
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of... -
Four from the Forties by Brian McFarlane
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these... -
Marguerite Duras by Renate Gunther
SciFier: £22.99The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films,... -
Patrice Leconte by Lisa Downing
SciFier: £22.99Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both... -
Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists Joanna Devereux 9781526161697
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere... -
Richard Attenborough by Sally Dux
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work... -
Popular Cinema in Brazil, 1930-2001 by Stephanie Dennison
SciFier: £22.99Brazil has one of the most significant and productive film industries in Latin America. This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into the Brazilian films that have most captured... -
Women'S Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas Megan DeVirgilis 9781526176721
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined... -
Jack Clayton by Neil Sinyard
SciFier: £22.99In Francois Truffaut's opinion The Innocents was 'the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America'. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: 'a film whose artistry even surpassed the... -
British Cinema of the 1950s by Ian Mackillop
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's... -
Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema Lisa Shaw 9780719083808
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than... -
The Three Amigos by Deborah Shaw
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso... -
Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique Michael Goodrum 9781526135926
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £78.84Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores,... -
New Basque Gothic: Trauma, Screen Media and Transnationalism Rebecca Wynne-Walsh 9781526181183
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99This monograph addresses the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Autonomous Basque Community, Euskadi, in Northern Spain. The book focuses on online video sharing,... -
Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique Michael Goodrum 9781526179005
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics both reflected and fed into the anxieties of the age,... -
Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema Gemma King 9781526113580
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as... -
Reimagining North African Immigration: Identities in Flux in French Literature, Television, and Film Veronique Machelidon 9781526143532
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers... -
Reimagining North African Immigration: Identities in Flux in French Literature, Television, and Film Veronique Machelidon 9780719099489
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers... -
Counter-Realism: Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism Tamara Trodd 9781526190215
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99Counter-Realism: Art and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism is an ambitious and original study of key works of film and video art made since 2008 by leading contemporary artists, including... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9781526135698
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9780719096921
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Media Studies: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Joanne Hollows
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Written by an academic and researcher with over twenty years' experience in teaching and convening Media Studies courses, Media Studies: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you... -
European Cinema by Elizabeth Ezra (, Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Stirling)
SciFier: £46.94European Cinema is the first book to provide overviews of key movements in European film history, from the inception of the medium in 1895 to the present. This text includes accessible... -
Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity Rachel Moseley (University of Warwick, UK) 9781844570683
SciFier: £36.99Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress...