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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... -
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... -
Seeing Things by Suzanne Linsey-Mitellas
SciFier: £14.89Rachel Holloway is a school teacher with an unremarkable life. That is, until one day when everything changes forever and she is given the gift (or is it curse?) of being able to see and speak with... -
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... -
The Road to Comedy by Donald McCaffrey
SciFier: £46.99Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s... -
Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies Angela Aleiss 9780275983963
SciFier: £51.99The 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... -
Onscreen and Undercover by Wesley Britton
SciFier: £77.99Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics,... -
Movies and the Modern Psyche by Sharon Packer MD
SciFier: £51.99By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our... -
Errol Flynn by Peter Valenti
SciFier: £56.99Peter Valenti presents an objective evaluation of Flynn's impact on both American popular culture and the development of motion pictures. The book begins with a brief biography of the actor, followed... -
Laurel and Hardy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £68.99This book presents a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical estimate of Laurel & Hardy's significance in film comedy, the arts in general, and as popular culture icons. Of the two,... -
Satyajit Ray by Ben Nyce
SciFier: £77.99With 26 films to his credit and numerous international prizes, Satyajit Ray is India's most recognized filmmaker--yet, no extended study of his films has previouly been published in English in the... -
Clint Eastwood by John H. Foote
SciFier: £46.99Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in... -
The Hidden Art of Hollywood by John Fawell
SciFier: £51.99Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in... -
Postmodern Hollywood by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £51.99Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even... -
Shirley Temple Black by Patsy G. Hammontree
SciFier: £67.49Chronicling Shirley Temple Black's various careers, this work spans the years from her childhood at the studio and at home through her waning success during adolescence, to her diplomatic and... -
Classic American Films by William Baer
SciFier: £53.49Classic American Films explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote... -
The Story, the Legend of Fearless Fred by Shaunette Byers
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £12.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971238374Author Shaunette ByersFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Culturatti InkPublisher Culturatti... -
Broken (The Divine, Book Three) by M R Forbes
SciFier: £12.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615910260Author M R ForbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Protoculture PressPublisher... -
Cheesecake and Group Hugs Scott Clarke 9798330235810
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330235810Author Scott ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Pop CulturePublisher Pop... -
The Blinking Bottle Beauty Scott Clarke 9798349404863
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798349404863Author Scott ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Pop CulturePublisher Pop... -
FAM toons, What would the old lady say? Scott Clarke 9798349633409
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798349633409Author Scott ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Pop CulturePublisher Pop... -
Moonlight by Maria Flood
SciFier: £20.33This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of... -
New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop Fatima Bhutto 9781733623704
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyesA vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is... -
Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 9781399622967
GollanczRRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24The future of storytelling is here.Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of... -
The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels Dominick Grace 9781496815118
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin,... -
Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) 9783836557191
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.73Clothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to... -
Clever Creatures of the Night Samantha Mabry 9781523527441
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523527441Author Samantha MabryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher... -
Morsel Carter Keane 9781250392459
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.91Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office gig with coworkers who won't stop talking... -
The Sandman: And Other Weird Tales E T A Hoffmann (Author) 9781805680666
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In 'The Sandman', young Nathanael grows up...