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The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film by Samuel J. Umland
SciFier: £77.99This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories:... -
Video Versions by Thomas L. Erskine
SciFier: £68.99Many of our favorite films began as plays-some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video... -
Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
SciFier: £61.99Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured... -
Woody, From Antz to Zelig by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: £68.99Alphabetically arranged, the entries in this encyclopedic study cover Woody Allen's movies, plays, fiction, television shows, and stand-up comedy from 1964 through 1998. Film entries begin with basic... -
A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema Charles P. Mitchell 9780313315275
SciFier: £68.99This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that... -
Film It with Music by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £68.49This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them. Film entries range from the legendary The Jazz Singer in 1927 to... -
Steven Spielberg by Kathi Jackson
SciFier: £34.99Steven Spielberg is hailed as one of the most influential and commercially successful film directors in motion picture history. Through his role in developing, directing, and driving the special... -
Bound to Bond by Mark Rubinfeld
SciFier: £78.49Bound to Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy looks at gender roles in a unique way--by examining what the last thirty years of romantic comedy films have argued, reflected, and... -
Seeing Things by Suzanne Linsey-Mitellas
SciFier: £13.69Rachel 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... -
Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World, Vol. 18 (Light Novel) by Tappei Nagatsuki
Yen PressRRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.99After Subaru and his friends fail to retake city hall, the Water Gate Cityof Pristella is hit by a deluge of muddy water. Though Subaru vows to turn the tide,the Witch Cult's Archbishops continue... -
The Art of the Comic Book by Robert C. Harvey
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.26In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the comic book as a potent form of narrative art. He... -
TV Genres by Brian Geoffrey Rose
SciFier: £68.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.This book fills a need. It will be used by scholars and revered by undergraduates doing papers. It is a highly desirable... -
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1978. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 9780313209505
SciFier: £69.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the Authormsey /f VernaBook InformationISBN 9780313209505Author Academy of Motion Picture Arts & SciencesFormat... -
Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits 1980 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
SciFier: £69.49Since 1934, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has organized motion picture credit information and published it, primarily for distribution to the motion picture community, in the Screen... -
American Dark Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and... -
Directory of Indian Film-Makers and Films by Sanjit Narwekar
SciFier: £68.49India produces more films each year than any other country in the world. Yet, apart from the films of Sanjit Ray, the diverse and lavish output of Indian film-makers is largely unknown outside the... -
Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary Gwendolyn A. Foster 9780313289729
SciFier: £68.99Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmmaker from the dawn of cinema including Alice Guy... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £78.49Although 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... -
Max Steiner's Now, Voyager by Kate Daubney
SciFier: £35.99Max Steiner's contribution to the formulation of early Hollywood scoring techniques is significant, particularly through his music for King Kong (1933) and The Informer (1935). The Academy Award... -
Guide to British Cinema Geoff Mayer 9780313303074
SciFier: £68.99Scholarly and popular interest in British cinema has never been stronger, with films ranging from the Merchant/Ivory pictures through Notting Hill finding both critical and commercial success in... -
Not Just for Children by Harold E. Hinds
SciFier: £78.49This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the popular... -
Filmography of World History by Deanne Schultz
SciFier: £58.49Global in scope and a practical tool for students and teachers of history, Filmography of World History: A Select, Critical Guide To Feature Films That Engage The Past includes description and... -
The Big Lebowski by Ethan Coen
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.28The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a...