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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... -
Sex, Censorship and the Millennial Teen Film Jade Jontef (La Trobe University, Australia) 9781350442474
SciFier: £94.99Through an in-depth analysis of iconic teen movies, this study explores the relationship between sex, censorship, and the shaping of Generation Y's views on desire. Jade Jontef argues that in light... -
American Drama in the Age of Film by Zander Brietzke
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £33.75Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the... -
Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern Frank Burke (Queen's University, Canada) 9781789382082
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £20.00Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned... -
The Horror Film by Stephen Prince
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.99In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental... -
Writing for Film: The Basics of Screenwriting Darsie Bowden 9780805842586
SciFier: £47.20In this introduction to screenwriting, author Darsie Bowden provides sage, real-world advice and instruction on the process of writing film screenplays. This text will help budding screenwriters to... -
East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History S. Heiduschke 9781137322302
SciFier: £46.99East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars... -
Taking Fiction Film Seriously: A Philosophical Approach to Cinema Studies Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 9781350505674
SciFier: £84.76Fiction film has been and remains the privileged site of film studies, with film history regularly being viewed as the rise of the narrative fiction film. Taking Fiction Film Seriously argues that... -
Deconstruction, Feminism, Film Sarah Dillon 9781474434225
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice,... -
Latin American Film Industries Tamara L. Falicov (University of Kansas, USA) 9781844573103
SciFier: £35.68Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9781137354990
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption Qiao Li 9781032478166
SciFier: £40.26This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global... -
The The Spacesuit Film by Gary Westfahl
SciFier: £46.99Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most powerfully communicate the dangers of space and the frailty and weakness of humans beyond... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748685912
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is a unique and fascinating characteristic of cinema... -
Taking Fiction Film Seriously: A Philosophical Approach to Cinema Studies Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 9781350505711
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £18.24Fiction film has been and remains the privileged site of film studies, with film history regularly being viewed as the rise of the narrative fiction film. Taking Fiction Film Seriously argues that... -
Film Editing - History, Theory and Practice by Don Fairservice
SciFier: £22.99The first-ever comprehensive examination of the film editor's craft from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Of all the film-making crafts, editing is the least understood. Using examples... -
The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology Ian Aitken 9781474425964
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs dominated realist film theory. In... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling Richard Dyer 9781844572106
SciFier: £33.99Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
Film History and Screen Culture in and beyond Greater China Lin Feng (University of Leicester) 9781032458151
SciFier: £40.26Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten... -
Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern Frank Burke (Queen's University, Canada) 9781789382204
SciFier: £79.32Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned... -
Black Image Making and Whiteness Prof Thomas Austin (Professor of Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK) 9781399545068
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59How have image-makers of colour explored white societies, cultures and practices? This book takes as its case studies films, TV shows and photography that treat whiteness, in all its complexities,... -
A Genesis Found: The Film Companion Wilson Toney 9780615358659
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £18.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615358659Author Wilson ToneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint -
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film Wickham Clayton 9781349573455
SciFier: £41.99Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
SciFier: £88.47Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its... -
World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice Brenda Hollweg 9781474429252
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world.Book... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: £61.99Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146
SciFier: £38.53This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748643462
SciFier: £93.01This book presents a new approach to the issue of temporality in film. Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality,... -
Becoming Film Literate by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £52.99Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto... -
A Guide to (Short) Documentary Filmmaking: Creating Artful Short Documentary Films Jamie Meltzer 9781032603865
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Using examples and hard-earned experiences from the Author's courses and lectures at the esteemed MFA in Documentary Film Program at Stanford University, A Guide to (Short) Documentary Filmmaking:... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.99The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection Ilka Brasch 9781041179382
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring... -
The Films of Martin Ritt by Gabriel Miller
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In a Hollywood career that spanned more than thirty years, Martin Ritt (1914-1990) directed twenty-six films. Among them were some of Hollywood's most enduring works--Hud, Hombre, The Spy Who Came in... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9781138990968
SciFier: £31.59Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its... -
Film and Redemption by David Rankin
SciFier: £40.26This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors - Clint Eastwood, Martin... -
Film and the American Left by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £68.49The American Left has produced a rich and varied cultural tradition that was largely suppressed during the Cold War but whose influence on the larger society has always been significant. Much of this... -
The Short Story of Film: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements Ian Haydn Smith 9781786275639
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.71The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design... -
A History of Early Film V3 Stephen Herbert 9781032513416
SciFier: £31.59Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay and considers... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262171
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
The Hollywood Historical Film Robert Burgoyne (Wayne State University) 9781405146036
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.96A comprehensive analysis of the historical film-a popular and controversial genre that's been with us since the early days of cinema-and Hollywood's unique ability to reshape our viewpoints while it...