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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... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481854
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.99Provides an innovative theoretical approach to sci-fi films from the late 1970s to the present Highlights the specifically political dimension of sci-fi works and demonstrates how they speak... -
Entertainers in British Films by Dennis Gifford
SciFier: £58.49Representing the first attempt to compile a complete catalog of the entertainers who appeared on film in Great Britain from the invention of the cinema in the mid-1890s to the present, this... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
Film as Philosophy by R. Read
SciFier: £61.99A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films,... -
A Genesis Found: The Film Companion Wilson Toney 9780615358659
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £18.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615358659Author Wilson ToneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint -
The Brooklyn Film by John B. Manbeck
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Brooklyn, New York, is known for its distinctive vernacular, its communal feel on the fringes of a booming city, and its famous bridge, a gateway to the golden opportunities of Manhattan. And Coney... -
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... -
Mise en Scene and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art A. Martin 9781137269942
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film... -
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... -
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,... -
Development of the Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization Qiao Li 9780367508432
SciFier: £43.73The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have... -
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... -
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts Jonathan Rhodes Lee 9781032174327
SciFier: £43.73Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical... -
Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman Dan Williams 9781137471970
SciFier: £46.99This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through... -
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... -
Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites Jurgen Muller 9783754404089
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.72Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir... -
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... -
The Hollywood Historical Film Robert Burgoyne (Wayne State University) 9781405146029
RRP: £84.95SciFier: £79.87A 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... -
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... -
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... -
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 Films of Joachim Trier Anne Gjelsvik 9781399517133
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87This is the first book-length academic study of Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier's films. The book, written by an author who has followed his work closely for ten years, offers an introduction to all... -
Latin American Film Industries Tamara L. Falicov (University of Kansas, USA) 9781844573103
SciFier: £36.04Film 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... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345337
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films Asli OEzgen 9781041187127
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective... -
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... -
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... -
Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film by Beverly Merrill Kelley, Ph.D.
SciFier: £113.99In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically... -
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... -
Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en... -
ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky Michael Witte 9781399505956
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Known as the father of the "midnight cult movie" and co-founder of the avant-garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a... -
The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024 Melissa Anderson 9798986446387
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £18.61The Hunger assembles the best of Melissa Anderson's film writing from, among other outlets, Bookforum, Artforum, the Village Voice, and 4Columns, where she has been the film editor and lead film... -
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...