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The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 9781501380204
SciFier: £27.99The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context... -
Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Michael Dear 9780520391932
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an... -
Costume, Makeup, and Hair Adrienne L. McLean 9780813571515
SciFier: £32.40Movie buffs and film scholars alike often overlook the importance of makeup artists, hair stylists, and costumers. With precious few but notable exceptions, creative workers in these fields have... -
The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 9781501380235
SciFier: £97.99The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context... -
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions Sylvie Magerstadt 9781783482511
SciFier: £46.99Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstadt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that... -
Ken Russell: Interviews Barry Keith Grant 9781496851840
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema. His work, like the man himself, was regarded as flamboyant, excessive,... -
Theology of Horror by Ryan G. Duns, SJ
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes. Horror films scare and entertain us, but there's more to... -
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study... -
Cavell's Ontology of Film: The World Viewed After Half a Century Jeroen Gerrits 9781839995149
SciFier: £79.53Cavell's Ontology of Film presents ten essays by some of the most prominent international scholars of Stanley Cavell's work with a double purpose: to look back, half a century after its original... -
People Only Die of Love in Movies by Jim Ridley
RRP: £27.50SciFier: £21.19Combining a cineaste's encyclopedic knowledge of film with a child's sense of wonder, Jim Ridley wrote about movies in a way few others can.He reveled in the joy and mischief of cinema, dwelled on... -
Ken Russell: Interviews Barry Keith Grant 9781496851833
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema. His work, like the man himself, was regarded as flamboyant, excessive,... -
Screen Sirens Scream! by Paul Parla
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fiction, horror, film noir and mystery movies from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some--like Sandy Descher, who confronted the giant ants of... -
Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films Ryan G. Duns, SJ 9780268208561
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.69Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes.Horror films scare and entertain us, but there's more to be... -
Russian Cinema David C. Gillespie 9780582437906
SciFier: £58.53Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov,... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780253214799
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing Frederick Wiseman 9780520244573
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a... -
From Hollywood to Disneyland: Walt Disney's Dream Park and the Influence of American Movies Robert Neuman 9781476686257
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43From its beginnings, Disneyland was destined to be something entirely different from the standard mid-century amusement park. To sell his dream park to investors and the public, Walt Disney recruited... -
American Cinema of the 1920s by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were... -
Police on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers M. Ray Lott 9780786425778
SciFier: £22.59From the Roman Praetorian Guard to the English shire-reeve to the U.S. marshals, lawmen have a long and varied history. At first, such groups were often corrupt, guilty of advancing a political... -
The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Disapora by Kin-Yan Szeto
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £24.89In The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora, Kin-Yan Szeto critically examines three of the most internationally famous martial arts film artists to arise out of the Chinese diaspora and... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: £82.99Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Before Video by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £78.49The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to the non-theatrical film field. Non-theatrical... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307797
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Dark Recesses in the House of Hammer by Melanie Boissonneau
RRP: £71.15SciFier: £66.49Twenty years after Universal horror movies, the Hammer studio brought back to life the great mythical figures inspired from British literature as well as French and European folklore (Dracula,... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178211
SciFier: £29.76Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Ride, Boldly Ride by Mary Lea Bandy
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.68This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and... -
Hollywood Hybrids by Ira Jaffe
SciFier: £87.99'He wanted to move in and out of the various signature styles of all these genres_Western, melodrama, thriller, horror,' said cinematographer Robert Richardson of Quentin Tarantino's goals in making... -
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World Peter Szendy 9780823264803
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £62.11Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with... -
Gender and Genre in 1990s Hollywood: Challenging Definitions of Sex, Women, and Femininity Patricia Di Risio (Monash University, Australia) 9781350292871
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £35.39The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. Patricia Di Risio argues that cinematic representations... -
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World Peter Szendy 9780823264810
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.68Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular: by Ted Fendt
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.62Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Undead in the West by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: £83.49In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes... -
Fantasy of Modernity by Aarti Wani
SciFier: £70.23Romantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Sound Design for Moving Image: From Concept to Realization Miss Kahra Scott-James 9781474235112
SciFier: £38.58Sound Design for Moving Image offers a clear introduction to sound design theory and practice to help you integrate sound ideas into your productions. Contemporary soundtracks are often made up of... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema Ted Fendt 9781839998867
SciFier: £25.00Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Evacuee Cinema by Salma Siddique (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
SciFier: £85.65This new history of partition and South Asian cinema is narrated through the careers of emigre film personnel, as well as through the distinctive genres and ancillary ventures that accompanied the... -
Post-classical Hollywood by Barry Langford
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945... -
The Bloodstained Doll John Everson 9781787588882
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12When Allyson's mom dies unexpectedly, she thinks her world has hit rock bottom. But that's before she goes to live with her estranged Uncle Otto in Germany. When a child's empty casket is unearthed... -
An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng (Director, Columbia University)
RRP: £121.00SciFier: £99.44Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to...