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Lillian Gish by Charles Affron
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63At the time of her death in 1993, Lillian Gish was universally recognized as a film legend. In this revealing and absorbing narrative, Charles Affron uses newly released documents to uncover a life... -
In Other Los Angeleses by Meiling Cheng
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £24.49Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as... -
In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments Brian R. Jacobson 9780520297609
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that... -
Hollywood Be Thy Name by Judith Weisenfeld
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Miriam Hansen 9780520265592
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.99Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520267084
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
Sixguns and Society by Will Wright
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the... -
John Ford, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Peter Bogdanovich
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £19.40This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film... -
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay Billy Wilder 9780520218482
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £19.54On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by... -
Figures Traced in Light by David Bordwell
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.51A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of... -
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience Jennifer M. Barker 9780520258426
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"The Tactile Eye" expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M... -
Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art Rebecca J. DeRoo 9780520279414
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative "mother" of the French New Wave film... -
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780520290396
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries... -
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780520290402
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries... -
Sounding New Media by Frances Dyson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Sounding New Media" examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular... -
Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens by Caetlin Benson-Allott
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.09Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded... -
Abstract Video by Gabrielle Jennings
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive source book on abstraction in... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity Jacqueline Najuma Stewart 9780520233492
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban... -
A Critical Cinema 3 by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.99"A Critical Cinema 3" continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative... -
The Sixties by Paul Monaco
RRP: £36.00SciFier: £32.64Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s... -
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience by Michael Curtin
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have... -
Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft Graham Jones 9780520270466
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £53.99From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, "Trade of the Tricks" offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing... -
Star Trek and American Television Roberta Pearson 9780520276215
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production, Star Trek: The Original Series. In Star Trek and... -
Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store Daniel Herbert 9780520279636
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital... -
Hokum! by Rob King
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to... -
Backstory 4 by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Continuing Patrick McGilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfully detailed and personal stories from veteran... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Jane E. Sloan
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.49Here is the definitive resource for fans and students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. For the paperback edition, Jane Sloan has updated the annotated bibliography and indexes.About the AuthorJane E... -
Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction Gina Marchetti 9780520084957
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.62Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how... -
Chanteuse in the City by Kelley Conway
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life,... -
The First Lady of Hollywood by Samantha Barbas
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £22.47Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of... -
Cinema and Fascism by Stephen Ricci
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by... -
The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology Snorri Sturluson 9780520273054
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.02"Prose Edda" is a work without predecessor or parallel. It was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic... -
The Decline of Sentiment by Lea Jacobs
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.60"The Decline of Sentiment" seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the... -
Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store Daniel Herbert 9780520279612
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £53.99Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance Lea Jacobs 9780520279643
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this... -
Comedy/Cinema/Theory by Andrew Horton
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £23.99The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Miriam Hansen 9780520265608
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles Jon Lewis 9780520284319
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy facade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly... -
Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft Graham Jones 9780520270473
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, "Trade of the Tricks" offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing...