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Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
SciFier: €55.92Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from... -
Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976) Carolina Rocha (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (United States)) 9781800855786
SciFier: €34.38An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine... -
The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism Steven Price 9780230223622
RRP: €59.49SciFier: €55.92After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice... -
Writing Short Scripts by William H. Phillips
SciFier: €24.98A practical guide to writing effective short scripts for films or videos, focusing on dialog, settings, characters, structure, and themes.Book InformationISBN 9780815628026Author William H... -
Tokyo Graffiti Lord K2 9780764354731
RRP: €27.36SciFier: €19.75Does street art exist in spotless Tokyo? Yes! But strict vandalism laws and conservative Japanese culture have suppressed the graffiti scene in Tokyo. This stunning survey by photographer and... -
Shadows On The Aegean by Suzanne Frank
RRP: €36.89SciFier: €31.52Time traveller Chloe Kingsley, thinks she's returning from ancient Egypt to her life in contemporary Dallas. Instead, she wakes up as the Cybele Oracle, the seer of an empire whose fall she forsees... -
Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation Martha Sigall 9781578067497
RRP: €24.93SciFier: €19.46Martha Sigall worked with all the classic cartoon characters-Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dawg, Beany & Cecil, Tweety, and Porky Pig-and the madcap artists who created them-Chuck... -
Draw the World Awake by Walter van Beirendonck
RRP: €160.65SciFier: €110.41Drawing on more than 40 years of work, Walter Van Beirendonck selected over 500 iconic fashion drawings that have rarely, if ever, been seen before. Draw the World Awake is a wild ride through Van... -
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style Kathy Peiss 9780812223033
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €19.46ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit. -Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944 Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or... -
Mort Walker by Jason Whiton
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €29.14When Mort Walker (b. 1923) was ten years old, he received an inscribed Moon Mullins cartoon from its creator Frank Willard that read, ""Say Morton, those drawings you sent me were swell-I'll bet... -
W. C. Fields by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: €69.60Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.All students of the 'Great Man's'career will have to rely on this work... Perhaps Gehring's greatest contributio here is his... -
Agent of Challenge and Defiance: The Films of Ken Loach George McKnight 9780275960360
SciFier: €45.21For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These invariably controversial film and television... -
The Cross and the Cinema by James M. Skinner
SciFier: €93.40Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In... -
Screening the Past by Tony Barta
SciFier: €93.40Film and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of... -
By Angels Driven by Chris Lippard
SciFier: €44.02Derek Jarman was one of the most innovative British filmmakers of his generation. Working largely outside the British film establishment and within tight budgetary constraints, he produced a series... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis, 2nd Edition Mario Falsetto 9780275969745
SciFier: €93.40The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career... -
The Hanging Figure by Christopher Morris
SciFier: €93.40In a radical new interpretation of the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Morris argues that suspense-the fundamental component of Hitchcock's cinema-is best understood through deconstruction of... -
The Infernal Return by Rodney Farnsworth
SciFier: €73.77George Lukas and other leading filmmakers acknowledge their indebtedness to mythographic scholarship on archetypes. In his new study, author Rodney Farnsworth identifies a pattern of filmmakers'... -
Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel by Norberto Minguez-Arranz
SciFier: €93.40The novel and the film are two modes of representation based on different aesthetic tools, but both are capable of articulating narrative discourses. In Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel, author... -
Celluloid Heroes Down Under by Theodore F. Sheckels
SciFier: €93.40With films such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert finding recent success in American theaters, Australian cinema has never been as popular in North America as... -
Movies and the Reagan Presidency by Chris Jordan
SciFier: €61.87The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States president-a former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activist-served as a... -
The DVD Revolution by Aaron Barlow
SciFier: €61.87The introduction of the DVD marked the beginning of one of history's most successful technological innovations, and capped a 75-year development of home-viewing possibilities. Never before have film... -
From Box Office to Ballot Box by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: €61.87Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as... -
Future Imperfect by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: €93.40Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining authors of the last half of the twentieth century, and the increasing levels of respect and interest that his fiction and... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944438
SciFier: €45.21Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275968137
SciFier: €44.02Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
Controversial Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips
SciFier: €52.35At the heart of any history of controversial films is a strange paradox: while films, especially popular and mainstream films, are often portrayed as meaningless products of popular culture, those... -
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict by J. Daccache
SciFier: €55.92Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9780748692507
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €21.27The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: €111.51A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
Framework by Tom Stempel
RRP: €20.17SciFier: €15.74Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617030062
RRP: €129.71SciFier: €108.87A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules
RRP: €28.55SciFier: €27.10This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and... -
The New Soundtrack by Professor Stephen Deutsch
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €21.27The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 7, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474424387
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €22.23The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
A Guide to Silent Westerns by Larry Langman
SciFier: €82.10This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: €30.93SciFier: €29.02Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
Feel-Bad Postfeminism by Catherine McDermott (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
SciFier: €116.61In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience... -
Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television W. Ho 9781349506460
SciFier: €55.92This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and... -
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema C. Yates 9781403986214
SciFier: €55.92This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films...