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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... -
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... -
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... -
Transnational Moroccan Cinema: Critical Dialogues Will Higbee (Professor of Film Studies, University of Exeter) 9781474462891
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Since the early 2000s, Moroccan cinema has emerged as a major force in the Maghreb and African cinema, driven by digital technologies, international collaborations and co-production, and a focus on... -
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 the Ethical Imagination by Asbjorn Gronstad
SciFier: £92.99This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
A Guide to (Short) Documentary Filmmaking: Creating Artful Short Documentary Films Jamie Meltzer 9781032603865
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £36.99Using 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:... -
Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics M. O'Pray 9780333537626
SciFier: £95.20This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film,... -
US Youth Films and Popular Music by Tim McNelis
SciFier: £42.86This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre,... -
The American Horror Film by Reynold Humphries
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29The American Horror Film is the first overview of this popular genre. It moves from Dracula in 1931 to contemporary films such as Scream and The Sixth Sense. The various characters that recur in... -
East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History S. Heiduschke 9781137322319
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... -
Refocus: the Films of Wallace Fox by Gary D. Rhodes
SciFier: £93.01Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directorsAbout the AuthorGary D. Rhodes, Head of Film & Mass Media, University of Central... -
Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Mathew Abbott 9781474432290
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas KiarostamiMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami... -
Film's Musical Moments Ian Conrich 9780748623457
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252080180
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir Robert Miklitsch 9780252038594
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film is An Island Gina Marchetti (Ithaca College/University of Hong Kong) 9780415545600
SciFier: £55.86In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and... -
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... -
Screen Writings: Texts and Scripts from Independent Films Scott MacDonald 9780520080256
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.30'Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors' - Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964. A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published... -
Activist Film Festivals by Sonia Tascon
RRP: £52.95SciFier: £41.49Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking. This book breaks new ground by... -
Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit B. Wall 9781349455065
SciFier: £46.99What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into... -
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... -
Third World Film Making and the West by Roy Armes
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.69This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema, Third World countries now... -
The Films of Yim Soon-Rye Molly Kim 9781399513074
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Korean cinema, though currently established as one of the most successful international film industries, has never been a fair ground for women filmmakers. Amidst the heavily male dominated Korean... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781644691120
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £23.27How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9781474402781
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature length fiction film. The Sense of Film Narration examines films that combine different types of images and sounds in a way... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Refocus: the Films of Michel Gondry by Marcelline Block
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has... -
Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace Tommy Gustafsson 9781474431149
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81A comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film'Nordic Genre Film' offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema. It discusses a range of... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: £61.99Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite...