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Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics M. O'Pray 9780333537626
SciFier: £95.28This 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,... -
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... -
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... -
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 Films of Aleksandr Rou: Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema Deborah Allison (University of East Anglia.) 9781835952641
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.78More than half a century after his death, Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Rou remains a cinematic icon across Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dubbed 'King of the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.72An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander 'Sandy' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood... -
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... -
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... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262164
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Although 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... -
Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film Christine Brinckmann 9781041177241
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses... -
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... -
Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit B. Wall 9781137306135
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption Qiao Li 9781032478166
SciFier: £40.26This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling Richard Dyer 9781844572106
SciFier: £33.99Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: £51.99Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
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,... -
Becoming Film Literate by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: £52.99Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
SciFier: £88.47Bringing 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... -
The Epic Film: Myth and History Derek Elley 9781138989177
SciFier: £47.20As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic... -
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... -
Film's Feisty Femmes: Today's Polish Women Helena Goscilo 9798897830664
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £71.49It would be difficult to overestimate the importance, originality, and success of current Polish female directors, whose bold, vivid features have taken the film industry by storm. Film's Feisty... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.99The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
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... -
The Films of Martin Ritt by Gabriel Miller
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In a Hollywood career that spanned more than thirty years, Martin Ritt (1914-1990) directed twenty-six films. Among them were some of Hollywood's most enduring works--Hud, Hombre, The Spy Who Came in... -
Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard Nathan Andersen 9780415742122
SciFier: £39.39Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of... -
Black Image Making and Whiteness Prof Thomas Austin (Professor of Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK) 9781399545068
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59How have image-makers of colour explored white societies, cultures and practices? This book takes as its case studies films, TV shows and photography that treat whiteness, in all its complexities,... -
Film and the American Left by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: £68.49The American Left has produced a rich and varied cultural tradition that was largely suppressed during the Cold War but whose influence on the larger society has always been significant. Much of this... -
World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice Brenda Hollweg 9781474429252
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world.Book... -
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... -
Undergraduate Research in Film: A Guide for Students Lucia Ricciardelli 9781138599529
SciFier: £40.26Undergraduate Research in Film: A Guide for Students supplies tools for building research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas...