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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema Ted Fendt 9781839998867
SciFier: $57.25Films 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... -
An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng (Director, Columbia University)
RRP: $277.09SciFier: $227.72Compiled 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... -
Evacuee Cinema by Salma Siddique (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
SciFier: $196.14This 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: $64.10SciFier: $59.61At 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: $45.80SciFier: $32.33When 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... -
Film as Religion by John C. Lyden
RRP: $48.07SciFier: $39.20Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with... -
Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema Dr. Richard Nowell 9781623564209
SciFier: $87.00Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of... -
The Coen Brothers' America by M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $84.71For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like... -
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema Rick Warner 9780231212717
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.41Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred... -
The Bloodstained Doll John Everson 9781787588875
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $21.05When 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... -
How To Write Great Screenplays and Get Them Into Production Linda James 9781845283070 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.39SciFier: $4.97Have you got a great idea for a screenplay, but don't know how to write it visually? Then this book is for you. It will give you the vital information you need to know before you write your script;... -
Historical Film: A Critical Introduction Jonathan Stubbs (Cyprus International University, Cyprus) 9781847884978
SciFier: $77.84Although precise definitions have not been agreed on, historical cinema tends to cut across existing genre categories and establishes an intimidatingly large group of films. In recent years, a lively... -
100 Greatest Film Scores by Matt Lawson
SciFier: $121.35The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's... -
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema Rick Warner 9780231212700
RRP: $267.93SciFier: $215.97Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9781107405103
SciFier: $93.64This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
The Celluloid Courtroom by Ross D. Levi
SciFier: $141.96The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like... -
Memento Andrew Kania (Trinity University, USA) 9780415774741
SciFier: $64.42Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film's central character, it... -
Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema Katherine Spring (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, Canada) 9780199842216
RRP: $297.70SciFier: $273.63In the late 1920s, Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized-sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary... -
May Contain Graphic Material by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $107.61Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252038945
RRP: $208.39SciFier: $165.45As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social... -
Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema Katherine Spring (Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, Canada) 9780199842223
SciFier: $83.15In the late 1920s, Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized-sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary... -
Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema Elena Oliete-Aldea (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781501320163
SciFier: $93.87The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their... -
The Philosophy of War Films by David LaRocca
RRP: $74.43SciFier: $67.78Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from... -
A History of Film Music Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) 9780521010481
RRP: $70.97SciFier: $68.33This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also... -
A History of Film Music Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) 9780521811736
SciFier: $186.66This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also... -
The Screenwriter Activist: Writing Social Issue Movies Marilyn Beker 9780415897150
SciFier: $84.25Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia. Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist... -
Ray Bradbury David Seed 9780252080586
SciFier: $55.28As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social... -
Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film Karen Fang 9780804798914
RRP: $208.39SciFier: $165.45When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and... -
Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary Jonathan Kahana 9780231142076
SciFier: $70.05Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana... -
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime Dr Gillian McIver (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781501384769
SciFier: $224.40Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9780521856850
RRP: $206.10SciFier: $193.60This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475133
RRP: $96.18SciFier: $95.13This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the... -
Anime: A Critical Introduction Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781847884794
SciFier: $76.81Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: $152.95Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for... -
Art and the Historical Film by Dr Gillian McIver
SciFier: $73.26Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
Reappraising Cult Horror Films: From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho Dr Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK) 9781501387586
SciFier: $224.40Identifies key - and in some cases previously overlooked - cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways. New productions in the... -
Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film Karen Fang 9781503600706
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $40.99When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and... -
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style Russell Kilbourn 9780231189927
RRP: $171.75SciFier: $139.64Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2016), has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: $141.96Although 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... -
Contemporary American Science Fiction Film Terence McSweeney 9781032039657
RRP: $89.29SciFier: $88.23This book explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millenniumIt offers a ground-breaking...