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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... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284357
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90The 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... -
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance Lea Jacobs 9780520279650
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49The 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... -
A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann Steven C. Smith 9780520229396
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.51No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In... -
Lawrence of Arabia by Steven C. Caton
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia... -
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds Jeff Smith 9780520280670
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the... -
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds Jeff Smith 9780520280687
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the... -
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles Jon Lewis 9780520284326
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.79The 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... -
Covered in Time and History by Howard Oransky
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £47.37Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief... -
The Noisemakers by Lynda Klich
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £42.78The Noisemakers examines Estridentismo, one of Mexico's first modern art and literary movements. Founded by poet Manuel Maples Arce, Estridentismo spurred dynamic collaborations and debates among... -
The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film Mikhail Iampolski 9780520085305
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.01The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In "The Memory of... -
Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters,... -
Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald Edward Baron Turk 9780520222533
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.99Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen radiance mirrored a beguiling real-life personality. Based in large part on the author's exclusive... -
Icons of Grief by Alexander Nemerov
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World... -
Refiguring American Film Genres by Nick Browne
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
Body Shots by Jonathan Auerbach
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520254565
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 Aaron Gerow 9780520256729
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was... -
Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year Catherine Jurca 9780520271807
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In "Hollywood 1938", Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars... -
An Invention without a Future by James Naremore
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema... -
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 Jennifer Wild 9780520279896
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49The first decades of the twentieth century were pivotal for the historical and formal relationships between early cinema and Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and Dada. To examine these... -
Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £26.39In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance... -
The Crisis of Political Modernism by D. N. Rodowick
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism--semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis,... -
The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Lutz Koepnick 9780520233119
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.86Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split... -
Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America Lee Grieveson 9780520239661
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" - all became objects... -
Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era Sumiko Higashi 9780520085572
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this... -
Hollywood in the Neighborhood by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Hollywood in the Neighborhood" presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland - the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film... -
Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture Siegfried Kracauer 9780520271821
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.49Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von... -
Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 9780520239524
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £64.49Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little... -
John Ford by Tag Gallagher
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £26.39This radical re-reading of Ford's work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.About the... -
The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance Jacob Smith 9780520270893
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and... -
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema Daniel Morgan 9780520273313
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £48.49With "Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema", Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the... -
Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood Hilary Hallett 9780520274082
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £54.49In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing... -
Picturing Casablanca by Susan Ossman
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269019
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
Moving Places: A Life at the Movies Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520089075
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.62"Moving Places" is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, and part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most... -
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Bill Nichols
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.16Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an... -
The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £34.36The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream... -
Lost Illusions by David Cook
RRP: £41.00SciFier: £36.44The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274129
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £51.60What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic,...