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Stardom, Film Couples and Love Teams in 1970s Philippine Cinema Chrishandra Sebastiampillai (Lecturer in Film, Television and Screen Studies, Monash University Malaysia) 9781399521000
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.14This monograph addresses a subject in star studies that is still developing outside of (and even within) Hollywood and cinemas of the West - the film couple. Known as the 'love team' in the... -
Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era by Guerric DeBona
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In this exceptional contribution to literary adaptation studies, Guerric DeBona shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the... -
Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Dina Iordanova 9780851708478
SciFier: £40.99First study of cinema, media and the Balkan wars; Wide-ranging view of politics and culture of the region; The break-up of Yugoslavia triggered a truly international film-making project. Underground,... -
The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: £78.49The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of... -
Maria Lassnig - Film Works by Eszter Kondor
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.60Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. The leitmotif of her painting, the act of rendering her "body awareness"... -
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... -
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... -
International Politics and Film by Klaus Dodds (Editor, The Geographical Journal)
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.99International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of... -
Film's Musical Moments Ian Conrich 9780748623440
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £115.67The 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... -
Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice c. 1927-77 Heather Nicholson 9780719077739
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Amateur film: Meaning and practice 1927-77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of cliched family scenes shakily shot at home or by the... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9780748640720
SciFier: £93.01This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Ian Garwood provides a comprehensive account of existing work on film narration and offers an overview... -
Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand P. Limbrick 9780230102644
SciFier: £46.99Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and... -
Politics and Politicians in American Film by Phillip L. Gianos
SciFier: £36.99Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century-a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great... -
The Business of Film: A Practical Introduction Stephen R. Greenwald 9781032108742
SciFier: £44.43- Offers a practical introduction to business practices of the film industry from planning through production and distribution using graphics, charts, and sample financing scenarios, offering readers... -
Film Essays and a Lecture Sergei Eisenstein 9780691614359
SciFier: £35.33Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a... -
Refocus: the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad Maryam Ghorbankarimi 9781474477628
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Offers the first English language book on the films and the career of Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad Devotes specific attention to Banietemad's long career in documentary filmmaking, which... -
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... -
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film Sonja Fritzsche 9781800349087
SciFier: £38.95The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational... -
Literature and Film, Dispositioned by Alice Gavin
SciFier: £46.99Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the... -
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925 Luke McKernan 9780859892964
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £20.49Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world's first successful natural colour moving picture... -
Classic Chinese Animated Film and Ideology by Olga Bobrowska
SciFier: £58.18This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong's... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493833
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from... -
Korean Film and History Hyunseon Lee (SOAS University of London, UK) 9781032245034
SciFier: £40.26Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and... -
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 Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
Film It with Music by Thomas S. Hischak
SciFier: £68.49This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them. Film entries range from the legendary The Jazz Singer in 1927 to... -
Encyclopedia of Religion and Film by Eric Michael Mazur (Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, USA)
SciFier: £84.99Comprising 91 A-Z entries, this encyclopedia provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the topic of religion within film. Technology has enabled films to reach much wider audiences,... -
Film School Survival Guide: The Ultimate Manual for Student Filmmakers Kieron Evans 9781041003700
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Film School Survival Guide is a comprehensive and approachable resource designed to address common mistakes made by film students and provide straightforward, practical solutions.Drawing upon the... -
Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video Eric Hoyt 9780520282636
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries... -
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925 Luke McKernan 9780859898829
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world's first successful natural colour moving picture... -
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911 by Simon Brown
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory by Nick Jones
SciFier: £46.33"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
SciFier: £48.93This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H... -
Refocus: the Films of Kelly Reichardt E. Dawn Hall 9781474452243
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent... -
Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film Edward Lamberti 9781789389425
RRP: £109.95SciFier: £108.51Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release... -
Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Christian Metz 9780231173674
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the...