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Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 Colin Gunckel 9781978801240
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but... -
Screening the Art World Temenuga Trifonova 9781041185826
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather... -
Phenomenology of Film by Shawn Loht
SciFier: £92.99Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples... -
The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman
SciFier: £52.99The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history... -
The Mouse Machine by J P. Telotte
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: £42.70While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s,... -
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media K. Marciniak 9780230338142
SciFier: £46.99This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art,... -
The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology J P. Telotte 9780252075407
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven... -
Two Bicycles by Jerry White
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £29.00Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted... -
European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe D. Berghahn 9780230278981
SciFier: £50.11This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion... -
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University, USA) 9781032251363
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue... -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)... -
Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film Vinzenz Hediger 9781041179436
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the... -
Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader Steve Neale 9781905816583
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £90.99This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the... -
Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood Mark Garrett Cooper 9780252077005
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these... -
A Companion to Federico Fellini by Frank Burke (Queens University)
RRP: £78.95SciFier: £74.87A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new... -
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality Juan A. Suarez (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Murcia) 9780197566992
SciFier: £70.24Often described as an art of abstraction and subjective introspection, experimental film is also invested in exploring daily objects and materials and in channeling, in the process, a peculiar... -
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads Dr Daniel Stein 9781472587589
SciFier: £40.99This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social,... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178211
SciFier: £29.76Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Contesting Identities by Aaron Baker
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Analysis of race, class and gender in American sports films Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacle of sports and their compelling... -
New Zealand Cinema by Alistair Fox
SciFier: £25.14New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features... -
Provenance and Early Cinema Joanne Bernardi 9780253052995
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £28.20Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474410892
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological... -
Below the Stars by Kate Fortmueller
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Longlisted for the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and... -
Fade In, Crossroads: A History of the Southern Cinema Robert Jackson 9780190660185
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £35.99Fade In, Crossroads is a history of the relations between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era to midcentury. Examining the ways in which the South contributed to the development of... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture Hilary Radner 9780415877749
SciFier: £42.00What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner's Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and... -
Selling Science Fiction Cinema by J. P. Telotte
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition,... -
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door H. G. Parry 9780356520322
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'By turns wondrous, haunting and mysterious, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door . . . is historical fantasy at its finest" Olivia Atwater, author of Half a SoulAll they needed to break the world... -
Southeast Asia on Screen by Gaik Cheng Khoo
SciFier: £116.64After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories... -
Blake Edwards by William Luhr (St. Peter's College)
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £22.49BLAKE EDWARDS Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink... -
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film Michelle H. Raheja 9780803211261
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £34.45In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous... -
Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen Professor Doru Pop 9781501366253
SciFier: £96.69This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking... -
Video Culture in India by Ishita Tiwary (Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal)
SciFier: £82.11Media plays a significant role in reshaping, restructuring, and recalibrating the existing understandings of society and politics, giving birth to new cultural forms. Video, as a medium, captures not... -
Watch this Space by Howard Griffin
RRP: £99.95SciFier: £90.35This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary between spatial design disciplines, such as... -
A Century in 16mm: The Remaking of Cinema Gregory A. Waller (Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University) 9780197687178
SciFier: £34.16When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies... -
A Century in 16mm: The Remaking of Cinema Gregory A. Waller (Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Provost Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University) 9780197687161
SciFier: £114.58When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies... -
Rebecca by Patricia White (Swarthmore College, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia White takes the... -
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by James S. Williams
SciFier: £42.00This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives... -
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art Margot Bouman (The New School, New York, USA) 9781350114562
SciFier: £96.63In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning...