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Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
SciFier: £61.99Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured... -
Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek Nana Visitor 9798886633016
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £29.62The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt. Since... -
Twentieth Century Fox Frederick Wasser 9781138921269
SciFier: £37.66This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long... -
Reflections: On Cinematography Sir Roger Deakins 9781788406659
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £29.62From two-time Academy Award winner from 16 nominations, and five-time BAFTA award winner from 11 nominations, Sir Roger Deakins - widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time - a... -
Introduction to Film Studies Jill Nelmes 9780415582599
SciFier: £45.90Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies,... -
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution Harry C. Box 9781138391727
SciFier: £55.79A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It... -
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive Mark Garrett Cooper 9780367589530
SciFier: £41.13The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of... -
Susan Hayward: Her Films and Life Kim R. Holston 9780786443345
SciFier: £22.59This biography of Susan Hayward, one of Hollywood's leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s, covers her childhood, school years, early modeling career, and development as an actress. It also... -
ADR and Post-Sync Dialogue: What It Is and How It's Done R. J. Kizer 9781032414072
SciFier: £35.06Written by industry expert, R.J. Kizer, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of post-sync dialogue replacement, popularly known as ADR. It explores how this often overlooked,... -
The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch by Matt Zoller Seitz
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.38The official companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series The French Dispatch-the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes... -
Spider-Man: Animals Assemble! (A Mighty Marvel Team-Up) by Mike Maihack
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Spider-Man is the friendly neighborhood pet-sitter in this all new graphic novel for early readers-now in paperback When the Avengers are assembled to contain a super threat in New York City,... -
Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History Fred M. Grandinetti 9780786416059
SciFier: £47.99From comic strip hero to motion picture star, this is the history of E.C. Segar's character. This lavishly illustrated and revised edition is a thorough updating of the 1994 work.Book InformationISBN... -
My Life in the Movies by David Friedeman
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.69A work of the first still photographer to be E voted into the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, who also took the last cinematic images of Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee.Book InformationISBN... -
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.29An original novel based on the explosive TV series Star Trek: Discovery!Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding its way back home... -
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics Stephen Vaughn 9780521440806
SciFier: £86.35Ronald Reagan in Hollywood explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros. During the Depression, World... -
Flickering Shadows by J. M. Burns
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Every European power in Africa made motion pictures for its subjects, but no state invested as heavily in these films, and expected as much from them, as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia... -
Endgame by Carey
SciFier: £12.59For seven tumultuous years, the U.S.S. Voyager(t) has explored the Delta Quadrant, encountering strange alien civilizations and bizarre space-time anomalies as it steadfastly made its way back toward... -
The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist by Syd Mead
Titan BooksRRP: £34.99SciFier: £24.29Syd Mead is one of the most accomplished and widely respected artists alive today. The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead's visionary film work... -
William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays William Goldman 9781557832658
SciFier: £16.99EMarathon Man Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Princess Bride MiseryE. Author royalties donated to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.Book InformationISBN 9781557832658Author William... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures Dayton Ward 9781501171741
SciFier: £11.69An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote... -
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours by David Mack
SciFier: £12.09An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first... -
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself: Volume 3 James Swallow 9781501166594 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.49An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators...and a being who very intimately... -
Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques, and Workflows David Stump, ASC (Television Producer, Director and Editor; Consultant; Apple Certified Trainer, Oak Park, CA, USA) 9781138603868
SciFier: £74.73Today's successful cinematographer must be equal parts artist, technician, and business-person. The cinematographer needs to master the arts of lighting, composition, framing and other aesthetic... -
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself James Swallow 9781501166594
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators...and a being who very intimately... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781628462036
SciFier: £72.95In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours David Mack 9781501164576 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.88An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first... -
The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany Scott Curtis 9780231134026
SciFier: £109.58Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology... -
Nonfiction Film by Richard Barsam
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major... -
Andrew V. McLaglen by Stephen B. Armstrong
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of London-born director Andrew V. McLaglen. An opening biography considers the events and circumstances that contributed to his... -
Movie and Television Locations: 113 Famous Filming Sites in Los Angeles and San Diego Leon Smith 9780786440825
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world, and if a person lives there long enough their home or street will probably be featured in a film or... -
Five Conversations About Peter Sellers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £11.67Five Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781137032683
SciFier: £112.46Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany Thomas J. Saunders 9780520083547
SciFier: £57.78The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781349441204
SciFier: £111.37Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521016308
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £30.09Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
Living with Grace by Mary Mallory
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Poised, cultured, and unforgettable, Grace Kelly had the aura of a princess, even before she was crowned. She exuded grace, polish, flair, and serenity as a fashion icon, actor, and humanitarian... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521815635
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £83.63Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen by Lisa Pertillar Brevard
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21All at once, and without apology or shame, the name Whoopi Goldberg conjures images of laughter, sex, surprise, versatility, African heritage, and Jewish identity, to name a few. How did she become... -
The Hollywood Trust by Kia Afra
SciFier: £104.49As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the studio system. These producer-distributor trade...