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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... -
Fields of Vision by Leslie Devereaux
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.01Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, "Fields of... -
Tunes for 'Toons by Daniel Goldmark
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £19.73In this first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520241527
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.49Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been... -
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp 9780520284463
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Among early Hollywood's most renowned film makers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has... -
Echo and Narcissus by Amy Lawrence
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In "Echo and Narcissus", Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a... -
A Certain Realism by Maurizio Viano
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.49Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films--Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Salo--continue to challenge and entertain new... -
Screen Writings: Texts and Scripts from Independent Films Scott MacDonald 9780520080256
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49'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... -
The Wages of Sin by Lea Jacobs
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.62The story of the fallen woman was a staple of film melodrama in the late 1920s and 1930s. In traditional plots, a woman commits a sexual transgression, usually adultery. She becomes an outcast, often... -
Invisible Storytellers by Sarah Kozloff
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £31.78"Let me tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice--an off-screen narrator--for all or part of the story. From... -
Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520237117
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
How the West Was Sung by Kathryn M. Kalinak
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49James Stewart once said, "For John Ford, there was no need for dialogue. The music said it all." This lively, accessible study is the first comprehensive analysis of Ford's use of music in his iconic... -
Uncanny Bodies by Robert Spadoni
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In 1931 Universal Pictures released "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition... -
Vocal Tracks by Jacob Smith
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively... -
Beautiful Monsters by Michael Long
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Beautiful Monsters" explores the ways in which 'classical' music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274143
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93What 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,... -
Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960 Charles Tepperman 9780520279858
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.08From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and... -
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 by Alfred Hitchcock
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.09Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307797
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520276741
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.68Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers Scott MacDonald 9780520079182
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £26.39This sequel to "A Critical Cinema" offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated... -
A Critical Cinema 1 by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.99It is widely understood that writing can discuss writing, but we rarely consider that film can be used as a means of analyzing conventions of the commercial film industry, or of theorizing about... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology Scott MacKenzie 9780520377479
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £31.90Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen Samantha N. Sheppard 9780520307773
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on... -
Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted... -
Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and... -
Great Directors at Work by David Richard Jones
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.62The subject of this book is theatre directing in four internationally famous instances. The four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook-all were monarchs of... -
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Noah Isenberg 9780520235779
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the... -
Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust Janet Walker 9780520241756
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage,... -
A Critical Cinema 4 by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.69A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.99"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... -
The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance Jacob Smith 9780520270886
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Well 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... -
Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood Hilary Hallett 9780520274099
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In 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... -
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema Daniel Morgan 9780520273337
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93With "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... -
Painting With Light by John Alton
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.55Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics "T-Men", "He Walked by Night", and "The Big Combo",...