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Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399433
SciFier: €25.28Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375802
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination Andre Bazin 9780520375819
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €34.62Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More... -
Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €19.86This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director Andre Bazin, the... -
What Is Cinema? Volume I by Andre Bazin
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.10Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
Studying Film with Andre Bazin by Blandine Joret
SciFier: €57.58The impact of French film critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his... -
What Is Cinema? Volume II Andre Bazin 9780520242289
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.10Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
The Eye of the Cinematograph by Keyvan Manafi
SciFier: €104.23Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of... -
On the History of a Film Aesthetic Concept: Decoupage Guido Kirsten 9789048563227
RRP: €148.75SciFier: €132.53Unlike editing, decoupage does not take place after the film has been shot, but before. The French term refers to the breakdown of a scene into a sequence of shots. In order to translate the written... -
The Practical Critic: Andre Bazin on Film, 1945-1958 James R. Russo 9781680534627
RRP: €127.33SciFier: €98.76Andre Bazin (1918-58) was renowned for almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as for being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. In... -
The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology Ian Aitken 9781474425964
RRP: €30.93SciFier: €27.10From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs dominated realist film theory. In... -
Andre Bazin's Film Theory: Art, Science, Religion Angela Dalle Vacche 9780190067304
RRP: €41.64SciFier: €40.45Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, Andre Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human? For the famous French film critic, a human... -
Marcel Pagnol Brett Bowles 9780719073816
SciFier: €86.26Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, the first... -
Marcel Pagnol Brett Bowles 9781784992842
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €22.80Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era. This comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career, now... -
Eric Rohmer by Derek Schilling
SciFier: €27.36Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons... -
European Cinema Reader Catherine Fowler 9780415240925
SciFier: €49.78The European Cinema Reader is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of national cinemas in Europe, bringing together classic writings by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein,... -
Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology: Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer 9780253043979
RRP: €36.89SciFier: €29.62In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of... -
Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology: Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer 9780253043948
RRP: €98.77SciFier: €79.22In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of... -
What Cinema Is! by Dudley Andrew (Yale University, USA)
RRP: €34.45SciFier: €33.44What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by... -
Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian M. Keathley
RRP: €19.03SciFier: €15.74Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees is in part a history of cinephilia, in part an attempt to recapture the spirit of cinephilia for the discipline of film studies, and in part an... -
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 Richard Abel 9780691000626
RRP: €53.55SciFier: €36.72These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel... -
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2 by Richard Abel
SciFier: €53.74These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has... -
Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film Professor Lucia Nagib 9781780765112
SciFier: €36.05Andre Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinema impur: defense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or... -
Film and Phenomenology by Allan Casebier
SciFier: €23.85In Film and Phenomenology, Allan Casebier develops a theory of representation first indicated in the writings of the father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and then applies it to the case of... -
Kafkaesque Cinema Angelos Koutsourakis 9781474498975
RRP: €29.74SciFier: €26.11For all its familiarity as a widely used term, "Kafkaesque cinema" remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges' point that Kafka... -
Breathless by Dudley Andrew
RRP: €38.08SciFier: €29.74Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. It had a tremendous influence on French filmmakers and on... -
Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies
SciFier: €30.56Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not... -
Spaces by Ian Christie
SciFier: €132.53Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by Andre Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to... -
Post-War Cinema and Modernity John Orr 9780814762028
SciFier: €38.07Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Spaces: Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media Ian Christie 9781041186502
RRP: €54.73SciFier: €49.98Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by Andre Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to... -
Post War Cinema & Modernity John Orr 9780814762035
SciFier: €111.85Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Cahiers du Cinema by James R Russo
SciFier: €66.26Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
Orson Welles by Mark W. Estrin
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16This book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or... -
Cinema Approaching Reality by Victor Fan
RRP: €24.98SciFier: €23.60In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong... -
Postcards from the Cinema by Paul Grant
SciFier: €41.64Postcards from the Cinema is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short... -
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Dr Howard Finn
SciFier: €127.26Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly... -
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Dr Howard Finn (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
SciFier: €38.07Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly... -
Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era by Guerric DeBona
RRP: €24.98SciFier: €21.30In 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... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166560
SciFier: €112.23Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many... -
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein 9780231166577
RRP: €33.32SciFier: €27.83Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many...