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Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733681
SciFier: $135.40This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: $41.39Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
Brainstorm Joseph Maddrey 9781916084223
SciFier: $31.96The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with... -
Studying Videogames Julian McDougall 9781903663851
SciFier: $134.43Studying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced level/undergraduate students it covers a broad range of games, industry contexts, and... -
Stalker Jon Hoel 9781999334086
SciFier: $33.90Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
Black Sunday Martyn Conterio 9781906733834
SciFier: $33.90Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to... -
The Curse of Frankenstein by Marcus Harmes
SciFier: $33.90Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder
SciFier: $33.90The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Candyman by Jon Towlson
SciFier: $25.97When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was "scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore." Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s... -
Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733674
SciFier: $53.81This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
Studying British Cinema: 1999-2009 John Fitzgerald 9781906733124
SciFier: $134.43Studying British Cinema: 1999-2009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the institutional and financial factors that influence U.K... -
12 Monkeys by Susanne Kord
SciFier: $25.97Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) was a commercial and critical success, but it is Gilliam's least understood film, even on the basic plot level. Aside from recognizable debts to specific films such... -
Studying German Cinema Maggie Hoffgen 9781906733018
SciFier: $134.43Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an interest in German cinema. Each of the fourteen chapters... -
SAW by Ben Poole
SciFier: $25.97Like all game changers within the horror genre, SAW was an independent success, a low-budget champion that flourished without the patronage of a big studio. Not bad for the most successful horror... -
Sitcom: Classroom Resources: A Teacher's Guide Julie Patrick 9781903663769
SciFier: $53.79Experienced teacher and INSET deliverer Julie Patrick explores the various contexts of the sticom genre to provide teachers with tangible pedagogic material for the classroom.Book InformationISBN... -
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Studying Tsotsi Judith Gunn 9781906733087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $4.14Tsotsi (2005) is a life-affirming, if raw, coming-of-age story that boldly confronts the legacy of Apartheid and Africa's present struggle to overcome poverty and crime. A small film about a... -
The Thing by Jez Conolly
SciFier: $33.90Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes
SciFier: $41.39Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been... -
Studying the British Crime Film by Paul Elliott
SciFier: $53.81Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain, the Hepworth's 1905 short Rescued by Rover, was a... -
Studying Disaster Movies by John Sanders
SciFier: $41.39The disaster film taps into our fear of events beyond our control, ones that are often rooted in real-life experience, making the genre a particularly potent mixture of entertainment and grounded... -
Ex Machina Joshua Grimm 9781916084209
SciFier: $33.90Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial... -
Studying British Cinema: The 1960s Danny Powell 9781903663882
SciFier: $78.72Aimed explicitly at students and teachers coming to British cinema for the first time, the Studying British Cinema series considers key texts from the decade under discussion and accessibly considers... -
Witchfinder General by Ian Cooper
SciFier: $25.97Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes... -
Studying British Cinema: 1990s Eddie Dyja 9781906733032
SciFier: $135.40The 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of British films bounced back from the dark days of the early 1980s, in which cinema... -
The Silence of the Lambs by Barry Forshaw
SciFier: $33.90The 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, based on Thomas Harris's bestseller, was a game-changer in the fields of both horror and crime cinema. FBI trainee Clarice Starling was a new kind of heroine,... -
Studying Early and Silent Cinema Keith Withall 9781906733704
SciFier: $134.43In this accessible introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, Keith Withall provides... -
Studying French Cinema by Isabelle Vanderschelden
SciFier: $47.00Taking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of French, Film Studies, and the general reader with... -
The Blair Witch Project by Peter Turner
SciFier: $33.90Few films have had the influence and impact of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern intertextuality, a bare... -
Archwilio'r Cyfryngau: Testun, Diwydiant, Cynulleidfa Barbara Connell 9781906733391
SciFier: $40.16Featuring the input of highly experienced teachers and examiners in Media Studies, this exciting new textbook explores key concepts and develops students' analytical, research and production... -
Studying The Usual Suspects by Judith Gunn
SciFier: $41.39The story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not only the film itself, but the tale of its creation a tale worth telling. Inspired by a magazine headline, it... -
Studying TV Drama Michael Massey 9781906733049
SciFier: $47.00Graduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower level students lack resources that focus specifically on TV drama. With this genre now... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $8.31Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of... -
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by James Rose
SciFier: $33.90No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained... -
Carrie by Neil Mitchell
SciFier: $33.90Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s "New Hollywood" style and a horror classic. The story of a teenage social outcast who... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: $41.39Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray
SciFier: $51.05Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
Ju-On: The Grudge by Marisa Hayes
SciFier: $26.94Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on franchise was a principal instigator in the rise of contemporary Japanese horror and its international popularity at the turn of the millennium. Following the success of Hideo... -
Splice: Volume 6, Issue 3 by John Atkinson
SciFier: $40.16The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star Tom Hardy and director Nicolas Winding Refn, features two... -
Studying Pan's Labyrinth by Tanya Jones
SciFier: $41.39Pan's Labyrinth (2006) is a film of extraordinary technical achievement and intense emotional impact, garnering acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. Such a rich cinematic text demands close... -
Studying The Bourne Ultimatum by Neil Archer
SciFier: $41.39At the time of its release in 2007, The Bourne Ultimatum was described by one writer as the blockbuster it was 'okay to like'. What is it about this third entry in a Hollywood action franchise that...