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Studying the British Crime Film by Paul Elliott
SciFier: £36.04Ever 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: £27.10The 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... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: £27.10Wong 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... -
Studying Videogames Julian McDougall 9781903663851
SciFier: £91.78Studying 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... -
Studying German Cinema Maggie Hoffgen 9781906733018
SciFier: £91.78Adopting 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... -
Studying Early and Silent Cinema Keith Withall 9781906733704
SciFier: £91.57In 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... -
The Blair Witch Project by Peter Turner
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Few 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... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes
SciFier: £27.10Talk 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... -
Sitcom: Classroom Resources: A Teacher's Guide Julie Patrick 9781903663769
SciFier: £36.03Experienced 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... -
Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733674
SciFier: £36.04This 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: The 1960s Danny Powell 9781903663882
SciFier: £31.14Aimed 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
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05Witchfinder 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... -
Brainstorm Joseph Maddrey 9781916084223
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The 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 British Cinema: 1990s Eddie Dyja 9781906733032
SciFier: £93.18The 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... -
SAW by Ben Poole
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £13.00Like 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... -
Studying French Cinema by Isabelle Vanderschelden
SciFier: £31.14Taking 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... -
Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733681
SciFier: £92.27This 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... -
Ex Machina Joshua Grimm 9781916084209
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Ex 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: 1999-2009 John Fitzgerald 9781906733124
SciFier: £92.48Studying 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... -
The Thing by Jez Conolly
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Consigned 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... -
12 Monkeys by Susanne Kord
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £16.05Terry 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... -
The Silence of the Lambs by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The 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,... -
Stalker Jon Hoel 9781999334086
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Few 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... -
Archwilio'r Cyfryngau: Testun, Diwydiant, Cynulleidfa Barbara Connell 9781906733391
SciFier: £25.28Featuring 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: £27.10The 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... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The 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... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £27.08Fight 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... -
The Descent by James Marriott
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers... -
Jurassic Park Paul Bullock 9781999334048
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.88Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of... -
Ju-On: The Grudge by Marisa Hayes
SciFier: £16.75Takashi 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: £25.28The 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... -
Black Sunday Martyn Conterio 9781906733834
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Despite 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... -
Studying German Cinema Maggie Hoffgen 9781906733001
SciFier: £31.14Adopting 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... -
Studying Pan's Labyrinth by Tanya Jones
SciFier: £27.10Pan'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... -
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by James Rose
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76No-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
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Brian 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 Early and Silent Cinema Keith Withall 9781906733698
SciFier: £31.14In 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 The Lord of the Rings Anna Dawson 9781906733827
SciFier: £28.40Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
Studying Videogames Julian McDougall 9781903663844
SciFier: £31.14Studying 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... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray
SciFier: £34.05Rona 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...