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Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
Letter from an Unknown Woman by James Naremore (Indiana University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many... -
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo) by D. A. Miller (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed... -
Lost in Translation by Professor Suzanne Ferriss
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an... -
Rebecca by Patricia White (Swarthmore College, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia White takes the... -
The Empire Strikes Back by Rebecca Harrison (Open University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on... -
Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music Neil Fox (Falmouth University, UK) 9781839023439
SciFier: £29.90In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media Smith Mehta (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 9781839025709
SciFier: £90.41New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of... -
Kes by David Forrest (University of Sheffield, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling... -
Action Cinema Since 2000 Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781839022784
SciFier: £92.05Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century... -
Chinatown by Michael Eaton
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson stars as J. J... -
In the Mood for Love Tony Rayns 9781839028281
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.99Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are... -
Supply Chain Cinema by Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow, UK)
SciFier: £30.99Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of such films exemplify the principles of the supply... -
Film, In Theory by Colm McAuliffe (Kingston University, UK)
SciFier: £84.06Film, in Theory tells the story of Paddy Whannel and Peter Wollen's revolutionary work at the BFI's Education Department and how this led to the establishment of film studies, theory and education in... -
Filmmakers on Film: Global Perspectives Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) 9781839024863
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.59This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory.It brings together primary sources by filmmakers... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis (City University of New York, USA.) 9781839026195
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.73Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1927's silent The... -
Beau Travail Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781839027130
SciFier: £11.71Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within... -
L'Age d'or by Paul Hammond (writer, painter, translator, Barcelona, Spain)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Age d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surrealist masterpiece - a uniquely savage blend of... -
Silent Cinema: A Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship Paolo Cherchi Usai (George Eastman Museum, Rochester, USA) 9781844575282
SciFier: £39.66Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces... -
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Often hailed as the 'best' James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963) is celebrated for its direction by Terence Young, memorable performances from Sean Connery in his second outing as 007, Pedro... -
The Searchers by Edward Buscombe (film critic, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished... -
The Godfather by Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and... -
The Chinese Cinema Book Song Hwee Lim (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9781911239536
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £12.11This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese... -
The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media Smith Mehta (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 9781839025716
SciFier: £30.29New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of... -
Madchen in Uniform by Barbara Mennel
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play,... -
Xala by James S. Williams (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a... -
The Thing by Anne Billson (writer, photographer, and film critic, Belgium)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.47An extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which... -
Action Cinema Since 2000 Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781839022777
SciFier: £30.99Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century... -
Jaws Antonia Quirke 9781839023637
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.99This study of Jaws (1975) examines how Steven Spielberg's breakout film not only redefined the thriller but also pioneered the summer blockbuster, cementing his reputation as a master filmmaker... -
Rebel Without a Cause Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781839027765
SciFier: £11.71Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean),... -
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain John Wyver (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781839028205
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £24.74Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive... -
Odeon Cinemas: v. 2: From J. Arthur Rank to the Multiplex Allen Eyles 9781844570485
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.36The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K... -
Character is Structure: The Insider's Guide to Screenwriting Ted Wilkes 9781839024818
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.70This book seeks to reshape the way that writers think about constructing their story, looking at the subject from the inside out. Often practitioners and theorists examine work through the separate... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023217
SciFier: £28.83The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and... -
The Lives of Others by Annie Ring (University of Cambridge, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil... -
The Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir (The Cooper Union, New York, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy... -
We Have Some Notes...: The Insider's Guide to Notes, Script Editing and Development Venetia Hawkes (The National Film & Television School, UK.) 9781839025501
SciFier: £73.84From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical... -
Cure by Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into... -
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) by Laura Cottingham (art critic, New York, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much...