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The Story of British Animation Jez Stewart (British Film Institute, UK) 9781911239659
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.01A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings... -
Star Wars by Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.70The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's... -
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... -
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Often 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 Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as 'one of the great classics of world cinema' (Adrian Martin), and 'one of the five or six greatest melodramas in... -
The Chinese Cinema Book Song Hwee Lim (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9781911239536
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £13.29This 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 Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Endlessly 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 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... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University London Program, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.40Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
The Parallax View Mark Campbell (Royal College of Art, UK) 9781839026300
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.59Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy... -
Some Like It Hot by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
SciFier: £11.35Richard Schickel study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition Andrew Osmond (Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK) 9781839024429
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.5920 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239574
SciFier: £31.38The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey 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... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition James Naremore 9781839023996
SciFier: £32.46In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to... -
Filmmakers on Film by Andre Rui Graca (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
SciFier: £102.13This 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... -
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its... -
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... -
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... -
The Thing by Anne Billson (writer, photographer, and film critic, Belgium)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.45An 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... -
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... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall Chelsea McCracken (, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA.) 9781839025075
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.85100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that... -
Jaws Antonia Quirke 9781839023637
SciFier: £11.23This 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: £11.35Nicholas 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),... -
The Story of British Video Activism Ed Webb-Ingall (Independent scholar and filmmaker, UK) 9781839022234
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.55Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI archive and the London Community Video Archive, The Story of Video Activism Before the Internet is the first authoritative account of the history... -
if.... Mark Sinker 9781839029929
SciFier: £11.71In his compelling study of if.... (1968), which stars Malcolm McDowell as an English public school student who leads a guerrilla insurgence, Mark Sinker traces director Lindsay Anderson's depiction... -
Touki Bouki Rosalind Galt (King's College London, UK) 9781839029004
SciFier: £11.35Djibril Diop Mambety's exuberant, inventive and urgent film Touki Bouki (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Myriam Niang), who dream of leaving their home in Dakar, Senegal... -
A Hard Day's Night Samira Ahmed 9781839029394
SciFier: £11.35How did a film made to capture a pop phenomenon become an enduring cinematic classic?With warmth, wit and precision, Samira Ahmed reveals how the Beatles' first film changed both the band themselves... -
The Enchanting Kinora: Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781839026935
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.09Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a... -
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... -
Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.64The 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... -
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson (Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University, Long Island University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the ... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen by Oliver Fuke
SciFier: £30.29This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen by Oliver Fuke (Independent researcher, UK)
SciFier: £90.41This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for... -
John Akomfrah Dr James Harvey (University of Hertfordshire, UK.) 9781839023224
SciFier: £84.76The 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... -
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson (late writer, broadcaster and film-maker)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time... -
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study...