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The Story of British Animation Jez Stewart (British Film Institute, UK) 9781911239659
RRP: $52.98SciFier: $50.90A 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: $27.54SciFier: $23.96The 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: $42.38SciFier: $41.76This 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: $61.12The 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Often 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Ritwik 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: $72.06SciFier: $28.17This 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.06Endlessly 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: $64.21New 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Amy 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Alan 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.06Billy 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: $24.83Richard 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 Bible Films Matthew Page (Independent scholar, UK) 9781839023538
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $124.57"Exhaustively researched." Total Film From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the... -
100 Bible Films Matthew Page (Independent scholar, UK) 9781839023521
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $37.29From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239581
SciFier: $203.37The 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... -
Letter from an Unknown Woman by James Naremore (Indiana University, USA)
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83James 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... -
Dark Matter by Michael Winterbottom (film director, UK)
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $35.72A Sight & Sound Book of the Year "Eye-opening and addictively readable." Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's... -
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo) by D. A. Miller (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Federico 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: $27.54SciFier: $23.93Sofia 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... -
Cinema Memories: A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain Melvyn Stokes (University College London, UK) 9781839025297
SciFier: $71.10Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and... -
Supply Chain Cinema by Kay Dickinson (Concordia University, Canada)
SciFier: $215.03Why 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... -
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. ... -
The Terminator Sean French 9781839022128
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Made on a low budget, The Terminator was one of the most influential films of the 1980s. Combining explosive special effects and an intricate time-travel plot, it set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the... -
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey, Film historian and screenwriter, UK (film historian and screenwriter, UK)
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.57George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the... -
Porridge by Richard Weight (writer and broadcaster, London, UK)
SciFier: $46.26'Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.' Those words, spoken by a judge to the show's hero in the title sequence... -
Sunrise by Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.06Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love... -
The Enchanting Kinora: Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781839026898
SciFier: $204.86Marketed 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... -
Chinatown by Michael Eaton
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Directed 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... -
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) by Jon Hughes
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.83Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930) is now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema, which... -
100 Cult Films: The Sequel Ernest Mathijs 9781839023033
SciFier: $108.73In this follow up to their 100 Cult Films, Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik provide a guide to one hundred more incredible films from the history and present of cult cinema around the world, from the... -
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge Anupama Chopra (Film Companion, India) 9781839028328
SciFier: $24.83Aditya Chopra's 1995 romantic drama, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, follows the journey of Raj and Simran, who fall in love on a trip to Europe but must fight societal expectations as Simran is... -
Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems and Strategies Simon Payne (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9781839026478
SciFier: $212.93Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed in works spanning the late 1960s to the present, often in response to the... -
Beau Travail Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781839027130
SciFier: $24.83Beau 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... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition Andrew Osmond (Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK) 9781839024429
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $37.2920 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: $66.53The 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: $84.08Paolo 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: $68.82In 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: $216.52This 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: $27.54SciFier: $24.06Billy 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...