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Blurred Boundaries by Bill Nichols
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film,... -
Cinema's Alchemist by Bill Nichols
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Peter Forgacs, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical... -
Camelot Forever Lancelot's Redemption by Bill Nichols
RRP: £10.17SciFier: £9.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888429411Author Bill NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Blue Line ArtsPublisher Blue Line... -
Movies and Methods, Volume 2 by Bill Nichols
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £32.49The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and... -
Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition Bill Nichols 9780253026859
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a... -
Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition Bill Nichols 9780253026347
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.61The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a... -
Movies and Methods, Volume 1 Bill Nichols 9780520031517
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £28.90Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to... -
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Bill Nichols
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an... -
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780253206817
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01". . . a valuable and important book . . ." -The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryRepresenting Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice... -
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780520290396
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries... -
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary Bill Nichols 9780520290402
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries... -
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) 9780253070159
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize... -
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) 9780253070142
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £40.78The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize... -
Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars Jane M. Gaines 9780822312994
SciFier: £32.19Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm-the concept of classical Hollywood cinema-that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by... -
Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976-2020 Dennis Tupicoff 9781032042206
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £48.06Explores death as a narrative theme within cinema and animation Biographical insight into Dennis Tupicoff's works and how the subject of death impacted these completed award-winning films Special... -
Post War Cinema & Modernity John Orr 9780814762035
SciFier: £93.99Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Post-War Cinema and Modernity John Orr 9780814762028
SciFier: £31.99Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976-2020 Dennis Tupicoff 9781032058870
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.62Death-the very word is resonant with emotion, imagery, and meaning. It is the ultimate life-event that all living things will eventually experience; as such, it comes as no surprise that death is... -
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media Angela J. Aguayo (Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Southern Ililinois University) 9780190676216
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £83.49Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections... -
Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker David James 9781592132720
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.75Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements, and reminiscences about the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four... -
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media Angela J. Aguayo (Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Southern Ililinois University) 9780190676223
SciFier: £23.99Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections... -
The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama Scott MacDonald (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History, Hamilton College) 9780190052133
SciFier: £46.91The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between... -
Write What You Don't Know by Julian Hoxter
SciFier: £28.99Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not?... -
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control Sarah Keller 9780231162203
SciFier: £94.31Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau... -
Third Digital Documentary by Anita Wen-Shin Chang
RRP: £59.40SciFier: £53.99This book offers a theory and methodology of transmedia arts activism within the technocultural and sociopolitical landscape of expanded documentary production, distribution, reception and... -
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema Ivone Margulies 9780190496838
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £21.49In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person... -
Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary Jonathan Kahana 9780231142076
SciFier: £30.59Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana... -
The Extraordinary Image by Robert P. Kolker
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.12Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and... -
Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music Sheila Curran Bernard (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) 9781138915039
SciFier: £36.79Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of... -
Introduction to Film Studies Jill Nelmes 9780415582599
SciFier: £45.90Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies,...