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Brief Encounter Richard Dyer 9781844578771
SciFier: $15.21Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train... -
Brief and Not so Brief Encounters by Nick Sproxton
SciFier: $18.08Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068389702Author Nick SproxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint -
David Lean: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, USA) 9781350429321
SciFier: $33.53Did David Lean have a philosophy of filmmaking? David Lean: Filmmaker and Philosopher draws out the threads and themes of this widely celebrated and incredibly influential director who, despite his... -
David Lean: Filmmaker and Philosopher Professor Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, USA) 9781350429314
SciFier: $90.44Did David Lean have a philosophy of filmmaking? David Lean: Filmmaker and Philosopher draws out the threads and themes of this widely celebrated and incredibly influential director who, despite his... -
Noel Coward Screenplays: In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart Noel Coward 9781472568090
SciFier: $40.19This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays - In Which We Serve (1942), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). The collection features the shooting... -
How Stage Playwrights Saved the British Cinema, 1930-1956: The Well-Made Screenplay David Cottis (Middlesex University, UK) 9798765101100
SciFier: $41.53Examines the film careers and work of British playwrights who worked as screenwriters between 1930-1956.During the period between the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act and the 'new drama' of the 1950s,... -
The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino 9781529980837
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino's miniature masterpiece. A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then in a tavern. Having... -
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir Christopher Faulkner 9780691639024
SciFier: $113.89Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. ... -
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir Christopher Faulkner 9780691610986
SciFier: $55.60Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances. ... -
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, Vol. 13 (manga) by Fujino Omori
Yen PressRRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Loki Familia is under attack! Their brief encounter with Kali Familia in Port Meren was just the beginning. The Amazonians and their ruthless goddess have additional torment in store...Book... -
Paradises Lost Ursula K. Le Guin 9781529984804
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Ursula k. Le Guin's beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new, and unexpected course As the spaceship Discovery makes its slow way towards its destination -... -
The Invisible Girl Mary Shelley 9781529980844
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelley When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of a ruined... -
Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker 9781529981438
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Step into the night where tombs lie open and wolves prowl under a cursed moonA solitary traveller strays from the road on the eve of Walpurgis Night. Snow closes in, strange figures emerge, and an... -
Behind a Mask Louisa May Alcott 9781529981360
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65This is Alcott as you have never seen her before - gothic, and gloriously unsettlingA young governess arrives at a grand country house and quickly wins the confidence of its family. Humble and... -
The Book of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges 9781529986372
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65A dazzling catalogue of be creatures drawn from the dreamworlds of myth, folklore, and imaginationFrom ancient myths to obscure legends, a strange menagerie takes shape: creatures part real, part... -
The Parasite Arthur Conan Doyle 9781529985931
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Arthur Conan Doyle's tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and controlAfter Austin Gilroy's fiancee is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible - Miss... -
Monkey Business Kurt Vonnegut 9781529983913
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Four of Kurt Vonnegut's best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.In a future where everyone is... -
Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories) J G Ballard 9781529986068
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims.Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue is broken... -
Bewitched Edith Wharton 9781529985955
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65Edith Wharton's ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forgetIn an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort - until a presence makes itself felt. At a... -
The Fatal Eggs Mikhail Bulgakov 9781529981520
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare... After a plague wipes out all of Russia's chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery that promises to revive... -
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Tsuyoshi Fujitaka 9781975368470
Yen PressRRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68Having finally made it out of the tower, Yogiri and Tomochika are greeted with an apocalyptic scene-or at least, it would have been, if not for Yogiri accidentally killing the Dark God who'd been... -
Killer Shark in Another World Vol. 3 Kuboken 9798891605565
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34LEGALLY DISTINCT FROM THAT HOLLYWOOD PIRATE MOVIE FRANCHISEAfter a brief encounter with pirates on the high seas, Shiromi and her violent familiar, Sharkiller, embark on a brand new adventure in the... -
We Were Forbidden Jacqueline Harpman 9781529984583
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.65A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known MenIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever... -
David Lean by Kevin Brownlow
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $30.82In the course of his career, David Lean created some of the most unforgettable images in cinema history: the terrifying opening graveyard sequence in Great Expectations, the poignant railway... -
Studying the British Crime Film by Paul Elliott
SciFier: $51.87Ever 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... -
Crying at Movies by John Manderino
RRP: $21.37SciFier: $15.29When Hitchcock's ""The Birds"", began showing in the summer of 1963 at the Dolton Theater, the starlings of Riverside, Illinois launched their attacks. They were 'black, freckled, oily-looking... -
David Lean: Interviews Steven Organ 9781604732351
RRP: $42.21SciFier: $27.26Along with Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean (1908-1991) is one of the most significant British filmmakers to emerge from the first half of the twentieth century. His use of panoramic... -
British Film Design: A History Laurie N. Ede 9781848851085
SciFier: $36.17"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: Dr. No's Hideaway, the buffet of 'Brief Encounter', Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School.... -
English Filming, English Writing by Jefferson Hunter
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $16.70Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and... -
Seven by Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK)
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.21David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films... -
J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry Geoffrey Macnab 9780415117111
SciFier: $53.72Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra and... -
Guide to British Cinema Geoff Mayer 9780313303074
SciFier: $91.78Scholarly and popular interest in British cinema has never been stronger, with films ranging from the Merchant/Ivory pictures through Notting Hill finding both critical and commercial success in... -
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Doctor Who: The Doctor - His Lives and Times James Goss 9781849906364 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $3.62`I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. And I'm the man who's going to save your life.' He's made a mark on almost every era of... -
Queer Screen: A Screen Reader Jackie Stacey 9780415384315
SciFier: $52.78Queer Screen: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with new introductory... -
Prison of Sleep by Tim Pratt
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.84Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep, he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least he and Minna, the one companion who has found a way... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling Richard Dyer 9781844572106
SciFier: $45.55Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
The Essentials Vol. 2 by Jeremy Arnold
RRP: $29.48SciFier: $22.34A guide to 52 prime examples of must-see cinema, The Essentials Vol. 2. -- based on the Turner Classic Movies series -- is packed with behind-the-scenes stories, insightful commentary, moments to... -
The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film M. Boyce 9780230116894
SciFier: $62.97Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of... -
The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film M. Boyce 9781349297580
SciFier: $62.97Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of... -
London Lies by Cherry Potts
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72From the mean streets of Hackney to sleepy South London suburbs, from boho Bloomsbury to City wine bars, London Lies is a tour of the capital as you've never seen it before. Moving from 1930s Camden...