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Understanding Cinema by Per Persson
SciFier: £92.70Understanding Cinema, first published in 2003, analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson argues that spectators perceive, think, apply... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521037150
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £45.54In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Film in Australia by Albert Moran (Griffith University, Queensland)
SciFier: £27.56Film in Australia is a groundbreaking book that systematically addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films. Adopting a genre approach, it gives a different take on Australian films... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521776028
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £26.59The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia Vera Dika 9780521815680
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £87.01The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives,... -
Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate Kamilla Elliott (University of California, Berkeley) 9780521818445
SciFier: £92.70The relationship between books and film has been one of the key topics of cinema studies. Much of this criticism, however, has been inherited from eighteenth-century debates on poetry and painting... -
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) 9780521829151
SciFier: £76.58Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest... -
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel Jan Baetens 9781316622209
SciFier: £31.79The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and... -
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950 Ian Jarvie 9780521041430
SciFier: £46.99A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain in the period 1920-1950, this book shows how well-organised and effective the American... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) 9781107450608
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.54The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical... -
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism Kenneth H. Marcus (University of la Verne, California) 9781107064997
SciFier: £106.91Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. In this book Kenneth H. Marcus shows that in fact Schoenberg's connections to Hollywood ran deep, and most of the... -
The Films of Orson Welles Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) 9780521649728
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.12This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted... -
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism by Steven Alan Carr (Purdue University, Indiana)
SciFier: £29.39This book examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry, from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521596978
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.64Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Science Fiction Film J. P. Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780521593724
RRP: £74.99SciFier: £70.92Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as... -
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Stephen Prince (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
SciFier: £15.99Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing,... -
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost Michael Brashinsky 9780521087674
SciFier: £30.99Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost gathers together twenty-three essays written by some of Russia's most astute commentators of film and culture. Written during the 1980s and published in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) 9781107094512
SciFier: £46.69This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film... -
Jataka Tales by H. T. Francis
SciFier: £38.89Originally published in 1916, this book presents a selection from the Jatakas translated into English. The selection was made 'with the purpose of bringing together the Jataka stories of most... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9781108057080
SciFier: £40.19Since it was first published in 1897, this infamous Gothic horror novel, which brought its author international acclaim, has spawned a global following, inspiring hundreds of films and setting the... -
Jane Campion's The Piano Jane Campion 9780521597210
SciFier: £16.69Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521592956
SciFier: £52.59Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Another Frank Capra by Leland Poague (Iowa State University)
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.49Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great Hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic... -
The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity Darius Cooper (San Diego Mesa College) 9780521629805
SciFier: £20.04Satyajit Ray is India's greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) 9781107086197
SciFier: £76.58The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9780521856850
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.54This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946 Paul Swann (Temple University, Philadelphia) 9780521334792
SciFier: £110.15The most important and internationally influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. Paul Swann's study is a political and... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window John Belton (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 9780521564236
SciFier: £76.58Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging piece of entertainment as well as a fascinating... -
The Ancient World in Silent Cinema Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol) 9781107016101
RRP: £114.00SciFier: £106.91In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have... -
Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham) 9780521815475
RRP: £64.00SciFier: £60.49Shakespeare Films in the Making examines the production and reception of five feature-length Shakespeare films from the twentieth century, focusing on the ways in which they articulate visions of... -
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (University of Minnesota) 9781107485464
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.89The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comics Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) 9781009255691
SciFier: £23.24The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume... -
Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia) 9781107619746
SciFier: £31.79Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no... -
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) 9780521536042
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.54Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest... -
Class, Language, and American Film Comedy Christopher Beach (University of California, Irvine) 9780521002097
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £37.89This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521042666
SciFier: £55.99The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521651561
SciFier: £106.31The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521772358
SciFier: £77.28The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521810920
SciFier: £76.58In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
Film Structure and the Emotion System Greg M. Smith (Georgia State University) 9780521817585
SciFier: £92.00Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film...