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Vertigo by Charles Barr (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €13.51Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions... -
British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Barr
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.52Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial -... -
British Stars and Stardom by Bruce Babington
SciFier: €27.36Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up to the... -
Thorold Dickinson by Philip Horne
RRP: €107.10SciFier: €80.36The films of Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), now being rediscovered, engage with major issues including national identity, the post-colonial world, and political violence - and they also show a rare... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9780719095863
RRP: €107.10SciFier: €80.36This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9781526139528
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €27.36This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea I. MacDonald 9780230392281
SciFier: €55.92A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new... -
Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea I. MacDonald 9781349351916
SciFier: €55.92A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new... -
Hitchcock and the Spy Film Prof James Chapman 9781780768441
SciFier: €62.69Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of... -
The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film M. Boyce 9781349297580
SciFier: €55.92Many 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... -
Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor
SciFier: €26.76The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The... -
The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film M. Boyce 9780230116894
SciFier: €55.92Many 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 Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama Bruce Babington 9780861967360
RRP: €39.27SciFier: €33.47The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master; John M Stahl (1886-1950) has been stuck in it for far too long. His... -
David Lean by Melanie Williams
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €91.62'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.' One of the best known and most admired of British film makers,... -
The British Cinema Book Robert Murphy 9781844572755
SciFier: €50.55The new edition of The British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to the major periods, genres, studios, film-makers and debates in British... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony Richard Allen 9780231135757
RRP: €33.32SciFier: €29.67Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony Richard Allen 9780231135740
SciFier: €113.06Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen...