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Chris Marker: Immemory by Chris Marker
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.28The legendary French filmmaker's labyrinthine memoir, first published by Exact Change in 2002 as a CD-ROM, now reconfigured into book form after a laborious process initiated by the artist before his... -
Chris Marker by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £22.99Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He... -
Staring Back by Chris Marker
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £22.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262083652Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Le Depays by Chris Marker
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £32.19This is the first English language edition of Chris Marker's 1982 photo-essay, Le Depays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Marker's own translation astride some of his most... -
La Jetee by Chris Marker
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £33.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299663Author Chris MarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksSeries... -
Chris Marker Nora M. Alter 9780252030734
SciFier: £107.06The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
Chris Marker Nora M. Alter 9780252073168
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399433
SciFier: £20.35Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
Andre Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore Andre Bazin 9780520399426
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £74.10Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two... -
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University) 9781138107847
SciFier: £47.30The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere... -
Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present Abigail Susik (Willamette University, USA) 9781350475915
SciFier: £107.21From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences... -
Death and the Aesthetic Sublime: The Enigma of Time in La Jetee Jung Kwon 9781666933505
SciFier: £72.99Employing the modern aesthetics of Burke and Kant, as well as Lyotard's postmodern interpretation, this book delineates the elements of sublime experience through exploring the enigmatic cinematic... -
Selfless Cinema? by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £85.13In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms,... -
La Jetee by Chris Darke (University of Roehampton, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415669
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.34Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a... -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s Julia Alekseyeva 9780520415676
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a... -
The Art of Subtraction by Bruno Lessard
RRP: £51.00SciFier: £40.86The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray 9780816634026
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
World Film Locations: Tokyo Chris MaGee 9781841504834
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world's most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films... -
Cinema: Concept & Practice Edward Dmytryk 9781138584273
SciFier: £38.53In this unique study of the process of filmmaking, director Edward Dmytryk blends abstract film theory and the practical realities of feature film production to provide an artful and elegant analysis... -
Uncanny Perspectives in Literature and Culture by Gabriele Biotti
SciFier: £134.49This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the literary field, in the media context, and in film... -
Haunting the Left Bank by Fiona Handyside
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.49"A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker." (Steven... -
Say What Happened by Nick Fraser (Freelance)
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.55Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really change the world? Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £65.87Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
New Documentary Stella Bruzzi 9780415385244
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £34.95Praise for New Documentary:'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight and... -
The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film Domietta Torlasco 9780816681105
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that... -
New Documentary Stella Bruzzi 9780415385251
SciFier: £139.36Praise for New Documentary:'It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television. It heralds a welcome new approach.' Sight and... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora M. Alter 9780231178204
SciFier: £107.63Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374667
RRP: £69.00SciFier: £57.99Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
The Cinematic Footprint by Nadia Bozak
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £25.49Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today's "green" movies are ecologically unsustainable production,... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374674
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £24.99Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
Post-classical Hollywood by Barry Langford
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215497
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215503
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred...