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Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 Robert Murphy 9780415076845
SciFier: $71.18Looks at popular rather than art films - the films people wanted to see - contemporary cultural approachAuthor has contributed to Screen, Sight and Sound, Time Out and several books on cinema... -
Cinema, Literature & Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain Peter Miles 9781138970748
SciFier: $82.65During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Zhen Zhang 9780822340744
SciFier: $49.86Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Zhen Zhang 9780822340539
RRP: $187.11SciFier: $163.58Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban... -
Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK) 9781860642883
SciFier: $57.25The new, revised and expanded paperback edition of this widely-used textbook for film history brings up to date its authors' demonstration of how a close study of films in their historical and... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $44.47Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526163424
RRP: $153.09SciFier: $145.51Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972 James C Robertson 9780415090346
SciFier: $71.18How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence on British film history than is often... -
The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK) 9781350194960
SciFier: $66.13The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our... -
Cinema and the Great War Andrew Kelly 9780415514828
SciFier: $82.65Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of... -
Banned in the U.S.A. by Anthony Slide
SciFier: $196.54Making use of the recently-opened files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960. Film by film, it... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: $82.65This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the... -
The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK) 9781860646270
SciFier: $51.01This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of... -
The British Working Class in Postwar Film by Philip Gillett
SciFier: $43.45An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model, The British working class in postwar film looks at how working-class... -
George A. Romero by Tony Williams
RRP: $59.54SciFier: $36.78George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After recently relocating to Canada, he shows no signs of slowing up:... -
The Euro-Western by Dr Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK)
SciFier: $66.13The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes in American society and Hollywood innovations... -
Spaghetti Westerns by Christopher Frayling
SciFier: $56.68"Christopher Frayling's Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti... -
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir Mike Chopra-Gant 9781850438380
SciFier: $54.79This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge... -
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema Zhen Zhang 9781041190752
RRP: $86.92SciFier: $80.70Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The... -
Spectacular Narratives by Geoff King
SciFier: $47.23What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park,... -
J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry Geoffrey Macnab 9780415117111
SciFier: $72.50Presiding 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... -
Jafar Panahi: Interviews Drew Todd 9781496823199
SciFier: $192.76Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (b. 1960) is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran's state censorship. Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature... -
Picturegoers by Luke McKernan
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $137.95This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included... -
Jafar Panahi: Interviews Drew Todd 9781496823205
RRP: $56.61SciFier: $36.78Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (b. 1960) is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran's state censorship. Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature... -
Children, Cinema and Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids Sarah J. Smith (The Glasgow School of Art, UK) 9781850438137
SciFier: $54.79Children have long been one of cinema's largest audiences yet, from its infancy, cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied a succession of pastimes and new technologies as catalysts for... -
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film is An Island Gina Marchetti (Ithaca College/University of Hong Kong) 9780415545600
RRP: $102.04SciFier: $100.66In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692714
RRP: $47.23SciFier: $46.72Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692707
RRP: $187.09SciFier: $186.92Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public... -
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy Neil Archer (Keele University, UK) 9781350242449
SciFier: $66.13At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after,... -
Middlebrow Cinema Sally Faulkner 9781138777132
SciFier: $23.93Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often... -
Hollywood's New Radicalism: War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush Ben Dickenson 9781845111038
SciFier: $55.19Provides an up-to-date, insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan's, Clinton's and both Bush's administrations. George W.Bush, Clinton and Ronald Reagan's... -
The New Italian Cinema of Precarity Fiona Handyside 9781803741215
RRP: $90.72SciFier: $83.14"This is an excellent and innovative study of one of the most crucial topics of today. Using gender, sexuality, and race as theoretical frameworks, The New Italian Cinema of Precarity brilliantly... -
Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor
SciFier: $42.51The 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... -
Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema Wing-Fai Leung 9781032430478
RRP: $94.48SciFier: $94.12An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. In... -
Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema by Barbara Lupack (Royalty Account)
RRP: $75.60SciFier: $68.00A comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the black American experience has been depicted in film adaptations of popular literature. The cinematic representation of blacks, especially in... -
The Golden Age of Pantomime by Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK)
SciFier: $149.29Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s,... -
British Cinema and the Cold War by PhD Tony Shaw
SciFier: $57.25Cinema was one of the Cold War's most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured... -
Horrifying Children by Lauren Stephenson (York St. John University, UK)
SciFier: $185.20Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography. There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of... -
Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash Dr. Hilaria Loyo (former Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781501388163
SciFier: $60.46The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life. Amid these... -
Sound for Digital Video Tomlinson Holman (President of TMH Corporation; former Corporate Technical Director at Lucasfilm, Ltd., CA, USA) 9780415812085
RRP: $103.93SciFier: $99.30Achieve professional quality sound on a limited budget! Harness all new, Hollywood style audio techniques to bring your independent film and video productions to the next level.In Sound for Digital...