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An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng (Director, Columbia University)
RRP: £121.00SciFier: £99.44Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
SciFier: £81.12Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a... -
The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out Wayne Byrne 9780231185349
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director's entire oeuvre, addressing and analyzing themes such as identity,... -
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom 9780231176927
SciFier: £114.58Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitat Berlin) 9780231170727
SciFier: £88.18Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus (c/o Robin Straus Agency, Inc) 9780231138253
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £26.23All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970-prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157681
SciFier: £95.01Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160988
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176538
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174992
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.54Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Cinema in the Digital Age Nicholas Rombes 9780231167543
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into... -
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film by Robin Wood
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93One of the most distinctive voices in film criticism explores relationships between narrative style and sexual politics. Robin Wood, well known for his books Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan and... -
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film Adam Lowenstein 9780231132466
SciFier: £94.31In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang 9780231156752
SciFier: £30.59The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen... -
Attack of the Leading Ladies by Rhona Berenstein
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes... -
Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology by Philip Rosen
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.59Smartly selected and organized, the essays in this anthology introduce several central issues in film theory, namely, the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject... -
Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231215640
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media... -
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... -
Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order Jonathan Buchsbaum 9780231170673
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.76In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady... -
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s Sarah Street 9780231179829
SciFier: £95.01The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and... -
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty 9780231222587
SciFier: £18.97By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older... -
Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation Paul W. Kahn 9780231164399
SciFier: £21.24Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith-remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073622
SciFier: £108.33Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present Eric Rentschler 9780231073639
SciFier: £30.00Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States Chris Lamb 9780231130677
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies... -
Words on Screen Michel Chion 9780231174985
SciFier: £88.18Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.38After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China's new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in... -
Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face Michael Tapper 9780231176521
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema,... -
Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Terence McSweeney 9780231186254
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.11We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film... -
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers 9780231159166
SciFier: £94.31Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital... -
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik Christopher Pavsek (Assistant Professor of Film, Simon Fraser University) 9780231160995
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's... -
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik 9780231165822
SciFier: £101.27Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934)... -
Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman 9780231166034
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the... -
Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs 9780231163477
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for... -
Melodrama and Modernity by Ben Singer
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and... -
Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete Paula Amad 9780231135016
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £32.91Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157162
SciFier: £94.31Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Angela M. Smith 9780231157179
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £25.07Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughan 9780231161329
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £88.18Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles...