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How To Be Your Own Script Doctor by Jennifer Kenning
SciFier: £24.49Rewriting a screenplay begins with "fade out" and can be a long, frustrating and ultimately expensive process - especially when professional script doctors, consultants and analysts charge between... -
The Films of Peter Weir: 2nd Edition Jonathan Rayner 9780826415356
SciFier: £35.99Peter Weir is one of the most important Australian film directors. His films have had a major impact, both in terms of the Australian film industry ("Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Cars That Ate... -
Literary Art in Digital Performance by PhD Francisco J. Ricardo (Independent scholar, USA)
SciFier: £30.18"Literary Art in Digital Performance" examines a dozen works of digital literature, a category comprising creative works that are principally (but not exclusively) textual in character, and which... -
Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities Dr Rachel Carroll 9780826424648
SciFier: £37.99Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities seeks to reconfigure the ways in which adaptation is conceptualised by considering adaptation within an extended range of generic, critical... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip Nevin Martell 9780826429841
SciFier: £51.99"Looking for Calvin and Hobbes" is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. From the get-go, it was obvious that this... -
The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Joseph Kickasola
SciFier: £83.49Perhaps the greatest European director of the last 30 years, Krzysztof Kieslowski created a remarkable body of work in a relatively short period of time. His films are loved around the world for... -
How To Write: A Screenplay by Mark Evan Schwartz
SciFier: £26.99There are hundreds of books on the market all trying to teach you how to write a screenplay. Several of them are excellent and useful books. But never until now has there been a screenwriting manual... -
Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera Clive Young 9780826429230
SciFier: £27.99This is a comprehensive book about fan films, covering the secret history of the burgeoning movement creating the cinema of tomorrow.Who would risk his life swinging six stories above the ground... -
Directed by Steven Spielberg by Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
SciFier: £34.99Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical... -
Close Up: Cinema And Modernism by James Donald
SciFier: £68.99Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. It was edited by the writer and film-maker, Kenneth MacPherson and among its regular contributors were... -
Lost in Space by Dr Rob Kitchin
SciFier: £41.99Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space... -
The Power of Film Propaganda by Nicholas Reeves
SciFier: £61.99Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the... -
Simone Signoret by Susan Hayward
SciFier: £67.49Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great French actresses of the 20th century. Signoret - who won an Oscar in 1960 for her performance in "Room at the Top" - was a key... -
Horror Fiction: An Introduction Professor Gina Wisker (Cambridge) 9780826415615
SciFier: £43.99A student guide to this popular literary genre. Contains tips and further reading for successful study at undergraduate level. A series of introductory books, the Genre Series offers students,... -
Riefenstahl Screened by Neil Christian Pages
SciFier: £40.99"Screening Riefenstahl" offers an opportunity to rethink the place of Leni Riefenstahl and her work in contemporary culture and in academic discourse.Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the... -
Psycho in the Shower by Philip J. Skerry (Independent Scholar/ retired Professor, USA)
SciFier: £28.99This is a brilliant study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from "Psycho". Every other chapter is an extended interview with someone who either worked on the original film or Gus van Sant's... -
The Guerrilla Guide to Animation by Walter Santucci
SciFier: £34.99This guide seeks to teach those unable to afford animation training or looking to find an alternate path. "The Guerrilla Guide to Animation" aims to provide the outsider, the anarchist or the rebel... -
Acting by Robert Emmet Long
SciFier: £27.19For more than 30 years, the Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. In book form for the first time, this title is compact, and at... -
Fantasy Fiction: An Introduction Lucie Armitt 9780826416858
SciFier: £45.99A series of introductory books, the Genre Series offers students, writers and academics a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in literature. Designed to be user-friendly,... -
A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish 9780826417909
SciFier: £47.63This is the first comprehensive history of a nation's cinema which has had an extraordinary international influence. In this major new study of a century of Japanese narrative film-making, Isolde... -
America's Film Legacy by Daniel Eagan
SciFier: £45.49A reference guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Chosen by filmmakers and the public under the auspices of the Library of Congress, the 450 titles in the National Film... -
Lesbian Film Guide Alison Darren 9780304333769
SciFier: £45.99This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as... -
Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Sue Harper 9780826447333
SciFier: £67.49A survey of the ways in which women have been represented in British cinema from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century. It analyzes the input women have had on the industry, and charts the... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
Cinema and the Second Sex: Women's Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s Carrie Tarr (Kingston University, UK) 9780826447425
SciFier: £43.99"Cinema and the Second Sex" provides a critical assessment of women's wide-ranging contributions to the contemporary French film industry, both behind and in front of the camera, from 1981 to the... -
Genre Screenwriting by Stephen V. Duncan
SciFier: £28.99This book reveals the secrets of writing a successful screenplay across a range of genres. It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them... -
Stars and Stardom in French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau (King's College London, UK)
SciFier: £67.49French cinema has produced a substantial galaxy of stars to achieve world fame in their national films. This is an analysis of the phenomenon of French stardom. It provides in-depth studies of the... -
Jacking In To the Matrix by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (San Jose State University, USA)
SciFier: £21.49The Matrix films, along with the video games, anime and toys inspired by them, are rich with philosophical, religious and social references that cry out for interpretation. Here these ideas are... -
Manga by Toni Johnson-Woods
SciFier: £38.99This book contains an important collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts and fans. It provides a one-stop resource for all those who want to learn more about Manga, as well... -
German Essays on Film Richard McCormick 9780826415073
SciFier: £40.99This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine... -
Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (San Jose State University, USA)
SciFier: £31.99Few media franchises can match The Matrix for enthusiasm of reception and subsequent proliferation. Who in 1999 could have imagined that the momentum of a single film would sustain two more major... -
Movies and Mass Culture John Belton 9780485300734
SciFier: £46.99This text examines the two-way process of action and reaction by which films shape the identity of a society, its culture and its sense of nationhood; and, in turn, how films are themselves shaped by... -
A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film Isolde Standish 9780826417091
SciFier: £58.49In this major new study of a century of Japanese narrative filmmaking, Isolde Standish provides an in-depth chronological survey of a huge range of films. The book draws upon a great deal of Japanese... -
Secret Identity Crisis by PhD Matthew J. Costello
SciFier: £31.99"Secret Identity Crisis" follows the trajectory of the breakdown of the Cold War consensus after 1960 through the lens of superhero comic books. The superhero comic books developed by Marvel, because... -
The Films of Tim Burton by Alison McMahan
SciFier: £31.99Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. The director's mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts a lot of attention, while the films themselves... -
The Soul of Screenwriting by Keith Cunningham
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £31.99Uniquely inspired by the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychologist Jean Houston, "The Soul of Screenwriting" demonstrates how the "screenwriting by numbers" approach that offers templates... -
Scandalizing Jesus? by Darren J. N. Middleton
SciFier: £43.992005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' "The Last Temptation of Christ". Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that... -
British Cinema and the Second World War by Robert Murphy (De Montfort University, UK)
SciFier: £40.99The Second World War was such a cataclysmic event that its echoes still reverberate over fifty years after it ended. One of the prime means of exploring the impact of the war has been the feature... -
Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema by Tom Ryall
SciFier: £37.99An account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making, now in its second edition, this study discusses the man and his work in the context of the history of British cinema in the 1930s and 1940s... -
Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach Professor Paul Joseph Gulino (Chapman University, USA) 9780826415684
SciFier: £27.49The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from the opening sequence to the closing credits. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an...