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How To Be Your Own Script Doctor by Jennifer Kenning
SciFier: $51.92Rewriting 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: $76.30Peter 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: $63.98"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: $80.54Adaptation 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... -
Secret Identity Crisis by PhD Matthew J. Costello
SciFier: $67.82"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: $67.82Most 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: $80.54SciFier: $67.82Uniquely 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: $93.262005 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: $86.90The 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... -
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The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook Chris Jones 9780826479884 [USED COPY]
RRP: $78.42SciFier: $8.06Brand new edition of this bestseller - the only book an amateur film maker needs! An entirely new, updated, and expanded third edition of the UK's best-selling filmmaker's bible, last updated in 2000... -
Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema by Tom Ryall
SciFier: $80.54An 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... -
Riefenstahl Screened by Neil Christian Pages
SciFier: $86.90"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: $61.46This 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: $74.18This 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: $53.40For 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: $97.50A 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: $100.98This 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: $96.44A 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: $97.50This 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: $143.08A 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... -
Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies Remi Fournier Lanzoni (Wake Forest University, USA) 9780826418227
SciFier: $76.30"Comedy Italian Style" is an essential guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is for all lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip Nevin Martell 9780826429841
SciFier: $110.22"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: $177.00Perhaps 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: $57.22There 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: $59.34This 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: $74.18Although 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: $145.20Between 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: $89.02Science 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: $131.42Explores 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: $143.08Susan 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: $93.26A 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,... -
Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work J.J. Murphy 9780826428059
SciFier: $74.18Within the last twenty-five years, an enormous burst of creative production has emerged from American "independent" filmmakers. From "Stranger than Paradise" (1984) and "Slacker" (1991) to Gus Van... -
Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK) 9780826452870
SciFier: $95.38The book features a lengthy interview with Simon Pegg, co-creator of the sitcom "Spaced".About the AuthorWill Brooker is Assistant Professor in Communications at Richmond, the American International... -
Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach Professor Paul Joseph Gulino (Chapman University, USA) 9780826415684
SciFier: $61.46The 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... -
Robert Bresson by Joseph Cunneen
SciFier: $74.18Although Bresson is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, his films are rarely shown in the English-speaking world. This book introduces his movies to a broader... -
Is There Life After Film School? by Julie MacLusky
SciFier: $47.68The lucky students who get into film school (and then get through it without dropping out) have to compete for a small number of prestigious jobs once they graduate. Despite the enormous odds stacked... -
The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook: (US Edition) Chris Jones 9780826414649
SciFier: $99.62The best-selling low-budget filmmaker's bible in the UK has now, at long last, been totally revamped for the US film industry. The two authors have interviewed hundreds of film industry insiders,... -
The Strange World of David Lynch by Eric G. Wilson (Wake Forest University, USA)
SciFier: $72.06Anyone who has watched "Twin Peaks" or sat through the dark and grainy world of "Eraserhead" knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways... -
Aesthetics and Film Dr Katherine Thomson-Jones 9780826485236
SciFier: $63.58"Aesthetics and film" is a philosophical study of the art of film. Its motivation is the recent surge of interest among analytic philosophers in the philosophical implications of central issues in... -
Searching for Stars by Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK)
SciFier: $239.54Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars. The text looks at the way theatre and music hall spawned their stars, and asks why so many of them found the transition...