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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema Professor or Dr. Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 9781441138699
SciFier: €33.31This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is... -
The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook by Chris Jones
RRP: €29.74SciFier: €25.31This title distills the essence of "The Guerilla Film Makers" brand into one new, up-to-date, amazingly concise book. Making your own film can be complicated, infuriating, crazy, and expensive - not... -
Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 9781441183590
SciFier: €45.21In this title, a brilliant line-up of international contributors examine the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today. "Nazisploitation!"... -
Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide Mary H. Snyder 9781441168184
SciFier: €45.21This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be not only developed but established. And, these... -
Godard Between Identity and Difference John E. Drabinski 9781441114846
SciFier: €48.78This book reads a series of Godard films as interventions in contemporary debate about the language of difference. Godard has something he wants both to preserve (singularity) and destroy (visual and... -
The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema Frances Restuccia 9781441107572
SciFier: €45.21This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but revolutionary, film theory. Informed by the theory of... -
New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781441153432
SciFier: €41.64This title gives a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The relationship... -
Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology Matthew Pustz 9781441172624
SciFier: €45.21This is a highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history. "Comic Books and American Cultural... -
Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781441182166
SciFier: €48.78The author focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works... -
A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition Betsy A. McLane (Independent Scholar, USA) 9781441124579
SciFier: €45.91A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition,... -
The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond: Let Cinema Speak Roberta Piazza (University of Sussex, UK) 9781441178879
SciFier: €48.78Linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.Linguistic investigation of the dialogue of... -
Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle Dr. Richard Nowell 9781441124968
SciFier: €45.21Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as "Black Christmas (1974)," "Halloween (1978)" and "Friday the 13th (1980)" in... -
Morality and the Movies by Professor Dan Shaw (Late of Lock Haven University, USA)
SciFier: €35.69This is an introduction to ethical theories and contemporary moral issues through film. "A Filmgoer's Guide to Ethics" presents the ideal introduction to philosophical ethics for film lovers. Dan... -
A History of Greek Cinema Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781441194473
SciFier: €45.21The book is a detailed historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started... -
Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels Dr. A. David Lewis 9781441158475
SciFier: €123.15This title explores the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious... -
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema Professor or Dr. Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 9781441138217
SciFier: €124.34This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is... -
Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983 Kevin Avery 9781441165862
SciFier: €29.74Long considered lost, these extensive interviews between legendary "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood were discovered after Nelson's death in 2006. Clint Eastwood has forged a... -
Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels Dr. A. David Lewis 9780826430267
SciFier: €49.97This title explores the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious... -
Deleuze and World Cinemas Dr David Martin-Jones 9780826436429
SciFier: €48.78This title brings Deleuze's writings on cinema into contact with world cinema, drawing on examples ranging from Georges Melies to Michael Mann. "Deleuze's Cinema books" continue to cause controversy... -
Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA) 9781441197979
SciFier: €38.07The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery,... -
Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Dr Ben Saunders 9780826441980
SciFier: €33.31This title is a consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs. Ben Saunders shows that... -
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game Gerald A. Voorhees 9781441195180
SciFier: €45.21This book helps readers better understand their own relationships - as players, designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing games. "Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens" is a... -
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781441198310
SciFier: €51.16Since the death of the French film director Eric Rohmer in 2010, interest in his work has reignited. Known as the last of the established directors in the French New Wave, Rohmer took complete... -
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited Professor Catherine Russell 9781441133274
SciFier: €38.07Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip Nevin Martell 9781441106858
SciFier: €29.26This is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. For ten years, "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most... -
Funny Frames by Oliver C. Speck
SciFier: €41.64Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is... -
The Film Novelist by Dennis J. Packard
SciFier: €34.26The book outlines a program for writing filmable novels. "The Film Novelist" is the first primer on writing film novels - whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over... -
Cinema After Deleuze Dr Richard Rushton (Lancaster University, UK) 9780826438928
SciFier: €41.64This title offers a clear and concise overview of and introduction to Deleuze's theories of cinema. "Cinema After Deleuze" offers a clear and lucid introduction to Deleuze's writings on cinema which... -
The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Documentary Filmmaking Genevieve Jolliffe (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781441183675
SciFier: €49.97This is a comprehensive, advice-packed handbook to the world of low-budget, DIY documentary filmmaking - filled with interviews and case studies. Documentary films have enjoyed a huge resurgence over...