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A Cast Of Friends by Bill Hanna
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the... -
Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life by Foster Hirsch
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in the country, and creating a singular world with each... -
Hollywood Rat Race by Ed Wood
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.79In this never-before- published memoir of Hollywood, Ed Wood, Jr., reveals the down and dirty about the cutthroat world of movie-making.About the AuthorEd Wood was the subject of the 1994 Tim Burton... -
A Talent For Trouble by Jan Herman
SciFier: £22.39The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress,... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography Vincent Lobrutto 9780306809064
SciFier: £22.59Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of... -
Through Parisian Eyes by Melinda Porter
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the '70s and '80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of... -
Bullets Over Hollywood by John McCarty
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24From Scarface to White Heat , from The Godfather to The Usual Suspects , from Once Upon a Time in America to Road to Perdition , gangland on the screen remains as popular as ever.In Bullets... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter
SciFier: £20.59A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
Pappy by Dan Ford
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made 136... -
An Open Book by John Huston
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74In An Open Book , this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct,... -
M-G-M's Greatest Musicals by Hugh Fordin
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.99M-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals ) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894-1973), producer of the most outstanding... -
Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game--And How It Got That Way Philip Orbanes 9780306815744
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world's most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford
SciFier: £20.59"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels... -
The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On Jami Bernard 9780306814457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before-to the heart of what gets the coloured lights going, as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire . Here is... -
Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.29This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director Andre Bazin, the... -
American Silent Film by William Everson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.24Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" ( New Republic ), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the... -
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.59A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any... -
Burt Lancaster by Kate Buford
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £19.19Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer... -
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel Dee Ramone 9780306825002
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £10.74Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he's staying in might be the very room... -
Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.00Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics... -
Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.24Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du... -
Film As Film: Understanding And Judging Movies V. Perkins 9780306805417
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He... -
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
SciFier: £14.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Serious Business by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.39As Roger Rosenblatt put it, "What makes Serious Business a special treat is that it is like the best of the cartoons itself,funny, touching, and infused with thoughtful joy." This generously... -
Thinking In Pictures by John Sayles
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.69What choices- creative, practical, and technical- make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process... -
Everyone in Silico by Perseus
SciFier: £15.29In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when... -
Caligari's Children by S. Prawer
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally... -
The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love John Anderson 9780306815669
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74What kind of collection could possibly find common ground among The Son of Kong , Platoon , and Pink Flamingos ? What kind of fevered minds could conceive of such a list? What are the unheard-of... -
Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir Ron Perlman 9780306824180
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24The engaging, passionate, always-honest, and often-hilarious memoir of actor Ron Perlman,his triumphant story of perseverance and determination navigating the slippery slopes of Hollywood, with a... -
Death On The Cheap by Arthur Lyons
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big... -
Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover by Groucho Marx
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.19Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker -esque cartoons.About the AuthorAs a member of the Marx... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin by David Mayer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in 1905, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time. Until now,... -
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood by James Harvey
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £19.99In 1934 four movies, It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee ,ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and... -
The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.99Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977),movie-maker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual,was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French New Wave, and a television pioneer the maker... -
Skywalking by Dale Pollock
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.69Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of... -
Coppola: A Biography Peter Cowie 9780306805981
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards at the same time he was over 20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically... -
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime Roger Corman 9780306808746
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £9.99In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters,... -
My Life And My Films by Jean Renoir
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.79Here is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir,the boy who became the director many consider the greatest in history. Francois... -
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lewis Black
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions he widened the boundaries of free...