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Scenes of Instruction by Dana Polan
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival... -
Pulp Fiction by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and... -
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. ... -
Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 Drew Casper (University of Southern California) 9781405150750
SciFier: £39.20Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962. A comprehensive introductory textbook exploring the unique period in the history of the film industry after... -
A New Pot of Gold by Stephen Prince
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £33.40Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found... -
Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 Drew Casper (University of Southern California) 9781405150743
RRP: £93.95SciFier: £89.31Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962. A comprehensive introductory textbook exploring the unique period in the history of the film industry after... -
Lost Illusions by David Cook
RRP: £41.00SciFier: £36.44The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but... -
Twentieth Century Fox Frederick Wasser 9781138921269
SciFier: £39.39This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long... -
Comedy/Cinema/Theory by Andrew Horton
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £23.99The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting Patrick Keating 9781978810266
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £88.18More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting Patrick Keating 9781978810259
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £25.08More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each... -
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The New American Cinema Jon Lewis 9780822320876 [USED COPY]
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £31.17This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema... -
Paul Schrader by George Kouvaros
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines the different styles of his work and the multiple influences on which it draws. A defining feature of Schrader's career is... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161060
SciFier: £95.61A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £35.00Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemunden 9780231166799
SciFier: £23.54Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia,... -
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemunden 9780231166782
SciFier: £94.31Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia,... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751619
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161077
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.86A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties Jon Lewis 9780814751602
SciFier: £93.49Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822350095
SciFier: £26.38By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Useful Cinema Charles R. Acland 9780822349976
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £82.70By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became... -
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method Jon Lewis 9780822338215
SciFier: £26.58Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a... -
Silent Film Sound Rick Altman 9780231116633
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.19Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £77.73Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working... -
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The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £20.66Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working...