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Blue by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.95SciFier: £7.94Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. "For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." -Derek... -
Dancing Ledge by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.53'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms... -
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
SciFier: £17.08Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816665945Author Derek JarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Minnesota... -
Derek Jarman by Rowland Wymer
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema... -
Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern by Robert Mills
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.14First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work. FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek... -
A Finger in the Fishes Mouth Derek Jarman 9781913513634
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.77A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman's sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.Heavily illustrated from Jarman's collection of postcards, the... -
At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament Derek Jarman 9780099222910
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts... -
The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights Derek Jarman 9781068758638
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £11.36Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068758638Author Derek JarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
Jacques Tati by David Bellos
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.33The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe,... -
Chaplin by David Robinson
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.25David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's... -
The Child Garden Geoff Ryman 9780575076907
GatewayRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, and the Consensus oversees the country,... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9780748694846
SciFier: £93.01Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9781474425865
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics M. O'Pray 9780333537626
SciFier: £92.99This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film,... -
The Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History William E.B. Verrone 9780786459100
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £34.68Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films,... -
By Angels Driven by Chris Lippard
SciFier: £36.99Derek Jarman was one of the most innovative British filmmakers of his generation. Working largely outside the British film establishment and within tight budgetary constraints, he produced a series... -
Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter by Kevin Macdonald
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.55A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in... -
British Cinema, Past and Present Justine Ashby 9780415220620
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £38.36British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema,... -
Seventies British Cinema Robert Shail 9781844572731
SciFier: £44.46Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema,... -
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 Dominic Janes 9780226358642
SciFier: £35.60"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a... -
Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century James Tweedie (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington) 9780190873875
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £92.49Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the... -
Queer Screen: A Screen Reader Jackie Stacey 9780415384315
SciFier: £37.66Queer Screen: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with new introductory... -
Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century James Tweedie (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington) 9780190873882
RRP: £43.49SciFier: £37.99Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the... -
Women and Polish Cinema: Reclaiming the Frame Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9781350532106
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.50Across Polish film history, the contributions of women have often been overshadowed by their male counterparts. While figures like Wanda Jakubowska, Barbara Sass-Zdort, and Agnieszka Holland have... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169622
RRP: £84.00SciFier: £68.52Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain David Curtis 9781844570966
SciFier: £51.26In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in... -
You Dreamed of Empires Alvaro Enrigue 9781529920659
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES'A mischievous fantasy' TLS'Glorious' i-DIn 1519, Conquistador Hernan Cortes and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan -...