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British Film Directors: A Critical Guide Robert Shail 9780748622313
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $35.04British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This... -
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia by Wheeler W. Dixon
SciFier: $135.58Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated... -
Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema Julia Erhart 9781474440516
SciFier: $129.28A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman... -
British Music Videos 1966 - 2016 by Emily Caston
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016,... -
Caught in-Between by Agnes Petho
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24This collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of the former Eastern bloc.About the AuthorAgnes... -
Slumdogs and Millionaries by Laura Mayne
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $105.50Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474437271Author Laura MayneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Asian Cinemas by Dimitris Eleftheriotis
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $43.08Asian cinema is an area of increasing interest in Anglo-US film studies while Asian films are now widely distributed and popular with western audiences. The fascination with Asian cinema must be... -
Graphic Narratives of Resistance: Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinees Jennifer Boum Make 9781399529297
RRP: $132.05SciFier: $121.75This edited volume sheds light on the unique capacity of the comics medium for redrawing histories and for exploring hidden, forbidden or imagined spaces. Studying a variety of texts from the... -
The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema Corinne Maury 9781399501392
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $111.19Examines the purpose that place serves in filmsAbout the AuthorCorinne Maury, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaures.Book InformationISBN 9781399501392Author Corinne... -
Celine Sciamma: Portraits Emma Wilson 9781474425483
RRP: $22.23SciFier: $21.43Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or... -
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History by Evgeny Dobrenko
SciFier: $136.55This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history, the conversion of the present and experience into... -
British Film Directors: A Critical Guide Robert Shail 9780748622306
SciFier: $129.28British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This... -
Refocus: the Films of Albert Brooks Christian B. Long 9781474434256
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $100.90This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy and Hollywood film comedy. Analysing every film... -
Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake Laura Mee 9781474440646
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $116.89Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as derivative rip-offs, Mee approaches the films as... -
Traditions in World Cinema Linda Badley 9780748618637
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $38.66The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of... -
African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara Roy Armes 9780748621231
SciFier: $129.28African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara is the first comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and... -
The Disfigured Screen by Allan Cameron
SciFier: $135.58Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474419192Author Allan CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Hollywood's Cold War Tony Shaw 9780748625246
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $43.08Published at a point when American filmmakers are deeply involved in the War on Terror, this authoritative and timely book offers the first comprehensive account of Hollywood's propaganda role during... -
American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture Michele Schreiber 9781474405560
RRP: $33.35SciFier: $31.65This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options,... -
Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader Paul Grainge 9780748619078
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $37.99A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day. The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by... -
The Sex Slave in Cinema by Dr Aga Skrodzka
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $115.50This book examines the visual politics of the cinematic figure of the 'sex slave' from its origins in silent film to its iterations in blaxploitation cinema, European art cinema, Nollywood, and, in... -
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film Colette Balmain 9780748624751
RRP: $43.09SciFier: $38.66This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s... -
Refocus: the Films of William Friedkin Steve Choe 9781474431378
SciFier: $128.01William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), controversial productions like Cruising (1980) and Killer Joe (2011), as well as... -
Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader Paul Grainge 9780748619061
SciFier: $149.99A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day. The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by... -
Refocus: the Literary Films of Richard Brooks by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: $132.05SciFier: $113.13The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook's literariness" Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholars Explores Brooks's engagement with intellectual and cultural trends ... -
Visceral Screens by Allan Cameron
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation Demonstrates how a range of different... -
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s Noel Brown 9781399508070
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24A cultural history of the contemporary Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story to The Lego Movie Examines critically a range of prominent contemporary Hollywood animated features Reveals the... -
Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence Mani Sharpe 9781474462020
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $31.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462020Author Mani SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures Jamie Sexton 9781474414067
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $111.19The first academic book to explore indie music and indie music cultures on screen Combines historical, cultural, aesthetic and industry analysis to explore the functions and broader appeal of... -
Vital Resonances: Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy Francesca Hardy 9781474436953
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $104.79Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embraced multisensory spectatorship. Such approaches privilege a carnal vision and... -
Refocus: the Films of Roberta Findlay by Peter Alilunas
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $101.46The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay Argues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemas Offers careful attention... -
Refocus: the Films of Denis Villeneuve Jeri English 9781474497398
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.87The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of... -
Transnational Crime Cinema Sarah Delahousse 9781399505680
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $31.65Framed by approaches in critical transnationalism, this volume examines crime as a cinematic mode moving within, between, and across national cinemas to provide rigorous accounts of the political,... -
Refocus: the Films of William Friedkin Steve Choe 9781474431385
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24Provides the first scholarly study of the films of William Friedkin Contextualizes the entire trajectory of Friedkin's work both historically and theoretically, from his first production in 1962,... -
Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter Aaron Kerner 9781399501101
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $116.89Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical Discusses the ways in which the cinematic elicits... -
Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics Dimitris Papanikolaou 9781474436328
RRP: $29.18SciFier: $28.24Examines political engagement in recent films of the Greek New Wave Shortlisted for the 2022 Keeley Book Prize Offers an up to date account of 21st century Greek filmmaking Provides a... -
Refocus: The Films of William Wyler John Price 9781399510479
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $31.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510479Author John PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Refocus: the Films of Denis Villeneuve Jeri English 9781474497381
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $101.46Critically examines the work of Qu b cois filmmakers Denis Villeneuve Engages with all of Villeneuve's feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until... -
Networked David Lynch: Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality Marcel Hartwig 9781474497060
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $101.46The first multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch's uvre Offers multi-disciplinary approaches to transmediality Provides new readings of David Lynch's open uvre Explores new methods and... -
Refocus: the Films of Albert Brooks Christian B. Long 9781474434287
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $33.90Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career Situates Albert Brooks' films in their cultural contexts, including representations of class, gender,...