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The Taste for Beauty Eric Rohmer 9780521385923
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.71The Taste for Beauty is a collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer which were originally written for the French Film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948-1979. Rohmer, one of... -
Eric Rohmer: Interviews Fiona Handyside 9781496802507
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy... -
Eric Rohmer: Interviews Fiona Handyside 9781617036880
SciFier: £72.25The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781403996596
SciFier: £46.99Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Eric Rohmer: A Biography Antoine de Baecque 9780231175593
SciFier: £26.37The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781349545469
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) by Marco Grosoli
SciFier: £60.49In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for Cahiers du Cinema launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is... -
The Films of Eric Rohmer: French New Wave to Old Master L. Anderst 9781349436392
SciFier: £46.99Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the... -
The Films of Eric Rohmer: French New Wave to Old Master L. Anderst 9781137010995
SciFier: £46.99Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the... -
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781441198310
SciFier: £42.99Since 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... -
Modern European Cinema and Love Richard Rushton 9781526149435
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
Fine Cuts: Interviews on the Practice of European Film Editing Roger Crittenden (BAFTA, UK) 9781138201996
SciFier: £40.96In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews. This new edition builds on the... -
Cinema at the Shore by Fiona Handyside
RRP: £52.00SciFier: £47.49From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to Francois Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are... -
Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy Ora Gelley 9781138651517
SciFier: £46.33In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in... -
Le Cinema Francais by Anne Keenan Higgins
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Starring the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau, and directed by iconoclasts such as Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Luc Godard, French movies are as touching,... -
Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard Nathan Andersen 9780415742122
SciFier: £39.39Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of... -
Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive Simon Brown 9780415892643
SciFier: £50.66This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color... -
Contemporary Directors' Cinema Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781501366147
SciFier: £82.99Contemporary Directors' Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful... -
Contemporary Directors' Cinema Jacob Leigh (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9798765121900
SciFier: £30.99Contemporary Directors' Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful... -
Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.89This 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... -
A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert
RRP: £28.50SciFier: £17.82The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. ""A History of the French New Wave Cinema"" offers a... -
Cahiers du Cinema by James R Russo
SciFier: £58.35Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
Girls' Hairstories: Resilience and Sparkle in Contemporary Screen Cultures Professor Fiona Handyside (Associate Professor in Film Studies, University of Exeter) 9781399506946
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen's Power Plait to JoJo Siwa's outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlhood is articulated in contemporary visual... -
Cinema and Painting by Angela Dalle Vacche
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: £77.99In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496824684
SciFier: £101.99Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific... -
Cahiers du Cinema: 1: The 1960s (1960-1968): New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood Jim Hillier 9780674090651
SciFier: £38.74In the turbulent sixties, the provocative French film journal Cahiers du Cinema was at its most influential and controversial. The first successes of the New Wave by major Cahiers contributors such... -
Conversations with Directors by Elsie M. Walker
SciFier: £82.99Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors: An... -
The Practical Critic: Andre Bazin on Film, 1945-1958 James R. Russo 9781680534627
RRP: £107.00SciFier: £92.99Andre Bazin (1918-58) was renowned for almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as for being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. In... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496826756
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific... -
Cahiers du Cinema: 1: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave Jim Hillier 9780674090613
SciFier: £30.95Cahiers du Cinema is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings, in English translation, is long overdue.The selections in this...