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Get Started in Film Making: The Definitive Film Maker's Handbook Tom Holden 9781473678538
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Get Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side. Completely revised and updated, it is the perfect manual... -
The Film in National Life by The Commission on Educational and Cultural Films
SciFier: £109.04The Film in National Life (1932) is the report by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films, established in 1929, that aimed to establish a position on the treatment of film constructively in... -
'Film Europe' And 'Film America' by Andrew Higson
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.99Winner of the 2000 Prix Jean Mitry. A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of... -
History on Film/Film on History Robert A. Rosenstone (California Institute of Technology, USA) 9781032455389
SciFier: £35.06Accessibly written by one of the big names in the field, and with broad coverage of the field, so readers are introduced to a wide range of films, filmmakers and genres opening up the filed - now... -
Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and... -
Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film Vinzenz Hediger 9781041179436
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the... -
Dictionary of Film Terms by Frank Beaver
SciFier: £44.75Now in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for the study of films and filmmaking. This trusted and practical handbook clearly and... -
Australian Film Festivals by Kirsten Stevens
SciFier: £82.99This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in... -
Film Reboots Daniel Herbert 9781474451376
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39'Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis' Film Reboots is dedicated to a fundamental question of the form, namely why do reboots exist and what do they do? An impressive array of scholars engage with... -
Romance Film by Norman Kagan
SciFier: £27.99Romance Film is a critical history of significant romance films from Hollywood and abroad. Kagan discusses, among others, Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Marlon Brando in A... -
Adventurous Film Making by J. David Beal
SciFier: £109.74Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel,... -
Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement Ian Aitken 9781138991026
SciFier: £47.20Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most... -
Financing the British Film Industry by James Chapman
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £79.99Financing the British Film Industry provides a comprehensive history of the financing of British film production from the origin of the industry until the end of the Second World War. It documents... -
Finnish Film Studios by Kimmo Laine
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £73.39Provides the first scholarly examination of Finnish studio system Provides an approach that is both sensitive to the specific characteristics of Finnish studio system and applicable to small... -
Redefining Black Film by Mark A. Reid
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered 'black films'? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between... -
Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films by K.J. Donnelly
SciFier: £113.90In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically... -
World, Time, Film Ian Aitken (Professor of Film Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University) 9781399525626
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59World, Time, Film addresses the issue of how film represents reality through a focus on 'philosophical realist' theory, adopting an 'externalist' position in relation to cognition, arguing that what... -
The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood Angus Finney (London Film School and University of Exeter, UK) 9781032071756
SciFier: £47.20- A new edition of a successful textbook on an established, growing and core area of film study, this book is specifically aimed at students taking film business courses. - The only book to look at... -
Adventurous Film Making J. David Beal 9781032938998
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £31.59Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel,... -
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory Reena Dube 9781403946294
SciFier: £46.99Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
Texture In Film Lucy Fife Donaldson 9781137034786
SciFier: £92.99Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film... -
Doing Film Studies Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602693
RRP: £124.99SciFier: £111.36Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an... -
Texture In Film Lucy Fife Donaldson 9781349441990
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film... -
Introduction to Film Studies Jill Nelmes 9780415582599
SciFier: £45.90Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies,... -
Women in Marvel Films by Miriam Kent
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Draws attention to the manifestation of feminist issues within Marvel superhero films Reaches to film studies, comics studies, cultural studies and gender studies to make sense of portrayals of... -
The Biggest Film Biographer in the World: The Films of Ken Russell: The Films of Ken Russell George Porcari 9798218777586
SciFier: £38.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218777586Author George PorcariFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint < -
Directory of African Film-Makers and Films by Keith Shiri
SciFier: £36.99The richness and color of African cinema have been neglected for too long and its many talented film-makers deserve full recognition. This new and unique book gives detailed information on over 300... -
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.89In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after... -
Film as an Art of Society by Lutz Hieber
SciFier: £77.99The volume deals with the concept of art in relation to film, covering both aesthetic theory and concrete works. The spectrum includes feature films and documentaries. The focus is on the aesthetic... -
Film and the Imagined Image by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £92.09This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440833212
RRP: £66.00SciFier: £42.26From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440859458
SciFier: £35.25From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory Reena Dube 9781349523535
SciFier: £46.99Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
The Film Buff's Bucket List by Chris Stuckmann
SciFier: £16.89#1 Best Seller Film Buff Movie GuideBest movies, best films, best indies. Theaters around the world are dominated by comic book heroes, ice princesses, apocalyptic love-struck teens, and whatever... -
Doing Film Studies Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602709
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £28.13Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an... -
Directory of Indian Film-Makers and Films by Sanjit Narwekar
SciFier: £68.49India produces more films each year than any other country in the world. Yet, apart from the films of Sanjit Ray, the diverse and lavish output of Indian film-makers is largely unknown outside the... -
The Postmodern Slasher Film Steve Jones (Assistant Professor in Media and Film, Northumbria University) 9781399537100
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it... -
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema Jacqueline Reich 9780253017406
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £56.58Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national... -
Refiguring American Film Genres by Nick Browne
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £27.49This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
The Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9780582437944
SciFier: £58.53The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time...