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Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century Geoff King 9781850438144
SciFier: £28.99Videogames now rival Hollywood cinema in popularity and profits and there are huge followings for titles such as Tomb Raider or The Sims. Exactly what games offer, however, as a distinct form of... -
A Bout De Souffle: French Film Guide Ramona Fotiade 9781780765082
SciFier: £113.99One of the most charismatic feature films of the New Wave, A Bout de Souffle (1960) has retained much of its appeal not only as the emphatic statement of a generational break with tradition, but also... -
The Waltons by Mike Chopra-Gant
SciFier: £31.38The period in which The Waltons appeared on television screens was socially and politically volatile; a testing time in which Americans grappled with 'stagflation', rising oil prices, defeat in... -
Real Images by Josephine Woll
SciFier: £27.99This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry... -
Stairways to Heaven by Mr Geoffrey Macnab
SciFier: £22.49What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a... -
Producing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA) 9781784534356
SciFier: £31.38Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done... -
A Spanish Labyrinth by Mark Allinson
SciFier: £27.99AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and... -
Cinema and Soviet Society by Peter Kenez
SciFier: £29.99The story of Soviet film over the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of World Cinema. In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the... -
Fashioning the City by Dr Agnes Rocamora
SciFier: £28.99While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies... -
Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution: Film Production and Representing Dissent Ahmed Ghazal 9780755635429
SciFier: £33.99Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship... -
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between by Christopher Gow
SciFier: £28.99The New Iranian Cinema has had a fascinating success story in world cinema and critics have hailed Iranian films as alternatives to the homogenising global influence of mainstream Hollywood cinema... -
Black Artists in British Art by Eddie Chambers (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
SciFier: £24.99Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners... -
East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue Chi-Yun Shin 9781780760094
SciFier: £24.99Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong... -
Chaplin's Music Hall by Barry Anthony
SciFier: £51.98Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music... -
TV Horror by Lorna Jowett (University of Northampton, UK)
SciFier: £24.47Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. This... -
Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film Professor Lucia Nagib 9781780765112
SciFier: £30.29Andre Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinema impur: defense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or... -
Harrison Ford by Virginia Luzon Aguado
SciFier: £113.99Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Hans Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard - but his career of fifty years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His... -
Reading Asian Television Drama by Jeongmee Kim
SciFier: £31.38The Asian TV industry is 'unstoppable' reported Variety in 2008, yet still most people living in the West have no idea what the rest of the world is watching on TV: what makes them laugh and cry... -
Dressed for War by Nina Edwards
SciFier: £56.99Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her... -
Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema: Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique Lindsay Coleman 9781780766409
SciFier: £29.20With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives... -
Chasing Dragons by David West
SciFier: £24.99"The art of fighting without fighting."- Bruce Lee on his martial arts style in "Enter the Dragon". Written for both interested filmgoers and established aficionados, "Chasing Dragons" is the... -
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Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution Geoffrey MacNab 9781784534899 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £5.11Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
Acting: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking Claudia Springer 9781784534035
SciFier: £31.38Screen acting is generally considered in terms of the on-screen performance, which is actually the outcome of collaborative work and ever-changing conventions of the group activity that is filmmaking... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760056
SciFier: £112.99The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
Art and Laughter by Sheri Klein
SciFier: £28.99This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Kathryn Kalinak 9781784534059
SciFier: £31.38Sound in cinema is a fascinating area that is just beginning to get the attention it deserves. This innovative book highlights the workers who collaborated inside and outside Hollywood to produce... -
Black & White Cinema: A Short History Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781784534523
SciFier: £31.38Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are black & white, from Chaplin and Keaton, through the... -
Repentance by Professor Emerita Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
SciFier: £28.13Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical film, made in Georgia, is the best known film of the perestroika and glasnost years. With its outspoken and controversial reference to the Stalin era and Stalin's place... -
Burnt by the Sun by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £24.99Nikita Mikhalkov's film about the Stalin period has received wide attention inside and outside Russia, being shown at Cannes, winning an Oscar, and reaching cinemas worldwide. Mikhalkov is a fine and... -
Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait by David Lavery
SciFier: £24.49Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After... -
Saints and Avengers by James Chapman
SciFier: £28.99Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire... -
Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon Wickham Clayton (University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.) 9781780766669
SciFier: £28.99The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly... -
Les Diaboliques: French Film Guide Susan Hayward 9781845111021
SciFier: £28.13Hugely enjoyable and exciting, long awaited book by top world authority on French cinema. This is the first book to focus on this very contemporary film. "Les Diaboliques" is often shown and is... -
Religion and Film by Melanie Wright
SciFier: £26.99From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional... -
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity Richard Tapper 9781860648045
SciFier: £27.99Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf... -
Film England by Andrew Higson (University of York, UK)
SciFier: £27.99In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson... -
Spectacular Narratives by Geoff King
SciFier: £24.99What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park,... -
Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns Howard Hughes 9781850438960
SciFier: £25.99The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the films that created... -
Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Chris D. 9781845110864
SciFier: £29.99"Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late... -
Children, Cinema and Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids Sarah J. Smith (The Glasgow School of Art, UK) 9781850438137
SciFier: £28.99Children have long been one of cinema's largest audiences yet, from its infancy, cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied a succession of pastimes and new technologies as catalysts for...