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Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema? J Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $41.32One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film... -
Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $24.38The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 by Joan Hawkins
RRP: $86.81SciFier: $53.00Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate... -
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science-fiction Films by Carlos Clarens
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $36.87In this book Carlos Clarens, author of Crime Movies (also available from Da Capo/Perseus), George Cukor, and many articles in film magazines, brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of films and... -
Moving Places: A Life at the Movies Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520089075
RRP: $57.24SciFier: $47.95"Moving Places" is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, and part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most... -
Co-Mix by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $57.22SciFier: $49.97Co-Mix is a comprehensive career overview of the output of the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Gorgeous full-page reproductions ofhis artwork, including covers for R... -
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert by Iggy Cortez
SciFier: $185.69Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory Offers new... -
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' Melvyn Stokes 9780195336795
RRP: $75.24SciFier: $55.10In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet... -
Werner Herzog by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $62.22Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser... -
Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker David James 9781592132713
RRP: $152.64SciFier: $142.59Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements, and reminiscences about the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four... -
Nazis and the Cinema Susan Tegel 9781847250001
SciFier: $141.59Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, which inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this clearly, with... -
Nazis and the Cinema Susan Tegel 9781847252111
SciFier: $74.60Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, who inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this clearly, with... -
Hollywood in China by Ying Zhu
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $38.10The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of today's movie industry, from the leading media scholarChina surpassed North America to become the world 's... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible Chris Dumas 9781841505541
SciFier: $63.94Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Noah Isenberg 9780520235779
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $44.71Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the... -
Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Paul S Hirsch 9780226829463
SciFier: $47.62Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most...