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Acting in the Cinema by James Naremore
RRP: $38.86SciFier: $32.37In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the... -
On Kubrick James Naremore 9781844571420
SciFier: $53.17On Kubrick is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, "Fear and Desire" (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of "A.I., Artificial Intelligence"... -
More than Night by James Naremore
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $34.53"Film Noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James... -
An Invention without a Future by James Naremore
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $38.18In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition James Naremore 9781839023996
SciFier: $43.50In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition James Naremore 9781839024009
SciFier: $128.55In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to... -
Sweet Smell of Success James Naremore 9781844572885
SciFier: $15.69The highest artistic achievement of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, an innovative production company that emerged in Hollywood at the end of the classic studio system, Sweet Smell of Success (1957) portended... -
An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema James Naremore 9780520279735
RRP: $79.06SciFier: $65.91In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521387705
SciFier: $31.48The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge James Naremore 9780520285521
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $98.48In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the LA Rebellion group of African American... -
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge James Naremore 9780520285538
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $30.81In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the LA Rebellion group of African American... -
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: A Casebook James Naremore 9780195158922
SciFier: $61.92Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521383660
SciFier: $73.69The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
Letter from an Unknown Woman by James Naremore (Indiana University, USA)
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $14.34James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many... -
Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction by James Naremore (Emeritus Chancellors' Professor, Indiana University)
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.72Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy,... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor Scott Balcerzak 9780814342916
RRP: $37.45SciFier: $33.49Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $21.91A search for gold in the mountains of Mexico leads three American prospectors to both treasure and loss in John Huston's screenplay for his acclaimed and much-studied 1948 film. This volume provides... -
Television Is Where You Find It: A History of Feature Filmmakers in TV Craig S. Simpson 9781978844841
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $26.08Television Is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought their cinematic vision to the small screen between 1955 and 1990-long before... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
SciFier: $15.69Richard Schickel study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray 9780253214386
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $17.73How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural StudiesRobert B. RayForeword by James NaremoreChallenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies.In the 1920s, when film criticism... -
Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling K. Kroeber 9781349534012
SciFier: $62.97This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal... -
Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling K. Kroeber 9781403972798
SciFier: $62.97This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal... -
Hollywood Cinema Richard Maltby (Flinders University of South Australia) 9780631216155
SciFier: $51.93This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most... -
Directing Virginia Wright Wexman 9780813564296
SciFier: $43.26When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. ... -
Francois Truffaut and Friends by Robert Stam
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $32.15One of Francois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were... -
Roman Polanski James Morrison 9780252074462
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $19.81A new take on an eclectic and controversial directorJames Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the... -
Film Adaptation and Its Discontents by Thomas Leitch (Professor of English, University of Delaware)
SciFier: $42.87I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374667
SciFier: $110.34Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity Colin MacCabe (Distinguished Professor of English and Film, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh) 9780195374674
SciFier: $60.61Adaptation persists as a major area of inquiry in both film and literary studies. Over the past two decades, scholars have extended the debate well beyond George Bluestone's influential Novels into... -
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.21Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its... -
Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film Adam Lowenstein 9780231132466
SciFier: $126.38In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and... -
Classic Hollywood: Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 Veronica Pravadelli 9780252080340
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $28.15Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in... -
Classic Hollywood: Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 Veronica Pravadelli 9780252038778
RRP: $138.02SciFier: $109.63Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $40.99There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195683
SciFier: $108.70Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: $151.42SciFier: $145.97There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195690
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $26.75Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers... -
George Cukor's People by Joseph McBride
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $40.05The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (Professor of Film History, Sarah Lawrence College)
RRP: $40.87SciFier: $30.11In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801878404
SciFier: $71.84In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal...