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David Lean by Kevin Brownlow
RRP: $33.50SciFier: $30.82In the course of his career, David Lean created some of the most unforgettable images in cinema history: the terrifying opening graveyard sequence in Great Expectations, the poignant railway... -
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide (2nd Edition) by Leonard Maltin
SciFier: $33.49From the author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide comes this ultimate guide for fans of classic films both familiar and obscure. The Classic Movie Guide covers thousands of films, from the silent... -
The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fifth Edition Brian McFarlane 9781526159267
RRP: $201.00SciFier: $149.96Featuring more than 6,500 articles, including over 350 new entries, this fifth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is an invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the... -
The Stars Appear Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810825284
SciFier: $76.37'A splendid anthology' -Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By and Hollywood: The Pioneers. This pathbreaking work will become our most valuable resource on the performers of the American... -
Too Bold for the Box Office by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: $122.09Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order... -
Lupe Velez by Michelle Vogel
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $29.40Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez,... -
American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: $90.44First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
Peter Weir: Interviews John C. Tibbetts 9781496830869
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $26.08Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and... -
Twentieth Century Fox by Michael Troyan
RRP: $61.64SciFier: $59.16Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment-the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915-2015). Or, to borrow the title of... -
Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star Diana Serra Cary 9780810859111
SciFier: $69.67Discovered by Charlie Chaplin in 1919, four-year-old Jackie Coogan soared to overnight stardom for his title role in the silent masterpiece, The Kid. A string of successes followed, including Peck's... -
Black and White Bioscope by Neil Parsons
RRP: $36.11SciFier: $35.58Black and White Bioscope recovers a neglected chapter in the histories of world cinema and Africa. It tells the story of movie production in Africa that long predated francophone African films and... -
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200998
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $40.82The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance Richard Koszarski 9780231200981
RRP: $162.14SciFier: $144.22The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss... -
Great Britons of Stage and Screen: In Conversation Barbara Roisman Cooper 9781442246201
SciFier: $71.01Although there are encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries of contemporary British film and theatre actors, most lack the intimacy of face-to-face interviews. Typically drawn from secondary... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: $49.57William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging...