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Interpreting Rock Movies by Andrew Caine
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the British reception of films such as Rock Around the Clock, Love Me Tender, A Hard Day's... -
Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil by Luciana Martins
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Photography and documentary film in the making of modern Brazil provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four... -
The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.99Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the... -
A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film: Staunch as? Bruce Babington 9780719075421
SciFier: £22.99A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand... -
Kitsch!: Cultural Politics and Taste Ruth Holliday 9780719066153
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. With its unique... -
Terence Davies by Wendy Everett
SciFier: £22.99Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This is the first ever book-length study of his work, combining detailed analysis... -
Kitsch!: Cultural Politics and Taste Ruth Holliday 9780719066160
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.76From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. With its unique... -
Launder and Gilliat by Bruce Babington
SciFier: £22.99Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the... -
Sydney Box by Professor Andrew Spicer
SciFier: £22.99This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
Thorold Dickinson by Philip Horne
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £67.53The films of Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), now being rediscovered, engage with major issues including national identity, the post-colonial world, and political violence - and they also show a rare... -
The Continental Connection: German-Speaking eMigres and British Cinema, 1927-45 Tobias Hochscherf 9780719083099
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies,... -
Realism and Popular Cinema Julia Hallam 9780719052514
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to address... -
Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany Daniela Berghahn 9780719061721
SciFier: £22.99This book is a representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA's celebrated classics and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East... -
The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face Anna G. Jonasdottir 9780719076244
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more... -
Contemporary German Cinema by Paul Cooke
SciFier: £22.99German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, be success defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. On the one hand, the 2000s saw... -
Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit... -
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 9780719095740
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the UK's oldest and most important government-supported cultural institutions. From a modest start in the 1930s it grew rapidly after the war to encompass... -
The Food Companions by Richard Farmer
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this... -
British Stars and Stardom by Bruce Babington
SciFier: £22.99Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up to the... -
Faking it by Craig Hight
SciFier: £22.99The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific... -
Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719099922
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their... -
The New Avengers Jacinda Read 9780719059056
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the... -
The Continental Connection: German-Speaking eMigres and British Cinema, 1927-45 Tobias Hochscherf 9780719097478
SciFier: £22.99Now available in paperback, this study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film... -
Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond Andy Willis 9780719056451
SciFier: £22.99Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book takes as... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion Lara Thompson 9780719086335
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45In one of the first monographs of its kind to focus on the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema, Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion Lara Thompson 9780719086342
SciFier: £22.99A unique and wide-ranging analysis of the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema. Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from constructing star... -
Beginning Film Studies by Andrew Dix
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £59.19Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the... -
Designs on Modernity by Tag Gronberg
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the 19th century". At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels... -
New Challenges for Documentary by Alan Rosenthal
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This... -
So Exotic, So Homemade by Ian Walker
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £73.99In his previous book City Gorged with Dreams (2002), Ian Walker challenged established ideas about Surrealist photography by emphasising the key role played by documentary photographs in Parisian... -
The Classic Novel by Erica Sheen
SciFier: £22.99This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen.. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way... -
Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by Anna Henderson
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £82.49This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer.How did the embroiderers organise the... -
The Republican Line by Laura O'Brien
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The years between 1830 and 1852 were turbulent ones in French politics - but were also a golden age for French political caricature. Caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in... -
Roy Ward Baker by Geoff Mayer
SciFier: £22.99This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at... -
Popular Music on Screen by John Mundy
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.92Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063206
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063213
SciFier: £22.99"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
Francophone Film by Lieve Spaas
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Introduces the reader to the rich film production of the French-speaking countries outside France, commonly called Francophonia, comprised of Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, the Caribbean, the Maghreb... -
Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn Rachel Moseley 9780719063114
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74The first full length academic study of Hepburn's star persona and films featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s. Examines the... -
New Hollywood Violence by Steven Schneider
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74New Hollywood violence is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and issues relating to the depiction of violence in New Hollywood...