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Peter Greenaway - the Ok Doll by Peter Greenaway
RRP: $46.64SciFier: $32.58Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563703Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
Peter Greenaway - Eisenstein in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway
RRP: $46.64SciFier: $32.58Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563710Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
Peter Greenaway by David Pascoe
SciFier: $47.19In all his films, Peter Greenaway shows obsessive attention to detail, exaggerating the archaic and fabricating his plots out of an artificial realm of caricature and pastiche. This book examines his... -
Peter Greenaway by Vernon Gras
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.64In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably... -
The Films of Peter Greenaway: Sex, Death and Provocation Douglas Keesey 9780786425174
SciFier: $64.00British filmmaker Peter Greenaway says life offers only two subjects: "One is sex and the other is death." Greenaway uses both and romanticizes neither; indeed, his goal is the antithesis of the... -
Classics in Film and Fiction Deborah Cartmell 9780745315881
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $49.59This book negotiates the notion of a 'classic' in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term 'classic'... -
Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film Paula Willoquet-Maricondi 9780813930060
RRP: $57.13SciFier: $49.48The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies. In addition to... -
Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema James Wierzbicki 9780415898942
RRP: $89.02SciFier: $81.68Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text... -
Faking it by Craig Hight
SciFier: $48.74The 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... -
The Passion of Montgomery Clift by Amy Lawrence
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85From his 1948 film debut in "Red River" through such classics as "The Heiress", "A Place in the Sun", and "From Here to Eternity", Montgomery Clift exemplified a new masculinity and - leading the way... -
Social Class on British and American Screens by Nicole Cloarec
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.60At a time when debates about social inequality are in the spotlight, it is worth examining how the two most popular media of the 20th and 21st centuries-film and television-have shaped the... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray 9780816634026
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $37.95In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: $197.14A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers... -
Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video Lynda E. Boose 9780415165853
SciFier: $81.68Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the... -
British Cinema, Past and Present Justine Ashby 9780415220620
RRP: $86.90SciFier: $81.32British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema,... -
Contemporary Erotic Cinema Douglas Keesey 9781842433638
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $22.18Movies have constantly pushed at the boundaries of sexual representation, outraging censors, transgressing taboos and opening up formerly forbidden realms of sensual pleasure. Whether through an... -
Film World: The Directors' Interviews Julie Rose 9781845204587
SciFier: $87.32Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because... -
Seventies British Cinema Robert Shail 9781844572731
SciFier: $94.26Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema,... -
Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century James Tweedie (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington) 9780190873875
RRP: $222.60SciFier: $196.08Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the... -
Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century James Tweedie (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington) 9780190873882
RRP: $92.20SciFier: $80.54Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the... -
Adaptation and the Avant-Garde: Alternative Perspectives on Adaptation Theory and Practice William Verrone 9781623562885
SciFier: $86.90Adaptations have occurred regularly since the beginning of cinema, but little recognition has been given to avant-garde adaptations of literary or other texts. This compelling study corrects such... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781628466973
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $154.65Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Twenty First Century Horror Films by Douglas Keesey
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $25.95From the vengeful ghosts of J-horror to the walking dead in 28 Days Later and World War Z, from the creepiness of Spain's haunted houses to the graphic gore of the New French Extremism, horror is... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781496809728
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $47.83Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Art History for Filmmakers by Dr Gillian McIver (Independent Scholar, UK)
SciFier: $102.46Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is... -
Cinematic Shakespeare Michael Anderegg 9780742510920
SciFier: $45.56Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to... -
A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain David Curtis 9781844570966
SciFier: $108.67In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in... -
Watch this Space by Howard Griffin
RRP: $211.89SciFier: $191.54This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary between spatial design disciplines, such as... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239574
SciFier: $66.53The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of... -
Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies
SciFier: $54.44Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239581
SciFier: $203.37The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of... -
You Dreamed of Empires Alvaro Enrigue 9781529920659
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $16.45'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES'A mischievous fantasy' TLS'Glorious' i-DIn 1519, Conquistador Hernan Cortes and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan -... -
Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $19.53CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a...