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Philosophy through Film Amy Karofsky 9781032544595
SciFier: £49.80Apologies 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... -
Race, Philosophy, and Film Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo 9781138921900
SciFier: £50.66This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated... -
Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides Christina Rawls 9781032092959
SciFier: £44.43This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181922
SciFier: £27.74What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: £77.99What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir Dan Flory (Montana State University) 9780271033457
SciFier: £44.99In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir... -
New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781441153432
SciFier: £34.99This title gives a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The relationship... -
Bong Joon Ho: Philosopher and Filmmaker Anthony Curtis Adler (Yonsei University's Underwood International College, South Korea) 9781350414655
SciFier: £67.49With the release of Parasite (2019), winner of the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho secured his place as one of his generation's leading... -
Bong Joon Ho: Philosopher and Filmmaker Anthony Curtis Adler (Yonsei University's Underwood International College, South Korea) 9781350414662
SciFier: £25.02With the release of Parasite (2019), winner of the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho secured his place as one of his generation's leading... -
Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman Dan Williams 9781349564743
SciFier: £46.99This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through... -
Film and Faith by Micah Watson, long-time policy analyst
SciFier: £82.99Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion's continuing manifestations in a secularizing... -
Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman Dan Williams 9781137471970
SciFier: £46.99This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through... -
Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen by William Brigham
SciFier: £98.49Woody Allen has accomplished that which no American filmmaker in the modern era has or perhaps ever will: directing to date 49 films (47 full-length theatrical releases, one short film in an... -
The Philosophy of Werner Herzog by M. Blake Wilson
SciFier: £102.99Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a... -
The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman David LaRocca 9780813176215
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.20From the Academy Award--winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award--nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), writer Charlie Kaufman... -
Phenomenology of Film by Shawn Loht
SciFier: £92.99Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples... -
Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series Luca Bandirali 9781498597562
SciFier: £82.99What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346426
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Vertigo Katalin Makkai 9780415494472
SciFier: £39.39Released in 1958, Vertigo is widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time. This is the first book devoted to exploring the philosophical aspects of... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346433
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £23.26Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Mulholland Drive Zina Giannopoulou 9780415824668
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years. It occupies a central and controversial position in... -
Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach Peter Turner (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780367661847
SciFier: £42.86This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films. Through analysis of key films, the book... -
A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment Rupert Read 9780367664916
SciFier: £45.46Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already... -
Terrence Malick by Lloyd Michaels
SciFier: £21.45For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over four-plus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of America's most original and independent directors... -
Screening Characters: Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media Johannes Riis (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 9780367660369
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £44.43Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry,... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Christopher Grau (Clemson University, USA) 9780415774666
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.19Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of... -
Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904414
SciFier: £40.96Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more... -
Film as Philosophy by R. Read
SciFier: £61.99A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films,... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: £78.49This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror Kristopher Woofter 9781839995880
SciFier: £79.53This study concerns a Gothic realism in the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and... -
Blade Runner Amy Coplan (California State University - Fullerton, USA) 9780415485852
SciFier: £39.39Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between... -
The Horse Who Drank the Sky by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £25.08What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches,... -
Talk to Her A. W. Eaton 9780415773676
SciFier: £31.59Pedro Almodovar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it... -
The Cinematic Sublime by Nathan Carroll
RRP: £87.95SciFier: £87.16This interdisciplinary volume is dedicated to exploring the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together the disciplines of film studies and aesthetics to examine cinema and cinematic... -
The Thin Red Line David Davies 9780415773652
SciFier: £31.59The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during... -
Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies George M. Wilson (University of Southern California) 9780199594894
SciFier: £82.34In works of literary fiction, it is a part of the fiction that the words of the text are being recounted by some work-internal 'voice': the literary narrator. One can ask similarly whether the story... -
Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image John Mullarkey 9780230002470
SciFier: £46.99This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Zizek, Deleuze and... -
Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image John Mullarkey 9781349280650
SciFier: £46.99This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Zizek, Deleuze and... -
Robert Pippin and Film by Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK)
SciFier: £31.99Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and... -
Memento Andrew Kania (Trinity University, USA) 9780415774741
SciFier: £29.86Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film's central character, it...