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Pastiche Richard Dyer 9780415340106
SciFier: £36.79Writing with his customary wit and style, Richard Dyer argues that while pastiche can be used to describe works which contain montage or collage, it can also be used to describe works which are a... -
The Silent Screen by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £61.99There is a great deal of pleasure to be gained from the first thirty years of American movies_even without seeing the movies. The Silent Screen is dedicated to guiding readers through some of those... -
Only Entertainment Richard Dyer 9780415254977
SciFier: £37.66Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art.Dyer focuses on the genres most... -
Hollywood in Transition by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £51.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorcCann /f Richard /i DyerBook InformationISBN 9780837196169Author Richard Dyer MacCannFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Brief Encounter Richard Dyer 9781844578771
SciFier: £11.35Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train... -
Now You See It Richard Dyer 9780415254991
SciFier: £38.36Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining... -
The First Film Makers by Richard Dyer MacCann
SciFier: £78.49Again Richard Dyer MacCann has brought his editorial skills to the task of presenting for the students and the general reader what movie making was like in the earliest days of America. This time he... -
The Stars Appear Richard Dyer MacCann 9780810825284
SciFier: £56.99'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... -
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations Richard Dyer 9780415254953
SciFier: £37.66Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and... -
Seven by Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling Richard Dyer 9781844572106
SciFier: £33.99Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling Richard Dyer 9781844572090
SciFier: £98.49Apologies 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... -
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society Richard Dyer 9780415310277
SciFier: £37.66Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs... -
Nonfiction Film by Richard Barsam
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major... -
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader Steven Cohan (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415235600
SciFier: £44.60Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom,... -
Stars, The Film Reader Lucy Fischer 9780415278935
SciFier: £36.79From two distinguished academics, Stars: The Film Reader brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema including coverage of stars and star systems from Europe and... -
American Cinema and Hollywood by John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine)
SciFier: £66.99'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 Top international contributors Emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and... -
Babel and Babylon by Miriam Hansen
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £35.00Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in... -
Film Studies: Critical Approaches John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine) 9780198742807
SciFier: £55.80'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound, May 1998 covers all the significant theories, debates and approaches to the subject chapter... -
Popular Italian Cinema L. Bayman 9780230300163
SciFier: £46.99Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning... -
World Cinema: Critical Approaches John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine) 9780198742821
SciFier: £64.34'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals ... -
Popular Italian Cinema L. Bayman 9781349335862
SciFier: £46.99Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9780230319387
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Speculative Imperialisms by Susana Loza
SciFier: £87.99Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the (settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the... -
The Right to Play Oneself by Thomas Waugh
SciFier: £30.76The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
SciFier: £44.60This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Rebel Without a Cause Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781839027765
SciFier: £11.71Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean),... -
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies by John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine)
SciFier: £72.02Comprehensive, authoritative, and unique, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the up-to-date critical volume on the theories, debates, and approaches to the study of film. A host of international... -
Deconstructing Brad Pitt Dr. Christopher Schaberg (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 9781623561796
SciFier: £34.63The reactions evoked by images of and stories about Brad Pitt are many and wide-ranging: while one person might swoon or exclaim, another rolls his eyes or groans. How a single figure provokes such... -
Queer Images by Harry M. Benshoff
SciFier: £51.99From Thomas Edison's first cinematic experiments to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters, Queer Images chronicles the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred...