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American Political Movies: An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films James Combs 9781138990388
SciFier: £43.73Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
SciFier: £46.16This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and... -
Movies and Politics: The Dynamic Relationship James E. Combs 9781138976528
SciFier: £43.73Collecting together some of the best thinking about the relationship between movies and politics, this book, originally published in 1993, encourages an awareness of the political dimension of film,... -
Our Lady Cinema: How and Why I went into the Photo-play World and What I Found There Harry Furniss 9781138977815
SciFier: £43.73This charming classic of film literature was originally published in 1914 and hence represents an early attempt to catalogue the allure of cinema and how the motion picture industry began. This tale... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: £45.46Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Film Propaganda and American Politics: An Analysis and Filmography James Combs 9781138991033
SciFier: £43.73Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions... -
A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series Ken Hanke 9781138965423
SciFier: £45.46In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on... -
Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide Bernard A. Drew 9781138976504
SciFier: £30.56In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent... -
Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions Giuliana Bruno (Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9781138994584
SciFier: £45.46This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women's engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female... -
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980 Gary Edgerton 9781138966550
SciFier: £45.46This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late '40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9780415726559
SciFier: £88.47Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
SciFier: £78.19Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its... -
Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History Maureen Turim 9781138974371
SciFier: £45.46The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an... -
Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK.University of Lancaster, UK.) 9781138996663
SciFier: £44.43This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors,... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9781138989863
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.86This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9780415726801
SciFier: £76.14This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9781138990968
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.86Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its... -
The Cinema Ideal: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator Harriet E. Margolis 9781138988897
SciFier: £44.43This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: £43.73A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9781138993402
SciFier: £28.99Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based... -
Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy Lane Roth 9781138969773
SciFier: £45.46Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it... -
Directors and Directions: Cinema for the Seventies John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138967731
SciFier: £43.73This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9780415726795
SciFier: £88.47When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
Where we Came In: Seventy Years of the British Film Industry Charles Allen Oakley 9781138987104
SciFier: £43.73Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9781138989436
SciFier: £28.99When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
The Decline of the Cinema: An Economist's Report John Spraos (University of London, UK) 9781138997790
SciFier: £43.73Between 1952 and 1962, when this book was originally published, the number of people visiting British cinemas had fallen by nearly two thirds and was little more than half the pre-war total. Nearly... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: £43.73This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the... -
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory D. N. Rodowick 9781138997813
SciFier: £43.73This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and... -
Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement Ian Aitken 9781138991026
SciFier: £45.46Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: £78.19Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
SciFier: £45.46This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African... -
The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950 James C. Robertson 9781138997707
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.86The secrecy in which the British Board of Film Censors enveloped itself until 1948 resulted in a glaring vacuum in British cinematic history. Originally published in 1985, this book filled this... -
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film Randall Clark 9781138964051
SciFier: £45.46Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
SciFier: £45.46This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author... -
The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950 James C. Robertson 9780415726726
SciFier: £100.76The secrecy in which the British Board of Film Censors enveloped itself until 1948 resulted in a glaring vacuum in British cinematic history. Originally published in 1985, this book filled this... -
Visions of Yesterday Jeffrey Richards 9781138994089
SciFier: £44.43Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in... -
Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies Herbert Marshall 9781138980563
SciFier: £43.73Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin... -
Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear: Some Key Film-makers of the Sixties John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138991316
SciFier: £43.73Since the cinema first began to be taken seriously as an art form, there has been a constant debate on the question: who is the real creator of the film, the writer or the director? This study of a... -
The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History Timothy Corrigan 9781138989245
SciFier: £45.46Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and... -
The Epic Film: Myth and History Derek Elley 9781138989177
SciFier: £45.46As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic...