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Directing by Tay Garnett
SciFier: £77.99An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin... -
Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red by Nicholas W. Reyland
SciFier: £68.99Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity,... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £61.99Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with... -
Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
SciFier: £72.99Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did... -
Worms in the Winecup by John Bright
SciFier: £82.99Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic... -
Zombie Culture by Shawn McIntosh
SciFier: £67.49Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing... -
The A to Z of Horror Cinema by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: £52.99Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to... -
The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema Paul Varner 9780810868885
SciFier: £51.99When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun,... -
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock by Herbert Coleman
SciFier: £51.99As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and... -
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry Anthony Slide 9781578860159
SciFier: £53.19Now in Paperback! The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a unique reference work, a 'what's what' of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United... -
Some Cutting Remarks by Ralph E. Winters
SciFier: £68.49Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810844902
SciFier: £68.49Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
Jerome Moross's The Big Country by Mariana Whitmer
SciFier: £43.99With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Produced in 1958, this epic film featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton... -
Verse, Voice, and Vision by Marlisa Santos
SciFier: £97.99Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and... -
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film Ennio Morricone 9780810892415
SciFier: £61.99With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for... -
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront by Anthony Bushard
SciFier: £56.99Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards-including Best Picture-and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's... -
A Treasure Hard to Attain by David Howard Day
SciFier: £77.99A Treasure Hard to Attain covers the archaeological content of approximately 120 popular films, most of which have been produced in the United States since 1912. Extensive commentaries appear for the... -
The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema by Sanchez-H., Jose, Sanchez-H., Jose
SciFier: £97.99In Bolivia, politics have always shaped art, particularly when it comes to film. This book presents Bolivia's most significant filmmakers largely in their own words. Since 1981, Jose Sanchez-H. has... -
Republic Studios by Richard M. Hurst
SciFier: £67.49The Hollywood studios of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were rarely concerned with film as an art form; this was especially true of those specializing in the B film. Of these, Republic Pictures... -
Celluloid Ivy by David B. Hinton
SciFier: £72.99Because of their tremendous mass audience, Hollywood feature films help mold, shape, and direct popular beliefs and attitudes. They also serve as frozen pieces of time that preserve the concerns of... -
Friend or Foe? by Michael J. Strada
SciFier: £102.99During the nearly sixty years of filmmaking, the always uneasy and often fractious Soviet-American relationship has been mirrored in Hollywood's portrayal of Russians and the Soviet Union. Friend or... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: £92.99A 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... -
Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction James Gunn 9780810854208
SciFier: £56.99Harvard's George C. Simpson called the late Isaac Asimov "one of our natural wonders and national resources," for his hundreds of nonfiction works on science, mathematics, history, and literature... -
Picture Perfect by Herbert L. Strock
SciFier: £72.99Herbert Strock has been involved in nearly every phase of film production, as his career developed from his first job as an assistant editor at MGM Studios to his current ownership of a production... -
Film Stories: Screenplays as Story Michael Roemer 9780810839090
SciFier: £98.49From the critically-acclaimed independent filmmaker, Michael Roemer, comes Film Stories: Screenplays as Story, a highly-anticipated first collection of screenplays. Beyond film scripts, Film Stories... -
Film Stories: Screenplays as Story Michael Roemer 9780810839106
SciFier: £61.99From the critically-acclaimed independent filmmaker, Michael Roemer, comes Film Stories: Screenplays as Story, a highly-anticipated first collection of screenplays. Beyond film scripts, Film Stories... -
Film Stories: Screenplays as Story Michael Roemer 9780810839120
SciFier: £61.99From the critically-acclaimed independent filmmaker, Michael Roemer, comes Film Stories: Screenplays as Story, a highly-anticipated first collection of screenplays. Beyond film scripts, this volume... -
The Films of Steven Spielberg Charles L. P. Silet 9780810841826
SciFier: £92.99Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List),... -
The A to Z of Irish Cinema by Roderick Flynn
SciFier: £53.49In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite early exposure to the filmmaking process, Ireland... -
Encyclopedia of Sports Films by K Edgington
SciFier: £105.49Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first... -
The Charley Chase Talkies by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: £88.49Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's... -
Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe by Jerry Ziesmer
SciFier: £68.49Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and... -
White Horse, Black Hat by Jack C. Lewis
SciFier: £82.99From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be... -
Young Man in Movieland by Jan Read
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £72.44Young Man in Movieland is the autobiography of Jan Read, a young man from a quiet Scottish town, who seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps. Instead of pursuing a career in chemistry,... -
The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History Laurence E. MacDonald 9781880157565
SciFier: £93.49A comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer. It is a historically structured account of the evolution of music in films... -
Charlie Chaplin by Georgia Hale
SciFier: £43.99Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen. Far fewer remember its heroine, Georgia Hale (1900-1985). ... -
The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons by Nichola Dobson
SciFier: £56.30Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have... -
Music from the House of Hammer by Randall D. Larson
SciFier: £67.49In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films... -
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... -
On Actors and Acting by Anthony Slide
SciFier: £61.99Alexander Knox (1907-1995) was a distinguished stage and screen actor, who is best remembered today for his title performance in the 1944 production of Wilson. He was active both in London's West...