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The Corn Mother by Stephen Prince
SciFier: €8.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095212Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint -
The Horror Film by Stephen Prince
RRP: €37.20SciFier: €29.99In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental... -
A Dream of Resistance by Stephen Prince
RRP: €46.80SciFier: €41.57Celebrated as one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki's scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted... -
Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: €28.79SciFier: €23.35More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In this book, Stephen Prince explains the rise of explicit violence in the American cinema, its social... -
A Year In The Country by Stephen Prince
SciFier: €9.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916940000Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint < -
The Shildam Hall Tapes by Stephen Prince
SciFier: €8.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095229Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint -
Apocalypse Cinema Stephen Prince 9781978819849
RRP: €20.39SciFier: €14.94Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out... -
A New Pot of Gold by Stephen Prince
RRP: €45.60SciFier: €40.08Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found... -
Apocalypse Cinema Stephen Prince 9781978819856
RRP: €67.20SciFier: €48.94Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out... -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596273
RRP: €70.80SciFier: €61.37Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: €32.39During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back earned huge sums for the studios. At the same time,... -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596266
RRP: €23.99SciFier: €14.94Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148719
SciFier: €35.87It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism Stephen Prince 9780231148702
SciFier: €130.00It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed... -
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality Stephen Prince 9780813551869
RRP: €38.40SciFier: €33.13Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also prime examples of how digital visual effects have... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936617
SciFier: €93.59Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film Stephen Prince 9780275936624
SciFier: €45.59Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question,... -
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Stephen Prince (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
SciFier: €21.89Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing,... -
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies Blair Davis 9781138590663
SciFier: €55.60Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole... -
The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson
RRP: €27.60SciFier: €24.29"Once in a lifetime." The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings". The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and... -
Film Dialogue Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165631
RRP: €33.60SciFier: €32.77Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
Film Dialogue Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165624
RRP: €105.60SciFier: €86.00Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572536
SciFier: €49.49What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572543
RRP: €148.80SciFier: €118.45What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579986
RRP: €148.80SciFier: €121.13In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579979
RRP: €37.20SciFier: €30.82In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or... -
Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 9781501361616
SciFier: €43.19Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender,... -
Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA) 9781441197979
SciFier: €38.39The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery,... -
Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology Caroline Joan S. Picart 9781349295975
SciFier: €56.39Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for...