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Savage Cinema by Stephen Prince
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46More 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... -
The Corn Mother by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £6.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095212Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Year in the CountryPublisher Year... -
The Horror Film by Stephen Prince
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.99In 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 Year In The Country by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £7.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916940000Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Year in the CountryPublisher Year... -
A Dream of Resistance by Stephen Prince
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £37.99Celebrated 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... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £26.99During 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,... -
The Shildam Hall Tapes by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £6.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916095229Author Stephen PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Year in the CountryPublisher Year... -
Apocalypse Cinema Stephen Prince 9781978819856
RRP: £56.00SciFier: £46.30Vivid 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... -
Apocalypse Cinema Stephen Prince 9781978819849
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01Vivid 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: £38.00SciFier: £33.40Facing 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... -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596266
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.22Digital 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... -
Digital Cinema Stephen Prince 9780813596273
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £47.98Digital 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: £29.89It 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: £108.33It 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
SciFier: £38.20Avatar. 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: £78.49Visions 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: £37.99Visions 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: £15.99Sam 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: £44.60Akira 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... -
New Hollywood Violence by Steven Schneider
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74New Hollywood violence is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and issues relating to the depiction of violence in New Hollywood... -
The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £20.24"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 9780231165624
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Film 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 9780231165631
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Film 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... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579986
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £98.71In 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... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema Colin Williamson 9780813572536
SciFier: £40.56What 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: £124.00SciFier: £98.71What 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 9780813579979
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89In 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: £35.99Mastering 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: £31.99The 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,...