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Studying Film with Andre Bazin by Blandine Joret
SciFier: £49.49The impact of French film critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his... -
Mediatic Handology. Shaping Images, Interacting, Magicking by Ada Ackerman
SciFier: £12.41Digital culture, taken etymologically, means a culture of the fingers (from the Latin digitus). Although our contemporary times are still envisioned through the lens of an over-reigning visual... -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish 9780813181196
SciFier: £34.28Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is the first comprehensive examination of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. Vitagraph was among the... -
Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio Andrew A. Erish 9780813195346
SciFier: £28.31In Vitagraph, Andrew A. Erish provides a comprehensive examination and reassessment of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. This history challenges... -
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later Larry Ceplair 9780813195889
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £27.00Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United States culture. When the Hollywood Ten refused to... -
Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £17.03Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting face=Calibri>- and remains so even today. In this book she chronicles her fabulous rise to... -
Marlene Dietrich's ABC's by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £11.79From the wonderfully varied and witty mind of Marlene Dietrich comes an alphabetised collection of her most zany, honest, and heartfelt thoughts. Offering her take on a range of ideas, people, and... -
Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.96Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she... -
Latin American Cinema by Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £30.46This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art... -
Film Studies: The Basics Amy Villarejo 9780367135027
RRP: £94.99SciFier: £94.82Entertaining, well written, this is a succinct summary of the field, ideal for those studying film for the first time. A substantial glossary helps readers understand key terms and concepts. Fully... -
Film Studies: The Basics Amy Villarejo 9780367135010
SciFier: £19.48Entertaining, well written, this is a succinct summary of the field, ideal for those studying film for the first time. A substantial glossary helps readers understand key terms and concepts. Fully... -
Studying The Lord of the Rings Anna Dawson 9781800348530
SciFier: £102.37Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
Studying The Lord of the Rings Anna Dawson 9781906733827
SciFier: £31.08Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea Dong Hoon Kim 9781474437547
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity,... -
Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood Simon Hewitt (Coventry University, UK) 9781032357843
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £39.39Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greater impact on film industrial practices than ever... -
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema Joanne Bernardi 9780367528188
SciFier: £47.03The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the... -
Spanish Film Policies and Gender by Jara Fernandez Meneses (University of Southampton, UK)
SciFier: £61.06This book provides a comprehensive cultural and historical account of the key film policies put into place by the Spanish state between 1980 and 2010 through a gendered lens, framing these policies... -
Hollywood Biblical Epics by Richard Lindsay
SciFier: £51.99This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day. In spite of restrictive... -
Girlhood and the Plastic Image by Heather Warren-Crow
SciFier: £45.65You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been... -
Film Studies: The Essential Resource Peter Bennett (Chief Examiner for GCE Communication & Culture & Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Wolverhampton, UK) 9780415365680
SciFier: £39.23Bringing together a wide array of accessible and contemporary source material, Film Studies is the ideal companion for students studying film studies at university and pre-university level.From... -
The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies Janet Harbord (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780745634739
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £49.81How is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first century, connecting debates from philosophy,... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes
SciFier: £29.78Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work Ian Nathan 9781805701804
SciFier: £18.99This new edition explores the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Since our 2022 edition, Nolan has solidified his place among cinema's greatest directors, winning his first... -
Marvel Avengers Glow in the Dark Sticker Book: With More Than 100 Stickers DK 9780241659243
RRP: £4.99SciFier: £4.74Get creative with over 100 glow-in-the-dark-stickers of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Black Widow, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, and some of their most notorious enemiesPacked with cool facts... -
Scuttle by Barnaby Walter
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58A brand new horror novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, for fans of Stephen King, Catriona Ward and Chuck Wendig Your worst nightmare is about to come true... ... -
Existential Science Fiction Ryan Lizardi 9781793647351
SciFier: £83.49This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society's conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most... -
Metaphor and Film by Trevor Whittock
SciFier: £32.79In Metaphor and Film, Trevor Whittock demonstrates that feature films are permeated by metaphors that were consciously introduced by directors. An examination of cinematic metaphor forces us to... -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072487
SciFier: £19.48This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
The Third Sex: Beyond a Gender Binary in Thai Culture and Films Charlin Nukul 9781636671239
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £54.49Winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication. Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand... -
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration Patrick D. Anderson (Central State University, USA) 9781041106647
RRP: £67.99SciFier: £61.06Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation.Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas' semiotic square... -
Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146
SciFier: £38.53This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production Budhaditya Chattopadhyay 9781041186397
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book is the first ever systematic attempt to study film sound in the Indian subcontinent by artistic research. The book aims to fill the scholarly void on the issues of sound and listening in... -
Studying Disaster Movies by John Sanders
SciFier: £29.78The disaster film taps into our fear of events beyond our control, ones that are often rooted in real-life experience, making the genre a particularly potent mixture of entertainment and grounded... -
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Film as Social Practice Graeme Turner 9780415375146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £1.29This fourth edition of our bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and... -
Black Image Making and Whiteness Prof Thomas Austin (Professor of Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK) 9781399545068
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.59How have image-makers of colour explored white societies, cultures and practices? This book takes as its case studies films, TV shows and photography that treat whiteness, in all its complexities,... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £5.98Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of... -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072210
SciFier: £61.06This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £29.78Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics by Scott Jeffery
SciFier: £112.99This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9780230110922
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up...