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The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever Nick Hall 9780813587202
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.89From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the... -
Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema Jay Beck 9780813564135
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with... -
Chromatic Cinema by Richard Misek (University of Bristol, UK)
RRP: £106.95SciFier: £98.23Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary. Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579986
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94In 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 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... -
The Eyes Have It by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £28.21The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning... -
Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema Lisa Bode 9780813579979
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68In 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: £41.75What 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... -
Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813553771
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £27.43Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film." Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM,... -
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) 9781501383113
SciFier: £113.99This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of... -
Color It True: Impressions of Cinema Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) 9781501383083
SciFier: £31.99This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of... -
Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) 9781501350672
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £18.24Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564081
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564098
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £101.64In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers...