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Young And Innocent?: The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 Andrew Higson 9780859896597
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a... -
The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939 Ruth Vasey 9780859895538
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age - the 1920s and 1930s - and investigates the business policies that shaped the... -
Young And Innocent?: The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 Andrew Higson 9780859897174
RRP: £27.50SciFier: £25.99This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a... -
Alternative Empires by Martin Stollery
SciFier: £110.30The book integrates theoretical discussion and textual analysis with primary source historical research, particularly into film reception. The case studies question received understandings of... -
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain by John Sedgwick
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity... -
Army, Empire and Film: British Imperial Conflict on Screen Ian F. W. Beckett 9781804131978
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, this volume brings together contributions from leading military historians to analyse changing... -
The Boggart by Dr. Simon Young
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £45.99Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The Folklore Society's... -
The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect Dr. Simon Young 9781804131664
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The Folklore Society's... -
The Boggart Sourcebook by Dr. Simon Young
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £46.49Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, 'Boggart Ephemera', is a selection of about 40,000 words of... -
Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood Julie K. Allen 9781804131350
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.49Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having... -
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema by Gerry Turvey
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company - also known as 'B&C'- in the years... -
Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood Julie K. Allen 9781905816873
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having... -
'Film Europe' And 'Film America' by Andrew Higson
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.99Winner of the 2000 Prix Jean Mitry. A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of... -
Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader Steve Neale 9781905816583
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £90.99This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the... -
Finding Birt Acres by Deac Rossell
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £82.49Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic... -
Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema David Ingram 9780859896092
RRP: £17.50SciFier: £16.74This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely... -
Picturegoers by Luke McKernan
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included... -
Chuck, Appearance and Reality: Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy Kelly Dean Jolley 9781804132357
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? On the face of it, Chuck appears to be fun and funny network TV show merging spy thriller with romantic comedy, a piece of... -
Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain by Jamie Sexton
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars. The book provides a detailed view... -
John Hamrick's Blue Mouse Cinemas by Michael Aronson
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49John Hamrick's Blue Mouse Cinemas offers a unique, in-depth case study of regional independent film exhibition in the American Pacific Northwest. Focusing on the silent and early sound periods, this... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 1: 1894-1896 John Barnes 9780859895644
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details... -
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow by Laurent Mannoni
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.49Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 4: 1899 John Barnes 9780859895217
SciFier: £111.19Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 1: 1894-1896 John Barnes 9780859899543
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 4: 1899 John Barnes 9780859899574
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major... -
Bill Douglas by Phil Wickham
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99This book examines the work and art of Bill Douglas, thirty years after his death. Douglas made only a small body of work during his lifetime: The Bill Douglas Trilogy, based on his deprived... -
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911 by Simon Brown
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film... -
The Appreciation of Film by Richard Lowell MacDonald
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film... -
Multimedia Histories: From Magic Lanterns to Internet James Lyons 9780859897723
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen... -
Multimedia Histories: From Magic Lanterns to Internet James Lyons 9780859897730
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £21.49Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 2: 1897 John Barnes 9780859899550
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume... -
Decoding the Movies by Prof. Richard Maltby (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, South Australia)
RRP: £115.00SciFier: £104.49This book "decodes" 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood... -
Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema Richard Maltby (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, South Australia) 9780859898126
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.99This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 2: 1897 John Barnes 9780859895194
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume... -
Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema Richard Maltby (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University, South Australia) 9780859898119
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £68.99This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 5: 1900 John Barnes 9780859895224
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £64.49Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 5: 1900 John Barnes 9780859899581
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major... -
Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image Rachel Moseley 9780859890779
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.74This book explores the history of Cornwall's picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark books. Drawing on art history to... -
Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image Rachel Moseley 9780859893589
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £68.49This book explores the history of Cornwall's picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark books. Drawing on art history to... -
The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 3: 1898 John Barnes 9780859895200
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £63.99Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field and represent a major...