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When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity Karen McNally 9780252075421
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.12This first in-depth study of Frank Sinatra's film career explores his iconic status in relation to his many performances in postwar Hollywood cinema. When Frankie Went to Hollywood considers how... -
Legal Reelism by John Denvir
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Law and and justice are important themes in film, not only in courtroom dramas, but also in the western, the film noir, even the documentary. In the Godfather trilogy Francis Ford Coppola shows that... -
All about Thelma and Eve by Judith Roof
SciFier: £22.86Inviting us to "wallow in the middle," Judith Roof offers a fresh, inventive look at female comic secondary characters who, though never on center stage, play an indispensable role in enriching and... -
Fifties Television: THE INDUSTRY AND ITS CRITICS William Boddy 9780252062995
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23William Boddy provides a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of the fledging American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy... -
Disappearing Tricks by Matthew Solomon
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. Where others have called upon magic as merely... -
Replications by J P. Telotte
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A haunting fascination fuels our interest in the robot, the android, the cyborg, the replicant. Born in science fiction literature, the artificial human has come into its own in films, lurching to... -
Salome of the Tenements Anzia Yezierska 9780252064357
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The story of a young, aspiring Jewish woman from the ghetto who will do anything to get her man in this case an upper-class WASP. When she discovers he is not really what she wanted, she will do... -
Figures of Resistance by Teresa de Lauretis
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholarsFigures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of... -
Exporting Perilous Pauline by Marina Dahlquist
SciFier: £29.21Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology,... -
A New Species: GENDER and SCIENCE in SCIENCE FICTION Robin Roberts 9780252062841
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and... -
Richard Linklater David T. Johnson 9780252078507
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have... -
Picture Personalities by Richard Decordova
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Moving pictures existed for over a decade before anything resembling a star system appeared. Then, within the space of a very few years, American cinema went from being completely devoid of stars to... -
History by Hollywood, Second Edition Robert Toplin 9780252076893
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90This newly updated edition of History by Hollywood explores the question of what happens to history when Hollywood filmmakers get their hands on it. With a fresh look at recent films and television... -
Unspeakable Images by Lester D. Friedman
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLester D. Friedman teaches humanities at SUNY Health Science Center and cinema studies at Syracuse University... -
Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film Shilpa S. Dave 9780252037405
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular... -
POINTS OF RESISTANCE by Lauren Rabinovitz
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of... -
Vacation Stories: FIVE SCIENCE FICTION TALES Santiago Ramon y Cajal 9780252073557
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01The nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosityThe nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosityAbout the AuthorSantiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1906... -
John Sayles David R. Shumway 9780252078569
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has... -
William Gibson Gary Westfahl 9780252079375
SciFier: £25.18The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology... -
Voices in the Dark by J P. Telotte
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.19The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema... -
Law in Film by David A. Black
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78The courtroom, like the movie theater, is an arena for the telling and interpreting of stories. Investigators piece them together, witnesses tell them, advocates retell them, and judges and juries... -
International Women Stage Directors by Anne Fliotsos
RRP: £51.00SciFier: £42.35A fascinating study of women in the arts, International Women Stage Directors is a comprehensive examination of women directors in twenty-four diverse countries. Organized by country, chapters... -
John Brunner Jad Smith 9780252078811
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934-1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career,... -
Showdown by John H. Lenihan
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35"Lenihan's fine study [brings] new levels of scholarship and sophistication to the study of western films.... Should prove useful in the classroom, both for social ... -
Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry John S. Schuchman 9780252068508
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67"Hollywood Speaks is a remarkable book. Schuchman's inquiry into how deafness has been treated in movies provides us with yet another window onto social history in addition to a fresh angle... -
Jacques Rivette Mary M. Wiles 9780252078347
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78As a pioneer of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette was one of a group of directors who permanently altered the world's perception of cinema by taking the camera out of the studios and into the... -
David Lynch Justus Nieland 9780252078514
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these... -
Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film Shilpa S. Dave 9780252078934
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular... -
Tomorrow's Eve by Villiers de L'isle Adam
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to... -
Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy Leslie Marsh 9780252078736
SciFier: £31.60At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in Brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films. In the early 1990s, women filmmakers in Brazil were... -
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemunden 9780252042836
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works... -
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemunden 9780252084669
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works... -
Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era by Guerric DeBona
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In this exceptional contribution to literary adaptation studies, Guerric DeBona shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the... -
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Joseph Mai 9780252077111
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience. Their work... -
Jerry Lewis Chris Fujiwara 9780252076794
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis... -
Dario Argento by L. Andrew Cooper
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as... -
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Joseph Mai 9780252035289
SciFier: £104.49For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience. Their work... -
Manoel de Oliveira Randal Johnson 9780252074424
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer Manoel de Oliveira's eighty-five year career made him a filmmaking icon and a cultural giant in his native Portugal. A lifelong... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252044137
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £81.81Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle,... -
Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood Mark Garrett Cooper 9780252077005
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these...