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The American Film Industry by Tino Balio
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £20.16This anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters - seen written specifically for this edition - that explore such topics... -
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.93This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring... -
Stars in My Eyes by Don Bachardy
SciFier: £16.99Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist... -
The Autobiographical Documentary in America by Jim Lane
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £24.49Since the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all stripes have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the documentary form is most often used to capture the lives of... -
White Heat Patrick McGilligan 9780299096748
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Among the countless gangster films produced by Hollywood, few are as haunting, complex, or ingeniously crafted as White Heat (1948). Students of film history and screen writing will appreciate this... -
Yankee Doodle Dandy Patrick McGilligan 9780299084745
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Talks about a 1942 smash musical hit, a favorite among audiences and film buffs.ReviewsA notable collection of screenplays... All reproduce the film as shot, with extensive data... [and] full... -
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35A search for gold in the mountains of Mexico leads three American prospectors to both treasure and loss in John Huston's screenplay for his acclaimed and much-studied 1948 film. This volume provides... -
Luis Bunuel by Roman Gubern
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.45The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and... -
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the ""Push Buttons,"" a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter... -
Juarez Paul J. Vanderwood 9780299087449
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35An attempt to answer the major question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? This book talks about The Warner Bros studio's eagerness to get behind the foreign policy objectives of... -
Early American Cinema in Transition
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £20.49The years 1907-1913 mark a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with... -
A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert
RRP: £28.50SciFier: £17.82The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. ""A History of the French New Wave Cinema"" offers a... -
Six Turkish Filmmakers Laurence Raw 9780299315405
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £52.71Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and... -
Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film Marilyn Ann Moss 9780299204341
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £17.12Marilyn Ann Moss's Giant examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as... -
The Many Lives of Cy Endfield by Brian Neve
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.75Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was... -
The Jazz Singer by Robert L. Carringer
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Talks about ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. This film deals with the conflicts confronting the first-generation Jew in America... -
The Magic Mirror by Denise J. Youngblood
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23This work is a study of ten years of native Russian film production through the Revolution of 1917, based almost exclusively on Russian-language primary sources. Showing how these films portrayed and... -
Dark Victory by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35Talks about Bette Davis's role of a dying heroine.Book InformationISBN 9780299087647Author Bernard F. DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of... -
Now, Voyager by Jeanne Allen
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Presents the study of a woman's struggle for independence in which Bette Davis gave a skillful performance. Seen at first as a ""women's film"" it has won renewed interest as a remarkable work... -
Escape Artist by Glenn Lovell
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £17.12Escape Artist - based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars, including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell - is the first... -
Walking Shadows
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £17.24Walking Shadows dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and brash young filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's film Citizen Kane. In 1940-1941 it became... -
To Have and Have Not by Bruce F. Kawin
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35The story of the making of ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944) is an exciting one, ranging from the widely reported romance between its stars, Humphrey Bogart and the unknown nineteen-year-old Lauren... -
Tough as Nails by Douglass K. Daniel
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £17.12Called "God's angry man" for his unyielding demands in pursuit of personal and artistic freedom, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks brought us some of the mid-twentieth century's most iconic... -
Murder in Hollywood by Charles Higham
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £13.23Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the... -
It's a Print! by Smith
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £15.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726669Author SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher... -
I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang by John E. O'Connor
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Talks about the public outrage generated by the movie that led to reform of the southern chain gang system.Book InformationISBN 9780299087548Author John E. O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies 9780299161644
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £11.67This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and... -
American Theatrical Film Stag
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £17.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879722890Format HardbackImprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of... -
Hardboiled in Hollywood
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879725259Format HardbackImprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of... -
Making Hollywood Happen by Charles Drazin
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.83Filmmaking is a business-someone has to pay the bills. For much of the industry's history, that role was shouldered by the studios. The rise of independent filmmakers then led to the rise of... -
Reel Rituals by Parle Ann Boswell
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £15.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879727925Author Parle Ann BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Bowling Green University... -
Vision/RE-Vision by Barbara Tepa Lupack
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.18Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879727147Author Barbara Tepa LupackFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Bowling Green University... -
Suspense by Dove
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.41Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879724566Author DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Dress and Popular Culture by Cunningham
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879725075Author CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Beyond the Stars Vol.4 by Paul Loukides
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £14.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879725891Author Paul LoukidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Take Two by Barbara Tepa Lupack
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £12.45Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726423Author Barbara Tepa LupackFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Bowling Green University... -
Martin Ritt: the Life and Movies by Carlton Jackson
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £14.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726720Author Carlton JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Deadly Excitements Shadows & Phantoms Sampson 9780879724504
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £12.16Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879724504Author SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Sf: the Other Side of Realism by Thomas Clareson
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £15.10Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879720230Author Thomas ClaresonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Bowling Green University Popular... -
Graphic Opinions Editorial Cartoon by Colldeweih & Goldstein
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879727581Author Colldeweih & GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bowling Green University...