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Conversations with Christian Metz by Warren Buckland
SciFier: £82.79From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: Essais sur la signifi cation au cinema, tome1 et 2; Langage et cinema; Le signifiant... -
Who Wrote Citizen Kane? by Warren Buckland
SciFier: £112.89This book offers a solution to one of film history's major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles' and Herman J. Mankiewicz's contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including... -
Puzzle Films by Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
RRP: £38.95SciFier: £35.95Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the... -
Directed by Steven Spielberg by Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
SciFier: £34.99Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521037150
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £45.54In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Hollywood Puzzle Films Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415622462
SciFier: £50.66From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521780056
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £73.86In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415590983
SciFier: £38.53In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place:How does it select its objects of study and its methods of... -
Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis Dr. Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781501377327
SciFier: £34.99Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's... -
Studying Contemporary American Film by Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
SciFier: £41.99How should the student set about analysing contemporary American cinema? This book takes an innovative approach to film analysis: each chapter examines the assumptions behind one traditional theory... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9781349303038
SciFier: £92.99Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
SciFier: £92.99Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness by Agnieszka Piotrowska
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32Bringing together a range of creative practitioners and notable scholars, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Catherine Grant, Roberta Mock, Warren Buckland, Kiki Tianqi Yu, William Brown and others, this... -
Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media Seung-hoon Jeong 9781138843639
SciFier: £45.46In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent... -
The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema Christian Quendler 9780367873271
SciFier: £42.86This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it... -
American Independent Cinema: An Introduction Yannis Tzioumakis 9780813539713
SciFier: £37.00From the prestige films of Cagney Productions to recent, ultra-low budget cult hits, such as Clerks and The Blair Witch Project, American independent cinema has produced some of the most distinctive... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory Edward Branigan 9781138849150
SciFier: £56.30The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to... -
The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon P. Kunze 9781349486922
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Wes Anderson's films can be divisive, but he is widely recognized as the inspiration for several recent trends in indie films. Using both practical and theoretical lenses, the contributors address... -
The Persistence of Hollywood Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968140
SciFier: £44.43While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s,... -
German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 Thomas Elsaesser 9780415709279
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39In German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory... -
American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond Geoff King (Brunel University, UK) 9780415684293
RRP: £50.99SciFier: £46.33The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how... -
Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Christian Metz 9780231173674
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the...