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Framing Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.99In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £10.25Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his... -
Essay'd 3 by Matthew Piper
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.99Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of Detroit artists.Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists is the third volume in a series of collections that present short, illustrated essays about artists... -
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order by James Peterson
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £18.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814324578Author James PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint < -
After Kieslowski
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49This title traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died... -
Ingmar Bergman by Robin Wood
SciFier: £30.49At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman's films that demonstrated the... -
Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity Alistair Fox 9780814334324
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity a diverse group of contributors challenge the view that Campion's body of work lacks coherence or unity to instead examine the important characteristics and... -
Arthur Penn by Robin Wood
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £24.99Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood's analysis of the American director was... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814342930
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Tales in Context by Rella Kushelevsky
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £80.49A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma'asim.About the AuthorRella Kushelevsky is a distinguished professor of medieval and rabbinic studies at Bar-Ilan University. She is also the author of... -
Montgomery Clift, Queer Star by Elisabetta Girelli
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.03Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talented, Montgomery Clift was at the peak of his fame in 1956 when a devastating car crash nearly destroyed his face. While this traumatic event robbed him of... -
Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff
SciFier: £22.49While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the... -
Zones of Anxiety by Vicki Callahan
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within early cinematic paradigms. Made during 1913 to... -
Imitations of Life by Marcia Landy
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £21.71Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the... -
Before the Crash by Mark Wolf
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium's golden age.Book InformationISBN 9780814334508Author Mark WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Im Kwon-Taek by David E. James
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making... -
Christophe Honore by David A. Gerstner
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside... -
Britton on Film
RRP: £44.95SciFier: £31.09For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are... -
Mother Goose Refigured by Christine A. Jones
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £28.99Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passe ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales produced by learned French... -
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakolevich Propp by Sibelan Forrester
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £24.04Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's... -
24 by John McCullough
SciFier: £22.49For eight seasons between 2001 and 2010, Fox's 24 garnered critical accolades and became one of the most watched and discussed shows in primetime. In an innovative premise, the show's hour-long... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: £22.49In January 2004, Showtime debuted The L Word, the first prime-time commercial drama to centre around lesbian characters. Over the course of six seasons, the show depicted the lives and loves of an... -
Horror International by Steven Jay Schneider
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.99As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before... -
Buffoon Men by Scott Balcerzak
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £24.96Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a ""trickster,"" a ""rebel,"" or a ""buffoon."" Yet the performer is almost always described as a... -
Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by Andreea Marinescu
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raul Ruiz.Most widely known for his filmic productions, Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) was a highly prolific, erudite, and innovative artist, whose work is located at... -
From Tinseltown to Bordertown by Celestino Deleyto
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £33.49Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the... -
Red Alert by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and filmshare important connections concerning... -
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films by Walter Raubicheck
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323267Author Walter RaubicheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint -
Light Motives by Randall Halle
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £33.49Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of films like ""Das Boot"" (1981), ""The Never-Ending Story"" (1984) ""Run Lola Run"" (1998) and recent... -
There She Goes by Corinn Columpar
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Following in the footsteps of the filmmakers whose work it features-including Miranda July, Janie Geiser, Tracey Moffatt, Sally Potter, Cindy Sherman, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sadie Benning, Agnes Varda,... -
Cinema at the Periphery by Dina Iordanova
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £20.23This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to... -
Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters by Nir Cohen
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £25.99A cultural history of gay filmmaking in Israel that explores its role in the rise of gay consciousness over the past three decades.Book InformationISBN 9780814334782Author Nir CohenFormat... -
Parables of the Posthuman by Jonathan Boulter
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular... -
Cinema and History by Marc Ferro
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £25.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814319055Author Marc FerroFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Reading the Bromance by Michael DeAngelis
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys... -
South Korean Golden Age Melodrama by Kathleen McHugh
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £30.49Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with vibrant local production of high-quality films. Characterized by its stunning melodramas, this ""Golden Age"" of... -
Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £28.99While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is... -
Appetites and Anxieties by Cynthia Baron
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £32.49Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular... -
Queer Mexico by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £32.49Explores the rich and varied LGBT cinema and television of Mexico since the new millennium.Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television since 2000 provides critical analysis of both mainstream and independent... -
Sayles Talk by Diane Carson
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £27.99His name is synonymous with ""independent film,"" and for more than twenty-five years filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American...