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After Kieslowski
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38This 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... -
Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry by Andreea Marinescu
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $46.55Investigates 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... -
Red Alert by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $45.16In 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... -
Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity Alistair Fox 9780814334324
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $46.55In 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... -
South Korean Golden Age Melodrama by Kathleen McHugh
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38Immediately 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... -
Im Kwon-Taek by David E. James
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38Korean 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... -
Sayles Talk by Diane Carson
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $38.91His 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... -
The Politics of Magic by Qinna Shen
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche... -
Vincente Minnelli by Joe McElhaney
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $46.55This book offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of Vincente Minnelli, one of American cinema's central filmmakers.Widely known for innovative films like ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", ""An American... -
Erotic Infidelities by Kimberly J. Lau
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $40.30In the thirty-five years since the publication of The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter's reimagined fairy tales have inspired an impressive body of criticism. Yet none has addressed the ways her fairy... -
Buffoon Men by Scott Balcerzak
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $34.69Film 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... -
Transnational Cinema in a Global North by Andrew Nestingen
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $46.55Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on such auteurs as Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman. Recent work has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the... -
Doctor Who Jim Leach 9780814333082
SciFier: $31.26This is a comprehensive account of ""Doctor Who"" as a television series and product of popular culture. ""Doctor Who"", the iconic British science-fiction series following a time-traveling alien... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $14.25Originally 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... -
The Last Laugh by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $47.19SciFier: $43.77For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But... -
Britton on Film
RRP: $62.48SciFier: $43.22For 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... -
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakolevich Propp by Sibelan Forrester
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $33.42Vladimir 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... -
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones by Nancy L. Canepa
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $50.03The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid... -
To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa Isabel Balseiro 9780814330012
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $38.91With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. This collection offers an exploration of a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: $31.26In 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... -
Cinema and Community by Moya Luckett
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $46.55Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet... -
Christophe Honore by David A. Gerstner
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $45.16French filmmaker Christophe Honore challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside... -
Essay'd 3 by Matthew Piper
SciFier: $41.96Thirty 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... -
24 by John McCullough
SciFier: $31.26For 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... -
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order by James Peterson
RRP: $40.24SciFier: $25.95Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814324578Author James PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint < -
Before the Crash by Mark Wolf
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38Contributors 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 -
Framing Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $43.08In 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... -
Film and Risk by Mette Hjort
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $45.16Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814334638Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814345429
RRP: $119.54SciFier: $112.58Examines 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... -
Queer Enchantments by Anne E. Duggan
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $40.30To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy colour schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation... -
Mother Goose Refigured by Christine A. Jones
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $40.30Charles 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... -
Horror International by Steven Jay Schneider
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $43.08As 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... -
More than a Method by Cynthia L. Baron
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $31.36Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary... -
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films by Walter Raubicheck
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $27.05Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323267Author Walter RaubicheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint -
Arthur Penn by Robin Wood
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $34.74Arthur 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: $44.41SciFier: $40.30Examines 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... -
Cinema and History by Marc Ferro
RRP: $37.46SciFier: $36.13Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814319055Author Marc FerroFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff
SciFier: $31.26While 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... -
There She Goes by Corinn Columpar
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38Following 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: $44.41SciFier: $28.12This 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...