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The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $25.97Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly... -
American Independent Cinema: An Introduction Yannis Tzioumakis 9780813539713
SciFier: $49.14From 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... -
Greek Cinema by Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
SciFier: $41.92Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse... -
Hollywood's Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and American Independent Cinema Yannis Tzioumakis 9780748685936
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $38.66This book charts three decades of specialist and independent filmmaking in Hollywood. The specialty film divisions of the major Hollywood studios were established to focus on the European arthouse... -
American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond Geoff King (Brunel University, UK) 9780415684293
RRP: $68.10SciFier: $61.99The 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... -
Twentieth Century Fox Frederick Wasser 9781138921269
SciFier: $52.35This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160627
SciFier: $48.73The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Mary Poppins by Leslie H. Abramson
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $27.08This volume examines Mary Poppins as a 1960s film reflecting and invested in its radically changing times, a largely but not unmitigatedly antiestablishment musical resonant with conditions and... -
2001: A Space Odyssey by Peter Kramer (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.99Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and... -
Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance Cynthia Baron 9781137408624
SciFier: $157.06This book illustrates the many ways that actors contribute to American independent cinema. Analyzing industrial developments, it examines the impact of actors as writers, directors, and producers,... -
Indie Cinema Online Sarah E.S. Sinwell 9781978814707
RRP: $172.36SciFier: $137.21Indie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and... -
Indie Cinema Online Sarah E.S. Sinwell 9781978814691
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $31.36Indie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and... -
Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures Jamie Sexton 9781474414067
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $99.51The first academic book to explore indie music and indie music cultures on screen Combines historical, cultural, aesthetic and industry analysis to explore the functions and broader appeal of... -
'Grease Is the Word' by Oliver Gruner
SciFier: $35.36Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, 'Grease Is the Word' analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. With essays covering everything from the film's... -
Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay by Dr. Aaron Hunter (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
SciFier: $51.14Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts. Being There (1979) is generally considered the final film in... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231179201
RRP: $122.32SciFier: $99.62From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231179218
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $32.51From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of... -
The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) 9781501373862
SciFier: $47.25After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer... -
Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema Dr. Paul Kerr (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501336751
SciFier: $144.55Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side... -
Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman 9780231144650
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $32.51America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's... -
Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman 9780231144643
SciFier: $125.61America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's... -
Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash Dr. Hilaria Loyo (former Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781501388163
SciFier: $44.47The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life. Amid these... -
Greta Gerwig's Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender Hilary Radner (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9781350523968
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $34.31This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig's unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for...