Direction & Production

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work, one that received an expansive national and international attention and led her to winning the...

Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled...

Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to The Mandalorian and GroguThe Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu takes fans behind the scenes of the first Star Wars theatrical release in seven years. Directed by Jon Favreau and cowritten by Favreau...

Is destiny real, or is talent simply inherited?Sofia Coppola grew up inside filmmaking's strange machinery - appearing in The Godfather films and others - her childhood steeped in cinema. Dinner talk covered story structure; Spielberg and Kurosawa...

Spanning six decades, her seventeen features and four shorts move from the late Soviet era to post-Soviet Ukraine, breaking cinematic rules with repetition, collage, unruly performance and a tactile, object-rich world. This volume reframes Muratova as an...

This latest volume of the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series is a dazzling deep dive into The Phoenician Scheme. This handsome coffee table book takes readers and fans behind the scenes of Anderson's latest film and unveils the complete story...

The authorised retrospective book for the Kevin Smith movie Dogma, starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, and Jason Mewes, featuring exclusive interview material with cast and crew, including the director, and never-before-seen...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496863188Author Lloyd SachsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of MississippiSeries Conversations...

Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie impresario Roger Corman, from whom he learned to make...

Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie impresario Roger Corman, from whom he learned to make...

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information. It covers the equipment, both basic and advanced, and the planning needed for a successful production. It looks at indoor and outdoor...

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel, action, recreations of the past, visual and verbal...

This open access book presents a dozen academic essays that variously discuss obscure films by Ingmar Bergman, or hitherto hidden characteristics of his work. This collection features chapters on films that have often been overshadowed by the more...

The official art book for the movie Ant-Man and the Wasp, the 18th title reissue of the 22-book Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.The 18th of the 22 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being...

This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell's career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the US, across genres ranging from romantic comedy to...

Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography,...

A Filmmaker's Guide to Working with Children is a vital resource for ethical filmmaking with child performers. Building on their collaboration on the film Snake, the authors offer practical strategies for creating captivating performances while ensuring...

Lee Hill's meticulously-researched study of the 1969 cult road movie Easy Rider analyses both the circumstances surrounding the film's making and the social and cultural forces that found expression in it. Easy Rider broke the mould of Hollywood studio...

This new edition explores the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Since our 2022 edition, Nolan has solidified his place among cinema's greatest directors, winning his first Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture with...

Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries...

Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus crystallize across different material formations. The...

Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, providing professional producers with key insights and pathways to adapt and prepare.By exploring traditional media industries, and how...

Focuses on the history of government subsidies for feature films in Flanders (the northern, Dutch-language region of Belgium) and its role in stimulating a Flemish identity. It provides an empirical contribution to the study of the relationship between...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to the Emmy, WGA, SAG, Golden Globe, and BAFTA-Award nominated Disney+ seriesThe Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) gives readers an exclusive inside look at the production art, visual development,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894140698Author Arnaud DevillardFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running Press

This book opens a new door into visual storytelling by using a story-first method to reframe cinematography as a language, not just a technical craft. Readers will learn to think about images not only as products of gear and technique, but as carefully...

In this book, Jonathan Scott Lee argues that Jean-Luc Godard is best seen as a philosopher who uses cinema and video as his media to develop provocative interventions into contemporary political situations and dilemmas, both explicitly and aesthetically...

In 1993, director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park brought Michael Crichton's Isla Nublar and his dinosaur theme park to life. The film captivated audiences around the world, pioneering a new age of visual effects on the silver screen and starting an...

Discover the secrets behind creating the spellbinding wardrobe for Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films in Costumes of the Wizarding World. Expansive and detailed, this book is the essential guide for every fan, chronicling the creation of costumes...

While few can deny its incalculable influence on popular filmmaking during and after World War II, film noir has been and remains one of the most contentious categories of cinema, involving more debates than consensus about what constitutes a noir. This...

Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors...

Korean cinema, though currently established as one of the most successful international film industries, has never been a fair ground for women filmmakers. Amidst the heavily male dominated Korean cinema and the film industry, Yim has consistently...

The films of Bigas Luna is the first comprehensive English-language study of the complete filmography of Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna, spanning from Tatuaje (1976) to DiDi Hollywood (2010).Engaging with theoretical frameworks such as haptic cinema,...

Official retrospective companion book to the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, featuring high-resolution screen grabs, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key cast and crew.When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released in 1974, it...

The ultimate guide to the making of cult classic film The Crow, featuring new interviews with filmmakers, behind-the-scenes imagery, and highlighting its enduring legacy.Take a deep dive into the making of the iconic 1994 film The Crow, exploring its...

The book examines how Danish and German film interacted with one another from 1910 through World War I till the advent of sound around 1930. The film businesses of the two countries were closely connected, and many film professionals crossed back and...

Experience The Shop as never before through behind-the-scenes anecdotes, insights from the hosts and guests, stunning photography, and unforgettable quotes from culture-leading athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs-all giving an in-depth look at the real,...

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013). Beginning with their...

This seminal text, now in its thirteenth edition, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the operations underlying video production.It provides thorough coverage of the theory and techniques readers need to know, balancing complexity with...