Direction & Production

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the...

The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing sets out the techniques, the systems and the craft required to edit compelling professional documentary television and film. Working stage by stage through the postproduction process, author Sam Billinge...

This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain's dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history of the studio and its longevity during a particularly turbulent...

In 1895, the Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Leon Gaumont, going on to direct over 300 films before...

Explores the production issues and cultural contexts of Hammer's unmade films Presents a previously undocumented history of one of the most famous British production companies of all time The first academic monograph to utilise the Hammer Script...

The official art book for the movie Ant-Man, the 11th title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.The 11th of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being published as a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615930630Author Howard SuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 349g

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. 1927). Beginning with their...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532663246Author Colin Heber-PercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksSeries Reel Spirituality MonographWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131041Author Margueritte DurasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a director of American films. Despite the protests regarding his ""friendly"" testimony...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951036157Author Tom SaviniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Happy Cloud PublishingPublisher Happy Cloud PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at the way that every department on a production can contribute to reducing waste and making a smaller footprint. Are you making a green film? Is your filmmaking contributing to the...

For 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 extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely...

This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the French New Wave to the recent triumphs of Histoire(s) du cinema and Eloge de...

This Much Is True is a landmark volume about the art of directing documentaries, with contributions from some of the most eminent documentary filmmakers working today, including Nick Broomfield, Andrew Jarecki, Kim Longinotto, Kevin Macdonald, James...

The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to...

Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received - for 1967's "I Call First", later renamed "Who's That Knocking at My Door" - creating a lasting bond that made him one of Scorsese's most appreciative and perceptive...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922764102Author Michael LangdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint LevityPublisher LevityWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 9mm

This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-set experiences to exclusive interviews spanning sixteen years, Wilson offers an unparalleled look at the...

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Visual narrative formulas for anyone involved in the film and tape industry.About the AuthorDaniel ArijonBook InformationISBN 9781879505070Author Daniel ArijonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S...

From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films - and why.Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking - and each is different. In Moviemakers' Masterclass,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302923587Author Marvel ComicsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

As a visionary and distinctive filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan (b. 1970) has consistently garnered mixed reception of his work by critics and audiences alike. After the release of The Sixth Sense, one of the most successful films from the turn of the...

They haven't spoken for 12 years. Can they fall in love in 12 days? 'I've been bowled over by this perfect little rom com . . . FULL of good lines and great moments' JANE CASEY ...

Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385308243Author Julie SalamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

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The first major English-language study of JarmuschAt a time when gimmicky, action-driven blockbusters ruled Hollywood, Jim Jarmusch spearheaded a boom in independent cinema by making now-classic low-budget films like Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law,...

More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of...

Newly available in paperback, this study provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a...

This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805044515Author Barry HampeFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm)...

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The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against considerable odds, have become successful producers,...

Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny-a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste, John Waters (born 1946) has created a canon of high-shock-value,...

The mercurial Danish director of Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating, opinionated and witty addition to Faber's 'Directors on Directors' series.Lars Trier affected the lordly...