Direction & Production

In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the...

How Documentaries Work breaks down the hidden conventions of documentaries in clear and accessible language for film students and documentary enthusiasts alike. Jacob Bricca, ACE, an award-winning documentary director, producer, and editor, provides a...

Throughout the course of film history, artists have used matte painting, stop-motion animation, model photography, process cinematography, in-camera effects, travelling mattes, optical printing and physical and floor effects to entertain audiences. These...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hayao Miyazaki's career in animation has made him famous as not only the greatest director of animated features in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060084677Author Bret SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935578317Author ASC Stephen H. BurumFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint American CinematographerPublisher American CinematographerWeight(grams)...

Making music for the movies is a complicated, involved, and challenging process. Music Editing for Film and Television covers the practical skills needed to successfully hone your craft. Through an overview of the music editing process, this book will...

'Darkly comic, beautifully written and full of surprises'Daily Mail 'Really funny. David is a great writer' Paula Hawkins, Good Housekeeping'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David...

"An important document that should be included in any library of design and architecture." - Daniella Ohad "A masterful blend of emigre biography and architecture and design history, proving that the twentieth century fostered more than one modernism."...

Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics, curators, and public intellectuals such as Donna De Salvo,...

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." For more than five decades, the Skywalker saga has thrilled generations of fans who have grown up with one of the greatest stories in cinematic history. This sprawling epic of nine episodic films covers 67...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956474398Author Anita RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087853680Author Alex FerrariFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ifh BooksPublisher Ifh BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

John Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and...

The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653558Author Paul A. WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been...

The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking,film editing,is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers , and Goodbye,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861714336Author JEREMY MARK ROBINSONFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography--OtherAlmost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies...

Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead.Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335964Author Phillip DyeFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

Morton has written the definitive book on this innovative movie by Steven Spielberg...Meticulous research of this caliber is not found in other books on EClose EncountersE. Fans will find Morton's take informative and fascinating. a ELibrary JournalE...

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take...

Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity-so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861718532Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and the central role this plays in Thailand's film industry. Tracing the development of Thai cinema...

Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling through writing, directing, and editing. Author Ken Dancyger provides a comprehensive explanation of the tools that...

The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a...

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Featuring material from the seminal magazine...

This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent...

As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two films on the all-time top ten box office hits: ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" and ""The Sting"" (both starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman). A filmmaker with a...

It's a whole new world for cinematographers, camera assistants, and postproduction artists. New equipment, new methods, and new technologies have to be learned and mastered. New roles such as that of the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), Digital Loader,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339795Author Jonathan SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 522Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1483gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges?...

Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today's "green" movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724543158Author Thomas J ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews...

John Ford at Work: Production Histories 1927-1939 explores the evolution of John Ford's career in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s as the system itself changed in response to the coming of sound and the business downtown instigated by the...

Written by industry expert, R.J. Kizer, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of post-sync dialogue replacement, popularly known as ADR. It explores how this often overlooked, but essential technology, is used in motion pictures and...