Direction & Production

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at...

Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects of design and discusses in detail their artistic...

Artisan, entrepreneur, and impresario, British filmmaker Ridley Scott accepts the profit motive as the only way to thrive in an industry where there is little patience for artistic flourishes or overblown expenses. Yet, while he may pay lip service to...

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, DispositifEdited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaAlthough film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been...

Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335810Author Austin TrunickFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542331Author Robert HoflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Marilyn Ann Moss's Giant examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as Shane, Giant, A Place in the Sun, and The Diary of Anne...

By twenty-three, Welles had founded his own theatre company and revolutionised radio with his infamous broadcast of The War of the Worlds. By twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film, Citizen Kane. Yet four films and less than...

Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won't involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf. Many screen actors begin their careers lacking the...

Curated from the pages of Star Wars Insider, go behind the scenes to discover how the most terrifying Star Wars villains were brought to the screen in this incredible collection of in-depth interviews and articles. The actors and filmmakers behind...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833464Author Andrew YuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause...

David A. Ellis has interviewed some of the most influential and highly regarded cameramen of the last half century and more, and he has assembled these exchanges in Conversations with Cinematographers. While their names may not be known by the general...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932719Author Paul DudbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957041646Author Nelli FominaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CygnnetPublisher CygnnetWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 190mm * 21mm

Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse...

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Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "real people" to tell powerful stories on video. Director/producer Amy DeLouise brings years of experience to this resource for...

Every production is built on the backbone of the pipeline. While a functional and flexible pipeline can't assure a successful project, a weak pipeline can guarantee its demise. A solid pipeline produces a superior product in less time and with happier...

Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The "songs" of the film's title refer to Andersson's...

* Provides a unique perspective to media production while considering aesthetics, ideas and ethics and includes a robust companion website with interactive exercises for each chapter as well as a downloadable instructor's manual. * Suitable for beginner...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615930913Author Carole Lee DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 585g

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer...

When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots,...

Agnes Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her...

The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting...

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629338286Author Joseph BrutsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A collection of critical essays about the noted filmmaker John Hughes Offers an examination of films from diverse academic perspectives Explores topics such as his depictions of youth and his assessment of gender, class, and race issues Provides an...

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky is famous for his...

By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect that gives stunning expression to a film's key themes...

Even twenty years after his death and nearly fifty or more years after his creative peak, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is still arguably the most instantly recognizable film director in name, appearance, vision, and voice. Long ago, through a combination...

Typically, films are suspenseful when they keep us on the edge of our seats, when glimpses of a turning doorknob, a ticking clock, or a looming silhouette quicken our pulses. Exemplified by Alfred Hitchcock's masterworks and the countless thrillers they...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448946Author Jon M. ChuFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from...

This is the first book-length academic study of Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier's films. The book, written by an author who has followed his work closely for ten years, offers an introduction to all five feature films, from his debut Reprise (2006) to his...

Blake Edwards (1922-2010) was a multitalented, versatile director constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking but also in life. Often typecast as a comedy director, he also created westerns, thrillers, musicals, and heart-wrenching dramas...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960721419Author Jason JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Encyclopocalypse PublicationsPublisher Encyclopocalypse PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Brian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.For years he reigned as the ""master of the macabre,"" the man who massacred the class of '76 in Carrie and stalked Angie Dickinson in Dressed to Kill. By the mid-1980s De Palma found himself...