Direction & Production

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...

Sean Connery was one of cinema's most iconic stars. Born to a working-class family in Edinburgh, he held jobs as a milkman and an artist's model before making the move into acting. The role of James Bond earned him global fame, but threatened to eclipse...

After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and-worst of all-ignored throughout the general course of his wildly eclectic and impactful filmography. As the...

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* 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...

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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...

This edition covers iMovie 10.0 for Mac and iMovie 2.0 for iOS. iMovie's sophisticated tools make it easier than ever to turn raw footage into sleek, entertaining movies once you understand how to harness its features. Experts David Pogue and Aaron...

The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey's John Akomfrah is...

Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General. He died aged 25 in 1969,...

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967537Author Laura LeuzziFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

'Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis' Film Reboots is dedicated to a fundamental question of the form, namely why do reboots exist and what do they do? An impressive array of scholars engage with the contemporary reboot as an industrial practice,...

Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques Audiard is the first book on the cinema of one of the most...

Since the release of his breakout film Irreversible in 2002, Gaspar Noe (b. 1963) has been labeled the principal provocateur of twenty-first-century French cinema. While many of the filmmaker's complex and daring works have been reduced by his critics to...

Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in English Investigates the landmark television series Small...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033140Author George Stevens, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJeffrey Bullins is a sound designer and educator living in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has worked in the sound department for several horror films and has written...

By the former Head of Script at the National Film & Television School, this is a key text for anyone interested in film.In this invaluable and fascinating insight into the way the elements of a film - image, sound and story - are put together, Cherry...

A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur...

Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is an enigma. A box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by art-house audiences, and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A...

Are the Oscars (still) so white? Is it even possible to decolonise the film industry? Why is Hollywood's race problem everyone's problem?Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity,...

"Simon Usher is one of the most clear headed thinkers about theatre in this country. He taps onto a well of experience spanning four decades with grace and ferocious honesty. He writes with precision and wit and insight. There is no more essential book...

One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English, and much of the writing about him in Japanese has not...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250397140Author Carrie CourogenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Examines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon's work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and music ...