Direction & Production

Thorold Dickinson has been called the "major lost talent of the British film industry." Nevertheless, four of his films, Gaslight, Men of Two Worlds, The Next of Kin, and Queen of Spades are among the most critically respected British films of all time...

Fills a crying need in this inexplicably long-ignored area. Bountifully illustrated, the work is bound to become a standard reference work for anyone interested in cinema from Spain. An invaluable compendium of data not available before to Anglo...

Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches,...

One of the most popular directors and producers in film history Steven Spielberg is considered a founding pioneer of theyNew Hollywood era. EStephen Spielberg FAQE presents an all-encompassing look at the great artist's career and work a from his early...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the...

The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership by Coca-Cola and David Puttnam's misguided attempt to...

Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio president who...

With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two...

America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies...

In this text, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the important developments in the recent history of black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films". The work explores a distinct contradiction in American society -...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879505247Author Sergio LeemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 800g

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Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385300063Author Andrew YuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

More than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn't Live...

More than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn't Live...

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Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843360319Author Valkola JarmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation Demonstrates how a range of different horror subgenres depict bodily mediation, from the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755213948Author Jeff GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingDimensions(mm) 254mm * 190mm *...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In The...

Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to...

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Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of Hollywood's foremost emigre filmmakers, Wilder holds a key position in film history via films that...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933556Author Steve D KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

- Covers the film and video production process from development all the way through post-production, marketing and distribution, familiarizing readers with the departments and roles crucial to each stage of the production process.- Offers a hands-on...

The first academic study on the work of Wes Craven 16 chapters offering a wide discussion of the director's career Essential addition to horror film studies curriculum Includes all facets of the filmmaker's work, including his TV contributions and...

Dwight Little's Hollywood career spans from directing and producing major motion pictures for multiple studios to acclaimed television series and even video games. In this memoir, he takes readers along on a movie-making adventure that is by turns funny,...

Fully updated & revised edition to include the latest technology; further explanations of equipment and how to use it for those new to the role, as well as a new chapter on working as a grip on Virtual Sets Teaches the essential skills of a professional...

Identifies in 'Silicon Valley Cinema' a recent trend in twenty-first century Hollywood film Reveals how 'Silicon Valley Cinema' builds upon previous Hollywood trends Analyses three distinct subtrends in 'Silicon Valley Cinema': biopics, films about...

Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities. The book...

Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of those who knew him...

Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and Maryam Battaglia share their decades of expertise in this...

Online video's unique capacity to reach large audiences makes it a powerful tool to communicate science and technology to the general public. The outcome of the international research project "Videonline," this book provides a unique insight into the key...

Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking. The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history, technology, aesthetics, data, decision-making strategies, and...

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)...

In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity a diverse group of contributors challenge the view that Campion's body of work lacks coherence or unity to instead examine the important characteristics and themes that underlie it. Editors Hilary Radner,...