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Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9780719096471
RRP: £85.00£60.91Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can be read as an original and coherent project: to make a... -
French Queer Cinema Nick Rees-Roberts 9780748634187
RRP: £90.00£82.78French Queer Cinema looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. Whilst there is growing research on representations of queer sexualities in France, this is the first comprehensive study of the cultural... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9780719095863
RRP: £90.00£64.79This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen,... -
Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global Karen Fricker 9780719080067
RRP: £85.00£60.91This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his... -
The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom Deborah Allison 9780739125830
RRP: £98.00£85.99Acclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom is renowned for the abundance and diversity of his output. His films span a wide range of genres in art house and mainstream cinema alike, from the heritage film to neo-noir. Working with different genres... -
The Documentary Handbook Peter Lee-Wright 9780415434027
RRP: £42.99£38.28'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully... -
Production Management for Television Leslie Mitchell 9780415424653
RRP: £110.00£94.79Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area.Production Management... -
Authorship and Film David A. Gerstner 9780415939942
RRP: £34.99£31.18Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range... -
Recording Voiceover: The Spoken Word in Media Tom Blakemore 9780415716086
RRP: £135.00£110.45The only book on the market to specifically address its audience, Recording Voiceover is the comprehensive guide for engineers looking to understand the aspects of capturing the spoken word.Discussing all phases of the recording session, Recording... -
Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait Norman Swallow 9780415726559
£78.38Of 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... -
Women Do Genre in Film and Television Mary Harrod 9780367889845
RRP: £39.99£35.37Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to 'undo' or 'subvert' popular formats, but also to... -
Virtual Reality Cinema: Narrative Tips and Techniques Eric Williams (Ohio University, USA) 9780367463397
RRP: £35.99£31.13Award-winning cine-maVRicks Eric R. Williams, Carrie Love and Matt Love introduce virtual reality cinema (also known as 360 Degrees video or cine-VR) in this comprehensive guide filled with insider tips and tested techniques for writing, directing and... -
Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology: Filmmaking on the Digital Backlot Mark Sawicki 9780367354220
RRP: £125.00£107.46This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to repurpose them to create a virtual studio for filmmaking... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367784270
RRP: £39.99£35.37This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state... -
The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence Brian Dolber (California State University Saint Marcos, USA) 9780367686222
RRP: £35.99£32.41This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective. Contributions explore how media, technology, and labor are converging to create new modes of production, as well as new modes of... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043474
RRP: £24.99£22.09In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and... -
Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends Charles O'Brien 9780253040404
RRP: £27.99£24.59How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European musical films created circa 1930, when the world's... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252085048
RRP: £16.99£15.42Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter... -
Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends Charles O'Brien 9780253040398
RRP: £70.00£61.29How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European musical films created circa 1930, when the world's... -
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics Patricia R. Zimmermann 9780253043467
RRP: £70.00£24.33In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and... -
Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology: Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer 9780253043948
RRP: £83.00£73.27In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain... -
Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film Marilyn Ann Moss 9780299204341
RRP: £26.95£26.49Marilyn 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... -
Hitchcock's Music Jack Sullivan 9780300136180
£37.99For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to... -
Six Turkish Filmmakers Laurence Raw 9780299315405
RRP: £80.00£78.49Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and personal interviews with Dervis Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz,... -
Kelly Reichardt Katherine Fusco 9780252041242
RRP: £91.00£79.71Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American... -
Michael Bay Lutz Koepnick 9780252041556
RRP: £91.00£79.71If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem,... -
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemunden 9780252042836
RRP: £91.00£79.71Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works within art cinema, and since her 2001 debut The Swamp... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252038617
RRP: £91.00£79.71Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His... -
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Paul Henley 9780226327150
RRP: £40.00£39.23Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
RRP: £88.00£69.50By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the... -
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund 9780252043178
RRP: £91.00£79.71Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter... -
Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film Shilyh Warren 9780252042539
RRP: £91.00£79.71Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women... -
Dario Argento L. Andrew Cooper 9780252078743
RRP: £16.99£15.42Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. In his... -
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex) 9780231201322
RRP: £117.00£91.78The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets... -
Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship Virginia Wright Wexman 9780231195683
RRP: £75.00£59.06Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers and boom operators, but the director as author of the... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176569
RRP: £113.00£89.70There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the... -
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul 9780231176576
RRP: £35.00£28.99There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the... -
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan (Assistant Professor, Oakland University) 9780231182409
RRP: £88.00£69.50In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted... -
Todd Solondz Julian Murphet 9780252042768
RRP: £91.00£79.71Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz repeatedly takes moviegoers into a bland suburban junk... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
£45.49Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range of European and American films, including Ingmar...