Direction & Production

Some thirty years ago filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard told critic Gene Youngblood, I am trying to change the world. He has pursued his revolution in works ranging from the explosive Breathless to the eloquent Contempt to the controversial Hail Mary and the...

Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled in that book have now come of age and have made a decisive impact on the international cinema scene The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039144316Author Dean GoodineFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101664Author Norman LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

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

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...

A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director's...

- Highly visual guide with over 300 full color images of professionals working with cutting edge video equipment brings the topic to life. - Interviews with industry professionals provides students insights into how the field really works. - Robust...

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684857084Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364895Author John OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438486420Author Lindsay ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries...

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision people must make between being sexualized or being invisible-now in paperback In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and...

Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theater Library AssociationLiberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements...

This book explores the ferments of Italian cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s. Unlike France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement. However, while new artistic schools were emerging in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988579828Author Beverly GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint AZ Ferris PublicationsPublisher AZ Ferris PublicationsWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645200706Author Kylie EddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lean FilmmakingPublisher Lean FilmmakingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 12mm

Provides a step-by-step approach, a blueprint, to assembling a director's prompt book in a graphically dynamic and creative waySuitable for students in theatre directing, stage management, and producing courses, along with aspiring professional...

The Great Wall: The Art of the Film chronicles the making of this landmark East-meets-West production, accompanied by insight and interviews with key cast and crew, including a foreword by director Zhang Yimou. Packed with fascinating storyboards,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578560052Author Garner SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Equuleus Productions, Inc.Publisher Equuleus Productions, Inc.

The Screen Combat Handbook is an essential guide to navigating the unique challenges of putting combat on screen. Explore the process from the early stages of preproduction planning all the way through to editing and sound design, and everything...

A practical 'how to' guide for horror filmmakers, this book analyzes how cinematic tools such as acting, makeup, costuming, set decor, framing, cinematography, lighting, editing, and sound are used to create horror on screen. The guide explores aesthetic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593938512Author Michael DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 702Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1098gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933310Author Pete ChatmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course...

Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993318351Author Alison Ripley CubittFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Lambert Nagle MediaPublisher Lambert Nagle MediaWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly...

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...

Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today...

The 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615136233Author Richard BellisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Richard R. BellisPublisher Richard R. BellisWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video on the one hand, and installation art on the other?...

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...

Examines political engagement in recent films of the Greek New Wave Shortlisted for the 2022 Keeley Book Prize Offers an up to date account of 21st century Greek filmmaking Provides a theoretically informed analysis that proposes new terms and a...

Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world. Her career has spanned five decades during which she has worked with the most significant of French auteurs, as well as...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933358Author Judith WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the...

Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema-academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass...

Traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria.Book InformationISBN 9781474437554Author Stefanie Van de...