Direction & Production

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674251Author Hannah PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 378gDimensions(mm) 337mm *...

Offers the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of Paul Leni Covers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity, including his early visual and theatrical work in Germany during the 1910s, collaborations with...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews features talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) was a creative force in Hollywood from the end of the silent film era through the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332215Author Heather a WixsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted" medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364918Author Marek HaltofFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 292gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999306918Author John William LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Aplomb PublishingPublisher Aplomb PublishingWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Development is a large and central part of the American TV industry, and yet the details of how it works - who makes development decisions and why, where ideas for new shows come from, even basics like the differences between what TV studios and TV...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403970527Author Susan J. NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 348gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

For investing movies with an image of style and glamour George Cukor (1899--1983) is considered one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The roll call of the great films he made and the stars he directed validates his rank as one of...

Is the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enjoyment, and when watching a film in communal rapt attention, does this intensify the whole experience?...

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater Analyses both Linklater's celebrated and understudied work in dialogue with ongoing debates in film studies Considers the impact of Linklater's oeuvre in...

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic musical moments, the movie has not received the same...

- Offers never-before-discussed analysis of specific scenes representing all documentary genres directly from the creators behind them. - Includes exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary from Rachel Lears, Dawn Porter, John Battsek, Bob Eisenhart and more...

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From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967483Author David CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593935672Author Derek BotelhoFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a parlous state. The number of films produced in the UK was...

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.About the AuthorSusan Hayward is...

The collaboration of director and actor is the cornerstone of narrative filmmaking. This book provides the director with a concrete step-by-step guide to preparation that connects the fundamentals of film-script analysis with the actor's process of...

During the 1960s, when cinema first entered the academy as a serious object of study, the primary focus was on auteurism, or on films authorship. Burgeoning cinema studies courses demonstrated how directors were the authors of work that undermined (or...

From the unbridled sensuality of silent Italian films, to the neorealist classic Bitter Rice, to the astonishing imagination of Fellini and the more cerebral and fascinating movies of Antonioni, Italy has a filmic legacy unlike that of any other nation...

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema's 'modern' incarnation. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s to the ferment of their historical...

From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly-with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects-to his inventive adaptations of books by William Burroughs (Naked...

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismaki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079902Author Stephen LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254998Author Christina N BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressSeries Black...

This practical guide teaches readers the skills and business acumen required to build a career in the film industry from the ground up.While countless books and classes teach newcomers the creative aspects of the film industry, many fail to properly...

Written for working and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers and screenwriters, The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers walks through every stage of the marketing process - from concept to post-production - and illustrates how creative decisions at each...

Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years. Because of the tremendous popular success of The Godfather and the tremendous critical success of its...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739930004Author Tom HickmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Nice Media LimitedPublisher Nice Media Limited

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334981Author David WhiteleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage' to post-cinematic new media forms such as YouTube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms...

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Ridley Scott, the director of such seminal films as Blade Runner, Alien and Thelma & Louise, is one of the most important directors of the last fifty years. Unlike many directors, Scott has been remarkably transparent about his craft, offering the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335032Author William NesbittFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861718549Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 636Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...