Direction & Production

The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to...

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. The volume's twenty-one chapters represent work by...

Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like ""phone home"" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy routines, and common...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471721342Author Matt ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them both acclaim and awards. And while successful director...

The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; "innocent" birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967247Author Philip HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 399g

Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work behind the camera, she explores his initial role as a...

John Krasinski reveals the making of the shocking, near-silent film A Quiet Place, with dramatic behind-the-scenes photographs and running commentary about the journey to the silver screen. A Quiet Place portrays the struggle of the Abbott family to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615951669Author John William HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint John HeathPublisher John HeathWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578033440Author Nicholas GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Platinum Eagle PublishingPublisher Platinum Eagle PublishingWeight(grams)...

A great deal of storytelling in film and television involves narratives that include sexual situations and nudity. The increased amount of on-line and streaming content outlets has in turn increased the number of narratives that involve these once-taboo...

Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies...

Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood's analysis of the American director was originally published in 1969. Although Wood then considered...

Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P...

This is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives,...

In 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...

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...

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

Since 1957, Sidney Lumet, the most prolific American director of his generation, has deepened audiences' awareness of social, ethical, and feminist issues through such distinguished films as 12 Angry Men, The Verdict, Running on Empty, and Critical...

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)...

- 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 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 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 newly revised third edition of Rick Young's The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software, regardless of your skill level. In this step-by-step, full-color guide,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932887Author Diane BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

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

Provides the first scholarly study of the films of William Friedkin Contextualizes the entire trajectory of Friedkin's work both historically and theoretically, from his first production in 1962, The People vs. Paul Crump, to Killer Joe Offers a...

A director, producer, and writer, George Lucas is the power behind ""The Force."" The son of a conservative small-town businessman, he grew up to become arguably the most identifiable and popular filmmaker in the history of the medium. Yet unlike his...

The first-ever comprehensive examination of the film editor's craft from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Of all the film-making crafts, editing is the least understood. Using examples drawn from classic film texts, this book clarifies the...

Learn everything you need to know about producing single-camera video, from preproduction planning to setting up, rehearsing, shooting, editing, and delivering. Master lighting, audio, and editing techniques that will enhance the quality of your video...

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)...

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...

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 *...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692789162Author Jordan Goldman AceFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Jordan GoldmanPublisher Jordan GoldmanWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...