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Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial, cultural and intermedial levels, and the ways in which...

Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary...

Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology that can be applied to the performance of film or television acting, commercials, and theatrical realism. Unlike other methodologies,...

Photography might be called the lost cause of cinema, gone in projection and too soon forgotten. But what is the mysterious region between photography and narrative cinema, between the photogram - a single film frame - and the illusion of motion one...

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron...

Joss Whedon may be primarily known for his numerous films and television series that feature villainous vampires, angry gods, and even bloggers who wish to rule the world, but what connects much of his work is the constant presence of a particular type...

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's...

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's...

Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation on America's favorite pastime, focusing in on generational differences and the evolution of American identity. In an age marked...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380804801Author John AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250859013Author James IvoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm *...

This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism...

A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film authorship and a period of American cinema marked by...

Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directorsAbout the AuthorGary D. Rhodes, Head of Film & Mass Media, University of Central Florida. Joanna Hearne, University of Oklahoma.Book...

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.About the...

On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream filmmaking conventions,...

This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to Bergman's films and writings with more traditional...

Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature;...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887710068Author R J CardulloFormat 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 9798887710228Author David McGiffertFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798686234482Author Keith Tyler HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798668119332Author John V WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 676Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries British Film History of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798663257138Author Sandra L LavaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798500602244Author Alvin WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215284995Author John GaspardFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Albert's Bridge BooksPublisher Albert's Bridge BooksSeries Fast, Cheap Filmmaking...

This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries includes discussions of Lynch's paintings and drawings,...

This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these...

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on...

Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture. But what if we were to...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949251197Author Scott ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Buddha Rose PublicationsPublisher Buddha Rose PublicationsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944068967Author Craig CampobassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Micro Publishing MediaPublisher Micro Publishing MediaWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

With todays proliferation of nine-figure film budgets, filmmaking may seem more out of reach than ever for the average person. In fact, producing a feature-length movie for next to nothing has never been easier. In MOVIES WITHOUT BAGGAGE, long-time...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318330Author Rini Bhattacharya MehtaFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressSeries Anthem Global Media and Communication...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843313120Author Gary MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressSeries Anthem Global Media and Communication...

Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the government. But it is also a city of carefully planned parks,...

The Anarchist Cinema examines the complex relationships that exist between anarchist theory and film. No longer hidden in obscure corners of cinematic culture, anarchy is a theme that has traversed arthouse, underground and popular film. James Newton...

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Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining characteristic of Cassavetes and Cronenberg's respective...