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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474448284Author Laura HatryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

This is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.Book InformationISBN...

Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embraced multisensory spectatorship. Such approaches privilege a carnal vision and knowledge of the world. Vital Resonances furthers this...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474438056Author Anna Westerstahl StenportFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions...

A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman director connecting with mass audiences. Armstrong's films are...

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.Book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474442640Author Dominic LennardFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in...

In 'Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image', Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of torture Offers synergised knowledge through comparative angle, exploring differences and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474409292Author Thomas Deane TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438486413Author Lindsay ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries SUNY...

This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable...

Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a series of films representing lesbian subjects and...

This title presents resilient and entrepreneurial approaches to audiovisual art in Cuba. The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba. With the collapse of its Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union, the island nation plummeted into an...

Every year, hundreds of American film schools graduate thousands of aspiring filmmakers. Very few of them, however, leave school prepared for the challenges that await or are fortunate enough to secure the financial backing of a major studio. This...

Twenty-two interviews feature the producers or creators of ""Sea Hunt"", ""The Cisco Kid"", ""The Tonight Show"", ""Rockford Files"" and ""Falcon Crest"", among others. These people offer opinions on everything from the producer's role to tips for...

Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film...

Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director's entire oeuvre, addressing and analyzing themes such as identity, family, and masculinity, supported by in-depth...

Agnes Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her...

This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This question is explored through a discussion of the films...

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 examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This question is explored through a discussion of the films...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892900098Author Harvey KubernikFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Otherworld Cottage IndustriesPublisher Otherworld Cottage IndustriesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861718419Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861715166Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon Publishing

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629338293Author Joseph BrutsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337432Author Renee FarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1547gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly ascended...

One of Canada's premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographical tales---hidden deeply within comical, absurd, and surrealistic narratives---Maddin has earned...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474458436Author Lydia PapadimitriouFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in...

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.Book InformationISBN...

Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book...

Offers a unique first-hand account of Ken Loach's working methods Provides a detailed study of the making of The Angels' Share Offers a wider analysis of Loach's films and his film-related political activities Draws upon research from the British...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474437035Author Philip-Edward PhillisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474435499Author Agnes Peth?Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Edinburgh Studies in...

A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinemaThe first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, 'Cinema-monde' picks up on the...

The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and '60s, including...

'Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers' examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood - Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly...