Direction & Production

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...

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both...

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected questions of gender and female authorship. It examines a wide array of documentary phenomena through global...

The "Reform Era" (1979-present) in China has been a time of massive social and economic change, and has witnessed China's transition from socialism to capitalism. This book focuses on how this period of change has been constructed in the films of Jia...

Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088080481Author John GaspardFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkSeries Fast, Cheap Filmmaking BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287823Author Rini Bhattacharya MehtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressSeries Anthem Global Media and Communication...

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...

In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes...

This title traces the legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski in films made after his death using his scripts or ideas and in the work of other filmmakers. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski died unexpectedly in March 1996 at precisely the moment he had...

In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This...