Direction & Production

Over a career that has spanned more than six decades, Woody Allen has explored the emotion of regret as a response to the existentialist dilemma of not being someone else. Tracing this recurrent theme from his stand-up comedy routines and apprentice work...

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the...

Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is...

This study explores how five major directors-Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan Jose Campanella-modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics. In shadowing Hitchcock, their works...

With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two...

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films,...

The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more...

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030847Author Stephen AlterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 192mm * 110mm *...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of lighting equipment and techniques for digital production. Suitable for either beginners or more advanced users, the fully updated fourth edition covers human sight vs. film or video, the basic issues of...

Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the social-realist melodrama The Man with the Golden Arm,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250328212Author Susan SeidelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker-labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805081817Author Barry HampeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema's most famous secret agent. Among many humorous and touching anecdotes, Mills...

While Hollywood executives spend millions of dollars making movies, even more money is poured into selling those films to the public. In the third edition of his comprehensive guidebook, Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies and Tactics,...

This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent to the sound era. Creator of All Quiet on the Western...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959748304Author Andrew GrevasFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Fayetteville Mafia PressPublisher Fayetteville Mafia PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937609811Author Madison YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Greenery Press (CA)Publisher Greenery Press (CA)Weight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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 *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399592096Author Robert IgerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Character Animation Crash Course! is a veritable Genies lamp stuffed with everything the aspiring animator could wish for! Renowned animator Eric Goldbergs detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive characters "from the inside out to create...

Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course...

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections between unlikely interlocutors. In this process...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593832134Author Werner HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

As a young Jewish boy growing up in Vienna, Georgia, Abe Orovitz could never have predicted the twists and turns his life would take. Many years later, as retired film director with more than thirty movies to his credit, Vincent Sherman is no less...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307474988Author George Stevens, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813183664Author Paul Benedict RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of KentuckySeries Screen...

One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its formation in the early twentieth century, the studio has been a constant presence in cinema history,...

A Fan's Look at the Back to the Future Franchise"Brad Gilmore's book not only offers new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Back to the Future, it reminds us why we fell in love with it in the first place." Mark Ellis, Comedian & Movie Critic#1...

Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood-a place where...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Commonwealth Club of California Book Award and Mark Lynton History Prize and National Book Critics Circle Awards and Spur Awards.Book InformationISBN...

With celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood. This legendary director and filmmaker has had an undeniable influence on art and the culture of filmmaking, but is also...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932115Author Richard D. PeppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET. Apollo 13. These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures. In February 1906 Carl Laemmle, German immigrant and former...

For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over four-plus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of America's most original and independent directors. Lloyd Michaels analyzes Malick's first four features...

Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth. In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692462775Author Matt DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Matthew William DeanPublisher Matthew William DeanWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744159Author Nancy SchoenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc