Direction & Production

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786464449Author Tom WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 586g

Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), the French and American director, actor, and theatrical manager, is the focus of this work that takes a look at his life and career in the film industry. He began in France during the years 1912 to 1914, making a number of...

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This book explores how film analysis can take account of the presence of digital images in cinema. Digital images are now ubiquitous elements within the cinematic frame but, as we analyse films or film moments, it can often be difficult to be sure how -...

The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider and Dominic Power, bring their expertise to...

Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of...

Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political...

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films.Asquith's silent...

Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis...

This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in the early 1950s where...

Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This is the first ever book-length study of his work, combining detailed analysis of all his films with a persuasive and stimulating...

Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a busy twenty-five-year career, he...

The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to...

Coline Serreau became famous in 1985 when her third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby), the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her major contribution to feminist documentaries with the...

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the...

Whether you're a novice compositor or a well-versed one moving over from After Effects or Shake, this is THE book for you to learn the ins and outs of the powerful compositing software, Nuke. In addition to covering all of the menus, buttons, and other...

Take your After Effects projects to the next level by mastering its third-party plug-ins. Whether it's keying and compositing, adding particles of swirling smoke to a composition, or importing XML files from Final Cut Pro, third-party plug-ins can...

Add 3D to your mograph skillset! For the experienced 2D artist, this lavishly illustrated, 4 color book presents the essentials to building and compositing 3D elements into your 2D world of film and broadcast. Concepts and techniques are presented in...

Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Combustion. Get a jump-start learning the major features or the...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580631235Author Frederick LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Renaissance BooksPublisher Renaissance House PublishersWeight(grams) 514g

Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and over the Internet. Illustrated examples and tutorials demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9 as well as the options available to advanced...

James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) spawned a phenomenon that has been rooted in world culture for decades. This cinematic Prometheus has generated countless sequels, remakes, rip-offs, and parodies in every media, and this granddaddy of cult movies...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337982Author Thomas ReederFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337999Author Thomas ReederFormat HardbackPage Count 588Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations. Grounding his inquiry in the long takes of international...

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. Based in close analysis, Texture in Film brings...

This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality...

Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563710Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563024Author Elisabeth VedrenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981022243Author Ediciones PromonetFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Promonet...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953221834Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953221827Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629336916Author Nat SegaloffFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595664634Author Luke FordFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 984gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 35mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503039612Author Mol SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about...