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For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these...

Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands alongside Martin...

Examines the practices of independent digital feature-filmmaking in contemporary BritainTo what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK filmmaking...

"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to use this text as a general resource."Christine...

* A concise and accessible guide written with the specific constraints of a student production in mind, this book will equip any filmmaker with the tools to produce an impactful short film.* Offers practical and effective solutions to the usual...

This is Ronnie Maasz's account of his more than fifty years in the film business as a cameraman. With candid humor, Maasz offers a light-hearted collage of the international locales, quirky people, exciting events, and special effects gone wrong that the...

The success of low-budget independent films like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity clearly demonstrated that successful movies can be made with very small budgets. Still, working on a tight budget requires both skill and ingenuity, and is...

Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York', Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Climates' and John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses', this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933570Author Maureen RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780491316651Author Adriana ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint PN BooksPublisher PN BooksSeries Lights, Camera, History: The Best Movies of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622733996Author Lubomir KockaFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressSeries Vernon Series in Cinema and Culture

Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective Establishes a new framework of understanding the tensions between hegemonial and excluded aesthetics and rhetorics, between censorship and resistance, carving out...

Examines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emerge Examines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century Explores the Sinophone,...

Looks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture Includes illustrated examples from dozens of films to show how they present a distinct style that draws intertextual references from Japanese manga, anime, TV...

Establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis Brings together, for the first time, the work of three of the leading figures in European film: Agn s Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc NancyEstablishes resonance as a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456906Author Stella HockenhullFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653565Author Paul A. WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

This guide seeks to teach those unable to afford animation training or looking to find an alternate path. "The Guerrilla Guide to Animation" aims to provide the outsider, the anarchist or the rebel guidance into the world of 2D animation. While there are...

As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of...

This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinema du look, with cult films, such as Diva and Betty Blue (37 2 le matin).. After an introduction which...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861713711Author Jeremy Mark RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Director John Woo (b. 1946) reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for Asian filmmakers to the Western world. His hyper-violent, highly choreographed style made him a box office powerhouse, a respected auteur, and a revered figure...

The authorized biography of the celebrated film director William Wyler, a giant in his craft, who directed such classics as Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and Roman Holiday. About the AuthorAxel Madsen authored twenty-two books, including sixteen biographies...

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...

Although cinematographers are vital to the filmmaking process, they don't always get the recognition they deserve. Directors of cinematography often are responsible for the look of a film and its lasting impression on the viewer, but their skills are not...

Few - including director Mel Gibson - were prepared for the firestorm of controversy that followed the release of the long-awaited Passion of the Christ. Reviled by many, but so popular with others that the film has become one of the top grossers of all...

Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a...

Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. His deeply personal cinema traces the troubled sentimental lives of...

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era...