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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334844Author Andrew J RauschFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334011Author Ben OhmartFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334004Author Ben OhmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332758Author William R ChemerkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332543Author R J CardulloFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332536Author R J CardulloFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally...

From Slacker (1991) to The School of Rock (2003), from Before Sunrise (1995) to Before Sunset (2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with the philosophical traditions of the European art house,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332222Author Heather a WixsonFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977050000Author Michael, P. ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Uniconn ProductionsPublisher Uniconn ProductionsWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615296500Author Mark LitwakFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Hampstead Enterprises, Inc.Publisher Hampstead Enterprises, Inc.Series Risky Business:...

Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D...

Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies...

The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989247511Author John William LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Aplomb PublishingPublisher Aplomb PublishingWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature;...

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more...

This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and...

This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and stimulating analysis and discussion of Bond's plays and ideas about...

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.About the AuthorJULIE...

Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200...

Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Australia.About the AuthorMoinak Biswas, Jadavpur...

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes...

In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works...

Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the...

Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and installations by four contemporary French filmmakers explore...

Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to...

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang,...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976386230Author Nick RyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Thompson PublishingPublisher Thompson PublishingWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined Hollywood and its alternative 'art' cinema. The work...

What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi...

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant...

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...