Direction & Production

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...

Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema...

Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of the celebrated Ealing comedies, Hue and Cry (1946) and...

Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray...

Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of Bergman as 'art film' director, and debates about...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615928692Author Tom MarcouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Tom Marcoux Media, LLCPublisher Tom Marcoux Media, LLCSeries Darkest Secrets by Tom...

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Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within which dream theory was originally developed to an...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501018435Author Tom KennerlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The lucky students who get into film school (and then get through it without dropping out) have to compete for a small number of prestigious jobs once they graduate. Despite the enormous odds stacked against them, most students leave film school still...

A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film authorship and a period of American cinema marked by...

His name is synonymous with ""independent film,"" and for more than twenty-five years filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood...

Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of 40...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323267Author Walter RaubicheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressSeries Contemporary...

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By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked silent on the American Film Institute's survey of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548004286Author Paul BrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of the 1930s. His films, a number of which were made in...

For more than 40 years, Ken Russell has directed some of the most provocative, controversial, and memorable films in British cinema, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Altered States. In this anthology, Kevin Flanagan has compiled...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971835665Author Jarod NeeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Stomp TokyoPublisher Stomp TokyoWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into...

'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967. Born in 1912, but only enjoying his real debut as a director in 1948 with...

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Over the coming years more stations will switch to DTV transmitters, cable programmers will begin to offer wide-screen and HDTV signals via satellite, cable systems will begin to deliver digital television programming to homes, and non-broadcast...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629331843Author Pat Silver-LaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 693gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List). With David Geffen...

Herbert Strock has been involved in nearly every phase of film production, as his career developed from his first job as an assistant editor at MGM Studios to his current ownership of a production company. His book is structured to be an in-depth guide...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330914Author John FarkisFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330907Author John FarkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330709Author Jason NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330693Author Jason NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982921906Author Dan NavarroFormat PaperbackPage Count 642Imprint New University Press LLCPublisher New University Press LLCDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250159496Author Andy RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809511174Author Michael BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 216gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...