Direction & Production

In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging...

From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay...

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have...

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an...

The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to...

Designed for aspiring filmmakers or for a course in short film distribution, this book teaches the fundamentals of promoting and distributing short films and videos. Chapters cover the elements of utilizing social networking to self-promote, entering...

The Student Filmmaker Survival Guide familiarizes readers with the critical concepts and processes involved in the production of a film or television show. The handbook helps budding filmmakers better understand the operations of a film set, develop...

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460842Author Kenneth ChanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Edinburgh Studies in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474440523Author Kelly McWilliamFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Visionaries

This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.Book InformationISBN 9781474437233Author Sergei ToymentsevFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University...

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and...

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Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women filmmakers? The figures suggest otherwise. Seeking to redress the imbalance between male and female film directors, Celluloid Ceiling...

From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of the most compelling films of the last 30 years. Apart...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841660738Author Isaac JulienFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ellipsis London LtdPublisher ellipsis London LtdSeries MinigraphsWeight(grams) 290g

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024645Author Ernest ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 781g

The original edition of this book long out of print was published almost 20 years ago. The decades since then have brought enormous changes to the business side of moviemaking requiring that the new edition be totally rewritten. This is then a brand...

Practical up-to-date advice for the aspiring director, producer, or screenwriter This third edition prepares independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered. Current...

Taking a theoretical, historical and critical approach to horror directed by women, Bloody Women considers how the gender landscape of horror filmmaking is changing. It unearths the long and rich history of female-fronted horror films that predate the...

Digital editing gives editors far greater freedom than ever before to move scenes of information around and place them anywhere in a film's sequence. Apple's Final Cut Pro is the most widely used Mac-based digital editor, and is especially popular with...

The rapid drop in costs of digital audio recording and production tools has led to widespread adoption by "non-audio" people. Multimedia producers, including videographers and graphic designers producing for the Web and other media, need to learn the...

Packed with more than 350 techniques, this book delivers what you need to know - on the spot. If you create graphics for television, this book is for you. 'Broadcast Graphics on the Spot' show you how to produce more compelling TV graphics. From...

* The V.A.S.S.T. Instant Series features a visually oriented, step-by-step instructional style that effectively guides readers through complex processes. * Surround sound is rapidly displacing stereophonic sound as the accepted standard. * This...

This book moves beyond the basics of "pushing the buttons"; explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story. Readers develop a working knowledge of the application with lessons and tutorials that cover every...

DVD Authoring and Production is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to publishing content in the DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD formats. Readers learn everything they need to create, produce, and master DVDs - including a firsthand look at...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Had...

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.Book InformationISBN 9781474455084Author...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431866Author Catherine Dousteyssier-KhozeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431828Author Jonathan MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Edinburgh Studies...

Is the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enjoyment, and when watching a film in communal rapt attention, does this intensify the whole experience?...

Concert Lighting: Tools, Techniques, Art, and Business Fourth Edition provides readers with an updated look at how to succeed in the complex world of concert lighting design and technology. The authors have reorganized the book into three comprehensive...

The Collaborative Director: A Department-by-Department Guide to Filmmaking explores the directorial process in a way that allows the director to gather the best ideas from the departments that make up a film crew, while making sure that it is the...

In the eighth, revised edition of this book, Ronald J. Compesi offers a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the aesthetics of small-scale, single-camera video production in field environments, from planning through postproduction, in a range of...

With On Screen Writing, director Edward Dmytryk offers a clear, methodical overview of the needs, practices, and problems of screenwriting, including extensive coverage of adaptation. Written In an informal, anecdotal style and using script examples from...