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The first collected volume of work on cult film director and icon John Waters, which offers a comprehensive study of his work as an important filmmaker and cultural force. Includes chapters covering important themes in Waters's work, stylistic...

Romanian Capitalism on Screen examines contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania's postsocialist economy and culture. It complements existing accounts of economic and cultural history by utilizing the perspective of...

Recognised as one of the most significant contemporary directors, Pawe? Pawlikowski achieved global acclaim with the Academy Award-winning Ida (2013). ReFocus: The Films of Pawe? Pawlikowski is the first book-length study of the director's illustrious...

While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and...

End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, independent filmmakers, and members of the public have wanted to give death and dying a face in the public discussion. Each documentary...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

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This monograph offers the first ever comprehensive study of Channel 4's film production, distribution and broadcasting activities and represents a significant contribution to British cinema and television history. The importance of Channel 4 to the...

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The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the...

The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich, original oeuvre, which ranges from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781763810037Author Bernie DowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bent Banana BooksPublisher Bent Banana BooksSeries Film Noir in the Public...

This book provides a fresh analysis of the wartime work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team 'the Archers'. It argues that in their earlier work, Powell and Pressburger should be seen as middlebrow storytellers whose stories explore...

Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s. Ingrid Ryberg makes an important contribution to feminist film studies by providing detailed case...

This volume focuses on contemporary Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine as a 'memory-bearer' who gives voice to her compatriots to tell their own stories in her films. It provides the reader with exposure to key issues in contemporary...

Released ten years after the original 1954 Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster marked a palpable change and new direction for Toho's famous film franchise. Godzilla took on a friendlier personality as a defender of Japan, a characterisation that...

Released ten years after the original 1954 Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster marked a palpable change and new direction for Toho's famous film franchise. Godzilla took on a friendlier personality as a defender of Japan, a characterisation that...

It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics (and critics), leaving the field with a limited...

The introduction of low-cost digital technology in filmmaking gave rise to new voices, styles, and narratives in cinema. The book examines the unprecedented emergence of regional filmmaking scattered across the Philippine archipelago outside Metro Manila...

This wide-ranging, historically grounded exploration of motion picture remakes produced in East Asia brings together original contributions from experts in Chinese, Hong Kong, Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese cinemas and puts forth new ways of...

This book makes a critical intervention in the scholarship of East Asian cinema by examining how the platform-driven cinephilic engagement evokes a new imaginary of auteurs. While East Asian filmmakers continue to provide world screens with vibrant and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955995092Author Antonio D'AlfonsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Casa Lago PressPublisher Casa Lago PressWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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For the first time in the history of cinema, Turkey witnesses a generation of female directors who occupy their own space within the New Cinema Movement. They claim an authority of their own and create a distinct cinema. However, recent scholarship on...

During World War II, Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra (1897-1991) made propaganda films for the U.S. Government, such as Prelude to War, The Nazis Strike, The Battle of Britain, War Comes to America and The Negro Soldier. These entries in the...

Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven. After getting his start making arthouse trailers for...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474483544Author Gillian RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book offers various approaches to understanding the short form in television. The collection is structured in three parts, first engaging with the concept of brevity as inherent to television fiction, before going on to examine how the...

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In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the public but great artists such as Pablo Picasso. Samuel...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474486989Author MaoHui DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

An account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making, now in its second edition, this study discusses the man and his work in the context of the history of British cinema in the 1930s and 1940s.Book InformationISBN 9780485121223Author Tom RyallFormat...

An insightful, anecdote-filled history of the film industry, and an examination of the role of the men or women whose job it is to deliver a dramatic and commercial success. Tim Adler introduces us to the mavericks and adventurers of modern-day cinema,...

While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452878Author Sneha Kar ChaudhuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Refocus: The...

In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.As...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841660271Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ellipsis London LtdPublisher ellipsis London Ltd

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Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his second feature-length film, the award-winning Ride the High Country. Peckinpah revealed in early interviews...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841660264Format PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ellipsis London LtdPublisher ellipsis London Ltd