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The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema Corinne Maury 9781399501408
RRP: $41.98$39.42What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro... -
Beauty of the Beast: A Makeup Manual Emily Schubert 9781960078056
RRP: $79.80$76.08More than a makeup book, Beauty of the Beast is a transformation manual by special effects makeup artist Emily Schubert. It combines expertise from the worlds of professional beauty makeup and special effects and aims to provide a full sense of how, with... -
Refocus: the Films of Denis Villeneuve Jeri English 9781474497398
RRP: $41.98$35.11The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of... -
Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures Jamie Sexton 9781399514606
RRP: $52.48$48.62Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since the 1980s. Indie music has, since the 2000s, become highlighted in some indie films as an attraction, but... -
Meta in Film and Television Series David Roche 9781399508049
RRP: $52.48$48.62"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and... -
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: an Ethnographic Study Jennifer Coates 9781399501040
RRP: $41.98$39.42Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers. Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant... -
D.W.Griffith's ""Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision William M. Drew 9780786412099
$72.43Apologies 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,... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror Victoria McCollum 9781611463095
RRP: $63.00$57.73Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging... -
The Endless End of Cinema: A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood Professor Gianluca Sergi (University of Nottingham, UK) 9798765103203
$62.98Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103203Author Professor Gianluca SergiFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Introduction to Cinematography: Learning Through Practice Tania Hoser 9781032408859
RRP: $283.50$245.36Introduction to Cinematography offers a practical, stage by stage guide to learning, combining, and using the creative and technical aspects of cinematography. Building from a skills-based approach focused on professional practice, cinematographer and... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215497
RRP: $245.70$217.58Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and... -
Designing Russian Cinema: The Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film Eleanor Rees (University College London, UK) 9781350246355
$62.98This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema's connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and... -
Material Media-Making in the Digital Age Daniel Binns (RMIT University, Australia) 9781835950098
RRP: $62.90$57.52There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the production and reception of media. Missing from these... -
Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231215640
RRP: $52.50$47.06Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at... -
The Self-Sustaining Filmmaker: Creating Crowdsourced, Crowdfunded & Community-Supported Independent Film Marty Lang 9781032282114
RRP: $283.50$245.36This book provides guidance on how to build an independent, financially sustainable filmmaking career through channels such as crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and community filmmaking concepts.Through real-life experiences, Marty Lang provides insight on... -
One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen Luke Robinson 9780197682883
RRP: $54.58$46.89Apologies 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,... -
Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style Sheri Chinen Biesen 9780231215633
RRP: $157.50$140.89Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at... -
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime Dr Gillian McIver 9781501384738
$62.98Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 French revolution to Uli Edel's version of the... -
Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices Tom Whittaker (Lecturer in Film and Hispanic Studies, Lecturer in Film and Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool) 9780190261122
RRP: $267.75$239.38Where is the place of the voice in film? Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical... -
Through The Looking Glass: John Cage and Avant-Garde Film Richard H. Brown 9780190628079
RRP: $205.80$169.03Apologies 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,... -
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema Ivone Margulies 9780190496821
RRP: $241.50$227.83Apologies 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,... -
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur Elsie Walker 9780190495909
RRP: $231.00$205.78Apologies 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,... -
Towards Embodied Performance: Directing and the Art of Composition Rachel Dickstein 9781032377728
RRP: $283.50$245.36Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous embodied performance.Through historical context, the... -
The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Anik Sarkar 9781837645138
$245.89Delving into Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films, this book uncovers a plethora of conceptual paradigms. Apichatpong's films frequently utilize rural Thailand as a backdrop, showcasing daily life, interactions, rituals, and customs, all infused with a... -
3-D Cinema and Trauma: Poetics of Remembrance and Loss Dor Fadlon 9783031128233
$230.98This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a consideration of 3D aesthetics from a cultural perspective... -
Defining Cinema: Rouben Mamoulian and Hollywood Film Style, 1929-1957 Michael Slowik 9780197511237
$58.95Arriving in cinema when synchronized sound had just been adopted, director Rouben Mamoulian demonstrated key early methods for making sound aid storytelling, for giving films a crisper sense of rhythm, for creating musicals set in backstage, fairy-tale,... -
Between Images: Montage and the Problem of Relation Ryan Conrath (Professor, Professor, Salisbury University) 9780197612293
RRP: $134.40$122.66In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale. Casablanca's iconic travel montage is mimicked by filmmakers to this day. Since its use in Rocky, the training montage... -
Sound in the American Horror Film Jeffrey Bullins 9781476690681
RRP: $75.58$63.71Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJeffrey Bullins is a sound designer and educator living in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has worked in the sound department for several horror films and has written... -
World Cinema On Demand: Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution Stefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 9781501392399
$62.98World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema's dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging directly with ongoing debates surrounding national... -
Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories Felicia Chan 9781399504928
$209.81Examines the work of women in East Asian Cinema in front of and behind the screen Highlights understudied areas on women's contributions to film East Asian film in particular Highlights importance of re-historicising women's creative labour in... -
ADR and Post-Sync Dialogue: What It Is and How It's Done R. J. Kizer 9781032414089
RRP: $283.50$245.36Written by industry expert, R.J. Kizer, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of post-sync dialogue replacement, popularly known as ADR. It explores how this often overlooked, but essential technology, is used in motion pictures and... -
Dorothy Arzner: Interviews Martin F. Norden 9781496848253
RRP: $228.90$213.13Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings-including her unfinished autobiography-Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and... -
Shooting the Scene: The Art and Craft of Coverage for Directors and Filmmakers Mark Rosman 9780367746131
RRP: $283.50$245.36Navigating the necessary skills for shooting film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art and craft of "coverage" - explaining where to put the camera to shoot any kind of scene.Author Mark Rosman takes readers step-by-step... -
Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece Nathan Abrams 9781837645152
$233.50Twenty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about marriage, jealousy, domesticity, adultery, sexual disturbance, and dreams. This was the final enigmatic work from its equally enigmatic... -
The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV Eric Hart (Professional Prop Builder, New York, NY, USA) 9781032154558
RRP: $283.50$245.36Features step-by-step guides to common processes used by all prop makers.Includes descriptions and images of the most common tools used in various crafts.Covers carpentry, metal-work, plastics fabrication, fabric, upholstery, sculpting, molding and... -
Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing, Painting, Breakdown, and Special Effects for Costumes Erin Carignan 9780815352310
RRP: $283.50$246.20Provides information on changing colors and surface textures using traditional and non-traditional scenic, fine-art, and metal-smithing techniques.Contains anecdotes of dos and don'ts from renowned artisans in the field. Online support material includes... -
Collaborative Screenwriting and Story Development: A Global Guide for Writers, Story Teams, and Creative Executives Marc Handler 9781032531090
RRP: $283.50$246.20* Enables writers to write cooperatively and effectively build teams * Uniquely international approach, with a full chapter (16) including contributions from 20+ creators and thought leaders from around the world, sharing their visions of the future of... -
Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986 Kristof Van den Troost 9781399521765
$209.81Examines the history of the Hong Kong crime film before 1986 Departs from the predominant focus on action aesthetics in studies of Hong Kong cinema to focus on the early crime film's close links to local society and politics Draws on years of... -
Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television David McHenry 9781032277622
RRP: $283.50$246.20- The only book focusing on hand drafting for film and TV that is approachable and fully illustrated throughout with step-by-step instructions. - Covers all four types of drafting projection: isometric, oblique, orthographic and axonometric. - New... -
Writing Women for Film & Television: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters Anna Weinstein (Kennesaw State University, USA) 9780367254001
RRP: $283.50$245.36- Provides aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with a solid understanding of what makes for an authentic screen character and provides them with tools they can use to evaluate the complexity of their own characters, so they can begin drawing their own...