Direction & Production

The successful history of Pierre Angenieux's revolutionary zoom and focus technologies, a world reference in optics for cinema, photography and television. This book presents the history and current challenges of the Angenieux brand, a must in the...

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television's current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the wider international exposure that internet distribution has brought to TV shows, this phase for high-end...

Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers,...

The Independent Directing Bible that will fit in your back pocket!(If you have an extremely large pocket...)Have you always wanted to direct a movie, but don't know how to start?Want to know how to get your first directing job?What do directors even do,...

A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film StudiesOne of the most influential figures in French film philosophy, Raymond Bellour's interests range across cinema, art, literature and philosophy, and...

In the summer of 1947, Crossfire, a controversial thriller exposing American anti-Semitism, was a critical and box-office hit, and RKO producer Adrian Scott was at the pinnacle of his career. Within several months, however, Scott became infamous as a...

This book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management that allow audience members to contribute canonically to the expansion of storyworlds, blurring the line between the...

Analyses the cultural exchange of two important and highly entangled European film nations of the silent era Presents new insights on famous films and stars like Asta Nielsen, Olaf F nss, and Pat & Patachon (also known as Long & Short) Employs...

Updates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent work Features essays on all of Denis's fiction and documentary World leading Denis scholars Innovative readings of Denis in the...

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections between unlikely interlocutors. In this process...

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks...

This is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie and enduring influence on European cinema. Uniquely, the book offers an extended analysis of Bu~nuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in film...

In this book, Justin Russell Greene examines how Quentin Tarantino uses his auteur identity to further cement the masculine tropes of Hollywood - and ultimately, society - through language, visual aesthetics, and performative representations of...

Slow Places in Bela Tarr's Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Through a close examination of Tarr's filmography, Clara Orban observes that his interiors provide...

An in-depth exploration of how performing objects function in a leading film and TV franchise. Written for an interdisciplinary range of students across the performing arts as well as film, TV, media and popular culture studies. The first book to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642933024Author Hawk KochFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm

Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini acting as editors concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic noir period. These include well-known luminaries such as Orson Welles Billy Wilder Nicholas Ray and...

Brakhage's Childhood recounts the story of visionary American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's (1933-2003) life up to age 12. In 1983 Stan and Jane Brakhage began a series of interviews wherein Stan described his life and Jane took notes. Each session yielded a...

The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474480413Author Mathilde RouxelFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

Examines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya AkhtarBook InformationISBN 9781474476416Author Aakshi MagazineFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

As the first book-length study of the films of Mia Hansen-Love, this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership.Book InformationISBN 9781474462471Author Kate InceFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Edinburgh University...

An exploration of the films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata.About the AuthorJose Duarte, Dr, Universidade de Lisboa. Filipa Rosario, Research Fellow, University of Lisbon.Book InformationISBN 9781474460804Author Jose DuarteFormat...

Offers the first book-length study of Norwegian horror cinemaAbout the AuthorChrister Bakke Andresen, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.Book InformationISBN 9781474457842Author Christer Bakke AndresenFormat HardbackPage...

Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, Polygram and Universal, the author examines not only how this remarkable company has evolved but also why it has evolved in the way that it has by situating its history within the...

Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analog era. In the process, it raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a...

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...

This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725773Author Ronald BerganFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474482349Author Alicia KozmaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The American...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474477857Author Hongyan ZouFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

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...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant; and the narrative forms of literature, particularly the structure of the novel, have played important...

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...

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...