Direction & Production

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Shadows. 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 slogan "Lagos shall not spoil," found in print media, political campaigns, and common conversation, represents a shared expression of the optimism the city embodies. However, on city streets the phrase also appears scrawled in irreverent...

Art 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...

In a now-famous interview with Francois Truffaut in 1962, Alfred Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did Hitchcock mean by pure cinema? Was pure cinema a function of...

Where 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...

The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema. The book uses...

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,...

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,...

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,...

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion - in its...

Written by senior compositor, technical director, and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists. This...

Delving 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...

This 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...

Today's digital production tools empower the small team to produce multimedia projects that formerly required large teams. Orchestrating a production requires more than proficiency with the postproduction tools. Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent...

Arriving 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,...

The first of its kind that analyzes Chinese films disseminated abroad, among new foreign viewers, but also among certain Chinese diasporas.Gives an idea of how Chinese feature films have circulated, mainly in the last three decadesEmphasizes the role of...

In 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...

World 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765102992Author Ken GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a...

Through 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765102954Author Ken GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Navigating 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633647Author Douglas KellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressSeries Visible...

* 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...

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation,...

- 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...

Through a new look at how political, historical, and art documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to better understand what people do with analog and digital photographs as...

Offers practical solutions that are not typically published or available online to indie filmmakers for budgeting, prepping, hiring, and collaborating with vfx teams.Makes VFX practical and attainable to indie filmmakers so they can make informed...

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The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen, and their formulation of the elements of the frame as a designed address to 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...

Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity-so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book...

Step into a world where the brightest creative minds of contemporary musical theatre share their insights and inspirations. Conversations in Color unveils the untold stories and perspectives of remarkable artists of color shaping the stage today...

What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the...

The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s. His distinctive style and use...

The slogan "Lagos shall not spoil," found in print media, political campaigns, and common conversation, represents a shared expression of the optimism the city embodies. However, on city streets the phrase also appears scrawled in irreverent...

The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact...

This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century's distinctly political filmmakers. By examining the broad concept of violence and how it...