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Francis Ford Coppola Jeff Menne 9780252080371
RRP: $35.68$32.38Acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative American directors, Francis Ford Coppola is also lionized as a maverick auteur at war with Hollywood's power structure and an ardent critic of the postindustrial corporate America it reflects. ... -
Terence Davies Michael Koresky 9780252080210
RRP: $35.68$32.38Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172813
RRP: $58.80$54.64By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the... -
Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The University of Hong Kong) 9780195374711
RRP: $123.90$110.23Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music... -
William Wyler: Interviews Gabriel Miller 9781604732979
RRP: $228.90$213.13William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards, twelve nominations for his direction and five nominations... -
Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair John Kenneth Muir 9781557836496
$24.89Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836496Author John Kenneth MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause... -
Joss Whedon FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dr. Horrible, the Avengers, and More John Kenneth Muir 9781540000798
RRP: $39.88$31.65Providing a career-spanning view of everyone s favourite geek writer and director, Joss Whedon FAQ offers answers to fans questions about one of the most significant pop culture auteurs of the past twenty-five years. The book gazes at Whedon s early... -
The John Ford Encyclopedia Sue Matheson 9781538103814
RRP: $249.90$221.53The winner of four Academy Awards for directing, John Ford is considered by many to be America's greatest native-born director. Ford helmed some of the most memorable films in American cinema, including The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and... -
David O. Russell: Interviews Holly Willis 9781496818201
RRP: $228.90$213.13David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has also... -
Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction David Roche 9781496819161
RRP: $228.90$214.18Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering... -
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496815613
RRP: $228.90$213.13Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s-as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name; however, these credits came to a halt in 1975. Her ambition had... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781496820419
RRP: $228.90$213.13Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has dedicated his life to storytelling and worked tirelessly to... -
Claude Chabrol: Interviews Christopher Beach 9781496824684
RRP: $228.90$213.13Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific directors of his generation, Chabrol averaged more than one... -
Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema Nicole Beth Wallenbrock 9781474456760
$225.41Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of... -
Refocus: the Films of Albert Brooks Christian B. Long 9781474434256
$207.14This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy and Hollywood film comedy. Analysing every film written and directed by Albert Brooks, including Real Life... -
Funny Frames: The Filmic Concepts of Michael Haneke Oliver C. Speck 9781441192851
$69.28Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Oliver C. Speck... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9781349351176
RRP: $230.98$216.28This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and... -
Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music Sheila Curran Bernard (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) 9781138915046
RRP: $283.50$246.20Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today... -
How Not to Make a Movie: An Independent Filmmaker in Hollywood Hell William Robert Carey 9781476683218
RRP: $31.48$27.30Part memoir, part primer, part cautionary tale, this book takes the reader along on a filmmaker's 12-year journey through Hollywood Hell, culminating in the movie Angels In Stardust (2016), starring Alicia Silverstone, AJ Michalka and Billy Burke... -
Sofia Coppola: Interviews Amy N. Monaghan 9781496834577
$234.13Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides... -
Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change Caty Borum Chattoo (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, American University) 9780190943417
RRP: $231.00$192.13Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that critiqued the treatment of orcas in captivity - visits to SeaWorld declined, major corporate sponsors pulled their support, and performing... -
Composition for the 21st 1/2 century, Vol 1: Image-making for Animation Thomas Paul Thesen 9781138740938
RRP: $273.00$237.68Composition for the 21st 1/2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects of design and discusses in detail their artistic... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252044137
RRP: $216.30$188.96Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle, Lester D. Friedman presents the filmmaker as a major... -
Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production Jan Roberts-Breslin 9780367638313
RRP: $283.50$230.45* Provides a unique perspective to media production while considering aesthetics, ideas and ethics and includes a robust companion website with interactive exercises for each chapter as well as a downloadable instructor's manual. * Suitable for beginner... -
The Live Event Video Technician Tim Kuschel 9781032160979
RRP: $283.50$245.36The Live Event Video Technician covers terms, format types, concepts, and technologies used in video production for corporate meetings, concerts, special events, and theatrical productions.The book begins by providing a history of the industry and an... -
Richard Linklater David T. Johnson 9780252078507
RRP: $35.68$32.38Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have included the sci-fi noir A Scanner Darkly, the socially... -
The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence Erick Vaughn Wolfe 9780367707613
RRP: $283.50$230.45The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The... -
Jerry Lewis Chris Fujiwara 9780252076794
RRP: $35.68$32.38Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an... -
Sergio Leone: Cinema as Political Fable Christian Uva (Professor of Film, Professor of Film, University of Rome) 9780190942694
RRP: $74.53$48.28Spectacle, myth, fable - these words instantly leap to mind when considering director Sergio Leone's celebrated films. His popularization of the Spaghetti Western genre, through works like A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West... -
Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps J. P. Telotte (Professor of Film and Media Studies, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190949655
RRP: $201.60$169.03What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and... -
Music and the Broadcast Experience: Performance, Production, and Audiences Christina Baade (Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, McMaster University) 9780199314706
RRP: $267.75$239.38Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media and music studies;... -
Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev Catriona Kelly (Professor of Russian, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford) 9780197548363
RRP: $267.75$194.23Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers often had to face great obstacles... -
Theories of the Soundtrack James Buhler (Professor of Music Theory and Director of the Center for American Music, Professor of Music Theory and Director of the Center for American Music, University of Texas - Austin) 9780199371075
RRP: $205.80$169.03A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive... -
Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking Rustin Thompson (Founder, Founder, White Noise Productions) 9780190909895
RRP: $205.80$151.18A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time. Author... -
Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema Lucia Nagib 9781474452984
$235.43From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesthetic blend. Theatre, dance, music, circus, radio, television and the plastic arts left a distinctive mark... -
Meta in Film and Television Series David Roche 9781399508032
$235.43The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.About the AuthorDavid Roche, Professor of Film Studies, Universite Paul Valery Montpellier 3.Book InformationISBN 9781399508032Author David RocheFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director Sue Dunderdale 9780367686567
RRP: $283.50$246.20- Each historical chapter is followed by a process chapter giving the explication of a detailed rehearsal methodology useful to both directors and actors.- The process chapters include objectives, examples from the practice of other directors and actors,... -
Greek Film Noir Anna Poupou 9781474458993
$235.43Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of U.S. and European film noir and neo-noir in Greece and their effect on Greek filmmaking. Employing theoretical frameworks from New Film History,... -
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape Andrew deWaard 9780231165518
$57.39The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films,... -
The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox Jeremi Szaniawski 9780231167352
RRP: $46.20$38.09One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through...