Direction & Production

The only guide to the art and technique of color correction based on the invaluable knowledge of more than a dozen of the top colorists in the world. This book allows you unprecedented access to the way the masters of the craft approach their work...

From a basic two-camera interview to an elaborate 26 camera HD concert film, this comprehensive guide presents a platform-agnostic approach to the essential techniques required to set up and edit a multi-camera project. Actual case studies are used to...

Hollywood is going 3D! Join the revolution with this primer to all of the essential skills for live action 3D, from preproduction through distribution.3D perception and science is presented in an accessible way that provides the principles of...

Use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and add impact to you videos. This book shows you how to analyze color correction problems and solve them- whatever NLE or plugin you use. Experienced editors and colorists in their...

Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express 4--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge with nineteen tutorials that...

New to this edition:* Learn how many Hollywood techniques--previously impractical on video--can help solve problems on smaller productions* Expanded cookbook recipes section* Technically updated throughoutMake your soundtracks as good as your pictures...

Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically...

The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and...

He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book...

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In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other...

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by...

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? Francois Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally...

We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The digital uncanny does not erase the uncanny feeling we experience as deja vu or when confronted with robots...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364215Author Yoram AllonFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 158mm *...

Real-World commercial projects presented in full color feature the work of renowned artists, Chris and Trish Meyer, Jayse Hansen, Mark Coleran, Ken Locsmandi and others. The tutorials are commercial projects that the artists created for a client budget...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102777Author Geoff AndrewFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

More than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn't Live...

More than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn't Live...

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by...

In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations. Grounding his inquiry in the long takes of international...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563444Author Jonas MekasPage Count 64Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571679Author Jean-Marc LalanneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563031Author Philippe TancelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

Twilight for the Gods: The Art and History of Film Editing is a passionate exploration of the important role played by editing in the process of film-making and a functional guide to using editing most effectively. The book explains how an editor is, in...

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali, Washington...

One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about...

The contents of A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 1 (and its companion volumes 2 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. To view pre-cinema devices merely as steps towards...

Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder introduces scholars and students to the controversial and prolific but brief career of a filmmaker hailed as one of the New German Cinema's most talented exponents. Combining a chronological survey with a thematic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417797508Author Ezequiel Romero GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 150mm * 20mm

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648045790Author Patrick Theodore MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 662Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456272Author Rachel DwyerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in...

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474419192Author Allan CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick's cinema - its expressions of unseeing and hearing. 'Unseeing' is Malick's means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life that unfolds; to treat cinema as a real experience for...

"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956) and 'The World of Apu' (1959)...

"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The Hollywood Interviews brings together five of the greatest...

"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The Hollywood Interviews brings together five of the greatest...