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Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies Gabriel Menotti (Lecturer in Film Editing & Multimedia, Lecturer in Film Editing & Multimedia, Federal University of Esp^D'irito Santo) 9780190934125
RRP: $74.53$56.68To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction. For example, when a movie theater projector falters, the audience suddenly looks toward the back of the theater to see... -
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence Jinhee Choi (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College, London) 9780190254971
RRP: $246.75$206.83Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. This book presents new perspectives on Ozu's aesthetic sensibility and his influence on global... -
Personal Experience and the Media: Media Interplay in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Work for Theatre, Cinema and Television Klaus Ulrich Militz 9783631393246
RRP: $149.10$131.23Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631393246Author Klaus Ulrich MilitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Peter Lang GmbHPublisher Peter Lang GmbHWeight(grams) 380g -
Blake Edwards: Interviews Gabriela Oldham 9781496815668
RRP: $228.90$213.13Blake Edwards (1922-2010) was a multitalented, versatile director constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking but also in life. Often typecast as a comedy director, he also created westerns, thrillers, musicals, and heart-wrenching dramas... -
Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland Philip Cowan 9781793638953
RRP: $203.70$179.53In this three-part book-length study of the work of Gregg Toland, Philip Cowan explores approaches to co-authorship in collaborative filmmaking to propose new ways of identifying, attributing, and evaluating the creative work of cinematographers. In the... -
Joker: The Official Script Book Insight Editions 9781647228910
RRP: $37.80$32.07Rediscover Todd Phillips' Joker with this deluxe edition of the screenplay.Experience a cinematic origin story of the infamous DC villain as never before with this unique edition of the Academy Award-nominated Joker screenplay! Acclaimed and evocative,... -
Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship Alexandra Smith 9781474499132
$207.14Discusses film adaptations of Russian classics since the 1960s Introduces the notion of a literary-cinematic space a modern-day cultural phenomenon, characterised by a synergetic (rather than hierarchical) relationship between its components Traces... -
Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling Mark Minett 9780197523827
RRP: $246.75$193.18Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the... -
How Documentaries Work Jacob Bricca (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film and Television) 9780197554104
RRP: $174.30$159.24How Documentaries Work breaks down the hidden conventions of documentaries in clear and accessible language for film students and documentary enthusiasts alike. Jacob Bricca, ACE, an award-winning documentary director, producer, and editor, provides a... -
Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha Shilpa Daithota Bhat 9781666912852
RRP: $178.50$165.67Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that... -
Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime Elisa Pezzotta 9781617038938
RRP: $228.90$213.13Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a... -
Resonant Bodies in Contemporary European Art Cinema Emilija Talijan 9781474483452
$226.99Provides the first consideration of sound and the body in contemporary European art cinema.About the AuthorEmilija Talijan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oford.Book InformationISBN 9781474483452Author Emilija TalijanFormat HardbackPage... -
Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image, 1960-1980 Matilde Nardelli 9781474444040
RRP: $189.00$173.84Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474444040Author Matilde NardelliFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Edinburgh Studies... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Charles O'Brien 9780253217202
RRP: $33.58$30.62The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on... -
The Cinema of Aki Kaurismaki: Contrarian Stories Andrew Nestingen 9780231165587
RRP: $147.00$116.03Aki Kaurismaki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismaki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949754
RRP: $205.80$169.03How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for figures--arrangements that seem to intuitively hold together--and... -
Digital Uncanny Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, University of California - Davis) 9780190853990
RRP: $236.25$194.23We 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... -
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media Angela J. Aguayo (Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Culture, Southern Ililinois University) 9780190676216
RRP: $205.80$170.08Documentary 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... -
Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory David Greven 9780190214166
RRP: $267.75$225.73Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer... -
The Art of Cinematic Storytelling: A Visual Guide to Planning Shots, Cuts, and Transitions Kelly Gordon Brine 9780190054328
RRP: $246.75$193.18To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various types of shots and cuts that are available to advance the story. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a...