Direction & Production

SECRETS AND LIES. CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP. TIPPING POINT AND REVOLUTION. Where the redactions end, a Paul Greengrass film begins.A graduate of Granada Television's award-winning World in Action investigative reporting team, Greengrass has become one of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684857084Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532944567Author Scott SpearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This first collection devoted to Susan Seidelman director, producer and visionary of feminist American cinema and television includes never-before-published archival material and an interview with insights into her process and thoughts on #timesup...

For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen, from "The Terminator" and the extraterrestrial monstrosities of "Aliens" and "Predator" to the amazing...

For the first time, Oscar-winning production designer and director Roger Christian reveals his life story, from his earliest work in the British film industry to his breakthrough contributions on such iconic science fiction masterpieces as Star Wars,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629338323Author Simon LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm

Screens Producing and Media Operations Second Edition offers an expert guide to managing video content across live events, installations, and virtual production environments. Updated content includes new case studies, updated workflows, additional guest...

When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots,...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016, identifying not only their distinctive British traits, but...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140127225Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933600Author Deborah S. PatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

How to Score in Hollywood reveals the secrets to a movie's success and profitability. Entertainment research expert Kevin Goetz shares how smart, data-driven decisions-from development to release-help filmmakers minimize risks and maximize returns.How to...

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that...

Just as BDL's bestselling All the Songs series-which has over 400,000 copies in print-presents a comprehensive, song-by-song view of major bands and music history, Steven Spielberg All the Films: The Stories Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short...

No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941084038Author Stephen HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Stephen HooverPublisher Stephen HooverWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read book for all film students, film professionals, and others interested in filmmaking. This enlightening book guides filmmakers toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie...

Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in...

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super...

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925-2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made documentary films that revealed the world of politics,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493918Author Trevor MowchunFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

You SLUG the guy.You KISS the dame. You TOTAL the car.That's movies. And I love 'em.Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking about film, and how they'd be...

Featuring exclusive concept art, character and costume sketches, and vehicle and creature designs by Lucasfilm Publishing and its partners, this official companion to Star Wars: The High Republic (Phases II and III) offers fans a definitive,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972667647Author Scott RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia. He was by far the most awarded director on a national level, winning three Golden Arenas at the Yugoslav Film Festival in Pula, as well...

A new hardback photography book documenting the making of the 1986 smash hit movie. Aliens: The Set Photography reveals a unique new perspective on the making of James Cameron's film, capturing the director, cast and crew as their bring the second...

Picasso apparently said, "when critics get together, they talk about theory. When painters get together, they talk about turpentine.' That has been my experience, as far as film and film studies are concerned. Critics, academics, and theoreticians talk...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302961541Author Marvel StudiosFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

Features step-by-step guides to common processes used by all prop makers.Includes descriptions and images of the most common tools used in various crafts.Covers carpentry, metal-work, plastics fabrication, fabric, upholstery, sculpting, molding and...

Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet despite the scope and variety of his work, he remains underappreciated. After apprenticing with the B-movie impresario Roger Corman, from whom he learned to make...

Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with...

Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar (R) for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. These achievements mark...

A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero."...

Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion is a stunning memento, bringing the world and the characters of our favourite fictional country house to life. Featuring a foreword by creator Julian Fellowes, spectacular photographs from the production,...

Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sibling visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen. Since 1984's Blood Simple, the inscrutable brothers have effortlessly...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834571Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsSeries Mini Books

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739522001Author Neil AlcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint DANEBANK BOOKSPublisher DANEBANK BOOKS

Packed with colour film stills, exclusive pre-production artwork and behind-the-scenes production images, this landmark book celebrates the production designer's contribution to visual storytelling on screen. It illuminates the visual concepts behind...

A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a...