Film, TV & Music

A fascinating journey into the world of textiles and color through the eyes of Kvadrat expert Giulio Ridolfo Denmark's Kvadrat, one of the world's leading textile companies, provides high-end fabrics to major design companies, collaborating with some of...

Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens of anime and its transnational fandom, Jinying Li...

Bringing together a range of creative practitioners and notable scholars, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Catherine Grant, Roberta Mock, Warren Buckland, Kiki Tianqi Yu, William Brown and others, this fascinating collection explores the challenges of retaining...

The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an...

One of the most accomplished writers and directors of classic Hollywood, Billy Wilder (1906--2002) directed numerous acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971682719Author Deborah MaddoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lucid SolutionsPublisher Lucid SolutionsWeight(grams) 148gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538137956Author Lew HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. New York Times bestselling author and British Academy Award nominee J. Michael Straczynski knew he wanted to be a writer ever since he was a...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive study of the New Wave's relationship with the older arts.Book InformationISBN 9781474481373Author Marion SchmidFormat...

Covering every step of the process - from material selection to final embellishments - professional stage costumer Gillian Conahan demystifies glove making and offers all crafters a repertoire of basic pieces.About the AuthorGillian Conahan is a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389965Author Dorothy HartleyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Greenpoint BooksPublisher Greenpoint BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683836261Author Sideshow CollectiblesFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary covers African feature filmmaking from the first locally...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647291587Author Kyusaku YumenoFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727170856Author Scott LewallenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture...

On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring...

Sally Potter has been renowned for her rapport with actors, and for the luminous performances she works with them to produce. Now she strips bare the art and craft of directing actors for the camera, from casting a film to the moment of first screening...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830869Author Bruce Joel RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083449821Author rybn.orgFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Set Margins' publicationsPublisher Set Margins' publications

The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim around the globe and details his many contributions to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708652Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television...

Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the...

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the...

The colorful, visual universe of a globe-trotting street artist who paints with purposeFor street artist Seth, walls around the world have been canvases for resilience, a space where imagination and real-life encounters become murals of expression,...

Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of the 18th and 19th centuries, through to the full size...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304621Author Gregory GoodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman. ...

This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration...

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fictional, and exerted an...

The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies brings together important articles by leading thinkers to provide an essential guide to the...

"John Bates came onto the London Fashion scene like a bolt of blue light, trailing sparks of excitement, designing the shortest skirts, the swiftest shapes, the surest colours. He had an unswerving instinct for what was new, modern, cutting edge." Marit...

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and...

Offers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in film Analyses Britain's contested understandings of its past, present and future Examines the various ways recent mainstream films have approached the concept of...

The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774168918Author Bahia ShehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...

Once consigned almost exclusively to Saturday morning fare for young viewers, television animation has evolved over the last several decades as a programming form to be reckoned with. While many animated shows continue to entertain tots, the form also...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916153707Author Adam RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint A Nos AmoursPublisher A Nos AmoursWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 150mm * 18mm