Film, TV & Music

"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and...

Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers. Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant...

This collection explores the impact of COVID-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world.Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment's changing...

This vibrant publication brings to life four centuries of extraordinary garments and accessories inspired by the natural world Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion explores clothing's complex relationship with the body through the senses, offering new...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Given the U.S.A.'s long held "taste for the monstrous in all its forms" (Scott Poole 4) coupled with its love for "the colossal, the exaggerated and the brash" (Tsutsi...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. 2009 and Winner, 2009 The Lewis Mumford...

This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of various forms of stand-up comedy in India. This volume...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952251306Author Tim DoyleFormat HardbackImprint RecessPublisher RecessSeries Tim Doyle's Unreal EstateWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 57mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103203Author Professor Gianluca SergiFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Welcome to the Wes Anderson museum-a place packed with illustrations, ephemera, trivia, and insightful commentary, and as whimsical and visually arresting as the cult director's films themselves. This museum in book form takes readers deep into the...

The Guard's Parcel is a steaming 226-page hardback compilation of the most fragrant cartoons, articles, letters and Top Tips from a whole year of Viz - Britain's funniest* magazine (*manufacturer's estimate).About the AuthorViz Comic is Britain's third...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection held at the University of the Arts London that contains material related to the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. But even...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952251313Author Tim DoyleFormat HardbackImprint RecessPublisher RecessSeries Tim Doyle's Unreal EstateWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 57mm

This book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occasionally noted in the past, the Gothic has been generally overlooked when most critics consider the work of...

Jack Skellington is the undisputed Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. But it wasn't always that way... discover the story behind Jack's title in this manga miniseries.Years ago, Jack and Oogie Boogie were close friends. Both eager to prove themselves, they...

Celebrate 30 years of DreamWorks Animation's visually rich worlds with this luxurious edition of the studio's artistic achievements in both film and television DreamWorks Animation's teams of artists, writers, directors, producers, engineers, and...

Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary...

In this updated 2nd edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its deal-making norms.The Business of...

Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952251290Author Tim DoyleFormat HardbackImprint RecessPublisher RecessSeries Tim Doyle's Unreal EstateWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 57mm

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Since the 1950s, film production in Ireland has evolved into a mature industry creating high-profile film, television drama, documentary and animation for both the...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city of Paris from 1957 to the present day. The book...

Whether it's Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations of the Hanna-Barbera studio continue to delight generations worldwide. The groundbreaking company employed thousands in the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213940Author Barry GiffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 369g

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher (1996) up to and including Copenhagen Cowboy...

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) and its sequel The Legend of Korra (2012-14) are among the most acclaimed and influential U.S. animated television series of the 21st century. Yet, despite their elevated status, there have been few...

There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the production and reception of media. Missing from these...

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This book provides guidance on how to build an independent, financially sustainable filmmaking career through channels such as crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and community filmmaking concepts.Through real-life experiences, Marty Lang provides insight on...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Children's Book Council Queensland BILBY Awards: Older Reader 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780868196237Author Melina MarchettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474435772Author Marle HammondFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Horror's pleasures fundamentally hinge on looking backward, either on destabilising trauma, or as a period of comfort and happiness which is undermined by threat. However, this stretches beyond the scares on our screens to the consumption and criticism...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506742656Author Insomniac GamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Delving into Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films, this book uncovers a plethora of conceptual paradigms. Apichatpong's films frequently utilize rural Thailand as a backdrop, showcasing daily life, interactions, rituals, and customs, all infused with a...

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized...

Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the twenty-first century. Often dismissed as frivolous, farce speaks a universal language, with the power to incisively...

How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as merely fantastic or unreal. In her in-depth...

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Quebecois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions...

This third title in the highly popular Artist Master Series from 3dtotal Publishing offers a comprehensive guide to using perspective and depth successfully in your art, with direction from world-class artists. As an established authority on art and...