Film, TV & Music

As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How...

This book is a practical and theoretical guide for anyone interested in researching popular media, popular culture, audiences, and fans. Unlike most books, Theoretical Perspectives does not talk about media texts or fan communities. Instead, it...

The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophers since Plato and Aristotle have sought to understand the complex influence of apparently simple tools of expression on our...

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The...

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume's contributors explore the ideas of Walter...

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of 'world cinema' with the more substantive concept of 'realist cinema'. Veering away from the usual focus on modes of reception and spectatorship, it locates instead...

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of...

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore's preoccupations with space,...

Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent it represents a unitary or diversified current. The book proposes to integrate the post-cinema question within...

The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we...

Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus crystallize across different material formations. The...

Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next. It is also a history of platforms and communities that never quite made it; that struggled to make their voices heard; that aggravated against the conventions of the...

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global...

In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly a decade in the making, Japanese Filmmakers in the...

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a 'stable' moment in media history?...

This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the...

Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from...

Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout. He traces the growing influence of the Hollywood studios...

In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history,...

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and...

Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the director's oeuvre through the methodological lens of...

Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and made a dent in the buisness of the film and software...

Fashion Industry and Tourism Strategy: Transforming Destinations and Shaping Experiences explores the growing intersection between fashion events and tourism, highlighting their socio-economic contributions to global destinations. Once limited to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635902785Author Jibz CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

"Great fashion photography not only understands the beauty of clothing but also adds a twist that grabs the eye and sparks the imagination. With Steven Klein, you'll give him a dress, and he'll give you a girl with a dress with a robot in a garden. It's...

Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, providing professional producers with key insights and pathways to adapt and prepare.By exploring traditional media industries, and how...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302968045Author Jess HarroldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

Conjure a menagerie of dragons and fantastical beasts with step-by-step drawing instruction from leading fantasy illustrators.Dragons have captured imaginations for centuries-from ancient myths and folklore to Romantasy epics, gaming adventures, and hit...

Focuses on the history of government subsidies for feature films in Flanders (the northern, Dutch-language region of Belgium) and its role in stimulating a Flemish identity. It provides an empirical contribution to the study of the relationship between...

The book presents an interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking through the lens of economics, based on readings of central neo-noir works from the noir revival of the early 1970s to recent films. Analyzing key themes and figures of neo-noir - desire and...

Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of one of the foundational figures of film studies into a relatively short and accessible volume. It testifies to the author's deep and...

The first book dedicated to Vivienne Westwood's jewellery creations, published in close collaboration with the house and written by fashion - and Westwood - expert Alexander Fury. This lavish survey of Vivienne Westwood jewellery evokes the heady blend...

The international pioneer of media art Richard Kriesche is dedicated to visual, artistic research. He bases his work on the most diverse of mediums, from painting to video art, in order to explore the revolutions in media, information, and digitisation...

Dive into the fascinating world of fashion embroidery, with practical tricks and techniques, and examples of some of the most iconic designs from the catwalk. With a focus on the most influential designers and couture and catwalk pieces from the last...

Cavell's Ontology of Film presents ten essays by some of the most prominent international scholars of Stanley Cavell's work with a double purpose: to look back, half a century after its original publication, at Cavell's now seminal film-philosophical...

In Building a Feminocentric Canon: Celine Sciamma and the Dawn of Post-Auterism, Tom Knoblauch positions Celine Sciamma as not just an important voice within contemporary cinema but also as the standard-bearer and skeleton key for a new vision of...

This book offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to the fundamentals of storyboarding, making it an ideal resource for aspiring filmmakers, animators, and visual storytellers. It bridges the gap between written scripts and visual storytelling...

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...

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...

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...