Film

Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834526Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337142Author Peter BrookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377803Author Robert BressonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic...

This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in...

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...

Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Doctor Gemma Foster is a...

This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmoe between 1971 and 1976. How, Mariah Larsson asks, was that one small city's embrace of the era's sexual...

Who is Iron Man? What's an Infinity Stone? When did Captain America become the first Avenger? Why does everyone love Loki even though he's a bad guy?It's easy for new fans to get overwhelmed by the sprawling mythology and complexity of the Marvel...

Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer. As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum...

This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio. PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a...

Focusing on an integral aspect of screenplays, this book takes students and writers at all levels through the process of understanding and writing better scenes. It interrogates the functions of a scene and how writers can then apply this knowledge to...

Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met...

Known as the father of the "midnight cult movie" and co-founder of the avant-garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a provocateur, a performance artist, a visionary filmmaker, a...

One of the twentieth century's most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman's photographs...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302945855Author Jess HarroldFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike. If you're a line producer, production manager, production supervisor, assistant director or production coordinator--the book has everything you'll need (including all the forms,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615931699Author Mr Jeffrey Michael BaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Jordan Peele's powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal pieties at the same time. Rather than rely...

The official art book for the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the 14th title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.The 14th of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles...

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped, and inspired him."How are they doing it?" is the key question that Wenders asks...

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, 'Success in the Film and Television...

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous embodied performance.Through historical context, the...

G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Buchse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic charms lead to disaster for the men drawn into her web. Despite failing commercially upon release, it has...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832277Author Barry SonnenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

First performed at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, the first stage play from the SUNDAY TIMES No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMESIt's been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925803112Author Chris AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Creative Manuscript ServicesPublisher Creative Manuscript ServicesWeight(grams)...

Join industry insiders Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen as they guide readers on a journey through every stage of production on an animated film, from storyboards to virtual cameras and final animation.With unprecedented access to the Pixar edit suite,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399529863Author Lew HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 397g

From the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: one, owners of the local cotton mill, the other a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.'[A] memorable...

Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short...

Learn first-rate techniques and tips from some of the best makeup artists in the business in the new edition of The Makeup Artist Handbook. Renown makeup pros Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall bring an impressive set of experience in all areas to the book,...

Since his television debut in the mid-1950s, James Garner entertained millions of fans on screens both big and small. From supporting roles in memorable films like Sayonara and The Notebook to leading roles in box office hits including The Great Escape,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440502449Author Syd FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789081329460Author Simon FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint DMD DigitalPublisher DMD DigitalSeries On the Tracks of 007Weight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of creating movie scripts, but "Tales from the Script" puts readers in the trenches of the Hollywood development process. Readers will revel in the exploits of Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John...

Sound in cinema is a fascinating area that is just beginning to get the attention it deserves. This innovative book highlights the workers who collaborated inside and outside Hollywood to produce dialogue, sound effects and music for motion pictures. It...

From Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of The Noir Style and Film Noir Graphics and editors of the seven-volume Film Noir Reader series, comes Film Noir Fatal Women -- their latest exploration of the key elements that define Americas only homegrown...

In a career that spans more than four decades, FrederickWiseman has made thirty-eight films that together form a monumental chronicle of latetwentieth- century institutional and cultural life. The dilemmasWiseman poses in his films - moral,...