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A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of...

This book teaches you how to master classic and cutting edge Foley techniques in order to create rich and convincing sound for any medium, be it film, television, radio, podcasts, animation, or games.Award-winning Foley artist Vanessa Theme Ament...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and intervened directly in debates...

Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "a singular figure in Hollywood - [she] may, in fact, be the most...

Written on the Wind (1956) is one of classical Hollywood's most striking films and ranks among Douglas Sirk's finest achievements. An intense melodrama about an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his best friend secretly loves, the film is highly...

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to...

Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593937966Author John FarkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 1018Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor Media

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506740324Author MicrosoftFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the sophistication of his film direction, his prodigious...

Fully updated & revised edition to include the latest technology; further explanations of equipment and how to use it for those new to the role, as well as a new chapter on working as a grip on Virtual Sets Teaches the essential skills of a professional...

Making a good script great is more than just a matter of putting a good idea on paper. It requires the working and reworking of that idea. This book takes you through the whole screenwriting process-from initial concept through final rewrite-providing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542456Author Alvy Ray SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Leonardo

London is a magical place which has intrigued people for more than 2,000 years, and never is this more apparent than in the past 130 years following the invention of the moving image. Do you want to follow in the footsteps of Paddington, James Bond...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140298406Author Charmian CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068652998Author Ricky BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGPublisher EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGSeries Enter the...

Alicia Malone's Take on Influential Women in Film!"Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision." Maria Giese, filmmaker and activist#1 Bestseller in Movies & Video...

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...

'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' - William Boyd in Story and Character:...

The official art book for the animated movie The Amazing Maurice, based on the Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett Maurice is a streetwise talking tomcat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking...

In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to...

* Provides a comprehensive approach to Motion Design as Design Practice with specific areas of focus for a range of audiences. * Integrates professional examples, case studies, and interviews to validate its themes. * Written from ongoing and pragmatic...

It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street,...

The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale...

When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful play with genre stereotypes, and its hilarious in-jokes...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557044044Author Sam MendesFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186763Author Thomas LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 141mm *...

Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are...

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters...

From the grindhouse oddities to major studio releases, this work details 46 horror films released during the genre's golden era. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, in-depth critical analysis, contemporary reviews, time of release,...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic...

Through a series of case studies, this book tracks the inventive distribution and exhibition initiatives developed over the last 40 years by an array of small companies on the periphery of the beleaguered UK film industry. That their practices are now...

The script of Under the Skin includes Glazer's never-before-published director's statement, an original essay by Hari Nef, and writing and set photography by Niall O'Brien.Book InformationISBN 9781735911700Author Jonathan GlazerFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647864231Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema's most famous secret agent. Among many humorous and touching anecdotes, Mills...

The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking,film editing,is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers , and Goodbye,...

This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608879830Author Desiree de FezFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 222mm...

An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and...