Film

With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such landmark films as The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have...

On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream filmmaking conventions,...

In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably against the main current of present cinematic practice, from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833464Author Andrew YuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause...

The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York...

First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by...

Since its initial publication in 1973, CINEMATOGRAPHY has become the standard guidebook on filmmaking techniques that emphasizes the cameraman's craft. Now completely revised and updated to include today's digital technology, it clearly and concisely...

Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollain is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (Tambien la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through...

The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey's John Akomfrah is...

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393764014Author John FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint John FoxPublisher John FoxWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907919Author Kathie Fong YonedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 404g

At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She goes on, as emerging auteur, to direct her own "musical...

Picking your perfect flick can be an overwhelming experience. Well, fear not! Cinemastrology answers a question that has stumped even the most avid film buff for over a century: 'What should I watch?'From contemporary comedies to Hollywood classics, from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254998Author Christina N BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressSeries Black...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593934774Author Philip J RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337241Author James StrattonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. With fifteen never before published chapters in English by contributors from North America,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312148447Author Joseph TropianioFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272g

Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose...

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical...

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just...

AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and of popular melodrama and comedy, have been attracting...

Millions of people dream of writing a screenplay but don't know how to begin, or are already working on a script but are stuck and need some targeted advice. Or maybe they have a great script, but no clue about how to navigate the choppy waters of show...

This book offers a unique approach to storytelling, connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development, plot, and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine...

- First textbook to cover sound art in a single volume that can be used as the primary text in a college course- Offers balanced overview of the field, including coverage of both practical and theoretical aspects, and perspectives from both art and music...

In this first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this...

This is a comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design, one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organising a project - a motion picture, animation or...

By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect that gives stunning expression to a film's key themes...

The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the opportunity to harvest this expertise with one volume. The...

Media servers have established themselves as the dominant video playback tool for live events; however, the practice of delivering content to these systems and the structure of the media operations team is still evolving. This book outlines a workflow...

In Philosophy through Film, Amy Karofsky and Mary M. Litch use recently released, well-received films to explore answers to classic questions in philosophy in an approachable yet philosophically rigorous manner. Each chapter incorporates one or more...

Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema responds to a major void in film history...

A director, producer, and writer, George Lucas is the power behind ""The Force."" The son of a conservative small-town businessman, he grew up to become arguably the most identifiable and popular filmmaker in the history of the medium. Yet unlike his...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856407Author Jennifer M. LerchFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

The first book in any language to study the films of this enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema, best known for his film Les Amants du Pont Neuf. Examines key ingredients in the worlds of Carax's films - Paris, pop music, 'flanerie' and 'amour...

In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new...

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinemaThe first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique version of noir since the late 1940s, while...

Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as...