Film

The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an...

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the psychoanalytic paradigms that have dominated scholarly discussion...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830418Author Charles McKeownFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause...

Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528894Author Kevin HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries October BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm

Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was John Ford. His Westerns, including The Searchers,...

Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school-educated filmmakers of the directors' era, Friedkin got his...

This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most expansive and widely viewed fictional narrative in the history of cinema. In 2009, Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, including its subsidiary film production company, Marvel Studios...

Communicate your vision, tell your story and plan major scenes with simple, effective storyboarding techniques. Using sketches of shots from classic films, from silents to the present day, John Hart leads you through the history and evolution of this...

Represents the first comprehensive reconstruction of Italian women's film cultures of the 1960s and '70s Provides an innovative, intersectional feminist methodology to cinema history, adopting stand-point theory, archival theory and addressing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973507772Author Rob MarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

You can struggle for years to get a foot in the door with Hollywood producers--or you can take a page from the book that offers proven advice from twenty-one of the industry's best and brightest!In this tenth anniversary edition, The 101 Habits of Highly...

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979091343Author Tim ClagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he directed twenty-two feature films in an...

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy;...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708683Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345509611Author J.W. RinzlerFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Random House WorldsPublisher Random House WorldsSeries Star WarsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993493270Author Colin M. BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing LimitedDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure. It places particular...

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836090Author John Kenneth MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause...

A Must-Have for Gone With the Wind Fans! From Margaret Mitchell's tattered manuscript to the film's seventy-fifth anniversary, this book is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Gone With the Wind-the book, the movie, and the phenomenon that continues...

First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular director whose work features on most A-level French syllabuses...

In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews. This new edition builds on the foundations laid out in 2005, including interviews with...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995536227Author Christopher RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Eskdale & Kent Publishing LtdPublisher Eskdale & Kent Publishing Ltd

Motion pictures are more than just entertainment. In film studies courses in colleges and universities worldwide, students and professors explore the social, political, technological and historical implications of cinema.This textbook provides two...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473665715Author Raymond Webster ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Cumulus Publishing LimitedPublisher Cumulus Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Master what it takes to make your rotoscoping and digital painting blend seamlessly into each shot. Through illustrious four color presentation, the book features step-by-step instruction on the artistic techniques of rotoscoping and digital painting...

The DSLR cinema revolution began over ten years ago. Professional filmmakers, students, video journalists, event video shooters, production houses, and others jumped at the opportunity to shoot cinematic images on these low budget cameras. The first...

Offers the first book length contribution to Doris Wishman Covers Wishman's vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist films Situates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history...

Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling is the Second Place Winner in the 2019 International Writers Awards!A vast majority of Academy Award-winning Best Pictures, television movies of the week, and mini-series are adaptations, watched...

Bringing together a range of creative practitioners and notable scholars, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Catherine Grant, Roberta Mock, Warren Buckland, Kiki Tianqi Yu, William Brown and others, this fascinating collection explores the challenges of retaining...

Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to human rights dramas and groundbreaking experimental documentaries, Argentina's cinematic output has...

A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 2 (and volumes 1 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. Volume 2 is divided into the following sections: Peepshows; The Panorama; The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302542Author Sam StaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons cycles. Occasionally dismissed as precious or overly...

With six entries at the Cannes Film Festival thus far, Lars von Trier has been a Cannes award winner four times. Without question, he is the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482053319Author John William TuohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...