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Several decades after his last motion picture was produced, Alfred Hitchcock is still regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of cinema. From silents of the 1920s to his final feature in 1976, the director's many films continue to...

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.Book...

Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783957960085Author Philipp Dominik KeidlFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Meson Press EgPublisher Meson Press EgSeries Configurations of FilmWeight(grams)...

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615931705Author Christopher VoglerFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944781767Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Scott PalmerPublisher Scott PalmerWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 16mm

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos-using your smartphone.Whether you're a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don't need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training...

The best-selling low-budget filmmaker's bible in the UK has now, at long last, been totally revamped for the US film industry. The two authors have interviewed hundreds of film industry insiders, resulting in, without doubt, the most comprehensive,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967346Author Laura LeuzziFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly's...

Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of controversial films-many of which are consistently misread or...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662850547Author Rob SperaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint MCP BooksPublisher MCP BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 102mm * 15mm

The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that these digital films and multimedia installations radically...

- Written by a celebrated screenwriter, editor and educator. - Offers a unique perspective on crafting the perfect screen play from the eye of an editor. - Includes before-and-after examples stemming from preproduction scripts to post production final...

Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at...

This book of correspondence between filmmakers brings together more than fifty letters writing between artists Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Robert Frank and Bill Brandt. Postcards, manuscripts and typewritten letters together with recent emails reveal...

This revised edition of Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment is an indispensable guide to the business aspects of the entertainment industry, providing the information you need to break in and to succeed. Written in a clear and engaging...

This is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.Set out in thematic sections, the book addresses key issues in the field including: the development of colour technologyhow...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his...

Is the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enjoyment, and when watching a film in communal rapt attention, does this intensify the whole experience?...

Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodovar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy...

Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional, practical projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities.All downloadable resources are available at...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995498150Author Emmanuel ObergFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Screenplay Unlimited PublishingPublisher Screenplay Unlimited PublishingSeries With the...

Video Production Techniques is an essential guide to the art and craft of video production. It introduces students to the theoretical foundations as well as the practical skills needed to make a successful video project.The opening chapter introduces the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684182299Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

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...

Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton's iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory. This book deconstructs the film's underlying...

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593932596Author Ben OhmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502568793Author Horace Martin WoodhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

A collection of critical essays about the noted filmmaker John Hughes Offers an examination of films from diverse academic perspectives Explores topics such as his depictions of youth and his assessment of gender, class, and race issues Provides an...

Over nearly sixty years, Agnes Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993177026Author Dr Paul SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint Buffalo BooksPublisher Buffalo BooksWeight(grams) 2096gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 41mm

Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start-but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013-14), and The House That Jack Built...

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,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364918Author Marek HaltofFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 292gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 163mm *...

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...

A practical, step-by-step guide for writing the original TV comedy pilot, drawing on the author's own extensive experience in the industry. Weaves real world, industry examples along with quotes and tips from current working comedy writers, producers,...