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Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically acclaimed films made in the last twenty-five years...

Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations: Florence explores the city as it is manifested in the...

KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing. ...

Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) never won an Oscar. His filmography is short and uneven, and his movies have never found a wide audience. Despite this, many filmmakers today - including Tarantino and Scorsese - count him as a major influence. Sam...

Ever since the premiere for the first Mickey Mouse cartoon in 1928, Disney has played a central role in American popular culture, which has progressively expanded to include a global market. The company positioned itself to be a central role in family...

Filmed in 1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is...

Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants...

Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear...

A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and...

World Film Locations: Buenos Aires explores this picturesque and passionate city (the second-largest in South America) as a stage for sociopolitical transformations and a key location in the international imagination as a site of cultural export. The...

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...

The book addresses themes such as visual perception, perception of 3-D and stereo. With the event of the stereoscope and the theatre, dioramas and panoramas before it, vision and perception in the eighteenth and nineteenth century is seen to be marketed...

Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films-often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams-have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a...

A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point and a cultural hub where goods, inventions and ideas are shared and traded. Though Singapore was home to a flourishing...

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This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside the mainstream or on its industrial margins. Contributors...

Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned...

Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources,...

Like its predecessors, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 endeavours to move scholarly criticism of Japanese film out of the academy and into the hands of cinephiles the world over. This volume will be warmly welcomed by those with an interest in...

Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be 'where the people are', but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like the Little Mermaid and Pirates of the Caribbean have...

Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in the region, including Cold War spy movies and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736776254Author Barry PuttermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Glass Spider PublishingPublisher Glass Spider PublishingSeries Pack Up Your...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736049808Author Robert R HieronimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hieronimus & Co., Inc.Publisher Hieronimus & Co., Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667182117Author Maurice YacowarFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648220142Author Catherine OlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint WorldPublisher WorldSeries World's Greatest Movie TriviaWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

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Whether you're a die-hard comic book fan from the Golden Age or a new follower of Henry Cavill and Zack Snyder, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Joseph McCabe of Nerdist.com has collected every essential piece of...

Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source Code became critical and commercial successes, often...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479436088Author Michael BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477560181Author Michael AngeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

We go to the movies compulsively. If you, too, are a frequent viewer, you must have noticed the avalanche of apocalyptic imagery spewing from the screen. It's everywhere, and not only in films about the end of civilization. Romantic comedies, teen...

Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice is an innovative and lively text which allows complex and challenging issues within childhood studies to be explored using the medium of filmed drama. By utilising popular culture, this book provides...

Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 3:* "Untitled (photogenic)" Mixed Media Collage by Charlie Mirador* "Antiplano" 8mm film with Felipe Bellocq* "Flow State" Super 8mm Film by Avant Kinema* "Self (Alchemy)" Recipe by Azucena Losana...

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics. Samuel Beckett and Technology assembles an innovative and diverse range of scholarly approaches to the topic, which...

Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 4:* "Where Uncertainty Meets Imagination" Essay and photos by John Fitzgerald* "Day off Vibes" by Melina Kiyomi Coumas* "Retrato de Analogo // Portrait of Analog" by Jean-Jacques Martinod*...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474445825Author Peter GoodrichFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 6:* "The Allure: or how I shot my directorial debut on 16mm film + some tips for those looking to direct a narrative work on analog" an essay by Joanna Decc* "we breathe each other in and out of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467568340Author Stephen H. BurumFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent PublisherWeight(grams) 162gDimensions(mm)...