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Examines political engagement in recent films of the Greek New Wave Shortlisted for the 2022 Keeley Book Prize Offers an up to date account of 21st century Greek filmmaking Provides a theoretically informed analysis that proposes new terms and a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874754Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

A fascinating look at artistic experiments with televisual forms. Following the integration of television into the fabric of American life in the 1950s, experimental artists of the 1960s began to appropriate this novel medium toward new aesthetic and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674251Author Hannah PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 378gDimensions(mm) 337mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933358Author Judith WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the...

Ken Kwapis has worked for more than thirty years in Hollywood. With time has come experience, and with experience he has charted a career full of hits, from The Office to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and become one of the most reliable and...

Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema-academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass...

'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye. The backdrop against which they...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770461277Author Leanne ShaptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Drawn and QuarterlyPublisher Drawn and Quarterly

Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. "The film, like the play, will have...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932214Author Maureen RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zero de conduite still inspire young audiences today.Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career and asks why it has had such a long-lasting impact on...

" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an invaluable teacher and guide to have by your side...

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593935771Author Craig CalmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model,...

Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo's popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of...

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035622Author Doug DibbernFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 20mm

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema,...

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 innovations and debates in experimental film in the 1970s have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its...

What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses...

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Featuring material from the seminal magazine...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692782118Author Sonja SchenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Foreing Films PublishingPublisher Foreing Films PublishingWeight(grams) 1039gDimensions(mm)...

Just what is 'independent' cinema? D. K. Holm aims to define a term all too carelessly used both by media commentators and marketers, and distinguish it from categories such as avant-garde, underground, experimental or 'art' films, with which it is often...

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity.This...

Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952495021Author Ricky MargolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Wunderfunkmaschine LLCPublisher Wunderfunkmaschine LLCSeries How the Hell... Do I Get My...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645980608Author Phil MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Virtual WorldsPublisher Virtual WorldsWeight(grams) 1293gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 33mm

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Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. Through the use of numerous original examples, the reader learns to shape ideas into well-developed scripts. It addresses the...

Guy Ben Ner makes a lot out of very little, radically integrating both himself and his private surroundings into his work. His family's apartment in Tel Aviv serves as a film location for the video artist, as do the aisles of a furniture store. In these...

A recent film trilogy addressing the insidious and violent nature of whiteness, privilege and misogyny New York-based artist Jordan Strafer (born 1990) makes highly narrative films that are absurd and fantastical meditations on power and violence...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as...

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a...

Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: in the years around the 1952 Revolution, which saw Egypt's...

First published in 1973 The Film Business makes a factual survey of British films from their beginnings in 1896 to 1972. Ernest Betts offers character studies of men who have built the film industry and made it what it is. He examines the financial and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886630961Author Jada YuanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 2003gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 279mm * 28mm