Film

This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book...

* Provides a comprehensive approach to Motion Design as Design Practice with specific areas of focus for a range of audiences. * Integrates professional examples, case studies, and interviews to validate its themes. * Written from ongoing and pragmatic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967308Author Richard BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L'Argent (1983), has long been thought of as a transcendental filmmaker preoccupied with...

In this book, Charles Merzbacher offers a concise, definitive guide to the essential skills, techniques and logistics of producing short films, focusing on the practical knowledge needed for line producing and overseeing smaller-scale productions...

Scriptwriting for Web Series: Writing for the Digital Age offers aspiring writers a comprehensive how-to guide to scriptwriting for web series in the digital age.Containing in-depth advice on writing both short- and long-form webisodes as part of a...

Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling through writing, directing, and editing. Author Ken Dancyger provides a comprehensive explanation of the tools that...

When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew?To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to...

Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of...

German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, be success defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. On the one hand, the 2000s saw German productions become regular guests at all the...

Transmedia Marketing: From Film and TV to Games and Digital Media skillfully guides media makers and media marketers through the rapidly changing world of entertainment and media marketing. Its groundbreaking transmedia approach integrates storytelling...

Synchronization and Title Sequences proposes a semiotic analysis of the synchronization of image and sound in motion pictures using title sequences. Through detailed historical close readings of title designs that use either voice-over, an instrumental...

Film can be a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural practice through which acts and activism are performed. Going beyond ideological constructs of activism and legal definitions of citizenship, this book offers a novel approach to...

This collection of essays by biblical scholars is the first book-length treatment of the 2014 film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film has proved to be of great interest to scholars working on the interface between the Bible and popular culture,...

In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs. Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend...

This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminacy. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the gothic,...

Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen-or heard-before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an...

Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel, teleportation, and supernatural abilities to address...

As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound" in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these...

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the...

The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies...

The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies...

This volume points to the limits of models such as regional, national, and transnational, and develops 'network' as a conceptual category to study cinemas of India. Through grounded and interdisciplinary research, it shows how film industries located in...

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue - from naturalistic style to the building of characters to...

Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years' experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects, Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process.Readers will gain valuable insights...

The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences and spawned a subculture of dedicated fans. Shunning...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640851801Author Bradley BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Author Academy ElitePublisher Author Academy EliteWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

International specialists from law, media, film and virtual studies address the jurist in the era of digital transmission. From the cinema of the early 20th century to social media, this volume explores the multiple intersections of these visual...

Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981063499Author Steven RoosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781980676843Author Rosangela Donizete CanassaFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736400166Author MS BlackwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Ground Floor PublishingPublisher Ground Floor PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015474123Author Bela BalazsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578546186Author Derrick MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Mecca Don LLCPublisher Mecca Don LLCWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

- Highly visual guide with over 300 full color images of professionals working with cutting edge video equipment brings the topic to life. - Interviews with industry professionals provides students insights into how the field really works. - Robust...