Film

- The only book focusing on hand drafting for film and TV that is approachable and fully illustrated throughout with step-by-step instructions. - Covers all four types of drafting projection: isometric, oblique, orthographic and axonometric. - New...

- Provides aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with a solid understanding of what makes for an authentic screen character and provides them with tools they can use to evaluate the complexity of their own characters, so they can begin drawing their own...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788073312718Author Eva StruskovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and National Film Archive PraguePublisher Academy of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986604541Author Antonio PolancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Cinemania Publishing LLCPublisher Cinemania Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

This book goes beyond the technical steps in the process of making film, TV, and media material, examining what it means to be an ongoing supplier of content to the marketplace and how to become one. Steve Levitan brings insights and experience from his...

Explores theatrical improvisation through the lens of the Michael Chekhov acting technique.The book's focus in on hands-on acting exercises that can be done alone or in a classroom setting.Written by the co-founder of the National Michael Chekhov...

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or "break down" films and study them. You'd like to...

See Me, See You is the world's first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation in Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the early 1990s. This catalogue traces the journeys and evolving identities of the ten artists featured in the...

Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies, and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western colonial...

For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl...

This book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management that allow audience members to contribute canonically to the expansion of storyworlds, blurring the line between the...

Analyses the cultural exchange of two important and highly entangled European film nations of the silent era Presents new insights on famous films and stars like Asta Nielsen, Olaf F nss, and Pat & Patachon (also known as Long & Short) Employs...

Updates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent work Features essays on all of Denis's fiction and documentary World leading Denis scholars Innovative readings of Denis in the...

What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series, they contend that television...

The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we...

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks...

Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone announced the director as a singular talent with...

In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed...

A behind-the-scenes look at director Christopher Nolan's gripping action-thriller Dunkirk, which brings to life one of World War II's most pivotal events.Set during World War II, director Christopher Nolan's (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Interstellar)...

Become a part of history in this visually stunning exploration of the art and creation of the "Assassin s Creed "film."" Based on the highly popular game series, the fight between the Assassin and Templar now comes to the big screen in "Assassin s Creed,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941193481Author Amy PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Sarah Campbell Blaffer GalleryPublisher Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614681625Author Brent GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint The Troy Book MakersPublisher The Troy Book Makers

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982678916Author Yoshua OkonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsPublisher Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615934525Author Jesse PiresFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint East of BorneoPublisher East of Borneo

The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative...

Following the American indie cinema boom of the 1990s and the creation of "specialty" divisions by several Hollywood studios, many predicted an end to both the indie sector's viability and the making of films with ambitions beyond the commercial...

Look Up and Stay in Touch presents the final works in artist Slater Bradley's decade-long doppelganger project. Bradley (born 1975) has explored the way cultural icons are so imbued with myth that they become a mirror image (doppelganger) of the self...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838852Author MondoFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 2018gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 305mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838319Author Jody RevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 218mm *...

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era,...

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...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar...

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion...

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have...

After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea,...

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro for an intimate exploration of his darkly electrifying psychological thriller Nightmare Alley.Comprehensive and insightful, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle, is...

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and...

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw...

- Covers the principles behind shot composition, screen direction, depth cues, lighting, screen direction, camera movement, and more, providing a highly-illustrated and easy-to-use reference guide for aspiring and working filmmakers. - The book is...