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Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611476828
RRP: £44.00£39.49Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster's novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not being "faithful" to the novel, this project explores... -
Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History Rosanna Maule 9781032019864
RRP: £135.00£116.84This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western... -
A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India Sudhir Mahadevan 9781438458281
£29.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438458281Author Sudhir MahadevanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries... -
Romance Film: Passion Strategies In Film And Life Norman Kagan 9780761866619
RRP: £25.00£21.99Romance Film is a critical history of significant romance films from Hollywood and abroad. Kagan discusses, among others, Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the... -
DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border Suk-Young Kim 9780231164825
£63.74The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9780230319417
£109.99The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual... -
Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance Siona Wilson 9780816685752
RRP: £23.99£21.25Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona... -
Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories Rosalind Galt 9780195385625
£64.20Art cinema is a canonical term used in critical histories of postwar world cinema to carve out a space of aesthetic and commercial distinction that is neither mainstream nor avant-garde. For over fifty years, "art cinema" has defined how audiences and... -
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination J. P. Telotte (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190695279
RRP: £31.99£27.99Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips,... -
A Filmmaker's Guide to Sound Design: Bridging the Gap Between Filmmakers and Technicians to Realize the Storytelling Power of Sound Matthew Polis (SoundSpace Studio, USA) 9780367249908
RRP: £135.00£116.84Introduces sound design and postproduction audio for a variety of filmmaking classes, including sound design, producing, and directing. Drawing on the authors' extensive teaching and professional experience, the book provides instructors with real-world... -
Looking for Bruce Conner Kevin Hatch (Binghamtom University) 9780262528894
£46.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528894Author Kevin HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries October BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm -
Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television David McHenry 9781138290327
RRP: £135.00£117.24Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television is the essential resource for students and aspiring professionals studying and working in film and television design. The book covers all aspects of scenic drafting by hand - a technique... -
Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community Joe Lambert 9781138577657
RRP: £135.00£117.24In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories. Using a "Seven Steps"... -
Twentieth Century Fox Frederick Wasser 9781138921252
RRP: £135.00£116.84This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long evolution of the audience, nationally and globally. In... -
Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909-1925 (Routledge Revivals) Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781138639294
RRP: £135.00£116.84First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other... -
Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance Andre Lepecki 9781138907706
RRP: £135.00£116.84How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just... -
Reimagining Communication: Mediation Michael Filimowicz 9781138498907
RRP: £135.00£116.84Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses, content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse body of contributions in this unique interdisciplinary... -
Cinema 4D Apprentice: Real-World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist Kent McQuilkin 9781138380448
RRP: £135.00£117.84New to CINEMA 4D and looking for an accessible way to get up to speed quickly? Do you already know the basics of the software but need to know the new features or take your skills and understanding a little deeper? If so, look no further than CINEMA 4D... -
Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating translation and accessibility into the filmmaking process Pablo Romero-Fresco 9781138493001
RRP: £135.00£117.24Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where current distribution strategies and exhibition... -
Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller Jeff Lyons (Story editor Kensington Entertainment; UCLA Extension Writers Program; Stanford University Online Writer's Studio) 9781138929715
RRP: £135.00£117.24This book offers a unique approach to storytelling, connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development, plot, and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine... -
The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice Ken Dancyger 9781138628397
RRP: £135.00£117.84This updated sixth edition of The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Ken Dancyger puts into context the storytelling choices... -
IFP/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual Eden H. Wurmfeld 9781138171206
RRP: £135.00£117.84Backed by the resources of Independent Feature Project/West, co-authors Nicole Shay LaLoggia and Eden H. Wurmfeld have written the definitive low-budget production manual. Using examples from the Swingers and Kissing Jessica Stein, this comprehensive... -
Production Design: Visual Design for Film and Television Peg McClellan 9781138185432
RRP: £135.00£113.86Production Design: Visual Design for Film and Television is a hands-on guide to the craft of Production Design and Art Direction. Author Peg McClellan gives an insider's view of the experiences and challenges of working as a Production Designer in film... -
Fine Cuts: Interviews on the Practice of European Film Editing Roger Crittenden (BAFTA, UK) 9781138201989
RRP: £135.00£117.24In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews. This new edition builds on the foundations laid out in 2005, including interviews with... -
The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking Tony Stark 9780815369776
RRP: £135.00£113.46The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to... -
Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting Katherine Manthorne 9780815374190
RRP: £135.00£116.84Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting... -
Global Cinema Networks Elena Gorfinkel 9780813592725
RRP: £32.00£29.07Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection's esteemed contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of... -
Unwatchable Nicholas Baer 9780813599595
RRP: £85.00£74.58We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the... -
Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema Jennifer L. Feeley 9780816693184
RRP: £23.99£21.25Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang's pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on... -
Ecocinema Theory and Practice Stephen Rust 9780415899420
RRP: £135.00£117.24Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with... -
Prop Building for Beginners: Twenty Props for Stage and Screen Eric Hart (Professional Prop Builder, New York, NY, USA) 9780367366919
RRP: £135.00£116.84Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose... -
Producing Videos: A complete guide Martha Mollison 9780367719043
RRP: £135.00£116.84Producing Videos has been called the 'bible' of video making. A bestseller over many years, it offers a comprehensive and user friendly guide to all aspects of video production - from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't... -
Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television Jane Stadler 9780367719319
RRP: £135.00£117.24Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills... -
Composing Audiovisually: Perspectives on audiovisual practices and relationships Louise Harris 9780367346928
RRP: £135.00£116.84What does the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink have in common with Norman McLaren's Synchromy? Or with audiovisual sculpture? Or contemporary music video? Composing Audiovisually interrogates how the relationship between the audiovisual media in these works,... -
The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria: Social Critique and an Artistic Movement Charlotte Bank (independent researcher) 9780367244781
RRP: £135.00£116.84This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of experimentation as young artists began to work with artistic... -
Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices Andrew Knight-Hill 9780367271473
RRP: £135.00£116.84Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both the aesthetics and practices that underpin the... -
Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures: Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis Antonio Cascelli (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9780367188047
RRP: £135.00£116.84Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms and music. The chapters are organized around three core concepts - threshold, intermediality,... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367195335
RRP: £135.00£116.84This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172813
RRP: £28.00£26.02By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the... -
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood Jeffrey Knapp (Eggers Professor of English, Eggers Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley) 9780190935924
RRP: £24.49£17.49Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the...