Film

Radley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven. After getting his start making arthouse trailers for...

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Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the director's oeuvre through the methodological lens of...

This book offers various approaches to understanding the short form in television. The collection is structured in three parts, first engaging with the concept of brevity as inherent to television fiction, before going on to examine how the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765107539Author Chris NeilanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the public but great artists such as Pablo Picasso. Samuel...

Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101094Author David CottisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "feminine".The author uses attachment theory in an interdisciplinary framework with an emphasis on...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474486989Author MaoHui DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This accessible and informative textbook provides a guide to the craft of screenwriting with an emphasis on diverse perspectives, underrepresented groups and their screen stories. Readers will learn to master writing a feature-length screenplay in a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474499149Author Reader in Russian Studies Alexandra SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493918Author Trevor MowchunFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Hanif Kureishi's cinematic storytelling embraces a wide spectrum of characters from all classes and nationalities, depicting them with compassion, humour and relish, though never fighting shy of controversy. This volume comprises four of Kureishi's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452878Author Sneha Kar ChaudhuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Refocus: The...

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the twentieth century, gay characters...

The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and the rise of Technicolor-despite the fact that new...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986604565Author Antonio PolancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Cinemania Publishing LLCPublisher Cinemania Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival...

Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from non-linear independent films to Hollywood genre...

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idees Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001), which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums...

What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro...

More than a makeup book, Beauty of the Beast is a transformation manual by special effects makeup artist Emily Schubert. It combines expertise from the worlds of professional beauty makeup and special effects and aims to provide a full sense of how, with...

This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore the subjective experience of a central male protagonist, announcing the emergence of a genre that has...

Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure. Unlike his famous contemporaries, such asIngmar Bergman and Luchino Visconti, whose...

The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of...

Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since the 1980s. Indie music has, since the 2000s, become highlighted in some indie films as an attraction, but...

"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and...

Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers. Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant...

This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the women's biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over the past decade.Delving into the societal shifts reflected in the genre, both on and off screen, the book...

Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. Author Traci Roberts-Camps analyzes the work of a series of female directors from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the...

Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. Author Traci Roberts-Camps analyzes the work of a series of female directors from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the...

Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the director's entire career and the themes, ambitions,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611213Author Rudolf E. KuenzliFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries Dada and Surrealist FilmWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Single Drama Jane Austen's classic novel is the story of Anne Elliot. Engaged eight years previously to a young navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, she allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the...

It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams-and...

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101858Author Austin BunnFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The Works of Shonda Rhimes, the first book in Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series, brings together a collection of essays that look critically at the works of this award-winning writer, producer, and CEO of the global media company, Shondaland. ...