Film

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...

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,...

Only 23-years-old when he directed his extraordinary debut feature Gummo, Harmony Korine has since continued to serve notice that he is the riskiest, most radical young talent in independent US film. This collection of three screenplays displays his...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451183880Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 176mm *...

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)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932443Author John T. TrigonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the...

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. ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101865Author Austin BunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103746Author Dr. Paul KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683832256Author Gina McIntyreFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1259gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 235mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609810439Author Michael LentFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838364Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 221mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103203Author Professor Gianluca SergiFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and...

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his breakthrough film El Topo in 1970. He has been called a "cult"...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213940Author Barry GiffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478274Author Christopher BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the production and reception of media. Missing from these...

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Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive activity into a participatory, multimedia experience...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Children's Book Council Queensland BILBY Awards: Older Reader 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780868196237Author Melina MarchettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint...

Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive activity into a participatory, multimedia experience...

Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic,...

Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990sthe rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...