Film

Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings-including her unfinished autobiography-Dorothy Arzner: Interviews offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765102954Author Ken GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633487Author Chon A. NoriegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549745Author Janine MarchessaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdSeries LeonardoWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218224745Author Alyssa CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Www.Tv-Ae.comPublisher Www.Tv-Ae.comWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation,...

Examines the history of the Hong Kong crime film before 1986 Departs from the predominant focus on action aesthetics in studies of Hong Kong cinema to focus on the early crime film's close links to local society and politics Draws on years of...

Over the last three decades, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) has been an original and impactful voice on the contemporary art scene with her sensuous, colorful and norm-subverting audio and video universes (the artist's first name is itself a nod...

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)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932863Author Matthew KalilFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Through a new look at how political, historical, and art documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to better understand what people do with analog and digital photographs as...

Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries worldwide. With the onset of digital...

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...

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen, and their formulation of the elements of the frame as a designed address to 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...

Step into a world where the brightest creative minds of contemporary musical theatre share their insights and inspirations. Conversations in Color unveils the untold stories and perspectives of remarkable artists of color shaping the stage today...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907674Author Marcie BegleiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 590g

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine O'Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy to explore Martin Scorsese's feature films from Who's That...

Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin American film industries within the global circulation of...

Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph...

Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the White Cube travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise...

The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are...

Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite significant. In this guide to their careers and films, author...

Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647226619Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsSeries Harry PotterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608878109Author Paula M BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1563gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 235mm *...

The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey's John Akomfrah is...

Examines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinema The first scholarly work that considers Indonesian cinema as an artistic field with significant aesthetic values and artistic accomplishments Uses theories of film...

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...

Ever since film was brought into China at the end of the nineteenth century, translation has conquered language, ideological and cultural barriers and facilitated the dissemination of films in China. Offering fresh visions and innovative studies on...

Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity of the text creating and maintaining a dialogue between...

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...

Examines Western-inspired fashion objects in Japanese cinema between 1923 and 1939 Consults varied primary Japanese-language source material, such as visual analysis of extant films; film fragments and stills from the era; advertising ephemera such as...

A visually immersive exploration of the provocative and humanistic themes at the heart of Almodovar's cinema Pedro Almodovar is one of the most daring and influential writer-directors of our time. He directed his first feature in 1980, during La...

What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic," to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century ago, so why do such performances still serve as a key...