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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...

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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...

Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the research Provided audiences of the time with...

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The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "committed"...

As climate change, economic recession, war, and mass migration destabilize the world and create a less certain future, notions of home and shelter loom large. Breaking and Entering considers how contemporary artists and filmmakers address anxieties and...

Now in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for the study of films and filmmaking. This trusted and practical handbook clearly and concisely defines the essential terms of film analysis and...

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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...

In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women, entered a world that did not build on common fantasy or...

Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793557448Author Randy NewmanPage Count 32Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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,...

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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...

In this ground-breaking and provocative book, Roy Grundmann contends that Andy Warhol's notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive metaphor for post-war American society's relation to homosexuality. Arguing...

Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema, has been acclaimed worldwide for its interviews with filmmakers and film critics. In the early 1980s, a collection of some of the best of these was published as The Cineaste...

The Political Companion to American Film is an encyclopedic collection of critical essays offering provocative social and political commentary on the work of filmmakers (from Woody Allen to Darryl Zanuck) and other film personalities (from Charles...

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

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...

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs left off. When inventor Flint Lockwood discovers that his most infamous machine - the FLDSMDFR - is still operating and is now creating giant mutant food beasts that...

Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and...