Film

A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider range of artists and works from across the globe and explores and examines developments in the genre of...

Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia...

In this book, Charles Merzbacher offers a concise, definitive guide to the essential skills, techniques and logistics of producing short films, focusing on the practical knowledge needed for line producing and overseeing smaller-scale productions...

Colossal. Stupendous. Epic. These adjectives, used by movie companies to hawk their wares, became cliches long ago. When used to describe the films of one director, they are accurate. More than any filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille...

As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound" in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these...

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative, technical, interpersonal, and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging...

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue - from naturalistic style to the building of characters to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358380207Author Alan LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 249mm...

Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches,...

Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and...

With extensive backstories and comic lore, this lively, detailed book explores the characters, storylines, and facts every Avengers fan should know. This guide covers the history of how the group went from Justice League knockoff to billion-dollar...

- Highly visual guide with over 300 full color images of professionals working with cutting edge video equipment brings the topic to life. - Interviews with industry professionals provides students insights into how the field really works. - Robust...

Paik is considered the founder of video art and was one of the first artists to bring television into the realm of art, treating it as a tactile and multisensory mediumAbout the AuthorThe current consulting senior curator for media arts at the...

East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional...

Expo 67, in its utopian aspirations, invited artists to create the world anew. What distinguished Montreal's exhibition from previous world fairs were its dramatic displays of film and media, transformed into urban and futuristic architectures...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037640548Author Sabine BreitwieserFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically...

Peter Forgacs, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema's Alchemist offers a sustained...

The contents of A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 1 (and its companion volumes 2 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. To view pre-cinema devices merely as steps towards...

What is the cultural value of illegal works that violate the copyrights of popular fiction? Why do they persist despite clear and stringent intellectual property laws? Drawing on the disciplines of new media, law, and literary studies, Illegal Literature...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711279384Author Charles BramescoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Frances Lincoln Children's BooksPublisher Quarto Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645369Author Raphael GygaxFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644928Author Emmanuel AlloaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644720Author David MaljkovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644492Author John StezakerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644218Author Ericka BeckmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

In 1929 Dali and Bunuel produced a seventeen-minute film "Un chien andalou". On its first screening, Federico Garcia Lorca called it 'a tiny little shit of a film'. Produced from a script said to be based on two dream images - a woman's eye slit by a...

The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities...

What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant?Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing...

Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas.Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history to the mafia, the family, the Risorgimento, terrorism,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669205Author Ruth AnderwaldFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783865608765Author Susanne PfefferFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. VerlagPublisher Buchhandlung Walther Konig...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863354565Author Stefan RipplingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863353506Author Dirk BaeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863353490Author Franziska StohrFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863351328Author Gus BlaisdellFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Filming 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...

This volume offers a comprehensive look at the career of Mika Rottenberg (born 1976). Each chapter is devoted to one of the major videos/installations for which Rottenberg has become known, with an abundance of installation views, video stills, planning...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438460505Author Rebecca MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries SUNY...

A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "Golden Age" of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema. From the Great Depression through World War II, the...