Film

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 9798986604541Author Antonio PolancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Cinemania Publishing LLCPublisher Cinemania Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

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...

See Me, See You is the world's first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation in Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the early 1990s. This catalogue traces the journeys and evolving identities of the ten artists featured in the...

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...

Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices. Humans are narrative creatures, and since the dawn of our...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges?...

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...

The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960* to the...

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...

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the psychoanalytic paradigms that have dominated scholarly discussion...

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...

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europe's most isolated country during the Cold War era, communist Albania had already been cut off from the West for centuries as a one of the western-most outposts of...

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...

'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound, May 1998 covers all the significant theories, debates and approaches to the subject chapter authors are international experts emphasis...

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...

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,...

He's one of the most famous and revered men in all of American History. The 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln. And he's a vampire hunter!In anticipation of the release of the summer blockbuster from Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted),...

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"...