Film

Designed for aspiring filmmakers or for a course in short film distribution, this book teaches the fundamentals of promoting and distributing short films and videos. Chapters cover the elements of utilizing social networking to self-promote, entering...

The prototypical rust belt city, Cleveland has long served as an emblem of late twentieth-century urban decay. But recent decades have brought a cultural and economic renaissance - a revival that has been reflected and aided by the growing number of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733628136Author Helena PapadopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press

Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro for an intimate exploration of his darkly electrifying psychological thriller Nightmare Alley.Comprehensive and insightful, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle, is...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012343Author Madalina StefanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressSeries...

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy;...

Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality-forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more.Book InformationISBN 9780817321260Author Philip D...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the...

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who...

In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to...

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists...

Every Spider-Man fan knows Peter Parker's origin story, knows about his clashes with the Green Goblin, and is eager to see actor Tom Holland don the red and blue suit on the big screen. But do you know the genesis of Venom or the Sinister Six? Have you...

What patterns emerge in media coverage and character depiction of Southern men and women, blacks and whites, in the years between 1954 and 1976? How do portrayals of the region and the equal rights movement illuminate the spirit and experience of the...

Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern Projection of Moving Objects' heralds the arival of...

The official companion to the Justice League movie, due to be one of 2017's biggest films!Following the success of Batman Vs. Superman, the second biggest opening for Warner Brothers and the fourth biggest opening of all time, Titan presents the official...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988937529Author Riccardo BenassiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesSeries Doormats

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957041646Author Nelli FominaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CygnnetPublisher CygnnetWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 190mm * 21mm

Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women filmmakers? The figures suggest otherwise. Seeking to redress the imbalance between male and female film directors, Celluloid Ceiling...

The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that these digital films and multimedia installations radically...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364772Author Ewa MazierskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364895Author John OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923288Author Jack SargeantFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 368g

AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and of popular melodrama and comedy, have been attracting...

The "KINO Russian Cinema" series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to contemporary times. This volume investigates the...

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 American...

Producers raise money and supervise development, they procure a script or book or 'pre-sold property' (like Harry Potter or Batman) & more. This book is all about what producers have actually done during Hollywood's history, delving into the careers of...

Andre Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinema impur: defense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or racial resonances the word 'impure' might have. 'Impure...

Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary...

Students can use Zettl's workbook to check their comprehension of material covered. The workbook is organized to follow the main text, with tear-out worksheets to reinforce and review chapter material. Because students in beginning production classes...

Delivering the most comprehensive coverage available, Herb Zettl s SIGHT SOUND MOTION: APPLIED MEDIA AESTHETICS, 8e thoroughly describes the major aesthetic image elements -- light and color, space, time-motion, and sound -- as well as presents in-depth...

Integrating cutting-edge technologies with explanations of traditional equipment and practices, MODERN RADIO AND AUDIO PRODUCTION, 10e, offers current, comprehensive coverage of radio production and programming. A clear writing style, excellent...

Where is the place of the voice in film? Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical...

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. With fifteen never before published chapters in English by contributors from North America,...

Uncover the secrets of Gemini Man in this highly illustrated hardback packed with cast and crew interviews, stills, plus previously unseen concept art. Two-time Academy Award-winner Ang Lee, the director of Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, brings...

On Kubrick is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, "Fear and Desire" (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of "A.I., Artificial Intelligence" (2001). Organized in six parts ("The Taste Machine,"...

Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international...

This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy. Over 40 years after his death Pier Paolo...

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.Book InformationISBN 9781474455084Author...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474431835Author Calum WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in...

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites...