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This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the popularity of CIA-sponsored...

Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy brings together scholars and educators who explore the educational potential of analog role-playing games (tabletop role-playing games and live action role-play) through the lens of pedagogical...

This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone seeking a fresh perspective - to rethink the rules of mainstream storytelling and unleash their creativity to craft authentic,...

This book prepares media students for the reality of corporate video production-where sustainable careers exist but success depends on more than just technical skills. Unlike traditional filmmaking texts, it focuses specifically on creating videos for...

The third volume of the widely acclaimed Art of the Cut focuses exclusively on documentary editing, bringing together the experience and insight of more than 100 of the world's best documentary editors.Continuing his work from the other volumes, Steve...

Film School Survival Guide is a comprehensive and approachable resource designed to address common mistakes made by film students and provide straightforward, practical solutions.Drawing upon the author's fifteen years of experience teaching film...

The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements. Focusing on the works of the Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, this book situates...

The Fabric of Performance: The Role and History of Textiles in Costume for Theatre and Film provides an overview of the narrative properties of textiles and how they have been utilised in the design and construction of costume for dramatic performance in...

The Monkey on Frida's Shoulder is an imaginative re-telling of the life of Frida Kahlo, seen through the eyes of her house pet Nat-a talking spider monkey with a taste for linguistics, haute couture, and detective novels. After fleeing the destruction of...

Celebrate the literary life with 500+ stickers and 50+ activity pages, puzzles, and trivia. Whether you consider yourself a bibliophile or are interested in novels and literature, Books, Tomes & Folios Sticker, Color & Activity Book is for you! Inside,...

Football has always been so much more than the billionaire buyers and seven-figure signing fees. With the women's game now more popular than ever, one thing is clear: when it comes to football, only half the story is usually told. Would the Lionesses...

From the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood's first golden age, comes the story of its last. Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went...

New York City's downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art. Many of the artists who would come to define this period also dabbled in public access cable television-which was then a very new...

New York City's downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art. Many of the artists who would come to define this period also dabbled in public access cable television-which was then a very new...

Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography,...

Documentary is at the core of Andre Bazin's immensely influential views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography,...

Accused of treason four times by three governments, William Rotch led a harrowing life. A Quaker merchant in the Age of Revolution, he refused to fight for either independence or empire. To governments and neighbors, his pacifism looked like treachery...

USA Today Bestseller!"As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreams-and my nightmares." -Ava Reid, #1 New York...

Accused of treason four times by three governments, William Rotch led a harrowing life. A Quaker merchant in the Age of Revolution, he refused to fight for either independence or empire. To governments and neighbors, his pacifism looked like treachery...

This book invites readers to explore the field of graphic medicine through a new concept: "keywords/keyimages." Coined by the editors to reflect the unique combination of words and images in comics, this term offers a fresh way to understand how graphic...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure-a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick-a stunning new speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship."A masterful, tender...

The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas's Galaxy Raiders series.As war rages on against the formidable Galactic Authority, Admiral Alexandra Morrigan leads a daring expeditionary fleet into the galactic frontier,...

Magic Lantern Art celebrates the life and artistry of cinema pioneer, Joseph Boggs Beale (1841-1926). Beale was America's premier artist creating images for magic lantern shows - the projected performances that gave birth to the movies. His 2,000 ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798384602682Author PI KidsPage Count 10Imprint PI KidsPublisher Phoenix International Publications, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948691297Author CompyeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Presence LLCPublisher Presence LLCWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198904406Author Marion BlackwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Black Dagger PublishingPublisher Black Dagger PublishingSeries Flame and...

From British Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman. A young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781969047008Author Michelle BolangerFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Risen Fiction PublishingPublisher Risen Fiction PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth century, the Khamsa gained popularity in the...

Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of...

In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as...

This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on Jewish culture, on the relation of comedy to gender and the...

A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of films, this book brings to light a series of recurrent...

Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De...

What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital age are more complex and entangled than ever before. It...

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art...

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from...

Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification...

The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and...

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and...