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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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686937Author G. H. JanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies Provides in-depth discussions of different sub-genres and forms ...

From Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of The Noir Style and Film Noir Graphics and editors of the seven-volume Film Noir Reader series, comes Film Noir Fatal Women -- their latest exploration of the key elements that define Americas only homegrown...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684182299Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593932596Author Ben OhmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502568793Author Horace Martin WoodhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as...

Draws attention to the manifestation of feminist issues within Marvel superhero films Reaches to film studies, comics studies, cultural studies and gender studies to make sense of portrayals of feminine identity through a detailed critique of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103477Author James UrsiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema-especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers-an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708669Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737603412Author Daryn KirschtFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Daryn KirschtPublisher Daryn KirschtWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 24mm

Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its interests. Dealing with a period from about 1924-1945, it...

The action adventure 300: Rise of an Empire is the highly anticipated follow-up to the 2007 international blockbuster 300.Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, 300: Rise of an Empire is produced by Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton, Zack Snyder,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917285148Author Nocturne GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksSeries Shadows in a Phantom EyeWeight(grams)...

Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in Film Studies such as...

Spaghetti Westerns - mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe - were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering...

From the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan represent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and appreciation. Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an...

Explores extremity in films and its ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implications Provides a framework for understanding controversial and extreme films A theory of transgressive film that responds to theories of transgression, accounts...

The Great Wall: The Art of the Film chronicles the making of this landmark East-meets-West production, accompanied by insight and interviews with key cast and crew, including a foreword by director Zhang Yimou. Packed with fascinating storyboards,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525536192Author Leonard MaltinFormat PaperbackPage Count 1648Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 49mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593933340Author Patrick JankiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953221278Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 17mm

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinemaThe first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique version of noir since the late 1940s, while...

Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and intervened directly in debates...

Applies Badiou's philosophy to films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The Matrix. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship - namely, 'can cinema be thought?' In addressing...

Challenging conventional scholarship placing the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre's roots firmly planted in the political, social, and material conditions of Hollywood during the war. After Pearl Harbor,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781712405642Author John V WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087995328Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998762562Author Barb MirellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Liberty Bell PublishersPublisher Liberty Bell PublishersWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944788766Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Scott PalmerPublisher Scott PalmerWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 21mm

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and...

This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as ECount Yorga VampireE and EBlaculaE EThe HungerE and EVampire's KissE in the Eighties EInterview with the VampireE EBram Stoker's DraculaE and the EBladeE series in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692242346Author Diogo LandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Samson Publishing Company LLCPublisher Samson Publishing Company LLCWeight(grams)...

From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30 seasons and counting, The Simpsons boasts the distinction...

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474477727Author Austin FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...