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Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic, Gayatri Chatterjee draws on new research in the Mehboob...

Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned Fellini scholar Frank Burke presents a film-by-film...

Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned Fellini scholar Frank Burke presents a film-by-film...

When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales. Addressing the interplay between the development of...

A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens - popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs and slums often represented in...

One of the great icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death in 1937 at age 26. During her brief career, she delivered memorable performances in such MGM classics as Red Dust (1932), Bombshell (1933), Dinner at Eight (1933)...

The American television commercial has an aesthetic and historical dynamic linking it directly to cinematic and media cultures. Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial establishes the complex vitality of the television...

Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis that must be deciphered, Movie Emoji tests readers movie and emoji IQ. Thinking Face and Hands in the Air! In Movie Emojis, Frying Pan with Egg with a Diamond Ring...

Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory Offers new readings of important films through the lens of...

This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen's collaborative films,...

Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis that must be deciphered, Movie Emoji tests readers' movie and emoji IQ. Thinking Face and Hands in the Air! In Movie Emojis, Frying Pan with Egg with a Diamond Ring...

Revisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpoints Look at the productive roles women have played as discursive mediators of the cultural imaginary of the nation, the auteur, and the art of...

A new critical perspective on the female auteur that considers her place in the avant-garde tradition of provocation Includes close critical analysis of eight contemporary women filmmakers and their provocative works Provides an exploration and...

Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that brings together film studies, philosophies of ethics, cultural studies and critical theory to contribute to...

The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English Offers an innovative critical analysis of Kim Ki-young's films from a range of fresh and nuanced perspectives Introduces a significant South Korean film auteur within...

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre...

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre...

Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary to handle production and distribution of the high budget films.This is a complete filmography of Allied Artists' 452 feature...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380804801Author John AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967162Author Deac RossellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

This is a detailed analysis of 103 Japanese science fiction, horror and fantasy feature films released theatrically or directly to television in the United States from 1950 through 1992. Each entry provides a plot synopsis, critique, background on the...

Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Often ragged, unkempt, ill-spoken, rotting individuals, zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward in comparison to the more popular and more...

Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century explores the current state of Tamil cinema, one of India's largest film industries. Since its inception a century ago, Tamil cinema has undergone major transformations, and today it stands as a foremost cultural...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798844358135Author K S ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798678423085Author John HarbourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 984gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798673518458Author Will MendesFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798673260104Author Anon-Y-MooseFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798673257630Author Will MendesFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798605500445Author Will MendesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798556610910Author Linc PoldermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798522013776Author Andre DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390011476Author Abhishek TripathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Zorba BooksPublisher Zorba Books

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786204125497Author Gustave FundiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639474459Author Simone VoitFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint AV AkademikerverlagPublisher AV AkademikerverlagWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659618321Author Akimoto DaisukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India's major cinematic genres and movements while illuminating the field as a...

Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of US theatre chain AMC and visual effects house Digital...

Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence, development, and techniques of Griersonian documentary - named for pioneering Scottish film-maker John Grierson - in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close...

Drive in Cinema offers Zizek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilova, to...