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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708652Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874747Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635874761Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror.Book InformationISBN...

Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474437035Author Philip-Edward PhillisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinemaThe first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, 'Cinema-monde' picks up on the...

The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and '60s, including...

'Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers' examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood - Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly...

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected questions of gender and female authorship. It examines a wide array of documentary phenomena through global...

The "Reform Era" (1979-present) in China has been a time of massive social and economic change, and has witnessed China's transition from socialism to capitalism. This book focuses on how this period of change has been constructed in the films of Jia...

Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other...

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087976310Author Scott PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893266Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893426Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088026328Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087912271Author Scott PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781073100682Author John V WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 774Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries The History of Widescreen...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015768222Author Epes Winthrop SargentFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

When someone offered Michael DiPaolo USD5,000 to make a Digital Video horror film, he jumped at the chance to test a theory: an ultra-low budget feature, shot in less than a week, with both a paid cast and crew, could be successful if meticulously...

Offers a transnational comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film. Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema. It discusses a range of internationally renowned...

This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595339259Author Carl RollysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Originally published in England in 1935, this book is an attempt to isolate the fundamental principles of film art and to teach in concrete detail how these principles are well or badly applied in the production of films. This essential task, shirked or...

In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with...

Comprising 91 A-Z entries, this encyclopedia provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the topic of religion within film. Technology has enabled films to reach much wider audiences, enabling today's viewers to access a dizzying number of...

In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by more than 250 filmmakers, and short and documentary films by another 900 filmmakers, this volume...

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The...

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932115Author Richard D. PeppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088031599Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087949611Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

A film-lover's guide to New York City, this book explores the city through iconic moments in cinema history. It is filled with interesting trivia and useful information for both locals and tourists, and includes now-and-then images, quotes, and location...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312347383Author D B GillesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm *...

Covering more than 2,500 characters, creatures, planets, vehicles, Droids (TM), weapons, technology, and more from the Star Wars (TM) universe, this visual tour is the ultimate compendium for the epic saga and beyond.Take a stunning visual tour of Star...

Take an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. Packed with hundreds of stunning images and written in collaboration with the filmmakers themselves, uncover the incredible creative and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088012352Author Scott V. PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSpark