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From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of the most compelling films of the last 30 years. Apart...

The floozy, the gangster's moll, the nasty debutante: Most Hollywood actresses played at least one of these bad girls in the 1930s. Since censorship customarily demanded that goodness prevail, vixens were in mainly supporting roles - but the actresses...

Mankind has been predicting its own demise through various methods from fables and religious scriptures to hard-core scientific studies since the dawn of time. And if there is one thing Hollywood knows how to exploit it is the fears of Things to Come...

A favorite of film followers for 50 years James Bond is the hero loved by everyone: Men want to be just like him women just want to be with him. Moviegoers around the world have spent more than $5 billion to watch his adventures across the last five...

EThe Wizard of Oz FAQE is a fact-filled celebration of the beloved 1939 fantasy masterpiece starring Judy Garland. It's all here a from L. Frank Baum and his Oz novels to the complete background story of the movie's conception development and shoot ...

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 9781474436311Author Dimitris PapanikolaouFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980sIt places the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109615Author Alain SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109547Author Richard KoszarskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102975Author Alain SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102685Author Gregg RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

In a career that spanned eight decades, Christopher Lee (1922-2015) appeared in more than 200 roles for film and television. Though he is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s-as well as his appearances in the Lord...

Teleology brings together John Hartley's work on television. The book draws on current critical theory in cultural studies to develop a wide-ranging and thought-provoking view of television broadcasting in Britain, Australia and the USA.Neighbours,...

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes.In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109943Author Gregg RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103323Author Alain SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

In this second edition of Investing in Movies, industry veteran Joseph N. Cohen provides investors and producers with an analytical framework to assess the opportunities and pitfalls of film investments.The book traces macroeconomic trends and the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109769Author Michael Di LeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries Limelight

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102661Author Alain SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102777Author Geoff AndrewFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

With the rapid development of computer science and the expanding use of computers in all facets of American life, there has been made available a wide range of instructional and informational films on automation, data processing, and computer science...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103125Author Richard BullerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103514Author Mark M. ThiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries Limelight

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456272Author Rachel DwyerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

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...

A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474440547Author Michelle RoyerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Visionaries

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474419192Author Allan CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new...

Over the past four decades the Stephen King movie has become a genre unto itself. The prolific writer's works have spawned well over 100 adaptations for both the big and small screen ranging from modern classics of horror (ECarrieE EThe ShiningE) to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480342033Author George P Garrett, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Blueprint for Screenwriting demystifies the writing process by developing a "blueprint" for writers to follow for each new screenplay--from original concept to completed script. Author and international script consultant Dr. Rachel Ballon explores the...

Musicians, both fictional and real, have long been subjects of cinema. From biopics of composers Beethoven and Mozart to the rise (and often fall) of imaginary bands in The Commitments and Almost Famous, music of all types has inspired hundreds of films...

The silent film era featured some of the most revered names of on-screen comic performance, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Laurel & Hardy. Besides these giants of cinema, however, there are other silent era...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109929Author Al BrodaxFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm)...

Another 13 walking tours illustrated as before with movie stills and photographs of the actual sites. Chuck Katz ends his book with a walking tour of Lower Manhattan and Ground Zero which he calls America's heart.Book InformationISBN...

Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). However, the hundred...

Part Blood, Part Ketchup analyzes novels by 20th century authors Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, John Irving, and Jamaica Kincaid, uncovering trends that obliterate cultural divides. With unrestrained American voices, the collective pitch of...

Art cinema is a canonical term used in critical histories of postwar world cinema to carve out a space of aesthetic and commercial distinction that is neither mainstream nor avant-garde. For over fifty years, "art cinema" has defined how audiences and...