Reference Books

This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them. Film entries range from the legendary The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Fantasia 2000. Artists ranging from Gene Kelly to Elvis...

This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening...

Representing the first attempt to compile a complete catalog of the entertainers who appeared on film in Great Britain from the invention of the cinema in the mid-1890s to the present, this innovative book covers more than 2,000 entertainers. Each entry...

The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers a broad-ranging portrait of the motion picture...

Independent filmmaking is often regarded as a relatively recent phenomenon, yet the so-called movement has actually existed as long as movies themselves. In this indispensable single-volume reference work, LoBrutto surveys the subject from cinema's...

Many of our favorite films began as plays-some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video Versions identifies nearly 300 films and their...

Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for public exhibition. The Zonal Film Archives originally held...

This is a critical collection of key films, directors, and performers in American film, 1965-1995, a period that spans the demise of the studio system to the rise of the independents. The guide includes such notable contributions as the early work of...

James Mason broke into British films in 1935 after a few years working on the stage. For the rest of the decade, he alternated unsuccessful theatre ventures with increasingly important movies. Though he was a conscientious objector, he became one of the...

General accessibility to motion picture credit information continues with Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits, 1981 the fourth issue to be published by Greenwood Press. The Academy collects information supplied by film producers and distributors to...

Since 1934, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has organized motion picture credit information and published it, primarily for distribution to the motion picture community, in the Screen Achievements Records Bulletin. Since 1978, Greenwood...

The Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits covers films eligible for the Academy Awards, as well as other films, released in the Los Angeles area, which do not meet the Academy's requirements. Each film entry includes title, production and releasing...

This guide to Spanish film documents the film industry's interpretation of the isolating effects of the cultural traditionalism of the early twentieth century to the expanding international popularity of such films as Trueba's Belle Epoque, Aranda's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573561679Author Patricia D. NetzleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Oryx Press IncPublisher Oryx Press Inc

Many science fiction movies from the last 40 years have blazed new vistas for viewers. They've reached further into the future traveled longer into the past soared deeper into the vastness of the cosmos and probed more intently inside man's...

Examines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinema The first scholarly work that considers Indonesian cinema as an artistic field with significant aesthetic values and artistic accomplishments Uses theories of film...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793537860Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 128Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

After scores of books and commentaries on film noir and its classic period experts Alain Silver and James Ursini turn their full attention to neo-noir the self-conscious mannered sometimes ersatz and often surprising genre that sprang from the...

Oh Hai! EThe Room: The Definitive GuideE is the ultimate key to the biggest pop culture phenomenon of the 21st century Tommy Wiseau's EThe RoomE. Arguably the worst film of all time and certainly one of the most beguiling the masterpiece of...

EThe Complete Guide to Writing Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short FilmE is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and promote a low-budget short film. It begins with how to write a short script keeping in mind the goal of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103897Author Stephen TropianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries Music On FilmentsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472108596Author Rudolf ArnheimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing...

Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and...

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...

When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. The latest volume in the Behind the Silver Screen...

Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers-think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli-Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720854Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.Book InformationISBN 9781474437233Author Sergei ToymentsevFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760790196Author Alan J WhitickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101626Author David ZinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643708645Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

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 ...

An invaluable resource examining LGBTQIA+ portrayals in contemporary American film.The depictions of LGBTQIA+ characters in film have always varied immensely. However, the negative depictions often seem to outweigh the positive, perhaps because of the...

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...

This is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives,...

The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004)...