Reference Books

Practical up-to-date advice for the aspiring director, producer, or screenwriter This third edition prepares independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered. Current...

Psycho Puzzles re-creates the suspense and drama of Hitchcock's greatest films in more than 80 puzzles. Each conundrum uses characters and situations from his movies to set the scene and you will be asked to calculate the answers to a number of gruesome...

For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind the scenes of Hollywood's most storied awards show through new and exclusive interviews with dozens of A-list...

In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott Tracy Griffin traces the development of the history-making Tarzan franchise, from the motion-picture industry's early silent and serials, through the high point of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer era...

Two screenwriters once walked into a Hollywood producer's office and said three words 'Jaws in space.' Those three words won them the contract for the blockbuster movie Alien. The ability to pitch well is essential for all writers, directors and...

Rewind, Replay is the first history of Britain's video boom. It considers the earliest video distributors who, from the late 1970s, took chances on a wide range of films and other programmes to attract consumer interest. It also addresses the phenomenon...

World War Z is the eagerly awaited film starring Brad Pitt. The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to...

"Movie Speak won't guarantee you a job, but having a knowledge of the industry terms will fool everyone into thinking you own the place." - Steven Spielberg "Finally a book that celebrates the process-the dynamic web of people, technique, and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988446892Author Tom SaviniFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Authormike InkPublisher Authormike InkWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088034262Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593932121Author Christopher GulloFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

With a twist on the practical movie-making genre, This Is How You Make a Movie brings the subject to life by explaining the terms and processes through the films you know and love. Using key scenes from some of the best-loved movies of all time, Tim...

The Best Movie Trivia and Famous Movie Quotes of All Time"As an avid collector of quotes for my books, I can tell you this is the most unique compendium I have ever seen." Louise Harmon, author of Happiness A to ZWhether blockbuster megahits or forgotten...

Exotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the ethnographic and the exotic gaze, which have colonised our minds...

Following on from Juan Ortiz's fabulous Original Series movie-poster collection, this latest treat for art-loving Trek fans features 178 posters that capture the essence of The Next Generation. Inspired by indie-film and black-light posters, comics and...

Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917285087Author Nocturne GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksSeries Shadows in a Phantom EyeWeight(grams)...

The heart of Hollywood's star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales - from the Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct Ambassador Hotel - have set the scene for a wide variety of...

From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Hoeritz Passion Play was filmed in the Czech...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917285070Author Nocturne GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksSeries Shaows in a Phantom EyeWeight(grams)...

Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620063385Author Clarissa JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Sunbury Press, Inc.Publisher Sunbury Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The story of the movie still is an integral part of the history of the great Hollywood studios in their heyday. This classic study describes the evolution of stills photography, and how it served the changing needs of the studios. The book is enlivened...

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, DispositifEdited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaAlthough film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been...

A deluxe collector's hardcover edition exploring the Star Wars saga on with features and interviews covering the first appearance of Boba Fett in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, the Droids and Ewoks cartoons - through to The Clone Wars and Star...

The zombie is cinema's most enduring horror icon, having terrified audiences for decades. Book of the Dead charts the history of the walking dead from the monster's origins in Haitian voodoo, through its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie up to...

From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged...

Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual...

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,...

London is a magical place which has intrigued people for more than 2,000 years, and never is this more apparent than in the past 130 years following the invention of the moving image. Do you want to follow in the footsteps of Paddington, James Bond...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993321504Author Jonathan MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Fountainbridge PressPublisher Fountainbridge Press

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

Over the 50 incredible years of Star Trek TV shows and movies, the franchise has produced many stand-out villains. Collected here are features on some of the very best - or worst - villains and classic interviews with the actors who portrayed them...

Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of creating movie scripts, but "Tales from the Script" puts readers in the trenches of the Hollywood development process. Readers will revel in the exploits of Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John...

This must-have book for Star Trek fans goes behind the scenes on the latest movie in the billion dollar franchise, Star Trek Beyond, presenting a jam-packed book celebrating Star Trek's 13th big screen outing and revealing all about the making of the...

Paramount: City of Dreams brings to life the operations of the world's grandest movie lot as never before by opening its famous gates and revealing - for the first time - the wonderful myriad of soundstages and outdoor sets where, for one hundred years,...

Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat? The stark modernist high-rise architecture, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"? The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101978Author Alain SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629331430Author William R ChemerkaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm...

Collecting the exclusive short story fiction from Star Trek Magazine tying into the Star Trek online game. Collecting the exclusive short story fiction from Star Trek Magazine tying into the Star Trek online game. This incredible collection...