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Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De...

This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Codified by Nizami Ganjavi in the twelfth century, the Khamsa gained popularity in the...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506748436Author Obsidian EntertainmeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet is the first institutional solo exhibition of work by Harold Offeh in the UK. This fully illustrated book documents two decades of video, performance and collaborative projects by the artist, as well as a...

While there are many guides to screenwriting, none of them tackle the specific difficulties of writing the tricky mid-section of the screenplay. The Heart of Your Script reveals the six key elements that are crucial for ensuring an emotionally satisfying...

A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero."...

Named after Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, the Lady Dior is one of the few truly iconic accessories instantly recognizable. First introduced in 1995, it became a symbol of elegance and craftsmanship, embodying the essence of Dior and its sophistication. ...

In his second book on street art, Michael Harker once again travels to the most diverse centres for this art of the street. The varied structure of the topics with fascinating large-format photographs shows examples from Paris, Lisbon, Rome, Singapore,...

Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from...

The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most comprehensive guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available. This edition has been updated to the latest industry techniques, technologies, and workflows. The Visual...

Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker - The Concept Art of Bryce Kho is the art book for the Sea of Stars DLC, an extremely successful fantasy role-playing game created by Sabotage Studio and illustrated by renowned concept artist Bryce Kho.Sea of Stars...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647294991Author Studio GhibliFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506751313Author Ian ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

This gorgeous hardcover art book features never-before-seen content and illustrations from the hit Korean web animation series Alien Stage that has over 2.2 Million followers on Youtube. In English for the first time, this book is a must for any fan of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593622988Author Danny Boy O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 651gDimensions(mm)...

Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema...

An expansive monograph of work by acclaimed contemporary artist Leo Villareal, known for his monumental installations employing light and computer technology Transforming pixels using the zeroes and ones of binary code into dazzling displays of light,...

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work, one that received an expansive national and international attention and led her to winning the...

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information. It covers the equipment, both basic and advanced, and the planning needed for a successful production. It looks at indoor and outdoor...

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel, action, recreations of the past, visual and verbal...

Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent resource for the student or designer, this book also...

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken from existing garments preserved in private collections...

Chanel Illustrated presents a breathtaking selection of illustrations inspired by the iconic fashion house Chanel. The book is authorised by the brand itself. Chanel Illustrated combines the creative visions of some of the most respected contemporary...

Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it allFirst Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among...

This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of the international exchange of the Chinese national film industry to the emergence of the concept of soft power.The periodisation of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506754543Author Jeremy ParishFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

A Monument to Blackness offers an in-depth excavation of Black murals across the United States, from interior murals in the South to street murals predominantly in the North and West. It shows us how Black murals were-and remain-an integral but commonly...

A Monument to Blackness offers an in-depth excavation of Black murals across the United States, from interior murals in the South to street murals predominantly in the North and West. It shows us how Black murals were-and remain-an integral but commonly...

Unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television are an overlooked phenomenon in film and media history, despite a substantial amount of the financial and labour resource of these industries being invested in projects that are never produced or...

The groundbreaking New Look silhouette. The finest couture dresses. The luxurious leather accessories. The bestselling fragrances. These signatures exemplify the craftsmanship of Dior.Dior in 50 Objects explores the most significant outfits, accessories,...

In this book, Kevin Corbett demonstrates the prominent role of metamodern cinematic elements in Taika Waititi's creative works, tracing their emergence over the course of his decades-long career in film and television.Analyzing a range of Waititi's films...

Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have recently become the object of a burgeoning field of...

What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital age are more complex and entangled than ever before. It...

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art...

Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification...

The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and...

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and...

This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own...

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective. It investigates how the unique...