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By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940300
SciFier: $202.64In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and... -
Jungian Reflections within the Cinema by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: $179.74Exploring the relevance of Jungian theory as it applies to science fiction, horror and fantasy films, this text demonstrates the remarkable correlation existing between Jung's major archetypes and... -
Korean Film by Eungjun Min
SciFier: $179.74Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the... -
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology William K. Ferrell 9780275967574
SciFier: $179.74Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: $141.96Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
Stars in Our Eyes by Angela Ndalianis
SciFier: $179.74The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system. Today's film... -
The Man and His Wings by William Wellman Jr.
SciFier: $84.71William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging... -
Quentin Tarantino by Aaron Barlow
SciFier: $141.96This book places Quentin Tarantino at the heart of Hollywood, showing a director who speaks film through film, who examines the world beyond the movies in a way few have previously attempted, and at... -
The Making of Alternative Cinema Mario Falsetto 9780275994587
SciFier: $68.68The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended primarily... -
Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen Alexis Krasilovsky 9780275957452
SciFier: $87.00Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to... -
Designing Movies by Sylvia Townsend
SciFier: $119.06This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The... -
How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood & Vietnam Albert Auster 9780275923839
SciFier: $119.06One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to... -
Financing Your Film by Trisha Curran
SciFier: $82.42This practical guide addresses the needs of aspiring, beginning and veteran independent producers, as well as film students. The author covers such topics as sources of money, ways to structure... -
Chinese Film Theory by Xia Hong
SciFier: $179.74This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides... -
Poet of Civic Courage: The Films of Francesco Rosi 9780275958008
SciFier: $87.00Rosi's films consistently and directly address the themes of political and institutional corruption and the complex relationship between the individual, the mafia, and the state. Whether evoking the... -
From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley
SciFier: $179.74This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory,... -
The Films of Ridley Scott by Richard A. Schwartz
SciFier: $179.74The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of... -
Martin Scorsese by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: $109.90Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered... -
The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg Michael Grant 9780275970581
SciFier: $179.74In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass... -
The Celluloid Courtroom by Ross D. Levi
SciFier: $141.96The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like... -
Women Directors and Their Films by Mary G. Hurd
SciFier: $141.96Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite... -
The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman
SciFier: $121.35The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history... -
By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers Vincent LoBrutto 9780275940317
SciFier: $94.19In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and... -
Becoming Film Literate by Vincent LoBrutto
SciFier: $121.35Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto... -
Alternate Americas by Prof. M. Keith Booker
SciFier: $121.35For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the... -
Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer Peter Hames 9780313296987
SciFier: $179.74Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde... -
The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos Andrew Horton 9780313305641
SciFier: $141.96Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the... -
Victorian Needlework by Kathryn Ledbetter
SciFier: $107.61Marrying two exceptionally popular topics-needlework and women's history-this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian... -
The Golden Apples of the Sun
SciFier: $107.61Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837151601Format HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing... -
The History of Sex in American Film by Jody Pennington
SciFier: $119.06Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that... -
Hollywood Auteur by Jeffrey Chown
SciFier: $179.74In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies... -
A Moving Picture Feast by Charles Oliver
SciFier: $154.55The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: $179.74Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Queen of the 'B's by Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
SciFier: $87.00Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned... -
Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression by John P. Lovell
SciFier: $141.96This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: $179.74This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
The American War Film by Frank McAdams
SciFier: $179.74McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time with actual events... -
Hitchcock and France by James M. Vest
SciFier: $178.60In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and... -
The Community of Cinema by James Forsher
SciFier: $141.96The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: $179.74Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs...