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Comedy Characters: 3 male, 8 female Interior Set Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart's technique...Bookish and insecure with women, Allan's hero, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties...

Montage enters into a dialogue with the cinema, probing and playing with its language of motion and stillness, continuity and discontinuity, constraint and openness, time and duration. Comprised of a series of elegantly-written and intellectually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783829608114Author Andrey TarkovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)Publisher Distributed Art Publishers...

- Explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but why. - In-depth coverage of light and color theory, latest technology and equipment, and professional techniques. - A robust...

Leading international scholars consider the films and legacy of Howard Hawks. Diverse contributions consider Hawks' work in relation to issues of gender, genre and relationships between the sexes, discuss key films including Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep and...

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...

The eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, "Terminator Salvation", starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009. In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator saga, Judgement Day has come to pass and Skynet has...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 Washington Post Bestseller There's Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there's Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams's score as...

Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stalin prize, but Part Two met with the Kremlin's disfavour...

When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves showbusiness remained in control, contriving a series of cash-in...

The film Ghostbusters was released in June 1984 and became a cultural phenomenon and an instant classic, reaching No. twenty-eight in the American Film Institute's top 100 comedies of all time and voted funniest film of the past twenty-five years by...

Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879511323Author Eve GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance,...

This is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand...

This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as Amelie and...

Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from Shakespeare to Cervantes, Henry James, Dorothy L. Sayers...

Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of critical analysis. Gene Kelly's genius as a performer is ...

This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from the world's most respected film historians,...

How TV Can Make You Smarter is a lively guide that shows readers the numerous emotional and intellectual benefits of TV. Contrary to conventional wisdom, television can do more than help you veg out, chill, and escape. Author and TV critic Allison...

Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" ( New Republic ), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the early 1900s to the birth of the first "talkies" in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692302392Author Reid GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint New Arcata BooksPublisher New Arcata BooksWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967070Author Laurent GuidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 930g

'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals first class range of contributors from North America,...

Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original 'blonde bombshell', epic in death as he was in life. In his prime, he was one of Hollywood's the biggest stars...

Start your engines - for the fun, the controversy, and the life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff RuPaul's DragU. This collection of original essays by international scholars critically examines the shows' representation of drag within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186763Author Thomas LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

This new and updated fourth edition of Film Production Management provides a step-by-step guide on how to budget, organize, and successfully shoot a film and get it onto the big screen. Whether you are a film student or film production professional just...

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-oriented studies, such as novel-to-stage and stage-to-film adaptations, this volume also seeks to highlight the...

This is a comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Design, one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organising a project - a motion picture, animation or...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study...

Widely acclaimed as the best animated film of all time, Tale of Tales is a poetic amalgam of Yuri Norstein's memories of his past and hopes and fears for the future: his post-war childhood, remnants of the personal tragedies of war, the little wolf...

Entertaining, well written, this is a succinct summary of the field, ideal for those studying film for the first time. A substantial glossary helps readers understand key terms and concepts. Fully updated to incorporate shifts in the discipline and...

Relive the magic of the Harry Potter films. This collectible book takes fans on a film-by-film journey through the wizarding world with illustrations of treasured scenes. Bursting with over eighty striking new images from all eight movies, these pages...

When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. He reveals the best ways to seek out investors, scout locations, hire crew and cast talent,...

Using biographic, historical, and textual analyses to elaborate an alternative, feminist cinematic tradition, this groundbreaking study presents an exploration of the impact of three French women filmmakers: Germaine Dulac, Marie Epstein, and Agnes Varda...

A profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short, celebrating Chadwick Boseman's brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a generous friend, family member, and activist. Chadwick Boseman will forever be remembered as a sublime...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In The...

In January 1998, documentary film-maker Stephen Walker began a search for four young, untried, untested, obsessive and possibly unhinged film-makers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes Film Festival. Over six months, he met literally hundreds...

A one-stop-shop that introduces students to the field and provides an essential guide to key terms and concepts.Ideal summer reading for students before their degree course and an essential reference to keep to hand throughout the degree program.This new...