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Directing and Producing for Television provides essential tools required to direct and produce effectively in a variety of settings. Ideal for students in television production courses, Directing and Producing for Television addresses critical production...

At the movies, catholicism is the American religion. Eleven prominent scholars explore how catholic characteres, spaces and rituals are represented in film. With chapters on movies ranging from Going My Way to Dogma, contributors provide close readings...

Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as 'one of the great classics of world cinema' (Adrian Martin), and 'one of the five or six greatest melodramas in cinema history' (Serge Daney). A striking blend of modernist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976900801Author Edith BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Inc.Publisher Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Colour of Wine isn't just another book about picturesque Cape vineyards. Instead, it tells the remarkable story of South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy through the personal journeys of black winemakers. Woven through their stories...

Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds...

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629332697Author Lee GambinFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The first book in the English language to investigate the national cinema of Spain in its entiretyIncludes full discussion of regional Basque and Catalan cinemasFeatures discussion on key international filmmakers such as Almodovar and Bunuel. Will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364567Author Michael O'prayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

These men and women saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, monsters, zombies, and other bloated, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least--and now they tell their stories. Julie Adams, John Agar, Richard Anderson, John Archer, Jeanne Bates,...

The circumstances surrounding the death of legendary star Rudolph Valentino have been a constant source of fascination for admirers worldwide. This work examines every aspect of his passing, analyzing the circumstances and gathering information into one...

"Let me tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice--an off-screen narrator--for all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and...

The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire...

Screenshots and deomnstrations feature the most current software such as SoundForge, Audacity, Premiere Pro, Media Composer and Vegas Pro. Features brand new, in-depth interviews with current practitioners, including Oscar-winning Randy Thom. Includes...

Enhanced version of the seminal text on editing includes a new foreword, a new afterword, a revamped cover and layout, as well as a lower price!The single most comprehensive and engaging volume on film editing. Reisz and Millar introduce readers to every...

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the...

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its...

Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility...

No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C...

In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade, The Material Ghost tied for...

Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young women have redefined femininity in ways that have often mystified...

In 1934 four movies, It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee ,ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love," the films...

With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, 'The Hollywood Meme' is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema.Book InformationISBN...

Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within which dream theory was originally developed to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364932Author Ernest MathijsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films-a very difficult task in any case-must read it." -The Russian Review"This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis. . . . the Tarkovsky...

What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world?How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking?What new forms of documentary are emerging?Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary...

Effective TV Production gives a succinct but thorough overview of the production process. Whatever your role in television, this book outlines the main functions of your job, placing them in the context of all other operations and showing how they are...

From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress...

From the beginning of the sound era until the end of the 1930s, independent movie-making thrived. Many of the independent studios were headquartered in a section of Hollywood called ""Poverty Row."" Here the independents made movies on the cheap, usually...

This is especially true of the science fiction film-a genre as old as cinema itself-which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called...

This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career. It...

Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of the story and address the reader. This study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608879731Author James MottramFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1810gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841041Author David MandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck Soup, McCarey directed. Later, as a writer and/or...

From DreamWorks, the studio behind Shrek and Madagascar, comes a fun twist on the alien invasion story. Starring a friendly alien and a teenage girl, Home follows this unlikely pair on a globe-trotting adventure to save the world from a different race of...

The women who starred in low-budget cult movies created many memorable experiences for those fans of late night flicks such as Saturday Night Frights, Movie Macabre and Up All Night. Brinke Stevens, who played Linda in The Slumber Party Massacre,...