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This title teaches readers how to stop dreaming about becoming an filmmaker and take steps to make their dreams come true! Helpful tips for finding inspiration, writing the right script, and always thinking creatively about camera angles will help your...

Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his insights into politics, economics, sexuality, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998255651Author Saskia BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Square Circles PublishingPublisher Square Circles PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674831Author Scott BalcerzakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 466g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853159124Author B. HogenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Framing Piracy is the first book to systematically examine film distribution-legal and illegal-in the largest and mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684800646Author Gail ResnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

From 1940 to 1944 the French cinema thrived both economically and artistically under the Nazi occupation. Despite the harsh and grim conditions of defeat, the French film industry produced many good films and a few enduring classics, including Carne's...

A Landmark in recent Indian cinema, by acclaimed director Mani Ratnam. In January 1993 sectarian rioting left 2,000 Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil film Bombay (1995) used these events as a backdrop...

Style and story are two of the most debated concepts in film studies today. Taking a cognitive perspectives, this anthology focuses explicitly on the stylistic portrayal of human behaviour in film, ranging from studies of specific visual patterns to...

How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an...

When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and...

Selected by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant American films ever made, Salesman (1966-9) is a landmark in non-fiction cinema, equivalent in its impact and influence to Truman Capote's 'non-fiction novel' In Cold Blood. The film...

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book...

Traces the history and development of Channel 4, one of the UK's best loved and most controversial TV channels. Identifies key figures and signature programmes such as 'Brookside,' 'The Big Breakfast' and 'Wife Swap,' as well as successful American...

Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut,...

Videogames are one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant, not to mention pervasive, media forms. The global videogames industry is worth billions of dollars and growing year on year as it releases yet more innovative products that...

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading scholars from around the world, The Grierson Effect explores the impact of Grierson's ideas about...

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic...

The great Armenian-American director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) remains a favourite among film-makers, his films combining great technical originality with a uniquely poetic visual style. Mamoulian's technical innovations are evident from his first...

From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, "100 European Horror Films" provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381607176Author Tula GoenkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint OM Books InternationalPublisher OM Books InternationalDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm

How do people access movies today? What are the most popular and powerful channels for media distribution on a global scale? How are film industries changing in the face of media convergence and digitisation? To answer questions such as these, argues...

Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in...

D?espite having had its obituary written many times, the movie musical remains a flourishing twenty-first century form, and as this volume demonstrates, one that exists far beyond the confines of Broadway and Hollywood. The Sound of Musicals examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842430620Author Crime TimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crime TimePublisher Oldcastle Books LtdWeight(grams) 157g

Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction...

The Australian-published quarterly media studies journal Screen Education was made available in the UK and Europe for the first time earlier this year. Screen Education is aimed at media teachers, and at secondary school teachers interested in harnessing...

As a charismatic director in the Indian film industry, Chopra's name is synonymous with the glamour of the romantic film and a certain style within Indian culture. Spanning four decades, his directed features include some of the classic films of Indian...

The Holocaust has been the subject of an increasing number of recent films, most notably Schindler's List, Life Is Beautiful, and The Pianist, all of which were rewarded with many Academy Awards. But the history of films dealing with this important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764090Author Phil PowrieFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977804894Author F W GoodingFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint On the Reelz PressPublisher On the Reelz PressWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966608Author Oliver Boyd-BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 36g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287701Author Erik BordeleauFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595187362Author Cliff ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 155mm * 34mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522872477Author Chelsea BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726669Author SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399533198Author Tom EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

As Roger Rosenblatt put it, "What makes Serious Business a special treat is that it is like the best of the cartoons itself,funny, touching, and infused with thoughtful joy." This generously illustrated history of animation looks at the creation and...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in 1905, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time. Until now, however, Potemkin's astonishing vividness and artistry...