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The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by the theme of a writer's "first time",usually the first...

The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew.An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997126488Author Emily WittFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Columbia Global ReportsPublisher Columbia Global ReportsDimensions(mm) 190mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403063Author William FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762456147Author Paul SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running PressWeight(grams) 218g

An Essential Guide to Landing -- and Keeping -- Your first Hollywood Job A position as an assistant to a producer, agent, director, studio executive, or star can be the path to a fabulous career -- or a one-way ticket to hell. How can the aspiring...

Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made 136 diverse films during his 51-year career, winning Oscars for ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316271Author Nikolas SchreckFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 171mm * 25mm

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981839141Author Tod FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Panoply PublicationsPublisher Panoply PublicationsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578402031Author Steven CapozzolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Steven CapozzolaPublisher Steven CapozzolaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547520285Author Andrew O'HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm *...

With "fresh emphasis on little-known stories [and] an impressive number of eyewitnesses" (Chicago Tribune), Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair present "a revealing,...ever fascinating glimpse into the shadowy reality and hidden mores of Hollywood in what...

Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling kestrel from its nest. David Forrest's study of the film...

Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play, the story follows Manuela, an orphan in a boarding...

This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers’ contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by bringing together the work of highly acclaimed and emerging directors. Through thirteen critical essays by...

Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan-African, auteur...

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as...

The digital video revolution has blurred the lines between professional and amateur equipment, with some Hollywood movies being shot and edited using the same technology that families use for their vacation footage. With sales of digital video cameras...

Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "Lynchian" aesthetic, in which sound and music play a key role: Lynch not only writes his intended sounds into the script but also often takes on the role...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739516116Author Albert SerraFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing

Written by industry expert, R.J. Kizer, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of post-sync dialogue replacement, popularly known as ADR. It explores how this often overlooked, but essential technology, is used in motion pictures and...

This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries-examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis.With...

Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy during the Risorgimento. The film, starring Claudia...

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a...

Accidental Geniusfeatures intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero. What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experiences from the legendary "so bad it's good" film. This...

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of...

In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417547172Author Jose Maria SorandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 150mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129148636Author Mahesh BhattFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825358655Author Michael ButterFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 226g

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature on children's film in Europe since the year 2000. An intensive research using online sources, library catalogues, websites complemented by expert interviews was conducted as basis...

The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, mystery-solving couple Nick and Nora Charles into American culture. MGM sold millions of movie tickets casting...

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched makeup effects, continuity errors,...

Among early Hollywood's most renowned film makers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds" alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978821880Author Helene MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764441Author Alberto MiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 634gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764236Author Jacob NeiiendamFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764007Author Ernest MathijsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364994Author Giorgio BertelliniFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 836gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...