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Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self by Yingchi Chu
RRP: $113.38$101.87Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political formations of Hong... -
Digital Encounters by Aylish Wood
RRP: $77.68$71.06Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art.In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art... -
Feminist Film Theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed by Shohini Chaudhuri
RRP: $178.48$155.09Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be... -
Jennifer Jones: A Bio-Bibliography by Jeffrey L. Carrier
$84.34This bio-bibliography focuses on the life and career of Jennifer Jones, reexamining her as a uniquely talented actress rather than as the wife and protegd'e of David O. Selznick. a superior reference work. A concise biography is followed by a chronology,... -
English Filming, English Writing by Jefferson Hunter
RRP: $46.18$25.28Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in... -
Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen by Robert A. Rushing
RRP: $44.08$40.57Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero's vitality with... -
Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build: How to Build Your Own Camera Cranes, Car Mounts, Stabilizers, Dollies, and More! by Dan Selakovich
RRP: $92.38$81.84Don't buy or rent your fillm equipment - build it! Construct professional-quality camera rigs on your own with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide and stop wasting your money on overpriced equipment rentals and purchases! Dan Selakovich guides you... -
Developer's Digital Media Reference: New Tools, New Methods by Curtis Poole
RRP: $144.88$124.43Designed for media professionals working across a broad range of formats, Developer's Digital Media Reference is an excellent reference guide for those keeping pace with this dynamic industry. As "convergence" between the World Wide Web, multimedia, and... -
Global Scriptwriting by Ken Dancyger
RRP: $96.58$82.89Global Scriptwriting offers a look at an exciting new phase in screen storytelling, as writers and directors from all over the world infuse traditional forms with their own cultural values to create stories that have an international appeal and suggest a... -
Creating PC Video by Douglas Stevenson
RRP: $41.98$35.64This book teaches readers how to put a working system together by showing them the equipment available to them, and what it can do. Readers will learn how to create video products using the computer as an editing tool, and how to refine sound and combine... -
Basic Betacam Camerawork by Peter Ward
RRP: $46.18$38.96Basic Betacam Camerawork offers a complete introduction to both the analogue and digital beta camera formats: Betacam, Digital Beta, Betacam SX and DV & DVCAM. Step-by-step instructions are given covering everything from pre-recording checklists, to... -
Guerrilla TV: Low budget programme making by Ian Lewis
RRP: $144.88$121.82The world of digital television means hundreds of channels, all trying to be different, all looking for product. But the overall international production spend has scarcely increased. Guerrilla TV shows how to make high quality programs at budget levels... -
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen
$204.12First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of... -
The American Television Industry by Dr. Michael Curtin
$75.43The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed, and furthermore provide an... -
100 American Independent Films by Jason Wood
$207.61This revised and updated new edition provides a guide to 100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyde to Junebug by way of Reservoir Dogs and The Blair With Project with an introduction to the genre and a... -
Politics in Contemporary European Cinema: Histories, Borders, Diasporas by Mike Wayne
$62.69How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like... -
Iranian Cinema and Globalization by Shahab Esfandiary
$62.69Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies-and those have by and large been limited to the films and filmmakers most visible on the... -
Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games by Nicola Balkind
RRP: $50.30$45.53An exciting dystopian fantasy thriller series, The Hunger Games began its life as a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, the first released in 2008. An immediate success, the first instalment had a first printing of 50,000 hardcover copies, which quickly... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals by John C. Lyden
RRP: $58.78$47.78Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious... -
World Cinema and the Essay Film by Brenda Hollweg
RRP: $189.00$179.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429245Author Brenda HollwegFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: $55.65$51.35A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between... -
Secrets of Cinema: 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem by Daniel Kieckhefer
RRP: $113.40$41.60Over a century ago, a new form of storytelling emerged from the ruins of World War I. Different in scope and power from theater or literature, and unlike any film that had come before, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari addressed a direct... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen by Victoria Lowe
RRP: $52.40$47.31The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in British film and theatre history are used to illustrate... -
Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
$53.15Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 60s. Even now, many years after her final film and years since her last regular television appearances, the star's name retains currency: she is often invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt... -
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors by Peter S. Donaldson
RRP: $96.58$87.36Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation by Neil Sinyard
RRP: $96.58$87.36This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made... -
Writing for the Screen by Anna Weinstein
RRP: $62.98$58.36Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from industry insiders on topics such as breaking in; pitching;... -
The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature by Federico Arditti Muchnik
RRP: $75.58$69.24Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking. The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history, technology, aesthetics, data, decision-making strategies, and... -
European Film Industries by Anne Jackel
$77.66In what kind of state is the European film business? This study is the first in a series that provides an accessible understanding of how the world's contemporary screen industries function. It looks at all the factors in play, from government regulation... -
Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic by Basu
RRP: $60.88$60.04This study of popular Indian cinema in an age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism focuses on the period from 1991 to 2004. Popular Hindi cinema took a certain spectacular turn from the early nineties as a signature... -
The 'I' of the Camera: Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics by William Rothman
RRP: $65.08$59.45The 'I' of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience... -
Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema: Homeless at Home by Inga Scharf
RRP: $94.48$85.58In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their 'German-ness' translate... -
Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection by Gary R. Edgerton
RRP: $98.68$90.05For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and... -
The Documentary Handbook by Peter Lee-Wright
RRP: $90.28$82.80'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully... -
Fifty Key British Films by John White
RRP: $220.50$190.81In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This is essential reading for anyone interested in quality,... -
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics by Ariel Heryanto
RRP: $92.38$83.75This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change... -
Rethinking Third Cinema by Wimal Dissanayake
RRP: $77.68$71.06This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America,... -
The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media by Bruce Block
RRP: $252.00$217.58This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your production... -
Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age by Claudia Springer
RRP: $33.58$31.54The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In... -
Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema by Juan A. Suarez
RRP: $50.38$46.83"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture.'" -Choice" . . . thoroughly researched [and] engaging...