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Hollywood thrives on shoot outs - that series of stand-offs, skirmishes and power struggles that mark every stage of the film-making process - be it a director insisting on final cut, a star demanding a bigger trailer, or a grip with a gripe. Shoot Out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868196794Author Joanna Murray-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Film and Television Acting offers solid techniques for creating a natural, believable performance for film and television. The reader will discover techniques for listening and reacting, blocking and business, character, focus, the closeup, and comedy as...

The 1980s was the decade when the action film as we know it came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Road Warrior set the tone for the summer blockbusters of Sylvester...

Fredric March was one of the foremost actors America produced during the 20th century, holding the distinction of winning Best Actor Awards in two films and two Broadway plays. He consciously chose not to shape his career by projecting his own...

By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizeable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953221889Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953221889Author John LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known-the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of...

This book presents the inside scoop on the biggest headline-grabbing scandals in 100 years of Hollywood history. Which '50s and '60s silver screen he-man preferred them blond, buff, and mustachioed? Against which hot-tempered movie tough guy did...

During an eventful lifetime in the entertainment industry, Arthur Riley has amassed a treasure trove of memories of the many great stars he has worked with and the now vanished cinemas and theatres which he has managed in and around the Leeds area. From...

The second volume of the autobiography of Richard Todd starts in 1951, when Todd is firmly established in the filming industry, with his performance in the "Hasty Heart". As well as following his acting career, Todd describes his life as...

Clint Eastwood: Portrait of a Legend, reveals the man behind the myth. Bestselling author Douglas Thompson draws on exclusive interviews with the star, to provide the definitive portrait of Clint Eastwood. From his early days as a jobbing actor on USD75...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884419539Author Dean Anthony Julian TamburriFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams)...

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from...

Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a...

People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a...

Now fully updated by Des Lyver to reflect the latest advances, the second edition of Basics of Video Lighting is a primer for anyone wishing to learn about lighting a video production. It describes the principles and processes involved in obtaining...

In the 21st century, blockbuster fantasy films have dominated film viewership in the United States. The increased popularity of fantasy films has generated much greater scholarly interest in the study of fantasy films. It has also generated an artistic...

This book maps an emerging cycle of films made by Iranian diasporic women filmmakers and produced outside of Iran, focusing on five significant examples: Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men (2009), Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014), Maryam Keshavarz’s...

Mitte der 90er Jahre wendet sich in Argentinien eine neue Kinoströmung radikal von den bis dato gültigen, vom Hollywoodkino inspirierten und pathetischen Filmstandards ab. Die von der Kritik schnell unter dem Sammelbegriff Nuevo Cine Argentino...

The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032436470Author Leslie H AbramsonPage Count 130Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032220840Author Phaahamidula HakaImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367543846Author Elif AkocalPage Count 114Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

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In this book, Mark Player explores how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a time of crisis and change for Japan’s film industry. Drawing on first-hand interviews with filmmakers of the jishu eiga...

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in modern technology, there has been the exponential...

This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television actors and actresses within the contemporary Italian screen media landscape. By focusing on a selection of Italian film and television stars...

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Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson stars as J.J. Gittes, a private eye who, despite his best intentions, can...

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domestic market for moving images. In The Enchanting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051310Author John Llewellyn ProbertFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

Swedish children’s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of the 1990s through the early 2000s, and the multiple,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAnita R. Appelbaum is retired from the field of children's opera (former Director and Founder of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Opera). She lives in Land O'...

The official art book for the movie Captain America: Civil War, the 12th title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set. The 12th of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844576463Author Ben HowarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint BFI PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839025570Author Ben HowarthFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint British Film InstitutePublisher British Film InstituteWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655651Author PlexusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd