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How the Essay Film Thinks
Paperback,
02/06/2017,
£29.49
£26.54
Today, the essay film has become a key cultural reference point. This book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing. It situates the essayistic urge within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.
Place of Artists' Cinema Space, Site and Screen
Paperback,
01/05/2009,
£30.00
£27.00
Contemporary art practice has been marked by a renewed emphasis on both the moving image and the politics of place. This book identifies a recurrent concern with site and space in artists' film and video, extending from the avant-garde revivals of the 1960s. It provides an analysis of changing exhibition structures and readings of many works.
Knowing Audiences: Judge Dredd
Paperback,
30/06/1998,
£18.99
£17.09
Exploring the influence "action" films have on audiences, this book considers how people relate to and are influenced by such films as Judge Dredd.
Avid Handbook: Advanced Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems
Paperback,
01/09/2008,
£42.99
£38.69
Offering workflow efficiencies for the experienced editor, this title teaches you the hows and whys of operating the system in order to reach streamlined, creative end solutions. It includes information on HD formats and workflows, color-correction and grading capability enhancements, and MXF media standardization.
Chambers Film Fact Finder
Paperback,
19/06/2006,
£9.99
£6.99
An essential guide to the world of movies
Story Sense
7,
01/01/1996,
£38.99
£27.29
Suitable for a course in screenwriting. This book provides specific strategies for writing story, character, and script. It is useful as a working manual for screenwriters and offers hands-on advice for solving the many problems that crop up as the work progresses. It also includes examples of script format, a glossary of film terms, and more.
Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
Paperback,
01/12/2002,
£16.99
£11.89
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Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide
Paperback,
01/07/2008,
£14.99
£13.49
Helps to learn the secrets of successfully marketing and selling your film at more than 1,000 film festivals around the world, including the best ones for indie, documentary, short, student, digital, animation and more. This title reveals how to get a film accepted and what to do after acceptance.
Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure
Paperback,
01/10/2003,
£17.99
£16.19
From Richard Wagner and George Lucas to Alfred Hitchcock and Maria Callas, Schroeder provides a fascinating account of one medium on another and demonstrates that opera can be found lurking in the background of a wide range of films.
White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film
Paperback,
01/03/2006,
£32.95
£29.66
The 1932 horror film "White Zombie" starring Bela Lugosi has received controversial attention from film reviewers and scholars - but it is unarguably a cult classic worthy of study. This book analyzes the film text from nearly every possible viewpoint, using both academic and popular film theories.
Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer's Hidden Passion
Hardback,
02/03/2018,
£27.50
£24.75
An expose of Hitler's relationship with film and his influence on the film industry
Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking
Paperback,
11/01/2019,
£19.99
£17.99
This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .
Media Labs: what you need to know
Paperback,
01/10/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
A unique and essential guide to Media Labs, spaces where new media, art and technology often come together. Gives advice on where they are, what they offer for digital media production and training and how to apply. Includes history and discussion of Media Labs and how they will play a key part in the digital world now and in the future.
George Clooney
Paperback,
02/05/2019,
£21.99
£19.79
"First published in Great Britain 2019 by Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute."
Introduction to Film
Paperback,
21/04/2016,
£33.99
£30.59
This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies.
Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers: Get Your Movie Made, Get Your Movie Seen
Paperback,
07/01/2015,
£21.99
£19.79
Leipzig, past president of National Geographic Films and a former senior executive at Disney, reveals insider secrets, step-by-step instructions, and timesaving shortcutsNeverything one needs to approach financiers, actors, agents, and distributors like a savvy professional.
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Paperback,
29/06/2018,
£25.00
£18.00
"With a new introduction: Rethinking trancendental style"--Title page.
Schrader on Schrader
Paperback,
04/03/2004,
£18.99
£15.00
Provides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American film.
Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod
Hardback,
07/11/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod affectionately examines Bond with tongue firmly in cheek and elbow dug in ribs. Join John Rain as he goes film-by-film through the Bond saga as he points out all the good, the bad, and the double-taking pigeons contained within Bond's half-century of world domination.
Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Paperback,
06/02/2020,
£18.99
£17.09
Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage murder of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written.
FILM STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION: TEACH YOURSELF
Paperback,
30/07/2015,
£12.99
£11.69
'A perfect balance between clarity and intellectual complexity' Sight and Sound.
Written by a leading expert and practising university teacher, Film Studies gives you all the key knowledge and information you need to understand film studies quickly and easily.
Touch of Evil
Paperback,
28/05/2020,
£12.99
£11.69
A study of Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil in the BFI Film Classics series.
Movie Posters: The History of Cinema from the Origins to the Present
Hardback,
01/10/2020,
£30.00
£27.00
This book focuses on some of the finest movie posters ever produced - some because of the originality of their design, others because of their success to withdraw attention and making a film seem unmissable.
Cars on Film: A Celebration of Cars at the Movies
Paperback,
16/10/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
Celebrating the cars that took starring roles cars at the movies
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Paperback,
01/08/2020,
£8.99
£8.09
The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish)
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory
Paperback,
02/04/2015,
£41.99
£37.79
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory analyzes all aural aspects of cinema using several approaches: feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. In her analysis of each sound track, Walker brings together film studies, musicology, history, politics, and culture in an accessible yet rigorous way.
Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928-1935
Paperback,
13/02/2018,
£31.00
£27.90
Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from "Phantom Lady" to "The Last Seduction"
Hardback,
30/03/2002,
£58.00
£52.20
The film noir of the 1940s are as different from the film noir of the 1950s as the jazz of the 1940s is from the jazz of the 1950s, and Jazz Noir provides a unique and valuable study of a rich aesthetic synergy.
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film
Paperback,
25/06/2009,
£34.99
£31.49
Susan McCabe juxtaposes modernist poetry with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. Cinematic Modernism explores the impact of new cinematic modes of representation on Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Marianne Moore, and uses insights from literary criticism, film studies, gender studies and psychoanalysis.
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