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  • The Passion of Ingmar Bergman

    by Frank Gado ...
    Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in the film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually the entire range of Bergman's literary output. While treating the matter of the visual presentation of Bergman's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • In the Name of National Security

    Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America

    Series series New Americanists
    In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.As Corber shows, throughout the 1950s a cast of mind known as the Cold War consensus prevailed in the United States. Promoted by Cold War liberals--that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Whom God Wishes to Destroy . . .

    Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood

    by Jon Lewis ...
    In March 1980 Francis Coppola purchased the dilapidated Hollywood General Studios facility with the hope and dream of creating a radically new kind of studio, one that would revolutionize filmmaking, challenge the established studio machinery, and, most importantly, allow him to make movies as he wished. With this event at the center of Whom God Wishes to Destroy, Jon Lewis offers a behind-the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Directing Actors

    by Judith Weston ...
    Demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong and more. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Nothing Happens

    Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday

    Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Allegories of Contamination

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Speed of Sound

    Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930

    by Scott Eyman ...
    From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself.Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Written in Stone

    Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments

    From concept stage through production in Egypt to release of the film: Katherine Orrison carefully recreates the behind-the-scenes story of Cecil B. DeMille's beloved epic. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Real Images

    Soviet Cinema and the Thaw

    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    During ""the thaw"" from Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s and Khrushchev's rule, Soviet society experienced major transformations. So did films. In this first comprehensive account of the relationship between politics and cinema in this period, Josephine Woll skillfully interweaves cultural history with film analysis to explore how movies at once responded to the changes around them and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hollywood 101

    The Film Industry

    Looking for a career in the film business? Look no further.Making it in Hollywood is possible. But only if you have a workable strategy. When author Frederick Levy launched his own fledgling career, he didnt' know a soul in the business. But that didn't stop him and it doesn't have to stop you. Hollywood 101 is a complete game plan for getting your foot in the door of the film industry. With ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Videoconferencing

    The Whole Picture

    by James Wilcox ...
    This text aims to help the reader understand all aspects of videoconferencing. It includes: an overview of the history and technology; a section on security for Internet-based videoconferencing as well as expanded coverage of standards. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Kurosawa

    Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

    Series series Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society
    The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Moving Images

    From Edison to the Webcam

    Series series Stockholm Studies in Cinema
    Seventeen essays examining the impact of new media on the history of cinema.In 1888, Thomas Edison announced that he was experimenting on “an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion.” Just as Edison’s investigations were framed in terms of the known technologies of the phonograph and the microscope, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Reel to Deal

    Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film

    Based on his acclaimed "2- Day Film School", Dov S-S Simens serves up a flawless and detailed blueprint for creating successful independent films.With his signature in-your-face, no-holds-barred advice, the Godfather of Independent Film teaches readers everything they need to know to create full-length feature films. From screenwriting ("There are two types of scripts: It's great or it sucks!") to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Inside the Pleasure Dome

    Fringe Film in Canada

    by Mike Hoolboom ...
    Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Artist as Monster

    The Cinema of David Cronenberg

    by William Beard ...
    Series series Heritage
    PAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERSDavid Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today. His provocative work has stimulated debate and received major retrospectives in museums, galleries, and cinematheques around the world. William Beard's The Artist as Monster was the first book-length scholarly work in English on Cronenberg's films, analyzing all of his features from ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Clark Gable. La Corona del Rey

    by Joan Benavent ...
    En la ocasión, los colores de mi pincel dibujan la carne y la fantasía de una leyenda: Clark Gable. Soldado de fortuna en Hollywood, un chaval de Toledo (Ohio) llegó a ser el Rey de la pantalla y su más grande arquetipo masculino durante muchos años, por encima del infortunio y su ristra de heridas mal cicatrizadas. Versión corregida y aumentada. [Joan Benavent] ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

    Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Films of Steven Spielberg

    Edited by Charles L. P. Silet ...
    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List). With David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg he founded Dreamworks SKG, already one of the most productive and respected studios in Hollywood. Despite Spielberg's ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Moviemakers' Master Class

    Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

    From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films--and whyEach great filmmaker has a secret method to his moviemaking--but each of them is different. In Moviemaker Master Class, Laurent Tirard talks to twenty of today's most important filmmakers to get to the core of each director's approach to film, exploring the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shoot Me

    Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release

    When the script says "shoot me" and Hollywood says no, your only alternative is to raise the money and do it yourself. Here's how screenwriters Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli used digital video to do just that. Witty, original, and ruthlessly on the mark, this unvarnished look at independent film-making chronicles both the creative intricacies of collaboration and the tricks of staying in budget ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Robert Zemeckis

    by Norman Kagan ...
    Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Castaway. Herein, Norman Kagan unlocks themind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits—appraising each work's public and critical appeal while placing the films in the context of Zemeckis's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Greta Garbo. El Dolor de la Esfinge

    by Joan Benavent ...
    Un bello libro restaurado por el código virtual, gracias al esfuerzo mancomunado de su autor y Maria Aparecida da Silva, su esposa y estrecha colaboradora. En esta edición vuelve a brillar uno de los inconos femeninos más destacados del siglo XX; a la vez que, película por película, se analiza el curso de su propia existencia, con toda la pasión y el oficio de narrar puestos a disposición de ... Read more

    $12.00 USD