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  • Technique du cinéma

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Cathy Come Home

    Sandford's 'Cathy Come Home' details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accomodation, and finally emergency accomodation for the homeless before being evicted and her children taken into care. It is a harrowing and emotive screenplay of the '60s television docu-drama which caused social upheaval upon its transmission ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 16mm Film Cutting

    by John Burder ...
    The film editor can make or break a film. What ends up on the cutting room floor, and why? 16mm Film Cutting is a step-by-step guide to film cutting which shows you how to achieve professional results.The practical side of the editor's job is clearly described and illustrated; breaking down rushes and making a simple join, identifying shots, first assembly, avoiding errors, preparing special ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Slow Fade to Black

    by Thomas Cripps ...
    Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The World Viewed

    Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

    Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films—as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors—will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Concepts in Film Theory

    Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 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

  • Technologies of Gender

    Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction

    "Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition—and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." —B. Ruby Rich" ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twentieth Century-Fox

    A Corporate and Financial History

    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    New in Paperback! In 1935, two film production companies merged to form one of the most influential corporations in the world—Twentieth Century-Fox. Here is the story of that dynamic company and of the personalities who molded it over the past fifty years, from Darryl F. Zanuk to Barry Diller. Unlike any previous volume on a film studio, this in-depth history is told from a corporate viewpoint, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Film Scriptwriting

    A Practical Manual

    This second edition of the widely acclaimed Film Scriptwriting is a truly practical manual for the working writer. It provides all the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to script both fact and feature film and video - from getting and developing ideas to the writing of master scene or shooting script.Featured in this new edition are annotated excerpts from some of today's most successful films ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Jésus de Montréal

    by Denys Arcand ...
    Un jeune comédien au chômage accepte de relever un défi inattendu : incarner Jésus sur le chemin de croix d’un célèbre lieu de pèlerinage. Avec la petite troupe qu’il rassemble autour de lui, il est bientôt amené à vivre une étonnante réactualisation de la Passion dans le décor d’une grande ville moderne. Encore une fois, Denys Arcand réussit à allier, dans une même histoire, la tragédie la plus ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Creating Unforgettable Characters

    A Practical Guide to Character Development in Films, TV Series, Advertisements, Novels & Short Stories

    by Linda Seger ...
    In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today's top writers complete this essential volume. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • William Desmond Taylor

    A Dossier

    by Bruce Long ...
    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered the reputations of several top Hollywood stars. Until now, Taylor's film career and leadership role in the Hollywood film industry have been completely overshadowed by the scandal of his death. By ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Special Make-Up Effects

    by Vincent Kehoe ...
    Special Make-Up Effects concentrates on the genre of horror characters and other special creations (fantasy, sci-fi, etc), giving tips about the materials, techniques, and 'tricks of the trade' necessary to create unique make-up effects.This focused volume is a scaled-down version of Vincent Kehoe's encyclopedic reference for professional make-up artists. It contains new segments and photographs. ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Making Meaning

    Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

    Series series Harvard Film Studies
    David Bordwell’s new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve.Bordwell systematically maps different ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Representing Reality

    Issues and Concepts in Documentary

    by Bill Nichols ...
    ". . . a valuable and important book . . ." —The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryRepresenting Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Republic of Images

    A History of French Filmmaking

    by Alan Williams ...
    Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895—the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paris—to the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory. He brings to life all of the major directors, setting before us the cultures from which they ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Basic Lighting Worktext for Film and Video

    Basic Lighting Worktext for Film and Video guides the film and video student through a series of readings, exercises and projects designed to provide the fundamentals of light science. In addition to up-to-date descriptions of equipment and tips on how to use it properly, the book provides numerous set-ups that illustrate the techniques and thoughts behind proper studio and location lighting.From ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Strains of Utopia

    Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music

    by Caryl Flinn ...
    When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers

    If you're a movie or television fan - how many of these questions can you answer?What was the last picture show in The Last Picture Show?Where was the stagecoach headed in Stagecoach?What was the name of the dinosaur bone in Bringing Up Baby?What did Gomer Pyle do before he entered the Marines?Who played Gentle Ben?Like The Book of Answers, this book answers hundreds of questions i... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Classical Hollywood Narrative

    The Paradigm Wars

    Edited by Jane M. Gaines ...
    Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by neatly answering all of the enigmas it raises. It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthetic devices reinforce gender positions in society. In a variety of ways, the essays collected here ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • West of Everything

    The Inner Life of Westerns

    by Jane Tompkins ...
    A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. Into this world full of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Brink of Reality

    New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

    by Peter Steven ...
    In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view of the state of the art in the 1990s. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD