Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image
ISBN: 9781844573141 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of filmssuch asAll that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more."
A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coa...
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162,74 zł |
Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory
ISBN: 9781844573356 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film Moments brings together specially commissioned essays by leading international scholars to provide a close analysis of key films of world cinema, including The Wizard of Oz, United 93, 8 1/2, Wild Strawberries and Magnolia. The essays represent a range of critical approaches to and concepts in film studies.
Film Moments brings together specially commissioned essays by leading international scholars to provide a close analysis of key films of worl...
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167,83 zł |
The Innocents
ISBN: 9781844573431 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Christopher Frayling explores the journey from Henry James's original novella, The Turn of the Screw, via critical debates and the stage version of The Innocents, to the screenplay by Archibald, Capote and Mortimer. Making full use of the unpublished Jack Clayton archive, the book also includes interviews with Deborah Kerr and Freddie Francis.
Sir Christopher Frayling explores the journey from Henry James's original novella, The Turn of the Screw, via critical debates and the stage version o...
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66,09 zł |
Meshes of the Afternoon
ISBN: 9781844573776 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John David Rhodes' illuminating study of Maya Deren's mesmerising shortMeshes of the Afternoon (1943) places the film in the context of European modernism and as a pivotal text for the pre- and post-War history of the cinematic avant garde. Rhodes also explores the film's use of point of view, repetition and visual symobolism.
John David Rhodes' illuminating study of Maya Deren's mesmerising shortMeshes of the Afternoon (1943) places the film in the context of Europ...
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60,99 zł |
Salesman
ISBN: 9781844573875 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Released in 1968, the Maysles' Salesman is widely acknowledged as a landmark in documentary film. In his compelling and detailed study, J.M. Tyree discusses the film's various technical and artistic innovations, tracing their theoretical roots and enduring influence.
Released in 1968, the Maysles' Salesman is widely acknowledged as a landmark in documentary film. In his compelling and detailed study, J.M. ...
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66,09 zł |
Carmen Miranda
ISBN: 9781844574322 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lisa Shaw's study of Miranda's film career and star persona traces her emergence as one of the first stars of the Brazilian film industry and her subsequent triumph in Hollywood. Shaw charts Miranda's transition from singer to film star, analyzing how her star persona drew on performance techniques honed during her singing career. She examines shifts in Miranda's star identity after her move to Broadway in 1939, and Hollywood a year later and her identification as an 'ethnic' star. Shaw explores Miranda's appeal across mainstream and marginalised audiences, both in the US and Brazil and...
Lisa Shaw's study of Miranda's film career and star persona traces her emergence as one of the first stars of the Brazilian film industry and her subs...
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116,96 zł |
New Vampire Cinema
ISBN: 9781844574407 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, charting the evolution of the genre. Ken Gelder's study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then examines what happened afterwards, across a range of reiterations and settings: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D:...
New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, charting the evolution of the genre. Ken Gelder's study begins b...
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152,57 zł |
100 Science Fiction Films
ISBN: 9781844574575 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the reader on a comprehensive tour through the rich and varied alternate universe of sci-fi cinema. From Georges Melies's Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), to the blockbusters of the 1970s that dramatically changed Hollywood, to the major releases of the past few years, the films featured in this book represent a range of periods, countries and types (including alien invasion, space travel, time travel, apocalypse, monsters and anime), and...
100 Science Fiction Films provides a lively and illuminating guide to the genre from the beginning of film history to the present, taking the...
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132,22 zł |
Vampyr
ISBN: 9781844576449 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vampyr is a problematic film, partly because some of it is lost. But in what remains, there are problems too. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, a veteran dramatist and film-author reveals how, image by image, this difficult film systematically binds the spectator - spatially, and morally - into its unique world of the Undead. Vampyr is a problematic film, partly because some of it is lost. But in what remains, there are problems too. In a reading as passionate as it is a... |
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66,09 zł |
A Screen Acting Workshop
ISBN: 9781848420557 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five workshops and a DVD that lead you through the dos and don'ts, the whys and wherefores of screen acting.
Five workshops and a DVD that lead you through the dos and don'ts, the whys and wherefores of screen acting.
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80,27 zł |
Costume Design 101 - 2nd Edition: The Business and Art of Creating Costumes for Film and Television
ISBN: 9781932907698 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an award-winning costume designer, this book offers an in-depth insight into the costume design business, department operations and management.
Written by an award-winning costume designer, this book offers an in-depth insight into the costume design business, department operations and managem...
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106,89 zł |
Film Production Management 101: Management and Coordination in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9781932907773 / Angielski / Miękka / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film Production Management 101 and Patz' previous "Surviving Production" were quickly adopted as "the" essential road map to the business and logistics of on-the-job film & television production since 1997. Originally developed from practical tools Patz created for her film and television production career, this new edition has undergone a comprehensive update to address the shifting balance between digital and film technologies and to pave the way as we progress further into the digital age. The book includes everything from budgeting, to managing the production office, to script... Film Production Management 101 and Patz' previous "Surviving Production" were quickly adopted as "the" essential road map to the business and logis... |
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171,15 zł |
Film Firsts: The 25 Movies That Created Contemporary American Cinema
ISBN: 9781440801877 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1970s, American cinema has gone through enormous changes, such as the birth of the modern summer blockbuster, the rise of the independent film industry, ongoing technological advancements in special effects, and the ever-evolving models for film distribution. Written by a professional film critic and film buff, this book tells the story of contemporary American cinema in a unique and engaging way: by examining 25 key movies that demonstrated a significant creative, technological, or business innovation that impacted the industry at large. Each chapter in this chronological... Since the mid-1970s, American cinema has gone through enormous changes, such as the birth of the modern summer blockbuster, the rise of the indepen... |
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396,14 zł |
American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780748693368 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship?
American Postfeminist Cinema explores this question and is the first book to examine the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. The book argues that since 1980, postfeminism's most salient tensions and anxieties have been reflected and negotiated in the American romance film. Case studies from a broad range of Hollywood and... In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focu...
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356,11 zł |
Directors and Directions: Cinema for the Seventies
ISBN: 9780415726535 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit Ray, Miklos Jancso, and Dusan Makavejev - representing seven film-producing countries. In this book John Russell Taylor does for the 1970s what his earlier book Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear did for the 1960s: he disentangles some of the major talents from the minor, and subjects them to close critical scrutiny, documenting their careers, detailing their development as individual creators, and... This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley ... |
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Making It Big in Shorts: Shorter, Faster, Cheaper: The Ultimate Filmmaker's Guide to Short Films
ISBN: 9781615932566 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year 8,000+ short films compete to fill 60 slots at the Sundance Film Festival. On an average day, 792 film and video projects vie for funding on Kickstarter. And every minute 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. In this competitive environment, a short filmmaker can no longer invest time, money, and dreams of glory in the theory that "if you build it, they will come." The challenge is making the right kind of short: one that will make a splash. Covering the nuts-and-bolts of production while stressing the importance of artistic expression, this invaluable handbook shows a...
Each year 8,000+ short films compete to fill 60 slots at the Sundance Film Festival. On an average day, 792 film and video projects vie for funding on...
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81,19 zł |
The Essential Jack Nicholson
ISBN: 9781442269880 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite "retiring" in 2010, Nicholson remains one of the most revered actors of the last half century. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards--the most of any male actor--Nicholson has received three Oscars and countless other honors. The Essential Jack Nicholson looks at the key films in the career of one of Hollywood's biggest stars. After a brief profile of the actor, James L. Neibaur highlights each of...
For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his ...
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203,49 zł |
The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film
ISBN: 9781442269866 / Angielski / Twarda / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musicians, both fictional and real, have long been subjects of cinema. From biopics of composers Beethoven and Mozart to the rise (and often fall) of imaginary bands in The Commitments and Almost Famous, music of all types has inspired hundreds of films. The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film features the most significant productions from around the world, including straightforward biographies, rockumentaries, and even the occasional mockumentary. The wide-ranging scope of this volume allows for the inclusion of films about fictional singers and bands, with emphasis on a variety of...
Musicians, both fictional and real, have long been subjects of cinema. From biopics of composers Beethoven and Mozart to the rise (and often fall) of ...
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658,67 zł |
Movie Publicity Showcase Volume 12: Laurel and Hardy in "Great Guns"
ISBN: 9781530915040 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom
ISBN: 9781474409001 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this wide-ranging new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to the home video formats that keep these lurid movies fondly alive today.
Arguing for the importance of cultural memory in contemporary fan practices, Church focuses on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of 'retrosploitation' films like... Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items t...
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127,13 zł |