From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has hist......more
From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has hist......more
Explores Haneke’s historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribb......more
1977. New York City. Cool and crime-ridden, cheap and wild. Bruce Van Dusen shows up in town with a film degree and $150......more
Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as bot......more
Pablo Larraín is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original ci......more
The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he w......more
Precisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and diso......more
Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener’s great 1920 film, recogniz......more
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal a......more
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal a......more
Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that crit......more
Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that crit......more
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The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actors Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remar......more
Action and suspense films have almost always been made by ’seat of the pants’ filmmakers. Crafting their films on gut in......more
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Moroccan film production has increased rapidly since the late 2000s, and Morocco is a thriving service production hub fo......more
There is nobody in the independent film world quite like Ted Hope. His wisdom and heart shine through every page. --Ang......more
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This study proves that Romero’s films, like apocalyptic literature or Dante’s Commedia, go beyond the surface experience......more
The Insiders’ Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive ’how to’ guide about the craft of making do......more
The Insiders’ Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive ’how to’ guide about the craft of making do......more
Bringing to light the long-shrouded symbolism and startling spiritual depth that renowned director Stanley Kubrick packe......more
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The official art book for Blade Runner 2049 and a companion volume to The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049. Film audien......more
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cut......more
Discover the filmmaking secrets that brought the Hogwarts professors and staff to life on-screen. Learn all about the......more
Discover the filmmaking secrets behind the many celebrations, foods, and publications of the Wizarding World. Celebra......more
The underlying principal of this handbook is to broaden the application of ethnographic filmmaking to suit a wide range ......more
This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984......more
Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating bo......more
Teuvo Tulio (1912-2000) was one of the most original directors in Finnish film history. Growing up in the newly independ......more
Now more than ever, the idea of Europe as grounded in a shared cultural heritage cannot be taken for granted. For all it......more
Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected for......more
An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his rarefied New York childhood, ......more
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Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenbe......more
Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenbe......more
Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images......more
Explores Irving Thalberg’s importance as not only a producer, but also a theorist of studio-era filmmaking Offers a crit......more
In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life,......more
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Read the crime that inspired the movie! They wanted to create the Perfect Crime--to kidnap and murder a 14-year-old boy ......more
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Online video’s unique capacity to reach large audiences makes it a powerful tool to communicate science and technology t......more
This book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video ma......more
The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide is an easy-read crash course in the ins and outs and hundred little details ......more
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This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of ......more
Werner Herzog’s protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the m......more
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Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2......more
Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2......more
Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step c......more
This book gives a comprehensive overview of lighting equipment and techniques for digital production. Suitable for eithe......more
This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields e......more
Jean Renoir is widely considered as one of the most important technical innovators and politically engaged filmmakers in......more
Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating E......more
In the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interroga......more
This is the first genre study of child-starred cinemas from Spain. It illuminates continuities in the political use of t......more
In Jacques Ranci�re and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Ranci�re s writing allows us to broach ar......more
Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the terr......more