Virtual Realities presents a ground-breaking application of phenomenology as a critical method to explore the impact of ......more
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William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), c......more
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Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until ......more
Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until ......more
A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative o......more
The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade’s acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning o......more
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This book explores Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema ......more
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A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki For over f......more
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By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre’s important critical role in a post-pol......more
Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film’s depiction of h......more
A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, François Ozon is one of France’s most prolific and best known interna......more
This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American ......more
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Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick’s cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical......more
The Cinema of the Precariatis the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class sufferin......more
Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking. More than a century after its eme......more
Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking. More than a century after its eme......more
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An accessible guide to the wealth of media-making tools and processes in our contemporary world. Today’s world offers no......more
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There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, cla......more
There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, cla......more
Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspea......more
In 2013 an apparently simple, back-to-basics scary movie transformed horror cinema for the rest of the decade. Based on ......more
Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer’s criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horro......more
Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders’s extens......more
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This new 50th anniversary edition of the classic 1971 book The Total FilmMaker is now being released by the Jerry Lewis ......more
Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before t......more
Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not origina......more
Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not origina......more
Longlisted for the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Moving Image Category Despite their considerable presence in Hollywoo......more
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The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York’s film industry: Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, a......more
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Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his preconceptions, ......more
In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish giv......more
In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish giv......more
Visit the realms of The Twilight Zone, journey to The Outer Limits and boldly go on a Star Trek! Read how motion picture......more
Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspea......more
In 2013 an apparently simple, back-to-basics scary movie transformed horror cinema for the rest of the decade. Based on ......more
Jia Zhangke is praised as "the most internationally prominent and celebrated figure of the Six-Generation of Chinese fil......more
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Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique t......more
Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique t......more
This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combin......more
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Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard’s films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-n......more
Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable......more
Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer’s criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horro......more
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This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix origi......more
Richard Linklater’s celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) who fi......more
Richard Linklater’s celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) who fi......more
Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the compl......more
This book familiarizes users with techniques needed to complete an Avid Media Composer First project. Each Lesson and ex......more
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." For more than five decades, the Skywalker saga has thrilled generations o......more
In the last 40 years, actor, director and former effects artist William Butler has easily lived three lifetimes. From hi......more
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcock’s sixth American film and the one that he at various times id......more