Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

In this book, Mads Møller T. Andersen examines the methodological challenges that arise when studying creativity and creative processes in media in...

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hall...

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hall...

Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most im...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

For blockbuster photographer Keith Hamshere it was the humble ukulele, given to him for his ninth birthday, that piqued his interest in the enterta...

This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...

From her relatively small-scale feature debut Luck By Chance (2009) to her recent premieres of Gully Boy (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019) to local ...

Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

Written by senior compositor, technical director, and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explo...

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director...

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, i...

In this book, Mads Møller T. Andersen examines the methodological challenges that arise when studying creativity and creative processes in media in...

Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique f...