Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

A behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary and meticulous design of graphic objects for film sets Although graphic props such as invitations, le...

At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from h...

Explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but why. In-depth covera...

Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubricks role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worke...

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in w...

Examines the ways in whichmoving imagescan help us better understand factual political tortureExamines role of images and film in (mis)understandin...

'Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis' Film Reboots is dedicated to a fundamental question of the form, namely why do reboots exist and what do t...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major ...

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema's 'modern' incarnation. ...

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhi...

Explores Irving Thalberg's importance as not only a producer, but also a theorist of studio-era filmmakingOffers acritical reappraisal of Thalberg'...

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It ...

Whether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance softwa...