Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the...

New research shows the true reason why galileo was condemned. Galileo is one of a small group of thinkers who transformed Western culture. But to ...

In this three-part book-length study of the work of Gregg Toland, Philip Cowan explores approaches to co-authorship in collaborative filmmaking to ...

Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Thou...

In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from th...

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and...

Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by...

This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema – the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. It ...

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is...

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques. Filmmaking,...

Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, London’s queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Inter...

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets...

The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the ...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as “the univ...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as “the univ...

Designed for researchers seeking new ways to explore their field and media professionals aiming to extend their practice, this filmmaking handbook ...

While the work of Sofia Coppola has often been dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofi...

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the yea...

The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to un...

The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to un...

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...