Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From pioneers li...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the Jun...

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 New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Form...

More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street s...

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, hi...

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...

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...