Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video...

Responding to a question of immense interdisciplinary interest, this book investigates the construction of value in the curation of film festivals ...

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, a...

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, a...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-s...

The heart-warming true story of the dog who played Fang in Harry PotterMonkey is a young Neapolitan Mastiff; larger than life, full of energy and e...

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black hum...

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre ...

This book is a comprehensive study of peripheral locations in contemporary European TV crime series. Ambitiously, it covers the complete geography ...

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. ...

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. ...

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from ...

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from ...

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenonwhat defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about t...

Develop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-C...

Develop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-C...

Provides a new platform for discourse on how aural elements combine with moving imagesThe New Soundtrack is a biannual journal that brings together...

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilin...

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilin...

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the...

Shoot, Edit, Share is an interactive, accessible introduction to video production techniques, concepts, and terminology. With the increasing availa...

A great deal of storytelling in film and television involves narratives that include sexual situations and nudity. The increased amount of on-line ...

Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of exper...

A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey a...

A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey a...

This book explores the ways in which film engages with historical events and their impact on present-day landscapes, through a spatial reading of f...

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

Explores how Armstrong's films re-work conventions about literary adaptation, biography and realist storytellingExamines Armstrong's work in light ...

Focuses on the aural elements which combine with moving images.The New Soundtrack is fully peer-reviewed and includes contributions from recognised...

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws ke...