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  • The Film Director Prepares

    A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv

    by Myrl A. Schreibman ...
    • Insider author gives no-nonsense advice• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in filmFrom script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, The Film Director Prepares offers practical insights on filmmaking, using real-life examples directors won’t learn in ... Read more

    ₹711.06

  • The Filmmaker's Handbook

    A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

    by Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus ...
    The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Whether you aspire to be a great filmmaker yourself or are looking for movie gifts, this comprehensive guide to filmmaking is the first step in turning a hobby into a career.Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of video and film production, and used in courses around the world, The Filmmaker’s ... Read more

    ₹335.11

  • The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On

    by Richard Webber ...
    The complete guide to everyone’s favourite films… saucy!This book presents a detailed journey through Britain's best-loved comedies. It contains information on each of the feature films, including moments to watch out for, little-known facts, dialogue gems (Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It In For Me!), full cast lists, production details and an informed critique on each of the films.There will ... Read more

    ₹1,440.30

  • The Fashion of Film: How Cinema has Inspired Fashion

    by Amber Butchart ...
    From Amber Butchart, host of BBC 4's A Stitch in Time.**Karl Lagerfeld drew inspiration from the dystopian vision of Metropolis. The picture-perfect worlds of Wes Anderson's films echo in Miuccia Prada's collections. From historical epics and romantic dramas to sci-fi blockbusters and arthouse cool, the world's most creative fashion designers have long taken their inspiration from screen idols - ... Read more

    ₹975.59

  • Le grand noir

    by Mauro Marchesini ...
    L’hanno chiamato in molti modi. Strazio d’amore, simulazione, performance erotica, fuga dalla realtà, morte minima.François Truffaut, regista notoriamente schierato dalla parte delle donne, filmava spesso lo svenimento femminile.Un’indagine su cinque titoli chiave (Fahrenheit 451 Le due inglesi Adele H. L’ultimo metrò La signora della porta accanto) per capire una delle reazioni umane più ... Read more

    ₹222.40

  • Making Waves

    10 Years of Cinemalaya

    Edited by Clodualdo del Mundo Jr. ...
    A celebration of ten years of Philippine independent cinema, this commemorative volume includes essays on Cinemalaya Film Festival, the forefront of independent filmmaking in the Philippines, and a fast-fact directory of the featured works, festival winners, and talents behind the films. Also includes black-and-white and color images of movie stills, personalities, and film posters. ... Read more

    ₹760.21

  • 300 Action Horror Films Reviewed

    by Steve Hutchison ...
    Steve Hutchison reviews 300 action horror films and ranks them. Each article includes a picture of the main antagonist, a release year, a synopsis, a star rating, and a review. ... Read more

    ₹251.34

  • French Costume Drama of the 1950s

    Fashioning Politics in Film

    by Susan Hayward ...
    When political and civil unrest threatened France’s social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth century, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon and the Belle Époque. Film critics, however, have routinely dismissed this period of French cinema, overlooking a very ... Read more

    ₹3,113.18

  • Directory of World Cinema: China

    Edited by Gary Bettinson ...
    Commended for their social relevance and artistic value, Chinese films remain at the forefront of international cinema, bolstered in recent years by a new generation of talented young filmmakers. Directory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong and mainland China, with particular attention to the achievements of prolific industry figures, the ... Read more

    ₹2,621.59

  • Hollywood’s Most Mysterious Deaths

    The Deaths That Continue to Haunt Tinseltown

    by Isaac Bennett ...
     Hollywood’s Most Mysterious Deaths: The Deaths That Continue to Haunt Tinseltown takes you on a trip through some of the dream capital’s most sordid and mysterious scandals and murders dating back to its earliest days. The cases reviewed in the book include: Thelma Todd. The “Ice Cream Blonde” was one of the brightest comedy stars of the early talkies until death cut her career short. Was her ... Read more

    ₹295.24

  • Worlding Tamil Cinema

    by Amrutha Kunapulli ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the book argues for the limitations of studying Tamil cinema as "Indian" cinema ... Read more

    ₹5,836.10

  • If You Like the Terminator

    Here Are Over 200 Movies, TV Shows and Other Oddities That You Will Love

    by Scott on Von Doviak, Scott Von Doviak ...
    The Terminator began life as a low-budget B movie seemingly destined for a short run at malls and drive-ins before blossoming into a billion-dollar franchise that launched the careers of director James Cameron and star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The original 1984 film not only spawned three sequels, a weekly television series, and countless novels, comic books, and videogames, it also redefined the ... Read more

    ₹1,153.79

  • Armageddon Films FAQ

    All That's Left to Know About Zombies, Contagions, Aliens and the End of the World as We Know It!

    by Dale Sherman ...
    Mankind has been predicting its own demise through various methods, from fables and religious scriptures to hard-core scientific studies since the dawn of time. And if there is one thing Hollywood knows how to exploit, it is the fears of Things to Come. Movies about the end of the world have been around since the early days of cinema, and Armageddon Film FAQ is a look into the various methods we ... Read more

    ₹1,979.20

  • Star Wars FAQ

    Everything Left to Know About the Trilogy That Changed the Movies

    by Mark Clark ...
    Series series FAQ
    From the books and movies that inspired George Lucas to imagine the Star Wars universe, to early screenplay drafts that were never filmed, to short biographies of many people who made key contributions to the movies' success, Star Wars FAQ explores every aspect of the original Star Wars trilogy (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi). Along the way, it unearths underreported ... Read more

    ₹1,896.37

  • Killer B's: The Hive -- The 487 Best Movies* On Demand You've (Probably) Never Seen *and a few TV Shows

    by D. Scott Apel ...
    The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the best unknown movies (and a few TV shows) available on demand and on DVD.We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu Plus... Thousands and thousands of movies are available at your fingertips. But with so many titles, the big question remains: How do you find a GOOD ... Read more

    ₹835.00

  • Le petit guide photo-cinéma

    by Bruno R. de Coninck ...
    Du plus modeste court-métrage au dernier film d’action en vogue, chaque oeuvre cinématographique trouve ses racines dans la photographie.Derrière tous les effets spéciaux, les cascades et les artifices, le cinéma, c’est d’abord et avant tout la lumière, le cadrage, la composition… En d’autres mots, c’est l’art de capturer une histoire et de la raconter en images.Du maniement de votre caméra à la ... Read more

    ₹4,695.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Year of Hitchcock

    52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense

    by Jim McDevitt, Eric San Juan ...
    Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to ... Read more

    ₹1,484.19

  • Screen Jesus

    Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film

    by Peter Malone ...
    Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema. One of the earliest focuses of screen presentations was the Bible, especially the New Testament and the Gospels. In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st ... Read more

    ₹6,306.50

  • Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

    by Jasper Sharp ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster movies, samurai movies, musicals, horror films, and monster films. It has also produced some of ... Read more

    ₹11,586.41

  • Purple Rain

    Music on Film Series

    by John Kenneth Muir ...
    Series series Limelight
    In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning champion Ghostbusters and making its star, Prince, a household name. By the end of the year, the film was a multiple-award winner, a trend setter in terms of fashion, and recognized on many prominent critical “top ten” lists. Purple Rain: Music ... Read more

    ₹824.00

  • Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

    by Steven Rybin ...
    As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as ... Read more

    ₹3,959.24

  • Celeb 2.0

    How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture

    by Kelli S. Burns ...
    Series series New Directions in Media
    This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip.With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous ... Read more

    ₹3,886.44

  • Vertigo (SparkNotes Film Guide)

    by SparkNotes ...
    Series series SparkNotes Film Guide
    Vertigo (SparkNotes Film Guide)Making the reading experience fun!SparkNotes Film Guides are one-stop guides to great works of film–masterpieces that are the foundations of filmmaking and film studies. Inside each guide you’ll find thorough, insightful overviews of films from a variety of genres, styles, and time periods. Each film guide contains:Information about the director and the context in ... Read more

    ₹441.07

  • Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood

    Edited by Lincoln Geraghty ...
    With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per capita than that of any other nation. Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood lays out the ... Read more

    ₹2,743.02