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  • This Is How We Love This Is How We Love
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    This Is How We Love

    The 1994 movie This Is How We Love touched the hearts of so many critics and fans alike when it was released, and has since captivated an even wider audience after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture! Now you, too, can...
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  • Oliver Stone
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    Oliver Stone

    Throughout his career Oliver Stone (b. 1946) has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such as Nixon (1995), JFK (1991), and Wall Street (1987), and...
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  • The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard
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    The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard

    The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as...
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  • Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola
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    Sofia Coppola

    Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides...
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  • Michael Haneke Michael Haneke
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    Michael Haneke

    Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged...
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  • Archival Storytelling Archival Storytelling
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    Archival Storytelling

    Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today...
    $373.00

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  • Image coming soon
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    The Complete Guide to Film and Digital Production

    This fully revised fourth edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the roles, procedures, and logistics of the film and digital video production process. Author Lorene M. Wales takes the reader from development and pre-production all the way to...
    $145.00

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  • Auf der Reise Auf der Reise
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    Auf der Reise

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $48.00

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  • The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking
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    The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking

    The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to...
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  • My Ivory Cellar; [the Story of Time-lapse Photography] My Ivory Cellar; [the Story of Time-lapse Photography]
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    My Ivory Cellar; [the Story of Time-lapse Photography]

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $38.00

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  • 21st Century Film Student PRIMER 21st Century Film Student PRIMER
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    21st Century Film Student PRIMER

    What if there was an easy-to-follow roadmap for beginner filmmakers to realize their best film school experience? 21st Century Film Student PRIMER is thoughtfully geared towards helping students ensure that their investment in post-secondary film...
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  • 3D Cinema 3D Cinema
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    3D Cinema

    3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of 3D cinema's unique visuality.
    $92.00

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  • Documentary Films in India Documentary Films in India
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    Documentary Films in India

    This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a...
    $92.00

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  • Production Management for Television Production Management for Television
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    Production Management for Television

    Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area. Production...
    $79.00

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  • Making Media Making Media
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    Making Media

    Taking essential media production processes, this book deconstructs them into the most basic components. Students will learn the concepts of media production - frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing - and be able to apply them to any medium...
    $373.00

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  • Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
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    Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse

    The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics. Several of the TNW...
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  • World Cinema Exposed World Cinema Exposed
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    World Cinema Exposed

    Cinema is one of the most influential forms of human culture. It has the power to unite people from all over the world and plays a major role in shaping our understanding of our society. World cinema is vast and diverse. It encompasses films from...
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  • Fotografia w Szklanej Kuli (Fotografia Kulka  Obiektywu) Fotografia w Szklanej Kuli (Fotografia Kulka  Obiektywu)
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    Fotografia w Szklanej Kuli (Fotografia Kulka Obiektywu)

    Zdjęcia ze szklanymi kulami dla początkujących, profesjonalistów i ciekawskich amatorów. Pola fotografii nie mogłyby być większe. Nie ma granic dla wyobraźni i myśli, tak jak nie ma granic dla kreatywności. Naturalne jest więc, że co...
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  • Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
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    Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

    Create, edit, and produce professional-grade videos with practical tips, step-by-step guides, and illustrationsKey FeaturesEnhance project structure, manage media, and use the inspector effectively for consistent pacingTake your video projects to the...
    $120.00

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  • Teaching the Screen Teaching the Screen
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    Teaching the Screen

    Digital video and film technologies are transforming classrooms across the world. Teaching the Screen looks beyond the buttons and knobs to explore ways of teaching video and film effectively in secondary classrooms. More and more young people have...
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  • Watching Cosmic Time Watching Cosmic Time
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    Watching Cosmic Time

    How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries--contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that...
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  • It All Began With A Scream (hardback) It All Began With A Scream (hardback)
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    It All Began With A Scream (hardback)

    In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in theaters, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon spawning multiple sequels, a television series, and...
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  • Lois Weber Lois Weber
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    Lois Weber

    Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly...
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  • David Fincher David Fincher
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    David Fincher

    David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is, it's hard to be self-effacing when you are the...
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  • The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling
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    The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling

    In the first book to study the short film using the yin yang complementarity, Raskin proposes a new paradigm-describing major forms of yin and yang, redefined as ungendered, freed of patriarchal bias. Yin evokes such properties as holding back and an...
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  • Lessons from the Set Lessons from the Set
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    Lessons from the Set

    Lessons from the Set - A DIY Filmmaking Guide to Your First Feature Film, from Script to Theaters is a comprehensive filmmaking guide that takes a cinephile's "Do It Yourself" approach to low-budget indie film production and distribution.The book is...
    $66.00

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  • The Digital Filmmaking Handbook The Digital Filmmaking Handbook
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    The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

    Who hasn't dreamed about making a movie?Not just for the thrill of it, but as a way to get your story out into the world, the story that only you can tell.For this edition, we've focused on soft skills: developing a project, writing a compelling story,...
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  • Albert Brooks Albert Brooks
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    Albert Brooks

    Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the...
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  • John Cassavetes John Cassavetes
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    John Cassavetes

    American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his...
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  • Macmillan's Magazine V1 Macmillan's Magazine V1
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    Macmillan's Magazine V1

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Metaphysics of Stranger Things The Metaphysics of Stranger Things
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    The Metaphysics of Stranger Things

    IN A WORLD FULL OF TENS BE ANELEVENLines separating philosophy, psychology, mysticism and spirituality all blend together in the metaphysical soup that is served up by Joshua Free in this unique approach to exploring spiritual techniques for developing...
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  • Come Fare Un Film Come Fare Un Film
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    Come Fare Un Film

    Come Fare Un Film è una guida completa al cinema che adotta un approccio cinefilo "fai da te" alla produzione e alla distribuzione di film indipendenti a basso budget. Il libro è ricco di suggerimenti e trucchi cinematografici, nonché di indicazioni...
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  • Short Films 2.0 Short Films 2.0
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    Short Films 2.0

    The digital age has dramatically changed the purpose and nature of short films. Since 2005, YouTube has provided short video content to people around the world and, in the process, has forever altered how we watch and make short films. As a result, both...
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  • Hal Ashby Hal Ashby
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    Hal Ashby

    Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era...
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  • The High-Concept Massacre The High-Concept Massacre
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    The High-Concept Massacre

    The famed director Robert Altman once said, "I don't think screenplay writing is the same aswriting-I mean, I think it's blueprinting." Well, the late filmmaker couldn't be more wrong, and in thesepages you will meet thirteen screenwriters who will...
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  • Transborder Media Spaces Transborder Media Spaces
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    Transborder Media Spaces

    Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In...
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  • Student Filmmaker Survival Guide Student Filmmaker Survival Guide
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    Student Filmmaker Survival Guide

    The Student Filmmaker Survival Guide familiarizes readers with the critical concepts and processes involved in the production of a film or television show. The handbook helps budding filmmakers better understand the operations of a film set, develop...
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  • John Guillermin John Guillermin
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    John Guillermin

    One of the Best Hollywood Directors Nobody KnowsIf you have seen The Towering Inferno, King Kong or The Death on the Nile, you are familiar with the directorial work of John Guillermin. But there are many other thoughtful gems...
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  • John Singleton John Singleton
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    John Singleton

    John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew...
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  • Bring in the Peacocks, or Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer Bring in the Peacocks, or Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer
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    Bring in the Peacocks, or Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer

    "Hank was privy to it all and tells all with wit and insight." - - Eva Marie Saint Read the one-of-a-kind autobiography of the producer of Dangerous Liaisons, Hooper, The Great Gatsby, and assistant director of Kismet, Jailhouse Rock, Raintree County,...
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  • Ridley Scott Interviews Ridley Scott Interviews
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    Ridley Scott Interviews

    Artisan, entrepreneur, and impresario, British filmmaker Ridley Scott accepts the profit motive as the only way to thrive in an industry where there is little patience for artistic flourishes or overblown expenses. Yet, while he may pay lip service to...
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  • Coen Brothers Coen Brothers
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    Coen Brothers

    Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with...
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Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills