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The definitive analysis of one of cinema's most successful filmmakers. No filmmaker has achieved Peter Jackson's particular combination of cult horror origins, art cinema acclaim, and blockbuster dominance. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of his...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2026-03-19
Collection :
Contemporary Film Directors in America
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Wes Anderson's beloved films announce themselves through a singular aesthetic - one that seems too vivid, unique, and meticulously constructed to possibly be real. Not so - in AccidentallyWes Anderson, Wally Koval collects the world's most Anderson-like sites in all...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2020-10-29
Collection :
Accidentally Wes Anderson
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Recreate the magical atmosphere of Wes Anderson's best-loved movies with stylish interiors in your own home.Each chapter in this unique interiors book partners a best-loved Wes Anderson movie with a popular interior design aesthetic. So whether you're in the market for...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2025-11-06
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This book explores the evolving landscape of European film and television co-productions, from traditional models supported by Eurimages to new collaborations shaped by global streaming platforms like Netflix. It examines how European co-production policies have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-25
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This book provides a complete description of the development of Italian film and cinema from its beginnings in 1895 until today. Special emphasis is placed on those periods in which Italian film history became aesthetically decisive for world cinematography: silent film...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-15
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This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers reconfigure studio sets and real locations through the filmmaking process into...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-14
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This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War. It presents a revisionist, micro history of the studio and its longevity during a particularly turbulentperiod,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-12
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This book project unfolds and analyzes the work of Moroccan director, producer, and scriptwriter Farida Benlyazid, whose career extends from the beginning of cinema in independent Morocco to the present.This study of her work and career provides a unique perspective on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-17
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This book is a comprehensive study of peripheral locations in contemporary European TV crime series. Ambitiously, it covers the complete geography of Europe, and offers a nuanced image of a changing, dynamic, and unfinished continent. The chapters include analyses of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-17
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This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers’ contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by bringing together the work of highly acclaimed and emerging directors. Through thirteen critical essays by leading scholars...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-06
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This book explores 2010s Hong Kong film industry, focusing on its (presumably) independent sector. Although frequently mentioned in global film industry studies, the term ‘independent film’ does not always carry a clear meaning. Starting with this point, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-26
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The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-05-23
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The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-03-17
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In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema—an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition—will get the full film-studies treatment. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-09
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This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the unique sound worlds of key regions in the Global South, through an auto-ethnographic method of self-reflective conversations with prominent sound practitioners from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-01
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This book uses in-depth case studies to explore the significance of the design of the home on screen. The chapters draw widely upon the production designer’s professional perspective and particular creative point of view. The case studies employ a methodology Barnwell...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-10
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This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-19
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Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found footage. The horror genre is no longer exclusive to fiction and its narratives actively engage us in web forums, experiential...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-24
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This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things. The book brings together scholars in the fields of media, humanities, communications and cultural studies to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-18
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