Architecture and Film - Architectural Design Profile No. 112 by Maggie Toy (ed.)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design Ser. | Reading Level: very good

This issue looks at the image of architecture as seen through film. The influence of film upon architecture has been considerable. Often the public's awareness of architectural sites and styles is brought about by film. A number of films are examined in several contexts in this volume.

Making a Good Script Great: A Guide for Writing & Rewriting by Linda Seger

$12.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good

Making a good script great is more than just a matter of putting a good idea on paper. It requires the working and reworking of that idea. This book takes you through the whole screenwriting process - from initial concept through final rewrite - providing specific methods that will help you craft tighte r, stronger, and more saleable scripts. While retaining the invaluable insights that placed its first two editions among the all - time most popular screenwriting books, this expanded, revised, and updated third edition adds rich and important new material on dialogue, cinematic images, and point of view, as well as an interview with screenwriter Paul Haggis. If you are writing your first script, this book will help develop your skills for telling a compelling and dramatic story. If you are a veteran screenwriter, it will help you articulate the skills you know intuitively. And if you are currently stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you analyse and solve your script's problems and get it back on track. ...Show more

Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts by Susan Hayward

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Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Alien Zone - Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema by Annette Kuhn (Editor)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good

This is especially true of the science fiction film--a genre as old as cinema itself--which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called "woman's film." Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this book--some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources--look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J. P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio. ...Show more

Ideology and the Image - Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media by Bill Nichols

$16.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

To what degree, Nichols asks, does ideology inform images in films, advertising, and other media? Does the cinema or any other sign system liberate or manipulate us? How can we as spectators know when the media are subtly perpetuating a specific set of values? To address these issues, the author draws f rom a variety of approaches--Marxism, psycholanalysis, communication theory, semiotics, structuralism, the psychology of perception. Working with two interrelated theories--ideology and image-systems, and ideology and principles of textual criticism--Nichols shows how and why we make emotional investments in sign sytsems with an ideological context. ...Show more

Alternative Cinema Vol. 11 no. 4 Summer 1983/4 by Karl Mutch (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Directing the Story - Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation by Francis Glebas

$25.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, teaches artists a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. They will learn classic visual storytelling techniques such as conveying meaning with images and directing the viewer's eye. Glebas also teaches how to spot potent ial problems before they cost time and money, and he offers creative solutions on how to solve them. ...Show more

A Positively Final Appearance - A Journal, 1996-98 by Alec Guinness

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The Proust Screenplay - A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Harold Pinter; Joseph Losey; Barbara Bray; Marcel Proust

$15.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written. With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplayis an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory. ...Show more

Prospero's Books - A Film of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Peter Greenaway

$16.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Semiotics of Cinema by Jurij Lotman

$10.00 NZD

Category: Film | Series: Michigan Slavic Contributions | Reading Level: good-very good

Film Making in New Zealand - A Brief Historical Survey by Clive Sowry

$8.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good