Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding.

This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F.

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography.

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 America.

This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on 'green' film and television production.

Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision.

Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision.

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

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

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed.

Scholars in the field of communication research have extensively studied television viewing in general and watching television news in particular.

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 America.

This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on 'green' film and television production.

This book uses in-depth case studies to explore the significance of the design of the home on screen.

This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation.

The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices.

This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt.

Character drives plot.

This book places television in Africa in the digital context.

This book presents three interrelated essays about cinematography which offer a theoretical understanding of the ways that film practitioners orchestrate light in today's post-digital context.

This book examines television drama in the age of streaming-a time when television has been reshaped for national and international consumption via both linear 'flow' and on-demand user modes.

This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things.

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade.

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema.

This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world.

This book examines the challenges often experienced  by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics.

This handbook is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production internationally.

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s.

In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "e;synthetic cinema.

This book explores the complex interplay of culture and economics in the context of Philippine cinema.

This book explores the use of Blockchain and smart contract technologies to develop new ways to finance independent films and digital media worldwide.

This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films.

Basics Film-Making 01: Producing introduces the reader to the role of the producer.

Basics Film-Making: Directing Fiction introduces the essential aspects of the directorial process, focusing on the requirements of short films while also drawing on classic examples from the world of feature films.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction provides a clear, concise, and well-grounded introduction to the concept of the Metaverse, its history, the technology, the opportunities, the challenges, and how it is having an impact on almost every facet of society.

Containing more than 2,200 entries from the most current Star Wars film and TV series, discover the vital facts about iconic characters, creatures, locations, vehicles, and technology from a galaxy far, far away .

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.

There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing.

"e;In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice.