Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills

Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema.

Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Melies began making movies.

'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967.

First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors.

Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term auteur by Andrew Sarris.

The first-ever comprehensive examination of the film editor's craft from the beginning of cinema to the present day.

Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons cycles.

Colour remains one of the few uncharted territories in writing about film style.

The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present.

Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema.

The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience.

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "e;European refugee crisis"e;, and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy.

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "e;European refugee crisis"e;, and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.

Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates).

The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger.

Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era.

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

This is the first monograph on controversial French director Louis Malle to be published in English.

The first book in any language to study the films of this enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema, best known for his film Les Amants du Pont Neuf.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.

This book critically examines images in the borderlands of the art world, investigating relations between visual art and vernacular visual culture within different images communities from the 1870s to the present day.

Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out.

This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.

This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.

Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker.

Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker.

If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein.

If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein.

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.

Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film.

Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers.

This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers.

Spy-Fi Culture with a License to KillFrom Sean Connery to Daniel Craig,James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time.

This comprehensive, informative and witty guide offers expert advice on everything you need to know about the industry.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot.

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form.

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form.

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital.

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital.