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Screen Adaptations eBook Series

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  • Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    A close study of the relationship between text and film

    by Dr. Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Screen Adaptations
    The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities. Many students have to produce critical essays comparing the novel and film versions of a particular text. The Screen Adaptations series offers a wealth of study material: from the literary context of the original work, through to thought-provoking comparisons of the screen versions, critical commentary and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Indie Producers Handbook

    Creative Producing from A to Z

    by Myrl A. Schreibman ...
    Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental tools to produce a more thorough, more organized, and more professional film production. Packed with engaging and useful anecdotes, Schreibman provides a superlative introduction and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Music Composition for Film and Television

    by Lalo Schifrin ...
    (Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible , Cool Hand Luke , Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • My First Movie: Take Two

    Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film

    by Stephen Lowenstein ...
    A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project through to completion. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen

    by Richard Crouse ...
    Fans of offbeat cinema, discriminating renters and collectors, and movie buffs will drool over this checklist of the best overlooked and underappreciated films of the last hundred years. In Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, Richard Crouse, Canada AM film critic and host of television's award-winning Reel to Real, presents a follow-up to his 2003 book with another hundred of his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Film Encyclopedia

    The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry

    by Ephraim Katz, Ronald Dean Nolen ...
    Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers;Styles, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Very Naughty Boys [EBK]

    by Robert Sellers ...
    The incredible, hilarious insider's story of Britain's favourite film company!It all started when Beatle George Harrison stepped in to fund Life of Brian when Monty Python's original backers pulled out. His company, HandMade films, went on to make some of the best British films of the 80s (Withnail and I, Time Bandits and Mona Lisa among them), but then things started to go wrong... This is the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shooting Stars of the Small Screen

    Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946–Present

    by Douglas Brode ...
    Series series Ellen and Edward Randall Series
    Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Language of Film

    by Steven Rawle, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Epic Film

    Myth and History

    by Derek Elley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Spanish Cinema

    by Dr Alberto Mira ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish actors as their own. While Spanish cinema has been maturing for a long time and has been producing excellent directors, actors, and films for decades-including during the dark times of the Franco regime ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Hollywood in the Age of Television

    Edited by Tino Balio ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer ... Read more

    $66.99 USD