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Taylor & Francis Ltd Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
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Taylor & Francis Projecting the Past
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Taylor & Francis Atomic Bomb Cinema The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tomas Gutierrez Alea The Dialectics of a Filmmaker Latin American Studies Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Film Music A History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russian Cinema Inside Film
Book SynopsisRussian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia''s tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others.The background section assesses the contribution of visual art and music, especially the work of the composers Shostakovich and Prokofev, to Russian cinema. Subsequent chapters explore a variety of topics: The literary space - the cinematic rendering of the literary text, from ''Sovietized'' versions to bolder and more innovative interpretations, as well as adaptations of foreign classics The Russian film comedy looks at this perennially popular genre over the decades, from the ''domestication'' of laughter under Stalin to the emergence of satire The historical film - how history has been used in film to affirm prevailing ideological norms, from October to Taurus Women and Russian film dTable of Contents1. The Sight and Sound of Russian Film 2. The Literary Space 3. The Russian Film Comedy 4. The Course and Curse of History 5. Women and Russian Film 6. Film and Ideology 7. The Russian War Film 8. Private Life and Public Morality 9. Autobiography, Memory and Identity in the Films of Andrei Tarkovskii Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Food Aid and Human Security Routledge Research EADI Studies in Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Images of Idiocy The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hollywood Theory NonHollywood Practice Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Proust at the Movies Studies in European Cultural Transition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Gendered Score Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Womans Film Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
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Taylor & Francis Youth Culture in Chinese Language Film
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Taylor & Francis A Best Practice Guide to Sex and Storytelling
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Taylor & Francis Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Composing for the Screen
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the business side of composing, addressing the lack of understanding about career development and business responsibilities as they relate to composers.Over 30 industry professionals, composers, directors, educators and business agents at all levels dispel myths about the industry and provide practical advice on topics such as how to break into the field; how to develop, nurture, and navigate business relationships; and how to do creative work under pressure. Readers will also learn about the entrepreneurial expectations in relation to marketing, strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of composing, and money management whilst pursuing a career in composing. Written for undergraduates and graduates studying composing, sound production, and filmmaking, as well as aspiring composers for film, TV, and gaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Sticking It Out Chapter 3: Finding Success Chapter 4: Getting Ahead Chapter 5: Starting Again
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary American Science Fiction Film
Book SynopsisContemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era.Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial, and political context, the book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films. An international team of authors draw on case studies from across the science fiction genre to examine what these films can tell us about the time period, how the films themselves connect to the social and political context, how the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the screen, and how the genre responds to the shifting coordinates of the Hollywood film industry.OfferingTrade Review"Contemporary American Science Fiction Film is an outstanding collection of essays on the power and provocation of those future orientated films that nonetheless conjure up the maelstrom of what it is like to dream and despair in the first two decades of the new millennium. Covering blockbuster, transmedia and independent science fiction film, the collection examines the long and refracted lens of the present through its concern with the geopolitical, the technological, the deadly traumatic, and the precariat economic. It also senses science fiction and the way it troubles selfhood and identity, so the intimate and the personal are woven into the collection’s articulations. With standout chapters on Arrival, Children of Men, Annihilation, and Black Panther, amongst others, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film is a profoundly important text for all time, or for as long as this world has left to live..."Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia"McSweeney and Joy’s Contemporary American Science Fiction Film provides a fascinating foray into the strange and exciting allegorical world of science fiction film over the past two decades. The collection covers a key selection of widely popular films, from Black Panther to Blade Runner 2049, from Star Wars to Planet of the Apes. It is also a wide-ranging cultural and political history of the United States in the 21st century, providing deep explorations of the latent meanings and emotional resonances of the films, of their imagery, and of what they reveal about the sociopolitical worlds within which they were dreamt and projected."Jeremiah Morelock, Boston College, USA"Framing science fiction as the “allegorical mode” in 21st century cinema, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film ranges widely across the cultural landscape, tackling the War on Terror, “9/11,” global warming, a politicized media, diversity and inclusion efforts, and other defining moments and movements. The collection matches these haunting components of the cultural imaginary with the latest science fiction cinema in consistently stimulating ways. Voicing that treatment are a number of the genre’s most eloquent and considered commentators, who here demonstrate not just science fiction’s widespread popularity, but the crucial cultural function it serves for us today."J. P. Telotte, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAIncluding case studies of various motion pictures, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film offers a superb investigation of the science fiction genre. McSweeney and Joy (both, Southampton Solent Univ., UK) argue that “science fiction films have often been both a valuable witness to and [an] interrogator of key moments of ideological tension” and that science fiction, working as allegory, possesses the ability to “manifest aspects of the cultural imaginary, which ... become[s] problematic to express explicitly in their political and social climates” (p. 1). Each of the 12 chapters centers on a film and explores how the film reflects its time of creation, works as a cultural artifact linked to historical moments, and expresses larger cultural anxieties. Treating films such as Children of Men (2006) and Interstellar (2014), the essays, all by eminent scholars, decipher the fictional worlds of time loops, alternative histories, clones, and dystopias. Of particular note are Carol Donelan’s examination of the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise; Andrew Schopp's reading of the eco-horror film Annihilation (2018) as hybridization, anxiety, and destruction in American identity; and Paul Petrovic’s interpretation of the dark comedy Sorry to Bother You (2018). Taken together, these essays contribute greatly to film scholarship and make for a solid text for science fiction film courses.--S. B. Skelton, Kansas State University, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: The Fears and Fantasies of Science Fiction Film: Genre as Cultural ArtefactTerence McSweeney and Stuart Joy 1. A Tale as Old as Time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Christine Muller 2. Through the Lens of 9/11: Reflections of Bush Era Politics and the Post-9/11 Milieu in Minority Report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) Fran Pheasant-Kelly 3. Precarious Lives, Human Rights, and 'the sense of today': The Continuing Resonance and Relevance of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) Terence McSweeney 4. Seeing and Touching the Bodies of Others: Evolving the Male Animal toward Secular Moral Enlightenment in the Planet of the Apes Reboot Franchise Carol Donelan 5. Time Travel, Trauma, and the Futility of Revenge in Looper (2012) Stuart Joy 6. Science Fiction Cinema between Arthouse and Blockbuster: From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) Steffen Hantke 7. Twenty-first-Century Star Wars: Profiles in (Female) Courage Stacey Peebles 8. Rationality, emotionality, and geopolitics in Arrival (2016): From structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to "quality" status Geoff King 9. 'The World Is Built on A Wall': Deconstructing Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Will Brooker 10. Speculative Anger and Collective Economic Strength in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018) Paul Petrovic 11. Coping with the Deconstruction of American Identity: Hybridization and Self-destruction in Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) Andrew Schopp 12. Wakanda Forever? On Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) Gerry Canavan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Screen Narrative
Book SynopsisBringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal forTable of ContentsIntroductionCatalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of NarrativePaul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood StorytellingTodd Berliner3. Independent CinemaGeoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film CycleMiklós KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art CinemaPaul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard’s Late FilmsAndrás Kovács9. Defining a Lynchian NarrativeNeil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and HistoriesSean O’Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation’s Narrative StrategiesChristopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in GamesDominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia UniversesJan-Noël ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the ScreenplayEnrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer’s ActivityEd Tan and Katalin Bálint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative ComprehensionCatalina Iricinschi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The International Film Business
Book SynopsisExamining the independent film sector as a business on an international scale, author Angus Finney addresses the specific skills and knowledge required to successfully navigate the international film business.Finney describes and analyses the present structure of the film industry as a business, with a specific focus on the film (and entertainment) value chain and takes readers through the status of current digital technology, exploring ways in which this is changing the structure and opportunities offered by the industry in the future. The textbook provides information and advice on the different business and management skills and strategies that students and emerging practitioners will need to effectively engage with the industry in an international context. Case studies of films and TV, including Squid Game (2021), Parasite (2019), Game of Thrones (2011-2019) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), are supplemented by company case studiesTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"This really is the complete guide to today's film industry. Right up to date, but with a real understanding of the journey that the industry has taken to get here. Comprehensive and well researched; erudite and very readable. Quite simply the book that all practitioners and industry players alike have been waiting for. Many, I suspect, may pretend to themselves that they know it already, but privately will keep the book near at hand for constant reference and self assurance. I know I will."Ken Dearsley, Partner, DLA Piper Middle East LLP"This book successfully accomplishes what many others on the same topic have failed to do. It not only captures the excitement of the international film industry, but it also delves deeply into its structure and practices. The author uses to full advantage his first-hand knowledge of the film business to develop a comprehensive analysis that will have enduring value for both film insiders and readers that are fascinated by this industry."Joseph Lampel, Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Cass Business School, City University London"At last a book for the professional practitioners of filmmaking but accessible to the interested layman. The business of film, past, present and future, are researched in meticulous detail, helpful case studies and valuable personal observations. The book is full of insights into the digital age of distribution and production with a road map for the future development of the film business. If you are going to buy one book on the international business of film, this is it!"Sandy Lieberson, former President of Production, Twentieth Century FoxPraise for the first edition:'This really is the complete guide to today's film industry. Right up to date, but with a real understanding of the journey that the industry has taken to get here. Comprehensive and well researched; erudite and very readable. Quite simply the book that all practitioners and industry players alike have been waiting for. Many, I suspect, may pretend to themselves that they know it already, but privately will keep the book near at hand for constant reference and self assurance. I know I will.'Ken Dearsley, Partner, DLA Piper Middle East LLP'This book successfully accomplishes what many others on the same topic have failed to do. It not only captures the excitement of the international film industry, but it also delves deeply into its structure and practices. The author uses to full advantage his first-hand knowledge of the film business to develop a comprehensive analysis that will have enduring value for both film insiders and readers that are fascinated by this industry.'Joseph Lampel, Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Cass Business School, City University London'At last a book for the professional practitioners of filmmaking but accessible to the interested layman. The business of film, past, present and future, are researched in meticulous detail, helpful case studies and valuable personal observations. The book is full of insights into the digital age of distribution and production with a road map for the future development of the film business. If you are going to buy one book on the international business of film, this is it!'Sandy Lieberson, former President of Production, Twentieth Century FoxTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Introduction, Acknowledgements, PART 1: The film value chain, 1. The Winds of Change, 2. The Film Value Chain, 3. Development and the producer's role, 4. Development: The Writer and the Agent, 5. Green lighting films, 6. Sales and markets, 7. The Festival Circuit, 8. Film Finance, 9. Financing: The $20m investment case, 10. Risk Management: the role of the completion guarantor, 11, Co-production and co-financing, 12. Exhibition and the changing cinema experience, 13. Production: global challenges and change, PART 2: Users and the changing digital market, 14. Users, changing behaviour and market knowledge, 15. Marketing: from traditional to digital, 16. The Streaming Wars, 17. "Catch Me If You Can": The rise and rise of Netflix, 18. "Fandom land": The Chinese Star System, 19. "Winter is Coming": The Game of Thrones case study, 20. The "Metaverse": Generation Z and the Ticking Tok, PART 3: Business, leadership and management strategies, 21. The Legal Masterclass;, 22. Project Management and cognitive bias, 23. Business strategy, 24. Entrepreneurs and investors in the film industry, 25. Business Models 2.0, 26. The challenge of creative management, 27. "To Infinity and Beyond": The Pixar Case Study, 28. The Entrepreneur: interview with Simon Franks, Redbus Group, 29. Conclusions, Appendices: (1) The international sales agents and (2) International TV Distributors, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis The World of The Walking Dead
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it.From comics and television to social media, apps, and mobile games, utilizing concepts derived from literary studies, media studies, history, anthropology, and religious studies, Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so, he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms, bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary, concepts, and approaches.The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories, their platforms, and their reception, ideal for students and scholars of world-building, film and TV studies, new media, and everything in-between.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Literary and Media World-building 1. Comics and Television: Historiographical World-building 2. Augmented Television: Sociological World-building 3. Social Media: Religious World-building 4. Mobile Games: Philosophical World-building Conclusion: Towards a Transdisciplinary World-building Framework
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Taylor & Francis Youth Fiction and Trans Representation
Book SynopsisYouth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of mediaincluding picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature filmsYouth Fiction and Trans Representation examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the laTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transgender Studies and Children’s LiteratureChapter 1: Gender Nonconformity in Picture BooksChapter 2: Trans Children in Picture BooksChapter 3: Politicizing Gender in Young Adult Graphic NarrativesChapter 4: Show and Tell: Authoring the Trans Subject in Young Adult FictionChapter 5: Animating Gender: Subversive Gendering in Children’s CartoonsChapter 6: Loving and Hating Trans Youth in Adolescent TelevisionChapter 7: Manning Up and Womanning Down in Young Adult Gender-Disguise FilmsChapter 8: Embodying Difference: Gender and Race in Young Adult Body-Swap FilmsConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film
Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles cultural intermediaries play in East Asian cinema. Based on extensive original research, and viewing cinema from the social science perspective which emphasizes the social processes entailed in the cultural production, circulation, and consumption of films and the social relations they involve, rather than studying films as texts, the book examines issues such as the differences between individual and collective intermediaries, the diverse resources and services that they mediate, their social background and targeted audiences, and the political implications of their work. One important conclusion is that cultural intermediaries have been central to creating the whole idea of East Asian cinema.Table of Contents1. Introduction Eyal Ben-Ari and Heung-wah Wong 2. Going overseas and evolving locally: the strategies of a Japanese pink film company Heung Wah Wong, Hoi Yan Yau, and Nobu Tanaka 3. Celebrities, Asian film, and a name economy Brian Moeran 4. Audiences as cultural intermediaries: a case study from Kyoto, Japan Jennifer Coates 5. The role of film critics and scholars in the development of film industry in Japan and China Chan Yan Chuen, Kobe 6. Festivals, finance and global cultural intermediaries: co-production and the shaping of "East Asian cinema" Cindy Wong and Gary McDonogh 7. Cultural intermediaries are made not assumed: a case study of a Japanese short movie competition in Hong Kong Karin Ling-Fung Chau, Heung-wah Wong, and Wendy Wei-Wei 8. Women as cultural intermediaries within the Chinese diaspora: the search for Esther Eng in S. Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2013) Gina Marchetti
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Taylor & Francis Halloween
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema.John Carpenterâs 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloweenâs comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950sâGothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monstersâand ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling Table of ContentsChapter 1: I Was A Teenage Psycho Killer: Halloween and the History of Youth Horror CinemaChapter 2: Familial and Societal Failure: Reading Youth and Ideology in HalloweenChapter 3: A Triptych of Youth: Teenagers, Preadolescents, and Young Adults in HalloweenChapter 4: The Mise en Abyme of Youth: The Halloween Franchise
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 50 Movie Music Moments
Book Synopsis50 Movie Music Moments comprises a wide-ranging collection of analyses of some of the most fascinating uses of music in modern Hollywood cinema. Considering narrative strategies, filmmaking techniques, functions of film music, audience engagement and conditioning, cultural implications, and intertextuality, the case studies gathered here introduce music as a crucial element of film.In 50 examples drawn from popular and critically acclaimed Hollywood films from the late 1950s to the present, the collection showcases the many dimensions of film music and its role in cinematic storytelling. Each example includes an analysis addressing the film's context and providing a close reading of how music, narrative, and visual elements of the scene interact. Case studies exploring the role of music in film include Amadeus, Gladiator, Baby Driver, The Dark Knight, Philadelphia, Schindler's List, and Black Panther. This invaluable collection offers an iTable of Contents1. Original Score (Bespoke Composed Underscore) 2. Quoted or Adapted Classical Music as Underscore 3. Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (diegetic) 4. Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (non-diegetic) 5. Use of an Original / Theme Song 6. Outliers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Live Visuals
Book SynopsisThis volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.Covering a wide historical period from Pythagorasâs mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castelâs ocular harpsichord in the 18th century, to the visual music of the mid-20th century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of the present moment, Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture â from VJing to immersive environments, architecture to design â Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context.This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, students, artists, designers and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs, DJs, electronic musicians, filmmakers, interaction designers and technologists.Trade Review“Live Visuals is a timely and compelling account of the relationship between sound and image. It charts a historical course that is long overdue. The book brings together an impressive array of voices that in combination mix historical context, theoretical analysis, and reflections on contemporary practice, to great effect. It is an invaluable resource for audio-visual students and scholars and makes a very significant contribution to intellectual debate in this field.” Professor Stephen Kennedy, Professor of Critical Theory and Practice, Greenwich University“Live Visuals presents a timely historical and conceptual overview of the art and design of live media. Featuring the work of the early pioneers to some of today’s leading designers of spatial media, Live Visuals offers a framework for creative practitioners and students of the art of immersive visual experiences.” Damien Smith, Creative Partner, ISO, http://isodesign.co.ukTable of ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - The Long History of Moving Images Becoming AliveSteve GibsonPART I THE HISTORY OF LIVE VISUALSChapter 1 - Inventing Instruments: Colour-Tone Correspondence to Colour-Music Performance (pre-1900) Maura McDonnellChapter 2 - Moving Towards the Performed Image (Colour Organs, Synesthesia and Visual Music): Early Modernism (1900-1955)Steve GibsonChapter 3 - Liquid Visuals: Late Modernism and Analogue Live Visuals (1950-1985)Steve GibsonChapter 4 - Scratch Video and Rave: The Rise of the Live Visuals Performer (1985-2000) Léon McCarthy and Steve GibsonChapter 5 - The Post-conceptual Digital Era (2000-present)Paul Goodfellow and Steve GibsonPART II THE THEORY OF LIVE VISUALSChapter 6 - Cross-Modal Theories of Sound and ImageJoseph HydeChapter 7 - Live Visuals in Theory and ArtPaul GoodfellowChapter 8 - Live Visuals: Technology and AestheticsLéon McCarthyChapter 9 - AVUIs: Audio-Visual User Interfaces - Working with Users to Create Performance TechnologiesNuno N. Correia and Atau TanakaChapter 10 - A Parametric Model for Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and PerformanceAdriana Sá and Atau TanakaChapter 11 - Presence and Live Visuals PerformanceDonna LeishmanPART III THE PRACTICE OF LIVE VISUALSChapter 12 - VJing, Live Audio-Visuals and Live CinemaSteve Gibson and Stefan ArisonaChapter 13 - Immersive Environments and Live VisualsSteve GibsonChapter 14 - Architectural Projections: Changing the Perception of Architecture with LightSimon Schubiger, Stefan Arisona, Lukas Treyer, and Gerhard SchmittChapter 15 - Design and Live VisualsDonna LeishmanPART IV INTERVIEWS WITH KEY PRACITIONERS–STEVE GIBSONChapter 16 - Interview 1 - Tony Hill, Expanded Cinema pioneer Chapter 17 - Interview 2 - Christopher Thomas Allen, Founder & Director, The Light Surgeons Chapter 18 - Interview 3 - Greg Hermanovic, CEO, DerivativeChapter 19 - Interview 4 - Markus Heckmann, Technical Director, Derivative; Programmer for Carsten Nicolai and others. Chapter 20 - Interview 5 - Peter Mettler, Digital and Live Cinema Artist AfterwardIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Breaking into Factual TV
Book SynopsisSuccessfully entering the TV industry can be difficult to navigate. Breaking into Factual TV will guide you through the process from how to get your first job to how to make it at the top. Written in a clear and accessible way, author Zenia Selby demystifies the TV industry for new entrants and covers all the key roles including runner, researcher, assistant producer, producer and director. Selby reveals what no one ever tells you when you start working at a TV production company the chain of hierarchy, the most effective ways to network, and the best way to structure your work. The book will travel with you up your career ladder: as you progress from runner to researcher to producer to director, each section provides you with the blueprint you need to excel with every promotion and warns you of the pitfalls to avoid. Perspectives from industry professionals are provided throughout, with interviews with Mitchell Langcaster-James (The Only Way is Essex, QI, and Celebs Table of Contents1. Breaking In 2. Working as a Team 3. Runner 4. Researcher 5. Assistant Producer 6. Producer 7. Director
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Taylor & Francis The SelfSustaining Filmmaker
Book SynopsisThis book provides guidance on how to build an independent, financially sustainable filmmaking career through channels such as crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and community filmmaking concepts.Through real-life experiences, Marty Lang provides insight on how to use these key concepts through every stage of a filmâs lifecycle â from distribution (the stage that should be figured out first), through development, screenwriting, prep, production and post, all the way through marketing and the filmâs release. By thinking of filmmaking as a start-up company, and looking at how businesses make money, Lang creates a completely independent financial model for films, turning filmmakers into businesspeople, conscious of the needs of their audiences, and empowered to use their creative work to make their living. Using interviews with leaders in the field, case studies, and practical experience gained from 20 years of community filmmaking, this book unveils an exciting, new way to make films
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Book SynopsisSpecifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms.It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book covers: Characters Television Videogames Fan media and technTable of Contents1. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends Part 1: Characters 2. Kumamon: Japan’s Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot 3. ’Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!?’: Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad Part 2: Television 4. The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs 5. Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas 6. The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television Part 3: Videogames 7. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique 8. Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games 9. The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Postapocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle Part 4: Fan Media and Technology 10. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom 11. Thumb Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels 12. Purikura: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography 13. Cosplay Everywhere: Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit 14. Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity Part 5: Music 15. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan’s Popular Culture 16. The "Pop Pacific": Japanese American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music 17. AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economies in Contemporary Japan 18. In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music 19. Korean Pop Music in Japan: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm Part 6: Popular Cinema 20. The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan 21. The Rise of Japanese Horror Films: Yotsuya Ghost Story (Yotsuya Kaidan), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women 22. V-Cinema: How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians Part 7: Anime 23. Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard 24. Toy Stories: Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing 25. The World According to Ghibli, or How a Small Japanese Animation Studio Became a Global Phenomenon 26. Condensing the Media Mix: The Tatami Galaxy’s Multiple Possible Worlds Part 8: Manga 27. A Jew and a Nazi Walk into an Izakaya: Tezuka Osamu’s Holocaust Manga 28. Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture 29. The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku for Yoshinaga Fumi 30. Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell Part 9: Spectacles and Competitions 31. Hanabi: The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan 32. Kamishibai: The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner 33. Making A Game of Their Own: Baseball as Japan’s National Sport 34. Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics Part 10: Sites 35. Shibuya: Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space 36. Akihabara: Promoting and Policing ‘Otaku’ in ‘Cool Japan’ 37. Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle Part 11: Fashion 38. Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii 39. Made in Japan: A New Generation Fashion Designers Part 12: Contemporary Art 40. Superflat Life 41. Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent 42. The Art of Upcycling in the Set Inland Sea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Complete Guide to Film and Digital Production
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the roles, procedures, and logistics of the film and digital video production process. The book covers development and pre-production to post-production, marketing and distribution, and draws insights from a diverse range of industry professionals. New content on distribution, set safety, colour grading, and legal matters.Table of ContentsPART I. Development and Pre-Production 1. Media Development 2. The Producers 3. Script Breakdown and Scheduling 4. The Budget 5. The Production Team and Staff 6. The Production Office PART II. Production 7. The Director’s Team and 2nd Unit 8. Casting, Actors, Extras, and Stunt People 9. The Art Department 10. The Camera Department 11. Grip and Electric 12. The Sound Department 13. Visual Effects and Special Effects 14. The Wardrobe Department 15. Makeup and Hair 16. Locations 17. The Transportation Department PART III. Post-Production and Beyond 18. Post-Production 19. Music 20. Safety on Set 21. Legal Issues 22. Marketing and Distribution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices articulating themselves as cultural policy. It presents an institutional history of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), later the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), and their patronage of the New Cinema in India, from the 1960s to the 1990s, bringing into focus an extraordinary but neglected cultural moment in Indian film history and in the history of contemporary India.The chapters not only document the artistic pursuit of cinema, but also the emergence of a larger field where the market, political inclinations of the Indian state, and the more complex determinants of culture intersect how the New Cinema movement faced external challenges from the industrial lobby and politicians, as well as experienced deep rifts from within. It also shows how the Emergency, the Janata Party regime, economic liberalization, and the opeTrade Review“The author presents the story of a chronological development, not losing sight of the importance of facts and individual actors in the process even as she builds her argument on the relationship between policy, industry, and cultural production in independent India. The picture that emerges through the chapters is not only of cinema, or the artistic pursuit of cinema, but of a larger field where the market, political inclinations of the Indian state, and the more complex determinants of culture intersect. This is by far the most thorough study of the Indian New Cinema.” — Moinak Biswas, Professor & Head, Department of Film Studies, Coordinator, The Media Lab, Jadavpur University.“Dr. Tiwari takes a subject that looks dry as dust, the working of two government run film finance corporations but uses the material to illuminate the linkages to the New Cinema of the mid 1970s on. Even those familiar with many of the sensitive and well-crafted films of the time will be surprised by her findings. In the process, this book opens up new vistas in looking at films, the creative arts of storytelling and narrative at a critical stage of independent India’s journey from the days of the Emergency (1975-77) to the mid-1990s when the process of liberalisation gathered pace. Film finance as a mirror to society and much more than that: a fine monograph at debut.” — Mahesh Ranagarajan, Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, Haryana, India.“Dr. Tiwari has provided a fascinating institutional history of India’s New Cinema movement. The first book of its kind, it examines the Film Finance Corporation (FFC)/National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) over a period of 50 years. It brings together film history and cultural policy studies to reflect on an important Indian public and intellectual institution. In doing so, this becomes a fine collection of historical research, probing through varied archives and debates, offering us invaluable insights into the landscape of New Cinema across government, bureaucrats, financiers, film makers, technicians, film critics, and those who watched the films. Such original and accomplished scholarship is not only welcomed, it is to be celebrated too.” — Rajinder Dudrah, Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries, Birmingham City University, UK.“This book is a rigorous, robust, and dexterously researched history of the most powerful film funding bureaucracy in postcolonial India - the National Film Development Corporation. Tiwari assiduously excavates numerous archives to meticulously show the intricate linkages and network between Indian postcolonial state, film industry, filmmakers, journalists, bureaucrats in the making of a complex landscape which gave birth to the influential Indian New Wave. This book adroitly sutures historiography and cultural studies to give us an astute insight hitherto unseen in the discipline of Indian film studies.” — Ashish Avikunthak, Professor of Film Media, University of Rhode Island.“Sudha Tiwari’s uniqueness is in straddling the difficult-to-access archival materials and the rare (cinema) journals of the period to shed light on the aspirations and critique of cinema surrounding NFDC as a state apparatus, dependent on public money and driven by the “progressive” posture/impulse of the people in power, as well as a space for the intricate intervention of cinema as a sociocultural art form where marginalized voices could be foregrounded. Sudha’s meticulously researched and compelling book sheds light on the challenges of writing institutional histories in the Indian context and the creative possibilities inherent in filling up the lacuna in the material domain through alternative means.” — Swarnavel Eswaran, Associate Professor, Dept. of English and the School of Journalism, Michigan State University.“A textured, penetrating and streamlined study of an important stage in the evolutionary transformation of the FFC into the NFDC, providing a revealing insight into the NFDC’s synergies with the new emerging Indian postcolonial film landscape.” — Ashvin Devasundaram, Senior Lecturer in World Cinema, School of Languages, Linguistics & Film, Queen Mary University of London.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cinema, State, and Scholarship: A Discussion 2. Situating the Desire for a New Cinema (1950s) 3. Formation of Film Finance Corporation: New Cinema gets Institutionalized (1960–74) 4. Whither New Cinema? : Emergency, Disciplining, and Survival through Merger (1975–80) 5. National Film Development Corporation and the Burden of Development on New Cinema (1980s) 6. Economic Reforms, NFDC, and New Cinema: Battle for Existence (1991–97). Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video
Book SynopsisThis book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by Japanese cinema.Table of Contents1. Scholars, Canons, and Videotape: Unboxing Japanese Cinema2. Parallel Canons: Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World, 1951-20003. Video Revolutions: Models of Video Distribution in the U.S.A. and Japan4. V-Cinema: A Domestic Model in Transnational Context5. Accidental Auteurs: The Director in V-Cinema6. Slaughterhouse V
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Media Distribution
Book SynopsisIn this second edition, author Scott Kirkpatrick draws from over a decade of personal experience in the distribution arena to provide a clear and up-to-date overview of the entire film, television, and new media distribution business.Readers will learn what fuels the distribution process and exactly how the distribution business works from beginning to endnot merely what happens to a film or television series upon acquisition, but how distributors develop, presell and broker deals on content before it even exists. This new edition considers a much more international approach to media distribution, with case studies and analyses from across the globe. It also reflects on the ever-increasing relevance of diversity and inclusiveness in the industry, as well as the new media verticals like podcasts and the effects of social media influencers on the media landscape.The book will be an integral guidebook for any student or professional wishing to understand both the basics aTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Principles of Media Distribution 2. Developing and Distributing Media Content Before It Exists 3. The Acquisition of Finished Content 4. Negotiating and Brokering Content Distribution Deals 5. Windowing Rights and Strategizing Releases 6. Global Media Distribution 7. Marketing, Ratings and Audience Cultivation 8. Accounting Practices, Monetization and Business Structures 9. Practical Approaches for Kick-Starting Your Career
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