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Limelight Editions The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to True Blood
This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as ÊCount Yorga VampireÊ and ÊBlaculaÊ ÊThe HungerÊ and ÊVampire's KissÊ in the Eighties ÊInterview with the VampireÊ ÊBram Stoker's DraculaÊ and the ÊBladeÊ series in the Nineties through Ê30 Days of NightÊ ÊI Am LegendÊ and the ÊUnderworldÊ series in the first decade of the 21st century. All these films plus celebrated international examples such as ÊThirstÊ and ÊLet the Right One InÊ and the hit television series ÊBuffy the Vampire SlayerÊ ÊNew AmsterdamÊ ÊAngelÊ ÊThe Vampire DiariesÊ and ÊTrue BloodÊ are covered in this long-awaited completely revised expanded and redesigned fourth edition that follows the vampire figures both male and female through the millennium and beyond.
£22.50
Limelight Editions Film Noir Light and Shadow
Despite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures. ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ explores an era before CGI ä a time when every photon mattered and the lighting of a set served a grander purpose than simply rendering its subjects visible. Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini the duo behind numerous critically acclaimed studies of other aspects of noir this anthology presents a series of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema's classic period. Some focus on individual pictures or directors; others discuss elements of style or sub-groups of movies within the movement. All are sharply focused on what makes the noir phenomenon unique in American ä and global ä cinematic history. Aside from highlighting the innovative work of its editors and their late colleague Robert Porfirio ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ also shares its light with a bevy of contributors who have written and edited their own books on the subject ä a list of luminaries that includes Sheri Chinen Biesen Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards Julie Grossman Delphine Letort Robert Miklitsch R. Barton Palmer Homer Pettey Marlisa Santos Imogen Sara Smith and Tony Williams. As befits the topic this volume is lavishly illustrated with 500 images that capture the richness and breadth of the classic period's imagery making it an ideal companion for students of the genre film historians sprocket fiends and the retrospectively inclined.
£20.46
Limelight Editions The Little Blue Book for Filmmakers: A Primer for Directors, Writers, Actors and Producers
Originally conceived as a workbook for young directors ÊThe Little Blue Book for FilmmakersÊ has become a handbook for easy reference with all the information a student director/actor/producer needs to create a film from inception through production to sales distribution and exhibition.ÞThe book discusses issues faced by all beginning filmmakers with a historical perspective that explains problems and solutions that reach back to the invention of movies at the turn of the last century and stretch forward to include new digital technology and the popularization of videography as global self-expression. A valuable addition to the shelves of all film school instructors who've not had years of practical experience working in the trade it's also a syllabus in itself and can be the foundation for a course schedule. More important it's something every film student will want to own as a reference and guide.
£14.99
Limelight Editions The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Music on Film Series
£8.22
Limelight Editions Film Noir Compendium: Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
In this essential study of film noir editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single convenient heavily illustrated volume. Still included of course are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's Towards a Definition of Film Noir from ÊPanorama du Film Noir AmericainÊ Paul Schrader's Notes on Film Noir and Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir by Raymond Durgnat. With newer studies such as Lounge Time by Vivian Sobchack Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen and Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama J. P. Telotte this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist feminist structuralist sociological and stylistic; narrative-thematic historical and even from the point of view of a pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for academics planning a syllabus it can serve as the most complete core text for any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
£22.50
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Film Directing
ÊA Quick Guide to Film DirectingÊ provides the reader with a concise and comprehensive overview of this creative and exciting occupation. Written in a fast-paced easy-to-understand fashion the book addresses such topics as what film direction is; the history of the profession; how to become a director; the creative and practical duties and challenges of a film director in the three stages of making a movie (preproduction production and postproduction); working with actors; working with the members of the technical crew (cinematographers editors production designers etc.); the director's support team (assistant director production manager and so on); and the business of being a film director. It also offers a brief look at some of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of the cinema.
£9.99
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Television Writing
ÊA Quick Guide to Television WritingÊ is the ultimate reference manual to the art craft and business of writing for the small screen. In a series of brief but comprehensive segments the book covers the entire process of creating a professional television script from conceiving the initial idea to polishing the final draft. Covered topics include: the three main types of teleplays; an overview of dramatic storytelling; adapting a dramatic story to the specific demands of television storytelling; the techniques of television storytelling; teleplay style and formatting; how to create a television series; important T.V. writing dos and don'ts: the business of television writing including an overview of the many jobs and positions available to T.V. writers; and how to bring your work to the attention of the industry. Written in smart reader-friendly prose the book is chock full of the vital information helpful tips and keen advice that will help you make your teleplay the best it can be.
£9.99
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Screenwriting
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£9.99
Limelight Editions Cabaret: Music on Film Series
£8.22
Limelight Editions Ready for My Close-Up!: Great Movie Speeches
If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more messages ideas themes and pontifications than they ever have since. Although producers trembled at commands from the front office writers (the low men and women on the totem pole) went quietly to their typewriters and as the subversive revolutionaries that most writers are turned out prose that did send messages. How could they resist? They had the biggest and best platform in the world: Hollywood movies. The 200 speeches collected in ÊReady for My Close-Up!Ê are from some of the best ä and a few of the worst ä films ever made. From Groucho Marx's I shot an elephant in my pajamas to Julia Roberts's What it takes to be a movie star here is the wit and wisdom of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
£14.99
Limelight Editions The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors
£17.99
Limelight Editions In and Out of Character
Basil Rathbone's book about himself...is better written than most books by or about actors and is more intellectually vigorous...Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in his remarks on the character with whom he has been so closely identified. äLibrary Journal Quite naturally full of memories full of names full of glimpses of stars of stage and screen of yesterday and today. äNew York Times Book Review
£14.99
Limelight Editions Film Noir the Directors
Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini acting as editors concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic noir period. These include well-known luminaries such as Orson Welles Billy Wilder Nicholas Ray and Joseph Losey as well as lesser-known lights of noir such as Gerd Oswald Felix E. Feist Ida Lupino and John Brahm. Each article will include a short biography of the director a list of their major noir films as well as a deep analysis of the films themselves. The book boasts over two dozen collaborators from the world of film history and criticism. Lavishly illustrated with high-resolution photos illustrating the points made by the authors this book is a must for any aficionado of the American style of film noir.
£17.09