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KINtop eBook Series

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  • Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906–1924

    The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear

    by Isak Thorsen ...
    Series Book 5 - KINtop
    This comprehensive study of the Danish film company demonstrates how it became one of the most important innovators of the silent era.Established in 1906, Nordisk Films Kompagni's rise and fall is one of the most dramatic stories of the early film industry. Based on archival research, primarily in the company's surviving business archives, this volume describes and analyzes how Nordisk Films ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Documentary

    Witness and Self-Revelation

    by John Ellis ...
    Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences.Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday experiences of what it feels like to film and to be filmed have developed a new sophistication and skepticism in today’s viewers. The book argues that documentary has developed a new third phase of its ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Jaws in Space

    Powerful Pitching for Film and TV Screenwriters

    by Charles Harris ...
    The ability to pitch well is essential for all writers, directors and producers. Strong pitching skills will not only help you sell your projects, but also help you develop them, focus what makes a story work, clarify character and plot, and work more successfully with collaborators. This book takes you from the essentials of what makes a good pitch to advanced skills for all kinds of pitching ... Read more

    $13.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with Jack Cardiff

    by Justin Bowyer ...
    Jack Cardiff was responsible for some of the most visually stunning fims in cinematic history. Tile Red Shoes, A Matter of Life of Death, Black Narcissus, Rope, The African Queen, Sons and Lovers, Girl on a Motorcycle and the blockbuster Conan the Destroyer are just a handfulof films that bear his creative hallmark. His work has been hugely influential, inspiring countl ess filmmakers, including ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Self-Projection

    The Director’s Image in Art Cinema

    by Linda Haverty Rugg ...
    In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would “resemble the person who made” them and be “even more personal” than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the argument when it comes to most film critics. The cinematic author, we are told, has been dead for a long ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Heart of the Film

    Writing Love Stories in Screenplays

    by Cynthia Whitcomb ...
    Most movies include a love story, whether it is the central story or a subplot, and knowing how to write a believable relationship is essential to any writer's skill set. Discover the rules and laws of nature at play in a compelling love story and learn and master them. Broken into four sections, The Heart of the Film identifies the critical features of love story development, and explores every ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Latin American Cinema

    by Stephen M. Hart ...
    This book provides a succinct and comprehensive history of Latin American cinema from its origins in 1896 to the award-winning cinema of the present day. It analyses landmark films – including El Mégano (1955), Black God, White Devil (1964), The Official Version (1984), Central Station (1998), Amores Perros (2000), City of God (2002), Babel (2006) and Gravity (2013) – while tracing the broad ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Evading the Issue

    Hollywood and the Social Problem Film

    by Amanda J Field ...
    Series Book 1 - Short Takes Film Studies
    Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues ‘in an honest and truthful fashion’. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio’s claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy Wilder, 1945) as an example of the Hollywood ‘problem film’. Rather than treating the film as being an ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drive

    Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes

    by Iain Borden ...
    This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde.Drive is about ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD