Price: £28.80
Brand: Lovereading
Description: Scoring the Screen The Secret Language of Film Music. Paperback /softback. By Andy Hill.
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Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9781495073731
Price: £32.99
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Description: 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. You will learn about fundamental theories and concepts, including film semiotics, narrative structures, ideology, and genre, as well as how elements such as shot size, camera movement, editing technique, and color come together to create the cinematic image. With insightful case studies and discussion questions, dozens of practical tips and exercises, and a new chapter on film sound, this new edition of The Language of Film is a must-have guide for aspiring filmmakers.
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ISBN: 9781501347818
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781501347818
Price: £28.99
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Description: Silent Films/Loud Music discusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft of creating new original scores for historical silent films: a unique form crossing musical boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and folk. As the first book completely devoted to the study of contemporary scores for silent film, it tells the story of the historical and creative evolution of this art form and features an extended discussion and analysis of some of the most creative works of contemporary silent film scoring. Johnston draws upon his own career in both contemporary film music (working with directors Paul Mazursky, Henry Bean, Philip Haas and Doris Dörrie, among others) and in creating new scores for silent films by Browning, Méliès, Kinugasa, Murnau & Reiniger. Through this book, Johnston presents a discussion of music for silent films that contradicts long-held assumptions about what silent film music is and must be, with thought-provoking implications for both historical and contemporary film music.
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ISBN: 9781501369582
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781501369582
Price: £31.99
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Description: Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of musical structure and meaning in film music. Showcasing scholarship from a diverse and distinguished group of music theorists and musicologists, this book presents the many ways to inspect the inner workings of film music in a manner that is exciting and accessible to anyone curious about this music, regardless of their background in film or music theory. Each chapter takes as its focus one music-theoretical parameter and explores how that concept can be used to analyze and interpret film music. Covering theoretical concepts that range from familiar categories such as leitmotif and pitch structure to more cutting-edge ideas such as timbral associativity, topic theory, and metrical states, the book provides a toolkit with which to explore this captivatingly varied repertoire. With example analyses drawn from classic and contemporary films, Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score is a valuable teaching tool and an indispensable addition to the library of any lover of film and music.
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ISBN: 9780367430764
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780367430764
Price: £24.99
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Description: Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's 'words, words, words" into film's particular grammar and rhetoric. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781408129555
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781408129555
Price: £24.99
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
Description: This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world's best-selling novelist's work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects - something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974's Murder on the Orient Express, as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBC's acclaimed version of And Then There Were None. .
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Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781349676958
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781349676958
Price: £8.09
Brand: Lovereading
Description: Film Music. Paperback. By Kathryn Marie Kalinak.
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Merchant: LoveReading
Product ID: 9780197628034
Price: £11.99
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Description: Fifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that preceded it to become one of the most popular cultural reference points of the twenty-first century. In this fresh exploration, Caryl Flinn foregrounds the film's iconic musical numbers, arguing for their central role in the film's longevity and mass appeal. Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among fans around the world.
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ISBN: 9781844574742
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781844574742
Price: £14.50
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Description: How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use. The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text. Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.
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ISBN: 9781474217033
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781474217033
Price: £12.99
Brand: Nick Hern Books
Description: An essential handbook for anyone who wants to act on television and film - by a leading teacher of screen acting. For any aspiring screen actor, the challenge is to combine all the components of your craft with an ability to handle the technical demands of acting for the camera within the often bewildering environment of a film set. Michael Bray takes you step by step through all the challenges you'll face, demystifying the processes you'll encounter, and helping you develop the necessary skills, including: How to approach the script and prepare your character How to maintain your concentration and learn to relax on set How to deliver your lines and improve your vocal range How to master continuity, eye lines, and hitting your marks How to tackle auditions to ensure your best chance of getting the job Full of invaluable advice, extracts from screenplays, numerous illustrations and practical exercises - which can be undertaken on your own, using the camera on your phone - this book is an accessible and authoritative guide to developing a successful career as a screen actor. Nick Hern Books So You Want To Act On Screen - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781848420717
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781848420717
Price: £8.50
Brand: Faber Music Ltd
Description: Simply Film Grades 4-5 presents a wonderful selection of favourite movie themes, superbly arranged for piano at Grades 4-5, by Barrie Carson Turner. The pieces are expertly graded and fingered and come complete with informative comments. Simply put, this collection is the perfect introduction to some of the best film music ever written! ** Contains recommended songs for Trinity Rock & Pop Exams. See songlist below.
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Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780571532711
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780571532711