AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 20th April to 4th May 2018: New Books

This fully authorised, annotated, and illustrated edition of the complete screenplay of The Godfather presents all the little known details and behind the scenes intrigue surrounding this landmark film.

Featuring concept art, costume sketches, storyboards, blueprints and interviews with the filmmakers.

This book explores the development of the Chinese animation film industry from the beginning of China's reform process up to the present. It discusses above all the relationship between the communist state's policies to stimulate "creative industries", concepts of creativity and aesthetics, and the creation and maintenance, through changing circumstances, of a national style by Chinese animators.

Fireflies is a bi-annual print film magazine created between Berlin and Melbourne. Each issue assembles an international group of writers and visual artists to celebrate the work of two extraordinary filmmakers through personal essays, interviews and creative responses.
These five issues explore the work of directors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bela Tarr, Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, Pedro Costa, Ben Rivers, Agnes Varda and Angela Schanelec.

Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning.

Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked.

This fictitious author Gordy LaSure is passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film. The voyage of this book can be categorised as an attempt to understand how film works. Why are some films bad, and some films terrible? How come just a handful of films (Titanic, Porky's, Dirty Harry) are any good at all?

The classic noir thriller which was adapted into the film Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino. Rum Punch is the story of a not-altogether-blameless flight attendant on the run from her vicious gun-running sometime employer who sees her as a troublesome loose end.

The Science and Art of Acting for the Cameraprovides a precise yet practical approach to help unlock the mysteries of acting for film and television. Written by veteran actor, producer, and director John Howard Swain, the book offers a clear-cut, no-nonsense technique that equips aspiring or working actors with the necessary skills to succeed on camera.

In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries--and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music.

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings.