Spellbound / [edited by: Philip Dodd with Ian Christie].

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Screen methods : comparative readings in film studies / edited by Jacqueline Furby & Karen Randell.

Table of Contents: “…Inside the 'black box' : from Jacques-Louis David to Ridley Scott /…”

On film / Stephen Mulhall. by Mulhall, Stephen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Kane's son, Cain's daughter : Ridley Scott's Alien -- Making babies : James Cameron's Aliens -- Mourning sickness : David Fincher's Aliens 3 -- The monster's mother : Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection.…”
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On film / Stephen Mulhall. by Mulhall, Stephen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Kane's son, Cain's daughter : Ridley Scott's Alien -- Making babies : James Cameron's Aliens -- Mourning sickness : David Fincher's Aliens 3 -- The monster's mother : Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection.…”

On film / by Stephen Mulhall. by Mulhall, Stephen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Kane's son, Cain's daughter: Ridley Scott's Alien -- Making babies: James Cameron's Aliens -- Mourning sickness: David Fincher's Alien 3 -- The monster's mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection -- Part 2. …”

The politics of perfection : technology and creation in literature and film / Kimberly Hurd Hale. by Hale, Kimberly Hurd, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Perfecting the human -- The City divided: Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- Of gods and robots: Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- The politics of remembering: Michael Gondry's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind -- The price of immortality: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and natural rights in a cloned world -- Shiny people, happy people: saving the world from mankind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake -- Self-guided evolution or self-destruction?…”
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Industrial society and the science fiction blockbuster : social critique in films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron / Mark T. Decker. by Decker, Mark T.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Big-budget science fiction film and profitable social critique -- Creating cleverly subversive science fiction universes -- George Lucas battles the empire of unfreedom in American graffiti and the Star Wars films -- Ridley Scott takes on apparently evil corporations in Alien, Blade runner, and Prometheus -- James Cameron reforms the company man in Terminator and T2 -- Cameron's questioners: two-dimensional protagonists in Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar -- Afterword: the cultural half-life of subversive blockbusters.…”

Terrorism in American cinema : an analytical filmography, 1960-2008 / Robert Cettl. by Cettl, Robert, 1969-

Future Noir : the making of Blade runner / Paul M. Sammon. by Sammon, Paul

European short films / produced by Luke Morris.

Table of Contents: “…The man without a head / Juan Solanas -- Wasp / Andrea Arnold -- Doodlebug / Christopher Nolan -- World of glory / Roy Andersson -- Je t'aime John Wayne / Toby MacDonald -- Gasman / Lynne Ramsay -- Jabberwocky / Jan Svankmajer -- Fierrot le pou / Mathieu Kassovitz -- Rabbit / Run Wrake -- Copy shop / Virgil Widrich -- Boy & bicycle / Ridley Scott -- Nocturne / Lars von Trier -- Before dawn / Balint Kenyeres -- Election night / Anders Thomas Jensen -- Six shooter / Martin McDonagh -- The opening day of close-up / Nanni Moretti.…”

Heroes of film, comics and American culture : essays on real and fictional defenders of home / edited by Lisa M. DeTora.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Professional killers at home: domesticity and the deregulated subject / Lachlan MacDowall -- Teacher as hero: representations in late Cold War film and culture / Leah Sadykov -- Terrorist, technocrat, and feudal lord: Batman in comic book and film adaptations / Marc Edward DiPaolo -- Knocked up, not knocked out: Xena: warrior princess, pregnant action hero / Mary Jo Lodge -- The naked hero and model man: costumed identity in comic book narratives / David Coughlan -- Mommy, baby, ghost: the technological chain letter and the nuclear family in The ring / Chuck Robinson -- Waking up the mythic American neo / Jayson Baker -- Ridley Scott's epics and the gender of violence / Danielle Glassmeyer -- "Real Americans": inclusion, difference, and tolerance in post 9/11 nationalist discourse / Randy Cota -- Afterword / Malia K. …”

Blade runner / edited by Amy Coplan and David Davies.

Episode 10, 1980s - Part 2 / 3DD Entertainment.

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Successful Teamwork in Filmmaking / TMW Media Group.

Table of Contents: “…Insight Into the Filmmaking Experience (2:06) -- Directors' Legacy (8:03) -- On Screenwriting (1:37) -- On Choosing Projects (3:08) -- On Seminal Work (2:29) -- Garry Marshall's Lesson (0:27) -- On Directing Actors (7:48) -- On Cinematography (6:15) -- Lawrence Kasdan on Power of Film (0:44) -- William Friedkin on Going Above & Beyond (0:32) -- Artistic Mission (1:46) -- Wes Craven on Dark Material (0:38) -- Directors on Artistic Mission (1:53) -- Ridley Scott on Self-Criticism (0:10) -- Tim Burton on Passion (0:47) -- Penny Marshall on Perspective (0:12) -- Directors on the Modern Film Industry (5:38) -- Garry Marshall on Power & Vision (1:12) -- Credits: Successful Teamwork in Filmmaking: Making It in Hollywood - The (0:43)…”
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The postmodern arts : an introductory reader / edited by Nigel Wheale.

Table of Contents: “…Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" -- Two: Architecture and visual arts. …”

Omnibus, Dino De Laurentiis - the Last Movie Mogul / BBC Worldwide Learning.

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Alien quadrilogy. by Goldsmith, Jerry, Horner, James, Goldenthal, Elliot, Frizzell, John, 1966-

Table of Contents: “….), 2003 director's cut (116 min.)) directed by Ridley Scott ; screenplay by Dan O'Bannon -- disc 2. …”

Directors : life behind the camera / Media Entertainment, Inc. in cooperation with the American Film Institute present ; directed & edited by Robert J. Emery ; produced by Suzanna Cimato.

Moving images, mobile viewers : 20th century visuality / Renate Brosch (ed.) ; unter Mitarbeit von Ronja Tripp und Nina Jürgens.

Table of Contents: “…/ Winfried Fluck -- Travelling in image-space : the new Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon Skywalk / Laura Bieger -- Rimini Protokoll's Call Cutta and the performance of presence / Wolf-Dieter Ernst -- Historicising the moving image : film and the theory of cultural functions / Christof Decker -- Retrofitting vision : Ridley Scott's Blade Runner / Martin Klepper -- Moving in Babel : visualising and narrating globalisation on screen / Elfi Bettinger -- Mobilising urban space : the legacy of E.A. …”

The return of the epic film : genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century / edited by Andrew B.R. Elliot.

Table of Contents: “…Epics and ancient history -- Sir Ridley Scott and the rebirth of the historical epic / Jeffrey Richards -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire and America since the second World War: some cinematic parallels / Kevin J. …”