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Little, Brown & Company King of Bollywood
Book SynopsisThe true story of Shah Rukh Khan, infused with "edge-of-your seat tension worthy of the best Bollywood blockbusters, mirroring the underbelly of the culture of Bollywood (Kirkus).
£19.20
Little, Brown & Company Life Itself
Book SynopsisThe most celebrated memoir of the year: a "candid, funny and kaleidoscopic" work from "one of our most important cultural voices," beloved film critic Roger Ebert brings readers a "candid, moveable feast" of a book---now in trade paperback!*Quotes from The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book Review.
£18.00
St. Martins Press-3PL Moviemakers Master Class Private Lessons from the Worlds Foremost Directors
Book SynopsisFrom Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films - and why.Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking - and each is different.Trade ReviewTwenty top directors (including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, the Coen brothers, Tim Burton, Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, John Woo, Wong Kar-Wai and Jean-Luc Godard) talk about the nuts and bolts of their craft.
£12.34
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl Hollywood Gothic
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Faber & Faber Tunnel Vision
Book SynopsisA lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism.A documentary through the speaker's post-adolescent relationships.An arrangement of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and Madrid.An intimate portrayal of unstable masculinity and sexual repression.A study in artifice, honesty, faith and the image. An autobiography of a compulsive liar.Brave, wild, and genre-bending, Tunnel Vision launches one of the finest new essayists around.
£12.34
Delancey Street Press The Antonioni Adventure
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Penguin Young Readers Staying Gold The Oral History of The Outsiders
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iUniverse Scare Tactic The Life Films of William Castle
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iUniverse Cartoon Monickers An Insight Into the Animation Industry
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iUniverse THE ASTROLOGY OF FILM THE INTERFACE OF MOVIES MYTH AND ARCHETYPE
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iUniverse Revenge The Real Life Story of Star Wars Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith The Real Life Story of Star Wars Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith
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iUniverse Anticipation The Real Life Story of Star Wars Episode IThe Phantom Menace
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iUniverse Revenge The Real Life Story of Star Wars Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith
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Punctum Books Last Day Every Day Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez
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Punctum Books Ultimo Dia Cada Dia y Otro Escrito Sobre Cine y Filosofia
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Bent Banana Books Noir dirt cheap
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Simon & Schuster Hitchcock Revised Edition
Book SynopsisIconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time.In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to his color films in Hollywood. The result is a portrait of one of the greatest directors the world has ever known, an all-round specialist who masterminded everything, from the screenplay and the photography to the editing and the soundtrack. Hitchcock discusses the inspiration behind his films and the art of creating fear and suspense, as well as giving strikingly honest assessments of his achievements and failures, his doubts and hopes. This peek into the brain of one of cinema’s greats is a must-read for all film aficionados.
£25.20
Punctum Books ltimo Dia Todos os Dias e outros escritos sobre cinema e filosofia
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Punctum Books PornoGraphics and PornoTactics Desire Affect and Representation in Pornography
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Deadwood Publishing, LLC Cinema Symbolism
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Deadwood Publishing, LLC Cinema Symbolism 2 More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Classics on Screen Ancient Greece and Rome on Film
Book SynopsisAlastair Blanshard is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Sex, Vice, and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (2010) and Hercules: A Heroic Life (2005).Kim Shahabudin gives guest lectures in the Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK, on classical reception in popular culture. She is the co-editor of Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture (2009).Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Figures Chapter 1 Establishing the conventions: Cleopatra (1934) Chapter 2 The Roman Epics of Classical Hollywood: Quo Vadis (1951) Chapter 3 Peplum Traditions: Hercules (1958) Chapter 4 Roman History on Screen: Spartacus (1960) Chapter 5 Greek History on Screen: The 300 Spartans (1962) Chapter 6 Myth and the Fantasy: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Chapter 7 Art Cinema: Fellini-Satyricon (1969) Chapter 8 Satirizing Cine-antiquity: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Chapter 9 The Disney Version: Hercules (1997) Chapter 10 The Return of the Epic?: Gladiator (2000) Notes Bibliography
£35.38
Xlibris A Thinkers Damn
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Sinascape Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Book SynopsisSinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is one of the most comprehensive studies of transnational Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Gary Xu combines a close reading of contemporary movies from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with an intimate look into the transnational Chinese film industry, based on his working relationship with filmmakers. He coins the word sinascape to reflect on the intersection between Chinese cinema and global cultural production, referring to cinematic representations of ethnic Chinese people around the globe. Sinascape describes contemporary Chinese cinema as a global network and a group of contact zones where ideologies clash, new identities emerge (through both border crossings and resistance to globalization), and visual innovations and progressive visions become possible. General readers, film enthusiasts, and critics alike will benefit from Xu''s discussion of popular film, which leads to a broader conversation about China''s economic transformations, global politics, and cultural production. Including discussion of films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Devils on the Doorstep, Suzhou River, Beijing Bicycle, Millennium Mambo, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Hollywood Hong Kong, the book emphasizes the transnational nature of contemporary Chinese cinema.Trade ReviewSinascape is an exciting study of transnational Chinese cinema in the early twenty-first century. This book exhibits Gary Xu's rare combination of theoretical persuasiveness, superb grasp of the film medium, and intimate personal knowledge of the film industry. Page after page, the reader will experience nothing less than intellectual stimulation and scholarly ingenuity. -- Sheldon H. Lu, University of California, DavisSinascape applies its sharp-eyed focus to spotting trends and interpreting aspects in Chinese cinema, and uses examples of popular Chinese movies to illustrate its points. * Midwest Book Review *He [Xu] ends up presenting an interesting challenge to the standard view of the industry.... Xu's thoughftul investigation into Non-Hollywood sharpens our critical awareness of the nature of representation and of the new versions of Orientalism produced by the transnational movie industry. -- Karen Louise Erichson, Editor, Frydenlund Publishing House, CopenhagenSinascape contends that the myth of a 'China’s century' is fundamentally linked to that of a 'Hollywood’s century,' for in both cases a cinematic mode of production dominates the realms of culture, ideology, and politics. With this book, Gary Xu establishes himself as a cutting-edge scholar who offers provocative readings on urgent issues such as copyright, piracy, digital technology, global networking, and cross-cultural spectatorship, all at a time when China is inventing a new visual culture on a dazzling transnational, translocal scale. -- Yingjin ZhangTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Right to Copy and the Digital Copyright: Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and China's Cultural Symptoms Chapter 3 Violence, the Sixth Generation Filmmaking, and Devils on the Doorstep Chapter 4 My Camera Doesn't Lie: Cinematic Realism and Chinese Cityscape in Beijing Bicycle and Suzhou River Chapter 5 Shaw Brothers' Old Cinema Excavated: From Kung Fu Hustle to Goodbye Dragon Inn Chapter 6 The Smell of the City: Memory and Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo Chapter 7 Hollywood Hong Kong, Hollywood Hong Kong, and the Cinematic Mode of Production Chapter 8 Postscript: Remaking East Asia
£38.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaies Cinema and Theatre
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AuthorHouse Living the Dream A Collection of Essays from Film School
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Running Press,U.S. The Annotated Godfather 50th Anniversary Edition
Book Synopsis Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, this authorized, annotated and illustrated edition of the complete, unedited screenplay includes all the little-known facts, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and first-person reflections from cast and crew members on the making of this landmark film. From its ingenious cinematic innovations and memorable, oft-quoted script to its iconic cast, including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made. And yet, the history of its making is so colorful, so chaotic, that one cannot help but marvel at the seemingly insurmountable odds it overcame to become a true cinematic masterpiece, and a film that continues to captivate its audience decades after its release. In this annotated and illustrated edition of the complete original screenplay, nearly every scene is examined and dissected, including: Fascinating commentary on technical details about the filming and shooting locations Tales from the set, including arguments, accidents, and anecdotes Profiles of the actors and stories of how they were cast Deleted scenes that never made the final cut, and the goofs and gaffes that did And much more Interviews with former Paramount executives, cast and crew members, and and all-new foreword by Francis Ford Coppola, round out the commentary and shed new light on everything you thought you knew about this most influential film. With more than 200 photographs, this a truly unique, collectable keepsake for every Godfather fan.
£23.75
Hyperion The Kid Stays in the Picture
£29.75
Little, Brown & Company Making of Casablanca The Bogart Bergman and World War II
Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider''s look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time--Casablanca. Updated and timed for the 60th anniversary (Thanksgiving Day, 1942) of this movie, this critically acclaimed book draws upon years of research, including access to Ingrid Bergman''s personal acting diaries and the vast Warner Brothers archives, as well as interviews with many of those close to the film, including the late Paul Henreid, Lauren Bacall, and scriptwriters Howard Koch and Julius Epstein. Richly detailed and full of surprises, The Making of Casablanca debunks many cherished myths about the casting, script, story, and stars, to reveal the realities of the highly pressured Hollywood studio system during World War II.
£18.04
Wildside Press The Complete Mr Moto Film Phile A Casebook
£16.71
Rlpg/Galleys Ayn Rand and Song of Russia
Book SynopsisIn October 1947, more than twenty years after leaving Russia, Ayn Rand testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was investigating communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. The focus of that testimony was Song of Russia, a 1944 pro-Soviet film that Rand decried for its unrealistic, absurdly flattering portrait of life in the communist country. Ayn Rand scholar Robert Mayhew focuses on this controversial period of American and Hollywood history by examining both the film and the furor surrounding Rand''s HUAC testimony. His analysis provides the first detailed history of any of the pro-Soviet films to come out of 1940s Hollywood. Mayhew begins by offering a brief synopsis of the MGM film, followed by an account of its production, as well as its reception. Most significantly, Mayhew analyzes Rand''s appearance before HUAC and discusses the response to her much-maligned testimony. By carefully scrutinizing this one episode in the history ofTrade ReviewIncluding an excellent bibliography, this volume is a welcome addition to all collections that include works on HUAC and the Hollywood film industry. Highly recommended. All levels. * CHOICE *...Mayhew feels passionately about his subject, which he presents in exhaustive detail. * American Communist History *In October 1947, Ayn Rand testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating communist infiltration of the movie industry. The focus of her testimony was Song of Russia, a pro-Soviet film that Rand decried for its unrealistically flattering portrait of life under communism in her native country. Mayhew (philosophy, Seton Hall, U., NJ) examines the film and the furor that surrounded Rand's testimony. He provides a detailed history of the 1944 film's production and reception as well as an analysis of Rand's much-maligned HUAC appearance and the response to it. His study allows for a re-evaluation of the role of communism in Hollywood, the nature of the HUAC, and even the famously blacklisted Hollywood Ten. Of interest to those studying the life and thought of Rand, the history of Hollywood communism, or American film. * Reference and Research Book News *Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 A Note on the Hollywood Ten and the Lubyanka Thousand Part 3 Part I: Distorting Facts: Song of Russia Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Song of Russia: A Synopsis Chapter 5 Chapter 2. The Making of Song of Russia Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Reactions to Song of Russia Part 7 Part II: Ayn Rand's 1947 HUAC Testimony Chapter 8 Chapter 4. From Russia to Washington, D.C., via Hollywood Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Ayn Rand on the House Un-American Activities Committee Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Big Lies: Song of Russia versus Soviet Russia—An Analysis of Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony, Part 1 Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Noble Lies: Reflecting the Standard Defense of Song of Russia—An Analysis of Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony, Part 2 Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Russian Smiles: The Leftist Response to Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony Part 13 Conclusion Part 14 Appendix 1: Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony Part 15 Appendix 2: Files on Song of Russia at the Margaret Herrick Library Part 16 Appendix 3: From the FBI Files: The Schedule for the 1947 HUAC Hearings Part 17 Appendix 4: From the FBI Files: The Motion Picture Alliance and the "Other Blacklist" Part 18 Select Bibliography Part 19 Index Part 20 About the Author
£57.00
Scarecrow Press No Country for Old Men
Book SynopsisIn 2005, Cormac McCarthy''s novel, No Country for Old Men, was published to wide acclaim, and in 2007, Ethan and Joel Coen brought their adaptation of McCarthy''s novel to the screen. The film earned praise from critics worldwide and was honored with four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film, scholars offer varied approaches to both the novel and the award-winning film. Beginning with several essays dedicated entirely to the novel and its place within the McCarthy canon, the anthology offers subsequent essays focusing on the film, the adaptation process, and the Coen Brothers more broadly. The book also features an interview with the Coen brothers'' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins. This entertaining and enriching book for readers interested in the Coen Brothers'' films and in McCarthy''s fiction is an important contribution to both literature and film studies.Trade ReviewA one-stop learning opportunity, this comprehensive, enlightening, cohesive compilation covers a range of topics. ... Recommended. * CHOICE, March 2010 *These essays are engagingly written—demonstrating that criticism centering on the author's perceived intention is alive and well, and perhaps even reasserting itself in defiance of Roland Barthe's claim that the 'author' as a critical entity no longer exists. No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film offers a valuable resource—not only to students of McCarthy's novels and their adaptations but also for those interested in modern reconstructions of the Western genre. I recommend it as a thoroughly entertaining read. * Literature/ Film Quarterly, January 2010 *
£51.00
Scarecrow Press The Pedagogy of Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses on numerous contexts to emphasize why film adaptations matter to students of literature. Written by specialists in a variety of fields, ranging from film, radio, theater, and even language studies, it is the first such volume devoted exclusively to teaching adaptations from a practical, teacher-centered angle.Trade ReviewA superb resource for teachers....Practical and theoretically aware; will be of service to those who teach courses that involve screen adaptation. Recommended. * CHOICE *
£58.00
Scarecrow Press The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema
Book SynopsisFilm lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors'' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia''s last tsar and underwent several periods of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema in the 1910s, the revolutionary avant-garde in the 1920s, the Thaw in the 1950s, and the awakening of national cinemas in the 1960s and 1970s. The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema is the first reference work of its kind in the English language devoted entirely to the cinema of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet period, including both the cinematic highlights and the mainstream. The cinemas of the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia, are also represented with their most influential artists. Through a chronology, an introduction essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on filmmakers, performers, cinematograp
£53.17
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Silent Films in St. Augustine
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Rutgers University Press Letter from an Unknown Woman Rutgers Films in Print Max Ophuls Director 5
Book SynopsisThis volume includes a detailed transcription of the 1948 film, notes appended to the film's continuity script, a letter by Ophuls written during the film's editing, a biogaphical sketch of Ophuls, the text of Stefan Zweig's novella and a cross-section of memoirs and criticism of the film.Table of ContentsIntroduction Letter from an Unknown Woman Contexts Reviews and Commentaries Filmography and Bibliography
£28.80
Rutgers University Press American Cinema of the 1990s Themes and
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined 1990s.Trade Review“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.” * American Quarterly *“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.” * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsMovies and the off-white gangster / Linda Mizejewski Movies and wayward images / Sharon Willis Movies and the politics of authorship / Amy Villarejo Movies and the new economics of blockbusters and indies / Chuck Kleinhans Movies and partisan politics / Diane Waldman Movies, teens, tots, and tech / Tim Shary Movies and homeland insecurity / Debra White-Stanley and Caryl Flinn Movies and the usable past / José B. Capino Movies, dying fathers, and a few survivors / Krin Gabbard Movies and millennial masculinity / Chris Holmlund
£27.90
Wayne State University Press Cinema and History Contemporary Film Studies
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Wayne State University Press New Latin American Cinema Theory Practices and Transcontinental Articulations Vol one Contemporary Film and Television Series Theories Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisThis volume (first of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement, its national and continental implications (diasporic/exilic experience), and the writings of pioneer film-makers.
£28.45
Wayne State University Press Reading Cavells the World Viewed
Book SynopsisA study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books. The authors address the philosopher's readers who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of ""The World Viewed"" within the totality of his writings about film.Table of ContentsReading ""The World Viewed"". Part I Preface: A Metaphysical Memoir. Part II Chapters 1-5: What Is Film? Part III Chapters 6-9: Film's Origins and History. Part IV Chapters 10-11: The End of the Myths. Part V Chapters 12-13: The World as a Whole. Part VI Chapters 14-15: Automatism. Part VII Chapters 16-18: Film and Theatricality. Part VIII Chapter 19: The Acknowledgement of Scilence. Appendix: Cavell's Philosophical Procedures and ""Must We Mean What We Say?"".
£28.45
Wayne State University Press Sugar Spice and Everything Nice Cinemas of Girlhood Contemporary Film and Television Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisIn examining the construction of girlhood from many angles, this collection of essays attempts to capture the richness of meaning behind ""girl films"", but also explores the recent resurgence of youth-orientated cinema and the relationship of young female viewers to that medium.
£28.45
Wayne State University Press A House Made of Light Essays on the Art of Film Contemporary Film Television Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisIn eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Each essay ponders the nature and implications of a film experience and examines the ironies of spectatorship.Table of ContentsIntroduction - a House Made of Light. Part 1 Sentiments of War and Peace: Being Well-Lost in Film; No Bigger Than Zuzu's Petals -Dreaming the Real in ""It's a Wonderful Life""; Thinking About Movie Sentiment - Toward a Reading of ""Random Harvest""; On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth - Watching De Sica's Children. Part 2 Three Faces of Hitchcock: ""If Thine Eyes Offend Thee"" - ""Psycho"" and the Art of Infection; ""Rear Window"" as Critical Allegory; Mother Calls the Shots - Hitchcock's Female Gaze. Part 3 Cruel Pleasures and the Limits of Irony: This May Hurt a Little - the Art of Humiliation in Film; Obvious Mysteries in ""Fargo""; Drowning for Love - Jean-Claude Lauzon's ""Leolo""; From Archangel to Mandragora in Your Own Backyard - Colaborating with Guy Maddin.
£28.45
Wayne State University Press The Berlin School and its Global Context A Transnational Art Cinema Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Wayne State University Press African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness
Book SynopsisUses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama.
£28.45
New York University Press Feminist Film Theory A Reader A Classical Reader
Book SynopsisFor the last quarter of a century cinema has given expression to feminist debates about culture, representation and identity. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together significant essays in feminist film theory.Trade Review"Feminist Film Theory ...collects many of the most important contributions to feminist debates about film on both sides of the Atlantic into a well-organized anthology ..." -Resources for Feminist Research
£32.66
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A History of Spanish Film
Book SynopsisSally Faulkner is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (2004) and A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film of the 1960s (2006) and was awarded a Fellowship from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council for 2011.Trade ReviewA combination of painstaking research, theoretical awareness, critical aperçu and elegant writing. -- Peter Evans, Emeritus Professor of Film, Queen Mary, University of London, UKThere has been nothing quite like Sally Faulkner’s A History of Spanish Film. This lengthy and ambitious volume combines a compelling general account of a vital national cinema with brilliant close analyses of individual titles. Moreover it skillfully places artistic and cultural questions within social and historical contexts. This book is required reading for both those who already know Spanish cinema and those who would like to discover it. -- Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USThis beautifully nuanced study gives the reader a series of intriguing new perspectives on the social crossovers produced by a cinema marked by class mobility and by realignments in taste in Spain. It concentrates on the active engagement of middle class culture -- bizarrely under-estimated in most books on Spanish film -- with fictions, markets and institutions. Sally Faulkner's indispensable history reveals a different continuity and disparate set of Spanish images to the ones we might have thought we knew. -- Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UKFaulkner's close textual analysis of a diverse array of films complements the books original and stimulating theoretical framework. A History of Spanish Film is a new and exciting contribution to intellectual discourses about class, modernity, and the production and reception of Spanish cinema. Students and scholars alike will find this work indispensable in their teaching and research. -- Tatjana Pavlovic, Associate Professor, 20th-Century Spanish Film and Literature, Tulane University, USSally Faulkner's A History of Spanish Film is a moveable feast. Departing from the tendency to understand history as a rehearsal of grand ideologies and to view--and valorize--Spanish cinema in terms of denunciation and protest, subversion and experimentation, it charts the rise of the middle class and a corresponding 'middlebrow cinema'. Through an interlocking series of close, chronologically ordered readings of representative films in Spanish from before and after the Civil War, Faulkner's study grapples with complex questions of modernization, popular culture, education, entertainment, consumerism, class realignment, and social mobility --'upward,downward and stalled'-- in motion pictures. -- Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, University of Cambridge, UKThis book uses the concept of Spanish middlebrow cinema to explore the representation of class and social mobility across a century of Spanish cinema... The close textual analysis in combination with a nuanced reading of production, reception and changes in taste in Spain gives new insights into a range of films, including those that have already had acres written about them... A really interesting read. * Nobody Knows Anybody: A Spanish Cinema Blog *This is an attractive and balanced book that throws new insights into research. -- Javier Jurado, Université Paris X/Carlos III Madrid * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Vol. 35.1 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Textual Note Introduction: Cinema and Society 1910-2010 Chapter 1. Questions of Class and Questions of Art in Early Cinema Blood and Sand Chapter 2. Social Mobility and Cinema of the 1940s and 1950s: Consolation and Condemnation Chapter 3. Charting Upward Social Mobility: 1960s Films about the Middle Classes and the Middlebrow Chapter 4. The ‘Third Way’ and the Spanish Middlebrow Film in the 1970s Chapter 5. Miró Films and Middlebrow Cinema in the1980s Chapter 6: Middlebrow Cinema of the 1990s: From Miró to Cine social Chapter 7. From cine social to Heritage Cinema in Films of the 2000s Abbreviations and glossary Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Directed by Steven Spielberg Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster
Book SynopsisFocusing on Spielberg's blockbusters, this book examines Spielberg's distinct manipulation of film form, and his singular use of stylistic and narrative techniques. It demonstrates the aesthetic options available to Spielberg, and particularly the choices he makes in structuring his blockbusters.Trade Review "Buckland offers...a close examination of the filmic structures of Spielberg's blockbusters-from Jaws to War of the Worlds-with practically a shot-by-shot breakdown of some scenes. In deconstructing these films, Buckland uses his own definition of poetics: the activities and techniques involved in constructing a work of art. [He] is an admirer of Spielberg's and absolves him of the oft-repeated accusation that his production of the ‘first' blockbuster (Jaws) ultimately spelled doom for the ‘little' movie.... highly enlightening." - Library Journal, May 15 "Analyzing a film's style--camerawork, editing, an actor's position in the image, etc.--may seem rather dry at first glance. Also, analyzing Spielberg's most-popular blockbusters from an aesthetic perspective may seem a little unusual. Yet, this is what Dr. Warren Buckland carries out to enlightening success in his latest book, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster." -DVDTown.com (*also features an interview with Buckland) "Buckland's new book release, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster is the most comprehensive manual on Spielberg's style that I have yet found.... [Buckland] examines Spielberg's unique style and manipulation of the camera. He delves into his themes, his use of stylistic and narrative techniques, and the visual style that emerged throughout the course of his career. If you're a casual fan looking for a quick time-passer, you may want to skip to the next book on the aisle. But if you're a serious fan of Spielberg, his work and specific technique, or directing in general, then Buckland's book may be just the ticket." -SpielbergFilms.com *Interview with Buckland on http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/ Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mentionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: An overview of the production, exhibition, financial, and managerial structures predominant in contemporary Hollywood cinema.; Chapter 2: Poetics, aesthetics, formalism and stylistics.; Chapter 3: Night Gallery: Eyes, Columbo: Murder by the Book, Duel.; Chapter 4: Jaws; Chapter 5: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Chapter 6: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Chapter 7: E. T; Chapter 8: Jurassic Park; Chapter 9: Minority Report; Conclusion.
£36.37
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Me and You and Memento and Fargo How Independent Screenplays Work
Book SynopsisFrom "Stranger than Paradise" (1984) and "Slacker" (1991) to Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know" (2005), indie cinema has become part of mainstream American culture. But what makes these films independent? This title argues that the American independent feature film since the 1980s has developed a distinct approach to filmmaking.Trade Review"US academic J.J. Murphy argues that the meteoric rise of indie filmmaking in the last 25 years has necessitated a different style of storytelling. His analysis of a variety of indie scripts will chiefly be of interest to aspiring screenwriters." --Empire"Lately, we've all been pondering the same question: Are independent films really independent anymore? Author Murphy asserts that independent films are determined more by their missions than their budgets."--Script Magazine"Me and You and Memento and Fargo is absolutely appealing far beyond just being a typical screenwriting "manual" such those written by Syd Field and his ilk. Murphy is clearly zeroing in on the way these films are written, but even those not interested in writing their own screenplays should find this book totally engrossing....Hopefully it'll give food for thought to a new generation of screenwriters who truly want to push the storytelling envelope again." -Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film"With J.J. Murphy's insightful look at American independent screenwriting [in] Me and You and ‘Memento' and ‘Fargo': How Independent Screenplays Work...Murphy focuses on independent cinema in clear, engaging prose, tracking how a series of seminal independent features were developed and written and his case studies include scripts and films by Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Allison Anders, Miranda July, David Lynch and Gus Van Sant. -- Kathryn Millard, Journal of Screenwriting 1, 2 (May 2010)It has the potential to serve future scriptwriters by validating the desire to digress from traditional paradigms. It makes a nice companion to the more rigid manuals on the market. This text will also be of interest to fans of the various films discussed in these pages. Before reading Murphy’s book, this reviewer had only seen seven of the twelve films discussed. It created a strong desire to watch the other five films, and managed to raise my appreciation for the seven films that I had previously seen. -- Devon Powell * Cinemaliterate *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Ambivalent Protagonist - Stranger Than Paradise; 2. The Passive Protagonist - Safe; 3. Shifting Protagonists - Fargo; 4. Multiple Plots and Subplots - Trust; 5. Shifting Goals and Plotlines - Gas Food Lodging; 6. Ensemble Structure - Me and You and Everyone We Know; 7. Flashback Structure - Reservoir Dogs; 8. Temporal Complexity - Elephant; 9. Puzzle Film - Memento; 10. Dream Logic - Mulholland Dr; 11. Free Association - Gummo; 12. Character-based Structure - Slacker; Conclusion.
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