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LEGARE STREET PR Practical Cinematography and Its Applications
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LEGARE STREET PR Die Kinematographie
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LEGARE STREET PR Living Pictures Their History Photoproduction And Practical Working. With A Digest Of British Patents And Annotated Bibliography
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LEGARE STREET PR Living Pictures Their History Photoproduction And Practical Working. With A Digest Of British Patents And Annotated Bibliography
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Lulu.com AI Filmmaking Using Googles Veo
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Miss May Does Not Exist
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dark Energy
Trade ReviewIn the end, Dark Energy has the considerable virtue of raising questions not only about the value of the particular scientific analogies he develops but of the value of argument by analogy in general. * Hitchcock Annual *Throughout the book, Skerry's enthusiasm is obvious, both for Hitchcock and for popular cosmology. Aficionados of Hitchcock will find new language with which to marvel, and those humanists with an interest in physics will find inviting ways to engage landmark theories of the last century. -- Anthony Collamati, Alma College, US * Cinema Journal *To link Einstein with cinema and Hitchcock with modern physics is a daring experiment, and works on many levels. It is delightful for a physicist (and Hitchcock fan) to see terms like spacetime, antimatter, dark energy, black hole, entropy, etc. turn up as metaphors in a Hitchcock study. A thoroughly enjoyable read. -- Nandor Bokor, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HungaryThe 20th Century scientific theories of relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology substantially changed the way we view the world. In interweaving these revolutions and their implications with the concurrent emergence of moving images as the predominant means of cultural expression, exemplified by their arguably greatest artist and innovator, Phil Skerry does much more than find a fresh angle on the depth in light and dark, the order and chaos in Hitchcock’s visual storytelling. Always careful to emphasize that his approach implies the application of universal scientific truths only as metaphors to the most comprehensive (and, as Skerry argues, indeed spatiotemporal art form), he yet paints a bigger and most intriguing picture on how the 20th century zeitgeist was shaped through seeing the world differently, both in science and cinema. A most engrossing read, admirably aiming to bridge the regrettable modern gap between sciences and arts, via the genius of the likes of Einstein and Hitchcock, and finding nothing less than philosophy therein. -- Ulrich Ruedel, Conservation Technology Manager at British Film Institute National Archive, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Science, Technology and Hitchcock; 2: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Physics; 3: Neurocinematics and Hitchcock's theory of suspense; 4: Three "Princes of Dark Energy": Uncle Charlie, Bruno, and Norman Bates; 5: Space and Place; 6: Vertigo and Psycho - The shower and the bell tower; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Conversations with Gus Van Sant
Book SynopsisOne of the most talented and imaginative artists of independent cinema, Gus Van Sant established himself with a number of important movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning with Mala Noche, the 1986 gay classic of personal film expression, followed by two key works of the American indie movement, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, Van Sant films often feature characters on the borders of mainstream society. Subsequent films included hits, misses, and a notorious remake of Psycho. Regardless of the critical or commercial response to his work, Van Sant has maintained a vision that is unique among contemporary filmmakers. Conversations with Gus Van Sant is the first critical study to include both extensive original interviews with the director as well as discussions of his entire body of work. The exchanges between film scholar Mario Falsetto and the indie filmmaker cover fifteen films directed by Van Sant over a period of thirty years. Throughout these discussions, VTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Hustlers, Addicts and Shakespeare in Portland The Films: The Portland Trilogy: Mala Noche, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho Conversations 1 Chapter Two: Misfires, Mainstream Success, and an Art Experiment The Films: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho, Finding Forrester Conversations 2 Chapter Three: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 1 The Films: Gerry, Elephant Conversations 3 Chapter Four: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 2 The Films: Last Days, Paranoid Park Conversations 4 Chapter Five: Queer Politics, an “Issue” Film, Death (Again), and the Wrap-Up The Films: Milk, Restless, Promised Land Conversations 5 Filmography Index About the Author
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Werner Herzog Interviews
Book SynopsisOver the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on all his major films. Together, these interviews offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Otto Preminger Interviews
Book SynopsisPresents interviews from across Otto Preminger's career, providing fascinating insights into the methods and mindset of a wildly polarizing filmmaker. With remarkable candour, Preminger discusses his filmmaking practices, his distinctive film style, his battles against censorship, his clashes with film critics, and his turbulent relationships.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Su Friedrich Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first volume dedicated exclusively to Su Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich’s films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sofia Coppola Interviews
Book SynopsisThe conversations compiled in this volume mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Book SynopsisSebastian Manley completed a PhD in film studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. He has written on subjects including Hal Hartley, independent cinema, early British film and Jan Svankmajer, and maintains a blog on animals in film called The Cinematic Animal.Trade ReviewFinally, a book about quintessential, and maverick, American independent auteur Hal Hartley! Sebastian Manley cogently analyzes Hartley's anomalous, low budget, 'smart' films, covering both his Long Island suburban films—The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men—and more urban, more global works—Flirt, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and others. That Manley also studies Hartley's independent shorts constitutes a refreshing, much needed, addition to discussions of how 'indie' careers evolve, and why independent film survives. Hartley's distinctive approach to the business of film production, coupled with his iconoclastic stylistic and narrative choices, distinguish his work, as Manley carefully demonstrates, from that of other independent filmmakers, chief among them David Mamet, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, and Richard Linklater, as does his creative presence not just as writer/director, but also often as composer, producer, and editor. Eminently readable, with two revelatory interviews with Hartley collaborators appended as a bonus, The Cinema of Hal Hartley is a welcome, and long overdue, appraisal of one of the most important contributors to contemporary independent film. -- Chris Holmlund, Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French, University of Tennessee, USAn excellent and authoritative study of the films of Hal Hartley, offering substantial new insights into the distinctive qualities of his work and key aspects of the wider independent context in which it is situated. -- Geoff King, Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University, UKSebastian Manley's study of Hal Hartley is an exemplary analysis of a quintessential American independent filmmaker, weaving together production and reception background with trenchant readings of the films. It is especially insightful in considering Hartley's investment in place and its development across his career. -- Michael Z. Newman, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising, & Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA most welcome contribution to the scholarly work on Hal Hartley, a filmmaker who has been, until recently, somewhat neglected in academic writing on independent cinema. This book examines Hartley’s auteur status and places his work within the broader context of American independent cinema, offering important observations on the key points of departure which distinguish Hartley’s films from the more frequently studied examples of commercial indie. An interesting, accessible and engaging account, The Cinema of Hal Hartley will be a valuable addition to reading lists for students of American independent cinema. -- Claire Molloy, Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, Department of Media, Edge Hill University, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Long Island ‘Trilogy’: The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992) Chapter 2 New Horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995) Chapter 3 Imaginative Fictions/Social Realities: The Book of Life (1998), No Such Thing (2001) and The Girl from Monday (2005) Chapter 4 From Old Territory to New: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006) Chapter 5 The Short Films: From Kid (1984) to the PF2 Collection Conclusion Appendix A Interview with Michael Spiller Appendix B Interview with Steve Hamilton Bibliography
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Cascade Books Perfect in Weakness
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Grand Central Publishing Reflections
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University Press of Mississippi Peter Greenaway: Interviews
Book SynopsisIn these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably against the main current of present cinematic practice, from the short film Windows in the mid-seventies, to his more popular but nonetheless challenging films such as A Zed and Two Noughts and The Pillow Book in the nineties. In this collection the ever-controversial Greenaway discusses his philosophies of film, art, aesthetics, literature, and reality, criticizing and even condemning the standard fare of what he calls Hollywood cinema. For him such films tell stories or they translate literature with its linear narrative onto a medium that he feels should be preeminently visual. He finds that, instead of foregrounding the image and the composition of visual elements as in the long history of painting, Hollywood-style directors seem mesmerized by the ""and then and then"" narrative. In these provocative interviews Greenaway tells of his ambition to make cinema a medium based more on image than on narrative. He explains his painterly approach in such films as Prospero's Books and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, defends his use of total nudity of both sexes, and declares that traditional literary-based cinema is dead. He believes that the most creative imaginations, the most innovative technologies, and the greatest financial resources are being devoted to television and the Internet and that Hollywood moviemaking is no longer in the vanguard. ""If you go into the basilica of St. Peter in Rome,"" he says, ""and sit through a service near the high altar of Bernini, you will experience a synthesis of stone, light, music, incense. It is a form of total art, which is what the cinema of the 20th century was supposed to be, even if it only rarely lives up to this ideal."" Vernon Gras is a professor of English and cultural studies at George Mason University. Marguerite Gras was a legislative research staffer at the U.S. House of Representatives, 1974-1991.
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University Press of Mississippi Sidney Lumet: Interviews
Book SynopsisSidney Lumet (b. 1924) is considered one of the most gifted and socially conscious American filmmakers of his generation. His best-known movies--including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men, and Network--have garnered him an Honorary Academy Award in 2005, multiple Oscar nominations for Best Director, the D. W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement, and numerous other tributes. This book features over twenty interviews with the director, including an interview conducted by the editor for this volume. One of the few mainstream directors who works outside of Hollywood, Lumet discusses how his home base, New York City, fuels his films. Candid, outspoken and occasionally brash, Lumet talks passionately and clearly about his work with great actors (among them Al Pacino, Faye Dunaway, River Phoenix, and Sean Connery) and acclaimed screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. Insisting that moviemaking is collaborative, Lumet often notes his determination to find styles that serve the many different kinds of stories he has told, such as the social drama The Pawnbroker, the crime films Prince of the City and Serpico, the intimate family piece Garbo Talks, the play adaptation Long Day's Journey into Night, and the television series 100 Centre Street. Joanna E. Rapf is professor of English and of film and video studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is the author of On the Waterfront and Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography, and her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Post Script, and Journal of Popular Culture.
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University Press of Mississippi John Woo: Interviews
Book SynopsisDirector John Woo (b. 1946) reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for Asian filmmakers to the Western world. His hyper-violent, highly choreographed style made him a box office powerhouse, a respected auteur, and a revered figure among fellow directors. First discovered by Western audiences through his Hong Kong films The Killer and Hard Boiled, Woo introduced the world to a new brand of psychologically frenzied action film. After coming to the United States in the early 1990s, Woo produced a trilogy of hard-charging action films--Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible II--that were both popular and critically acclaimed. But Woo's signature bullet ballets, his kinetic, blood-spattered action sequences, represent a dichotomy in the director's philosophy. John Woo: Interviews reveals a peace-loving, devoutly religious man at odds with his reputation as the master of cinematic violence. Unprecedented access to the director helped editor Robert K. Elder create in John Woo: Interviews the first authoritative English-language chronicle of Woo's career. Robert K. Elder writes about film, the arts, travel, and music for the Chicago Tribune. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Premiere, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Gear, the Oregonian, and many other publications. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Elder teaches film at the Facets Film School in Chicago.
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University Press of Mississippi The Coen Brothers: Interviews
Book SynopsisJoel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with their postmodern noir film Blood Simple. Two decades and nearly a dozen movies later, the Coens are now among the best-known writer/directors in Hollywood, turning out major studio releases featuring such stars as George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Tom Hanks. The Coens' films all share a distinctive, quirky ambience that critics have come to identify as ""that Coen brothers feeling."" Tricky moving camera work, frequent use of the voiceover, homages to directors and cinematic genres, a fascination with unexpected and off-kilter violence, and omnipresent black humor are all defining elements of the Coens' cinematic world. From such highly stylized movies as Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There to more mainstream but dark comedies such as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coens are equally at home with existential despair and comic exuberance and are known for scripts packed with an obvious love for language. This collection of their most important interviews spans twenty years and is the most comprehensive published on the brothers.
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BearManor Media Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors
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BearManor Media Bring in the Peacocks, or Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer
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BearManor Media The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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BearManor Media 100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer
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BearManor Media The Horror Hits of Richard Gordon
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BearManor Media Stop Yellin' - Ben Pivar and the Horror, Mystery, and Action-Adventure Films of His Universal B Unit
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BearManor Media Robert Florey, the French Expressionist
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BearManor Media Larry Cohen: The Stuff of Gods and Monsters
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BearManor Media Larry Cohen: The Stuff of Gods and Monsters (hardback)
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BearManor Media MGM British Studios: Hollywood in Borehamwood
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BearManor Media MGM British Studios: Hollywood in Borehamwood (hardback)
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University Press of Mississippi Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success
Book SynopsisMoviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being considered a possible ""subversive"" during the post-World War II Red Scare, McBride adds a final chapter to his unforgettable portrait of the man who gave us It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.Trade Review"Masterly, comprehensive, and frequently surprising." (Barry Gewen, the New York Times Book Review)"
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