Filmmaking and production Books
Michael Wiese Productions Setting Up Your Shots: Great Camera Moves Every
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£15.69
Michael Wiese Productions The Sound Effects Bible: How to Create and Record
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£18.00
University Press of Mississippi Francois Truffaut: Interviews
Book SynopsisThe French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema\'s history, and among its contributors François Truffaut (1932-1984) was a key figure. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and others, Truffaut helped to form the New Wave\'s aesthetics and vision and was the first to conceptualize the auteur theory. He made films that reflected his three professed passions: a love of cinema, an interest in the difficulties of male-female relationships, and a fascination with the problems of children. As this collection of interviews progresses, we follow Truffaut\'s creative evolution almost as much as we follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel (actor Jean-Pierre Léaud) through Truffaut\'s semi-autobiographical series that begins with his first feature The 400 Blows (1959) and ends with Love on the Run (1978). Truffaut, a perceptive film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a director, was able to be objective about his own and other people\'s films. Always concerned with the process as well as the product of his profession, Truffaut maintained his role as critic and commentator throughout his career and remained equally as good an interviewer as an interviewee. Ronald Bergan is the author of several books on film, including biographies of directors Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein, and the Coen brothers.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews
Book SynopsisJoseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews features talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) was a creative force in Hollywood from the end of the silent film era through the early years of the Hollywood renaissance of the 1970s. Displaying the wit, insight, and daring that were the hallmarks of his movies, Mankiewicz explores his films and his approach to writing and directing. These interviews span the period from his greatest Hollywood triumphs-he won four Oscars in two years-to just shortly before his death in 1993. From the time he arrived in 1929 through his last film Sleuth in 1972, he had a front-row seat to Hollywood history. This volume offers a hard-to-find, wide-ranging discussion between Mankiewicz and Gary Carey. A Michel Ciment interview appears here in English for the first time. The book will become a welcome resource for admirers of Mankiewicz and his work as well as those interested in the history of classic Hollywood. A writer based in Brooklyn, Brian Dauth has published in Senses of Cinema and MR Zine.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Sam Peckinpah: Interviews
Book SynopsisSam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his second feature-length film, the award-winning Ride the High Country. Peckinpah revealed in early interviews his deep knowledge of film history, an uncompromising aesthetic, and an intolerance for any crew members who did not share his capacity for hard work. As his career progressed, he began having increasingly difficult times with producers who did not share his vision. His problems with them emerge as a major focus of his interviews. Sam Peckinpah: Interviews features the combustible director discussing his best-known films, including the gory western The Wild Bunch, the unsettling and controversial Straw Dogs (which Pauline Kael described as ""the first American film that is a fascist work of art""), and the crime thriller The Getaway. In these conversations, Peckinpah's candor--about himself, filmmaking, studios, male/female relations, violence, and contemporary politics--provides a thoughtful portrait of a polarizing filmmaker. Kevin J. Hayes is professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His previous books include Poe and the Printed Word, Folklore and Book Culture, and An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, among others. He edited Charlie Chaplin: Interviews and Conversations with Jack Kerouac, both from University Press of Mississippi.
£39.96
University Press of Mississippi Sam Peckinpah: Interviews
Book SynopsisSam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his second feature-length film, the award-winning Ride the High Country. Peckinpah revealed in early interviews his deep knowledge of film history, an uncompromising aesthetic, and an intolerance for any crew members who did not share his capacity for hard work. As his career progressed, he began having increasingly difficult times with producers who did not share his vision. His problems with them emerge as a major focus of his interviews. Sam Peckinpah: Interviews features the combustible director discussing his best-known films, including the gory western The Wild Bunch, the unsettling and controversial Straw Dogs (which Pauline Kael described as ""the first American film that is a fascist work of art""), and the crime thriller The Getaway. In these conversations, Peckinpah's candor--about himself, filmmaking, studios, male/female relations, violence, and contemporary politics--provides a thoughtful portrait of a polarizing filmmaker. Kevin J. Hayes is professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His previous books include Poe and the Printed Word, Folklore and Book Culture, and An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, among others. He edited Charlie Chaplin: Interviews and Conversations with Jack Kerouac, both from University Press of Mississippi.
£23.96
Robert D. Reed Publishers HOLLYWOOD From Below the Line: A Prop Master's
Book SynopsisHOLLYWOOD From Below the Line: A Prop Master's Perspective Steven M. Levine, a veteran Hollywood property master, through both humorous recollections and poignant stories, not only takes the reader onto a Hollywood set as aTrade Review"Steven clearly shows how vitally important props are to an actor--and to a film. His book is full of amazing information, anecdotes, and details only an insider would know. This is a wonderful, personal view of an often-overlooked, rarely written about, fascinating part of show business. My personal favorite is the chapter on Pee-wee's Big Adventure!" -- Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens, Actor
£12.56
Silman-James Press,U.S. Editing Reality TV: The Easily Accessible,
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£18.89
Silman-James Press,U.S. Movies Without Baggage: A Guide to
Book SynopsisWith todays proliferation of nine-figure film budgets, filmmaking may seem more out of reach than ever for the average person. In fact, producing a feature-length movie for next to nothing has never been easier. In MOVIES WITHOUT BAGGAGE, long-time filmmakers Alain Silver, Obren Bokich, and sundry others recount their experiences in the micro-budget arena and detail how 21st-century technology makes it possible to create high-quality, full-length features for less than $30,000 or $15,000 or even $7,500. Through in-the-trenches tales detailing the making of a dozen micro-budget features, this book covers all aspects of making movies without baggage: finding/creating the right script, budgeting, casting, dealmaking with actors and crew, scheduling, shooting, post-production, and finally marketing and securing distribution. This entertainingly illustrated volume also includes samples of the paperwork from five of the ultra-low-budget films it profiles. This is the ultimate guide for the aspiring guerrilla filmmaker. Never before has a book like this come from filmmakers with such varied experience and with credits that include features ranging in budget from over $10 million to under $5,000.
£22.49
Daylight Books Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Book SynopsisChina, poised to become the world's largest film market, is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around “official” narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become destinations for domestic and international tourists. Despite the fiction, they bear witness to a dynamic and changing China. Photographer Mark Parascandola, has spent five years photographing movie production sites and outdoor sets across China.
£27.19
1984 Publishing Blood Saga
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£11.95
A24 Films LLC Beauty of the Beast A Makeup Manual
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£36.10
Rutgers University Press The Movie Musical
Book SynopsisPutting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and technical innovation, while foregrounding the experiences of women, immigrants, and people of color.Trade Review"In her follow-up to The Migration of Musical Film, Desiree Garcia discards the ‘boom and bust’ narrative stubbornly bonded to the Hollywood musical—along with its link to ‘mindless’ escapism. Through attentive, close readings, The Movie Musical unearths ways that musicals accommodate changing times and audiences, acknowledging their insights about the cultures and audiences in which they work—and actually help construct. A welcome addition to film musical and genre scholarship." -- Caryl Flinn * author of Brass Diva and The Sound of Music (BFI Film Classics) *"‘S Wonderful! ‘S Marvelous! How can such a diverse genre be covered so well in so short a book? Desirée Garcia’s The Movie Musical adeptly surveys its long history and recurring conventions while offering a global perspective that enables her to discuss the genre in original and innovative ways." -- Steven Cohan * author of Incongruous Entertainment, Hollywood by Hollywood, and Hollywood Musicals *"Dartmouth College professor and author Desirée J. Garcia’s tightly packed and deeply researched study examines the genre’s illumination of more than just our collective daydreams and escape impulses." * Chicago Tribune *“The Movie Musical covers the genre’s history and conventions well while offering some interesting new perspectives on what the musical is, what it has done, and what it can do.” -- Medien Wissenschaft * Drew Bassett *Table of ContentsContents INTRODUCTION THE MUSICAL AS ARCHIVE THE MUSICAL AS SOCIETY THE MUSICAL AS MEDIATION ACKNOWLDEGEMENTS FURTHER READING WORKS CITED INDEX
£19.79
Rutgers University Press The Movie Musical
Book SynopsisPutting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and technical innovation, while foregrounding the experiences of women, immigrants, and people of color.Trade Review"In her follow-up to The Migration of Musical Film, Desiree Garcia discards the ‘boom and bust’ narrative stubbornly bonded to the Hollywood musical—along with its link to ‘mindless’ escapism. Through attentive, close readings, The Movie Musical unearths ways that musicals accommodate changing times and audiences, acknowledging their insights about the cultures and audiences in which they work—and actually help construct. A welcome addition to film musical and genre scholarship." -- Caryl Flinn * author of Brass Diva and The Sound of Music (BFI Film Classics) *"‘S Wonderful! ‘S Marvelous! How can such a diverse genre be covered so well in so short a book? Desirée Garcia’s The Movie Musical adeptly surveys its long history and recurring conventions while offering a global perspective that enables her to discuss the genre in original and innovative ways." -- Steven Cohan * author of Incongruous Entertainment, Hollywood by Hollywood, and Hollywood Musicals *"Dartmouth College professor and author Desirée J. Garcia’s tightly packed and deeply researched study examines the genre’s illumination of more than just our collective daydreams and escape impulses." * Chicago Tribune *“The Movie Musical covers the genre’s history and conventions well while offering some interesting new perspectives on what the musical is, what it has done, and what it can do.” -- Medien Wissenschaft * Drew Bassett *Table of ContentsContents INTRODUCTION THE MUSICAL AS ARCHIVE THE MUSICAL AS SOCIETY THE MUSICAL AS MEDIATION ACKNOWLDEGEMENTS FURTHER READING WORKS CITED INDEX
£54.40
Rutgers University Press Black Women Directors
Book SynopsisBlack women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the United States, from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Applying a Black feminist perspective, this book examines the ways that Black women filmmakers have made a way for themselves and their work by resisting the dominant cultural expectations for Black women and for the medium of film, as a whole. Trade Review"In showcasing the incredible range of films made by Black women directors from the silent era to the present day, Christina N. Baker masterfully reveals the rich diversity of their work, their astounding creativity, and their impressive resilience in the face of an often-hostile industry." -- Allyson Nadia Field * co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema *"Christina N. Baker offers an engaging study on the vibrant and, yet, overlooked contributions of Black women directors. With astute and accessible prose, Baker deftly reveals a rich cinema history that highlights forgotten, groundbreaking, independent, and mainstream Black women filmmakers. This compact and resourceful text will inform and inspire." -- Samantha N. Sheppard * author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen *“This eloquently written book is an essential read for those who want to learn about Black women behind the camera. Baker skillfully weaves Black feminist theory with the ideals and goals of Black women directors from the beginnings of cinema to contemporary times. Her careful consideration of how pioneer Kathleen Collins influenced the women of the LA Rebellion and Ava DuVernay is thoughtful and illuminating.” -- Zeinabu irene Davis * Professor and Independent Filmmaker, University of California, San Diego *"Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" * Women in Academia Report *"In showcasing the incredible range of films made by Black women directors from the silent era to the present day, Christina N. Baker masterfully reveals the rich diversity of their work, their astounding creativity, and their impressive resilience in the face of an often-hostile industry." -- Allyson Nadia Field * co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema *"Christina N. Baker offers an engaging study on the vibrant and, yet, overlooked contributions of Black women directors. With astute and accessible prose, Baker deftly reveals a rich cinema history that highlights forgotten, groundbreaking, independent, and mainstream Black women filmmakers. This compact and resourceful text will inform and inspire." -- Samantha N. Sheppard * author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen *“This eloquently written book is an essential read for those who want to learn about Black women behind the camera. Baker skillfully weaves Black feminist theory with the ideals and goals of Black women directors from the beginnings of cinema to contemporary times. Her careful consideration of how pioneer Kathleen Collins influenced the women of the LA Rebellion and Ava DuVernay is thoughtful and illuminating.” -- Zeinabu irene Davis * Professor and Independent Filmmaker, University of California, San Diego *"Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" * Women in Academia Report *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Recognizing the Pioneers 2. Women of the L.A. Rebellion 3. Moving into the Mainstream 4. More than Mainstream Acknowledgments Further Reading Selected Filmography Works Cited Index
£16.19
Rutgers University Press Black Women Directors
Book SynopsisBlack women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the United States, from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Applying a Black feminist perspective, this book examines the ways that Black women filmmakers have made a way for themselves and their work by resisting the dominant cultural expectations for Black women and for the medium of film, as a whole. Trade Review"In showcasing the incredible range of films made by Black women directors from the silent era to the present day, Christina N. Baker masterfully reveals the rich diversity of their work, their astounding creativity, and their impressive resilience in the face of an often-hostile industry." -- Allyson Nadia Field * co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema *"Christina N. Baker offers an engaging study on the vibrant and, yet, overlooked contributions of Black women directors. With astute and accessible prose, Baker deftly reveals a rich cinema history that highlights forgotten, groundbreaking, independent, and mainstream Black women filmmakers. This compact and resourceful text will inform and inspire." -- Samantha N. Sheppard * author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen *“This eloquently written book is an essential read for those who want to learn about Black women behind the camera. Baker skillfully weaves Black feminist theory with the ideals and goals of Black women directors from the beginnings of cinema to contemporary times. Her careful consideration of how pioneer Kathleen Collins influenced the women of the LA Rebellion and Ava DuVernay is thoughtful and illuminating.” -- Zeinabu irene Davis * Professor and Independent Filmmaker, University of California, San Diego *"Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" * Women in Academia Report *"In showcasing the incredible range of films made by Black women directors from the silent era to the present day, Christina N. Baker masterfully reveals the rich diversity of their work, their astounding creativity, and their impressive resilience in the face of an often-hostile industry." -- Allyson Nadia Field * co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema *"Christina N. Baker offers an engaging study on the vibrant and, yet, overlooked contributions of Black women directors. With astute and accessible prose, Baker deftly reveals a rich cinema history that highlights forgotten, groundbreaking, independent, and mainstream Black women filmmakers. This compact and resourceful text will inform and inspire." -- Samantha N. Sheppard * author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen *“This eloquently written book is an essential read for those who want to learn about Black women behind the camera. Baker skillfully weaves Black feminist theory with the ideals and goals of Black women directors from the beginnings of cinema to contemporary times. Her careful consideration of how pioneer Kathleen Collins influenced the women of the LA Rebellion and Ava DuVernay is thoughtful and illuminating.” -- Zeinabu irene Davis * Professor and Independent Filmmaker, University of California, San Diego *"Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" * Women in Academia Report *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Recognizing the Pioneers 2. Women of the L.A. Rebellion 3. Moving into the Mainstream 4. More than Mainstream Acknowledgments Further Reading Selected Filmography Works Cited Index
£51.85
Rutgers University Press Stanley Kubrick Produces
Book SynopsisStanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he first emerged as a producer, how he developed the role, and how he ultimately used it to fashion himself a powerbase by the 1970s. It goes on to consider how Kubrick’s centralizing of power became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production. Making use of overlooked archival sources and uncovering newly discovered ‘lost’ Kubrick projects (The Cop Killer, Shark Safari, and The Perfect Marriage among them), as well as providing the first detailed overview of the World Assembly of Youth film, James Fenwick provides a comprehensive account of Kubrick’s life and career and of how he managed to obtain the level of control that he possessed by the 1970s. Along the way, the book traces the rapid changes taking place in the American film industry in the post-studio era, uncovering new perspectives about the rise of young independent producers, the operations of influential companies such as Seven Arts and United Artists, and the whole field of film marketing. Trade Review"Author James Fenwick discusses his new book Stanley Kubrick Produces"— William Ramsey Investigates podcast "Centrally concerned with financing, project development, production logistics, management styles and marketing, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the ever-expanding literature on Stanley Kubrick, a must-read for scholars and fans. Based on exhaustive archival research, this study skillfully relates Kubrick’s work on his films and on numerous unrealised projects to key developments in the American film business from the 1950s onwards, and tells a compelling story about the meteoric rise and, yes, the fall of one of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers." — Peter Krämer, author of the BFI film classics on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove "Bolstered with a tremendous amount of research in the Stanley Kubrick Archives at the University of the Arts London, Fenwick highlights how dedicated Kubrick was to maintaining control of his work from the very beginning of his career."— Psychobabble "James Fenwick has combed the archives, including Kubrick’s own as well as others, to fill a missing gap in our knowledge of this legendary filmmaker, namely his role as a producer particularly in those early decades from the 1940s through the 1960s. By locating Kubrick in the economic, industrial and production contexts in which he worked, Fenwick provides an invaluable service to scholars, fans, and critics, adding a dimension to our understanding of his working practices hitherto unachieved. In so doing, Fenwick challenges the image of Kubrick as a controlling producer and future scholarship, including my own, will have to take his findings into account." — Nathan Abrams, author of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual "We know about Kubrick the director, but this book digs into his production credits. By utilizing overlooked archives and lots of Kubrick projects including 'The Cop Killer,' 'Shark Safari,' and 'The Perfect Marriage,' Fenwick serves up a comprehensive account of the legendary director’s life and career from start to finish. "— IndieWire "The World Assembly of Youth and Archival Serendipity" by James Fenwick http://iamhist.net/2021/01/world-assembly-youth-archival-serendipity/— IAMHIST BlogTable of ContentsContents Introduction Part I The Emergence of a Film Producer 1928-1955 1 The Beginning, 1928-1951 2 The Unknown Early Years, 1951-1953 3 The New York ‘Film School’, 1953-1955 Part II The Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation 1955-1962 4 The New UA Team, 1955-1956 5 New Modes of Producing, 1957-1959 6 Swords, Sandals, Sex and Soviets, 1959-1962 Part III Polaris Productions and Hawk Films 1962-1969 7 The Establishment of a Producing Powerhouse, 1962-1964 8 Kubrick versus MGM, 1964-1969 Part IV The Decline of a Film Producer 1970-1999 9 Kubrick and Warner Bros., 1970-1980 10 The End, 1980-1999 Epilogue Appendix I: World Assembly of Youth credits Appendix II: Filmography Acknowledgements About the Author Notes Index
£30.60
Rutgers University Press Stanley Kubrick Produces
Book SynopsisStanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he first emerged as a producer, how he developed the role, and how he ultimately used it to fashion himself a powerbase by the 1970s. It goes on to consider how Kubrick’s centralizing of power became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production. Making use of overlooked archival sources and uncovering newly discovered ‘lost’ Kubrick projects (The Cop Killer, Shark Safari, and The Perfect Marriage among them), as well as providing the first detailed overview of the World Assembly of Youth film, James Fenwick provides a comprehensive account of Kubrick’s life and career and of how he managed to obtain the level of control that he possessed by the 1970s. Along the way, the book traces the rapid changes taking place in the American film industry in the post-studio era, uncovering new perspectives about the rise of young independent producers, the operations of influential companies such as Seven Arts and United Artists, and the whole field of film marketing. Trade Review"Author James Fenwick discusses his new book Stanley Kubrick Produces"— William Ramsey Investigates podcast "Centrally concerned with financing, project development, production logistics, management styles and marketing, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the ever-expanding literature on Stanley Kubrick, a must-read for scholars and fans. Based on exhaustive archival research, this study skillfully relates Kubrick’s work on his films and on numerous unrealised projects to key developments in the American film business from the 1950s onwards, and tells a compelling story about the meteoric rise and, yes, the fall of one of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers." — Peter Krämer, author of the BFI film classics on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove "Bolstered with a tremendous amount of research in the Stanley Kubrick Archives at the University of the Arts London, Fenwick highlights how dedicated Kubrick was to maintaining control of his work from the very beginning of his career."— Psychobabble "James Fenwick has combed the archives, including Kubrick’s own as well as others, to fill a missing gap in our knowledge of this legendary filmmaker, namely his role as a producer particularly in those early decades from the 1940s through the 1960s. By locating Kubrick in the economic, industrial and production contexts in which he worked, Fenwick provides an invaluable service to scholars, fans, and critics, adding a dimension to our understanding of his working practices hitherto unachieved. In so doing, Fenwick challenges the image of Kubrick as a controlling producer and future scholarship, including my own, will have to take his findings into account." — Nathan Abrams, author of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual "We know about Kubrick the director, but this book digs into his production credits. By utilizing overlooked archives and lots of Kubrick projects including 'The Cop Killer,' 'Shark Safari,' and 'The Perfect Marriage,' Fenwick serves up a comprehensive account of the legendary director’s life and career from start to finish. "— IndieWire "The World Assembly of Youth and Archival Serendipity" by James Fenwick http://iamhist.net/2021/01/world-assembly-youth-archival-serendipity/— IAMHIST BlogTable of ContentsContents Introduction Part I The Emergence of a Film Producer 1928-1955 1 The Beginning, 1928-1951 2 The Unknown Early Years, 1951-1953 3 The New York ‘Film School’, 1953-1955 Part II The Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation 1955-1962 4 The New UA Team, 1955-1956 5 New Modes of Producing, 1957-1959 6 Swords, Sandals, Sex and Soviets, 1959-1962 Part III Polaris Productions and Hawk Films 1962-1969 7 The Establishment of a Producing Powerhouse, 1962-1964 8 Kubrick versus MGM, 1964-1969 Part IV The Decline of a Film Producer 1970-1999 9 Kubrick and Warner Bros., 1970-1980 10 The End, 1980-1999 Epilogue Appendix I: World Assembly of Youth credits Appendix II: Filmography Acknowledgements About the Author Notes Index
£58.40
Rutgers University Press Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the scrappy Irish immigrants of Gangs of New York. And in films as varied as Casino, The Aviator, and The Wolf of Wall Street, he vividly displays the glamour and power that can come with the fulfillment of that dream, but he also shows how it can turn into a nightmare of violence, corruption, and greed. This book is the first study of Scorsese’s profound ambivalence toward the American Dream, the ways it drives some men and women to aspire to greatness, but leaves others seduced and abandoned. Showing that Scorsese understands the American dream in terms of a tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism, Jim Cullen offers a new lens through which to view such seemingly atypical Scorsese films as The Age of Innocence, Hugo, and Kundun. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus.Trade Review"Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream." — Jonathan D. Cohen, co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese’s films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director’s work." — Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of AmericaTable of ContentsPreface A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan 1 The Elizabethan Era 2 Redeeming Dreams 3 Impressive Failures 4 Dream Critiques 5 Recurring Dreams Conclusion: Dream of Life Acknowledgments Notes Index
£23.79
Rutgers University Press Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other major filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has grappled with the idea of the American Dream. His movies are full of working-class strivers hoping for a better life, from the titular waitress and aspiring singer of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the scrappy Irish immigrants of Gangs of New York. And in films as varied as Casino, The Aviator, and The Wolf of Wall Street, he vividly displays the glamour and power that can come with the fulfillment of that dream, but he also shows how it can turn into a nightmare of violence, corruption, and greed. This book is the first study of Scorsese’s profound ambivalence toward the American Dream, the ways it drives some men and women to aspire to greatness, but leaves others seduced and abandoned. Showing that Scorsese understands the American dream in terms of a tension between provincialism and cosmopolitanism, Jim Cullen offers a new lens through which to view such seemingly atypical Scorsese films as The Age of Innocence, Hugo, and Kundun. Fast-paced, instructive, and resonant, Martin Scorsese and the American Dream illuminates an important dimension of our national life and how a great artist has brought it into focus.Trade Review"Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream." — Jonathan D. Cohen, co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese’s films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director’s work." — Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of AmericaTable of ContentsPreface A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan 1 The Elizabethan Era 2 Redeeming Dreams 3 Impressive Failures 4 Dream Critiques 5 Recurring Dreams Conclusion: Dream of Life Acknowledgments Notes Index
£55.20
Rutgers University Press The Films of Bong Joon Ho
Book SynopsisBong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers. The Films of Bong Joon Ho demonstrates how he hybridizes Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to create a cinema that foregrounds the absurd cultural anomie Koreans have experienced in tandem with their rapid economic development. Film critic and scholar Nam Lee explores how Bong subverts the structures of the genres he works within, from the crime thriller to the sci-fi film, in order to be truthful to Korean realities that often deny the reassurances of the happy Hollywood ending. With detailed readings of Bong’s films from Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) through Parasite (2019), the book will give readers a new appreciation of this world-class cinematic talent.Trade Review“The Films of Bong Joon Ho is at once a path-breaking study of the director Bong Joon Ho—one of the most recognized and internationally acclaimed filmmakers currently active in South Korea—and his films and simultaneously a study of how the post-1987 South Korean film industry came into being. Drawing upon her own rich experience as a former staff writer and film critic in South Korea and with judicious use of relevant critical theories, Lee offers us both the larger sociopolitical, historical, and cultural context of Bong’s films as well as detailed analyses of a set of films, both critically received and commercially successful ones as well as relatively unknown earlier short films. This book is a great service not only to the fans of Bong but also to the general public who are interested in films of South Korea, as well as to the scholarly community of film studies and Korean studies.”— Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles "For the legions of new fans of Bong Joon Ho, this timely book will demonstrate that the triumph of Parasite in the West was no fluke. Nam Lee demonstrates in loving detail just how Bong has managed over a two decade-long career of unprecedented critical and commercial success to condemn and critique contemporary society through the lens of satire, humor and sheer entertainment. It’s hard to think of a director better able to address both Korean controversies and universal anxieties and a writer better able to explicate these concerns."— David Desser, founding editor, the Journal of Japanese and Korean CinemaTable of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 A New Cultural Generation Chapter 2 Cinematic “Perversions”: Tonal Shifts, Visual Gags and Techniques of Defamiliarization Chapter 3 Social Pujoris and the “Narratives of Failure”: Transnational Genre and Local Politics in Memories of Murder and The Host Chapter 4 Monsters Within: Moral Ambiguity and Anomie in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Mother Chapter 5 Beyond the Local: Global Politics and Neoliberal Capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja Conclusion: Parasite, A New Beginning? Filmography Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press The Films of Bong Joon Ho
Book SynopsisBong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers. The Films of Bong Joon Ho demonstrates how he hybridizes Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to create a cinema that foregrounds the absurd cultural anomie Koreans have experienced in tandem with their rapid economic development. Film critic and scholar Nam Lee explores how Bong subverts the structures of the genres he works within, from the crime thriller to the sci-fi film, in order to be truthful to Korean realities that often deny the reassurances of the happy Hollywood ending. With detailed readings of Bong’s films from Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) through Parasite (2019), the book will give readers a new appreciation of this world-class cinematic talent.Trade Review"For the legions of new fans of Bong Joon Ho, this timely book will demonstrate that the triumph of Parasite in the West was no fluke. Nam Lee demonstrates in loving detail just how Bong has managed over a two decade-long career of unprecedented critical and commercial success to condemn and critique contemporary society through the lens of satire, humor and sheer entertainment. It’s hard to think of a director better able to address both Korean controversies and universal anxieties and a writer better able to explicate these concerns." -- David Desser * founding editor, the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema *“The Films of Bong Joon Ho is at once a path-breaking study of the director Bong Joon Ho—one of the most recognized and internationally acclaimed filmmakers currently active in South Korea—and his films and simultaneously a study of how the post-1987 South Korean film industry came into being. Drawing upon her own rich experience as a former staff writer and film critic in South Korea and with judicious use of relevant critical theories, Lee offers us both the larger sociopolitical, historical, and cultural context of Bong’s films as well as detailed analyses of a set of films, both critically received and commercially successful ones as well as relatively unknown earlier short films. This book is a great service not only to the fans of Bong but also to the general public who are interested in films of South Korea, as well as to the scholarly community of film studies and Korean studies.” -- Namhee Lee * University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 A New Cultural Generation Chapter 2 Cinematic “Perversions”: Tonal Shifts, Visual Gags and Techniques of Defamiliarization Chapter 3 Social Pujoris and the “Narratives of Failure”: Transnational Genre and Local Politics in Memories of Murder and The Host Chapter 4 Monsters Within: Moral Ambiguity and Anomie in Barking Dogs Never Bite and Mother Chapter 5 Beyond the Local: Global Politics and Neoliberal Capitalism in Snowpiercer and Okja Conclusion: Parasite, A New Beginning? Filmography Bibliography Index
£65.55
The University Press of Kentucky My Place in the Sun
Book SynopsisThe son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father's shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and his own distinguished career in Hollywood and Washington. Fascinating people, priceless stories and a behind-the-scenes view of some of America's major cultural and political events grace this riveting memoir. George Stevens, Jr. grew up in Hollywood and worked on film classics with his father and writes vividly of his experience on the sets of A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). He explores how the magnitude of his father's talent and achievements left him questioning his own creative path. The younger Stevens began to forge his unique career when legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow recruited him to elevate the Motion Picture Service at the United States Information Agency in John F. Kennedy's Washington. Stevens' trailblazing efforts initiated what has been called the golden era of USIA filmmaking and a call to respect motion pictures as art. His appointment as founding director of the American Film Institute in 1967 placed him at the forefront of culture and politics, safeguarding thousands of endangered films and training a new generation of filmmakers. Stevens' commitment to America's cultural heritage led to envisioning the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and propelled a creative life of award-winning films and television programs that heightened attention to social justice, artistic achievement, and the American experience. Stevens provides a rare look at a pioneering American family spanning five generations in entertainment: from the San Francisco stage in the 19th century to silent screen comedies, Academy Award-winning films, Emmy Award-winning television programs and a Broadway play in the 21st century. He reveals the private side of the dazzling array of American presidents, first ladies, media moguls, and luminaries who cross his path, including Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, the Kennedys, Yo-Yo Ma, Cary Grant, James Dean, Bruce Springsteen, Barack and Michelle Obama, and many more. In My Place in the Sun, George Stevens, Jr. shares his lifelong passion for advancing the art of American film, enlightening audiences, and shining a spotlight on notable figures who inspire us. He provides an insightful look at Hollywood's Golden Age and an insider's account of Washington spanning six decades, bringing to life a sparkling era of American history and culture.
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Durvile Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and
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Eyrolles Group Canon EOS 30/30V
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Towards a Philosophy of Cinematography
Book SynopsisThis book presents three interrelated essays about cinematography which offer a theoretical understanding of the ways that film practitioners orchestrate light in today’s post-digital context. Cinematography is a practice at the heart of film production which traditionally involves the control of light and camera technologies to creatively capture moving imagery. During recent years, the widespread adoption of digital processes in cinematography has received a good deal of critical attention from practitioners and scholars alike, however little specific consideration about evolving lighting practices can be found amongst this discourse. Drawing on new-materialist ideas, actor-network theory and the concept of co-creativity, these essays examine the impact of changing production processes for the role and responsibilities of a cinematographer with a specific focus on lighting. Each essay advances a new perspective on the discipline, moving from the notion of light as vision to light as material, from technology as a tool to technology as a network, and from cinematography as an industry to cinematography as a collaborative art.Table of ContentsPreface.- Introduction.- Exploring Cinematography.- The Impact of Digitality.- Chapter 1: A Brief Philosophy of Light.- Chapter 2: Sculpting Light.- Chapter 3: Understanding Cinematography Technology.- Chapter 4: Exposure Processes.- Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Pinewood
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain's dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War.
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Springer International Publishing AG Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as
Book SynopsisAimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing on the work of international experts as well as case studies from a range of forms and genres—including screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary production and mobile media practice—the book is an essential guide for those interested in the rich relationship between theory and practice. It provides theories, models, tools and best practice examples that students and researchers can follow and expand upon in their own screen production projects.Trade Review“The collection of essays is comprehensive and, maybe even more importantly, it provides a starting point from which creative and academic discourse can take place. … encourages students and scholars to be open-minded about the possibilities of screen production research.” (Ashley R. Spillane, Film Matters, Vol. 09 (3), 2018)Table of Contents
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Place, Television, and the Real Orange County
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Peter Lang AG Gendering Images: Geschlechterinszenierung in Den
Book SynopsisDas Spiel mit geschlechtlichen Identitäten und sexuellen Doppeldeutigkeiten und dies vor knalligem, bonbonfarbenem Hintergrund ist eines der zentralen Merkmale der spanischen Pop-Ikone Pedro Almodóvar. Anknüpfend an die Genderdiskussionen der letzten Jahre bildet die Frage, wie der Erfolgsregisseur Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit sowie die damit verbundenen Beziehungsverhältnisse herstellt und vermittelt, den Ausgangspunkt dieser qualitativ-empirischen Studie. Im Kontext gesellschaftlicher und filmischer Entwicklungen werden folglich nicht nur Reproduktionen patriarchaler Stereotypen beleuchtet, sondern vielmehr Irritationen, Verwischungen und Verschiebungen der zweigeschlechtlich-hierarchischen Ordnung erforscht. In faszinierender Vielschichtigkeit präsentiert Almodóvar das Geschlechterszenario als kontingent und sehr beweglich und inszeniert damit keinen Gegenentwurf zur kollektiven Geschlechterphantasie, sondern vielmehr notwendige Denkmöglichkeiten auf dieser Basis.
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Peter Lang GmbH Personal Experience and the Media: Media
Book SynopsisThe work of the West German artist Rainer Werner Fassbinder is as versatile as it is extensive. During the 16 years of his artistic career, Fassbinder produced more than 40 films and staged 29 plays half of which he had written himself. In doing so he not only drew on aesthetic traditions as diverse as the German folk play, the American gangster film, Hollywood melodrama, the Theatre of Cruelty and the French Nouvelle Vague, but also worked in three media simultaneously: theatre, cinema, and television. It has often been pointed out that this versatility appears to forestall any conceptualisation of Fassbinder's work from the vantage point of its production. The present work aims at exactly such a conceptualisation by exploring the interplay between his work for the different media.
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Peter Lang AG Autorinnenfilme: Franzoesische Regisseurinnen der
Book SynopsisSeit den 90er Jahren haben sich Regisseurinnen in Frankreich auf eine weltweit einzigartige Weise einen Platz in der Filmbranche erobert. Um so überraschender, da das Frauenkino in Frankreich kaum von der Frauenbewegung profitierte und bis in die 80er Jahre hinein äußerst marginal blieb. Spätestens seit der Nouvelle Vague wird das französische Kino vom Konzept des individuellen Autorenfilms bestimmt, das ideologischen Bewegungen wenig Raum läßt. Die neuen französischen Regisseurinnen distanzieren sich von der Kategorie Frauenfilm. Sie betrachten sich vielmehr als Autorinnen und konnten sich in den 90er Jahren durch eine regelrechte Renaissance des Autorenkinos in Frankreich etablieren. Schließt das Individualitätsprinzip des Autorinnenfilms Frauenthemen grundsätzlich aus? Oder tragen die Regisseurinnen über ihre persönlichen Geschichten dazu bei, daß sich das Bild der Frau im französischen Kino ändert?
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Peter Lang AG Untertitelung in einem Synchronisationsland: When
Book SynopsisDie Untertitelung hält heute Einzug in Bereiche, die traditionell durch die Synchronisation besetzt waren. Der Zusatz Original mit Untertiteln hat sich längst zum Qualitätsmerkmal bei künstlerisch anspruchsvollen Kinofilmen entwickelt. Über Schulungsvideos, Image- und Produktfilme, Aufzeichnungen von Fachkongressen etc. erobern Untertitel auch die Fachsprache. Per DVD, Video-Streaming und Crowdsourced Subtitling erreichen sie unsere Alltagskultur und fordern den Übersetzern Kenntnisse ab, die sich nur teilweise mit denen anderer Translationsformen decken. Wie lassen sich das Translationsprofil und die Rahmenbedingungen, vor deren Hintergrund die Übersetzer agieren, beschreiben? Kann die Translationswissenschaft die Untertitel-Übersetzer methodologisch und praktisch unterstützen?
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Peter Lang AG Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Simple
Book SynopsisIn this book, the prominent businessman Murat Ülker, who has transformed Yildiz Holding into a global company with more than 70,000 employees operating in an area where more than a four billion consumer population lives across four continents, covers everything from management and leadership to corporate communication and marketing, from science and technology to nutrition and health. Murat Ülker not only gives clues to the principles that have enabled him to be successful but also makes many predictions about the future. In these texts written during the pandemic, he also imagines how the future will be shaped while discussing how the pandemic will affect our daily and working lives.Table of ContentsTelework - Our Subject Is Innovation and Our Future - The End of the Plaza Empire and the Inevitable Rise of Telework in Business Life - The Best Bargain Is an Expensive CEO - Telework Update: New Normal or Back to Old Normal - Could 75 % of Companies Perish by 2027? - What Is the Secret of Ulker’s Marketing Success? - Make Happy, Be Happy - The Higher the Targets, the Higher the Performance! - Post- corona Economy: Simit or Doughnut Economics - Are Most of the Super- Rich People Patriotic, Generous, and Genuinely Interested in the Welfare of Their State? - What Is My Grade This Year? - Is That the End of Retailing as We Know? - We Know the Limits of a Company, What Are the Limits of a Family? - A Good Bargaining Method Is Possible with the Satisfaction of the Other Party - What If I Say I am Prejudiced? Is It also a Bias That I Think I am Biased? - You Can’t Manage a Global Company without Understanding Different Cultures - A Small Contribution to the "Human Resources Summit" with Future Skills - The Sustainable Success Model - Turkish Economy at the Crossroads - How Will a 4- Day Work Week Come into Place? For Whom Will It Be Applicable? - The Changing Consumer, Sales Channels, and a Goya in Seattle - A Digital Leader Is Very Different from Other Leaders! - Risk Management in Foreign Partnerships - How Much of a Role Did Executives Play in the Success and Decline of GE’s Life?
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Books on Demand Business-Video erstellen für Einsteiger: Wie Sie
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Edition Patrick Frey Alien
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Edition Patrick Frey H.R. Giger: Poltergeist II: Drawings 1983-1985
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Hoaki Books S.L. Make Your Own Movies A Beginners Guide to
Book SynopsisA guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques. Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the reverse engineering of dreams... a spell that brings dreams and visions to life. In this ultimate guide to introductory filmmaking, the author, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who teaches acting, directing, writing, and editing at the New York Film Academy, provides readers with the bare bones information they need to help them get started making movies with whatever equipment they already have at hand. Essentially a book about craft, in straightforward layman's terms, the author explains the different stages in the filmmaking process, shedding light on storytelling methods for a visual medium. Readers learn what makes a good story and, through detailed examples and useful diagrams, how to construct a narrative in a compelling way, in addition to being introduced to such aspects of filmmaking as types of shots, directing actors on a set, choosing locations, lighting, linear and non-linear editing, and sound effects. A comprehensive primer on the craft of filmmaking, the book is ideal for amateur filmmakers, film students, film lovers, hobbyists, and anyone else interested in making movies and bringing their cinematic dreams and visions to life. AUTHOR: Miguel Parga has been in the film industry for since 1997. Working for ABC Network News, he won an Emmy, a DuPont, and a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism. As a writer in Los Angeles, he worked on over 20 feature-length scripts and has also directed 21 short films, some of which have appeared in festivals throughout the world. Since 2007, he has taught at the New York Film Academy, and was the director at the Harvard University and Mumbai summer programs. His filmmaking book, What They Didn't Teach You in Film School, was published in 2019 by Ilex, translated to Spanish by Hoaki. Miguel is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Lecciones de liderazgo creativo. Lecciones
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Editorial Gg Guía Para Hacer Tu Propia Película En 39 Pasos
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Redbook El Efecto Tarantino: Su Cine Y La Cultura Pop
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Silvana Angénieux and Cinema: From Light to Image
Book SynopsisThe successful history of Pierre Angénieux's revolutionary zoom and focus technologies, a world reference in optics for cinema, photography and television. This book presents the history and current challenges of the Angénieux brand, a must in the world of cinema. Angenieux zooms are present on the most prestigious film shoots from Hollywood to Bollywood, from Moonlight to Game of Thrones, to name only a few. The incredible epic of this brand began in 1935 with Pierre Angénieux: inventor of the Retrofocus, father of the concept of modern zoom with mechanical compensation, Pierre Angénieux revolutionised focal calculation and deployed unparalleled inventiveness throughout his life, making his workshops of Saint-Héand in France a world reference in optics for cinema, photography and television. The Angenieux zooms have been distinguished three times in Hollywood by the Academy of Oscars in 1964, 1989 and 2008, and were selected by NASA to participate in the extraordinary adventure of the space conquest. The incredible achievement of Pierre Angénieux beyond the success of his company is the persistence of his work. The principles he has developed and applied remain the basis of Angenieux's vision. Today, backed by the Thales group since 1993, the Angénieux brand continues to offer the best technological solutions for cinematographic image.
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Amsterdam University Press The Serious Game: Ingmar Bergman as Stage
Book SynopsisThough Ingmar Bergman became famous as a filmmaker, his roots-and, to some extent, his heart-were in the theater. He directed more than one hundred plays in his career, and The Serious Game takes a close look at fourteen productions he staged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Looking closely at the relationship between the verbal and the visual, this book gives even longtime Bergman fans a new understanding of his sensitivity to nuance, his versatility, and his dedication to craftsmanship. **INCLUDES DVD WITH FOURTEEN VIDEO RECORDINGS, ALL IN COLOUR**Trade Review"Egil Törnqvist's contribution to the field of "Bergman studies" cannot possibly be overestimated. *The Serious Game*, alas, was to be his last book. However untimely, it is thus a fitting testament not only to Bergman's theatre work, but to Törnqvist's great capabilities of sharing his remarkable insights about it." - Jan Holmberg, CEO Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Stockholm "This is the strongest aspect of the book — Törnqvist’s ability of vivid description and thoughtful choice of evocative details of the production (he intently choose only productions he witnessed himself or these which are videodocumented, which allows him to provide, when necessary, detailed transcripts of stage action). The analytical chapters serve very well as particular arguments supporting the general characterization of Bergman’s view on theatre as shown in the preface." - David Drozd, *Theatralia: Journal for Theatre Studies*, 2019Table of ContentsPreface 1. B & Co. 2. William Shakespeare, King Lear 3. August Strindberg, Miss Julie 4. August Strindberg, A Dream Play 5. William Shakespeare, Hamlet 6. Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night 7. Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade 8. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 9. Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt 10. William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale 11. J.B.P. Molière, The Misanthrope 12. Euripides, The Bacchae 13. August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata 14. Friedrich von Schiller, Mary Stuart 15. Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts 16. The Serious Game Production Data Bibliography DVD list Index
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Amsterdam University Press Screen Space Reconfigured
Book SynopsisScreen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemporary media practice. Recent years have seen a marked scholarly interest in spatial dimensions and conceptions of moving image culture, with some theorists claiming that a 'spatial turn' has taken place in media studies and screen practices alike. Yet this is the first book-length study dedicated to on-screen spatiality as such. Spanning mainstream cinema, experimental film, video art, mobile screens, and stadium entertainment, the volume includes contributions from such acclaimed authors as Giuliana Bruno and Tom Gunning as well as a younger generation of scholars.Table of ContentsPreface Susanne Ø. Sæther and Synne T. Bull Introduction Susanne Ø. Sæther and Synne T. Bull Surface Tension, Screen Space Giuliana Bruno Knowing Not What to Believe: Digital Space and Entanglement in Life of Pi, Gravity and Interstellar William Brown Digital 3D, Parallax Effects, and the Construction of Film Space in Tangled 3D and Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D Kristen Whissel Reconfigurations of Screen Borders: The New or Not so New Aspect Ratios Miriam Ross Face, Frame, Fragment: Refiguring Space in Found-Footage Cinema Allan Cameron Looking Up, Looking Down: A New Vision in Motion Jennifer Pranolo Surface Explorations: 3D Moving Images as Cartographies of Time Nanna Verhoeff Touch/Space: The Haptic in 21st Century Video Art Susanne Ø. Sæther Screenic (Re)orientations: Desktop, Tabletop, Tablet, Booklet, Touchscreen, Etc. Miriam De Rosa and Wanda Strauven Nothing Will Have Taken Place - Except Place: The Unsettling Nature of Camera Movement Tom Gunning The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: An Assembly of Bodies and Images in Real Time and Space Noam M. Elcott Index
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Amsterdam University Press Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of
Book SynopsisWhat unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the emergence of new forms of applied knowledge in early modernity to solve this riddle. This book focuses on the moving image as a factor of economic development. In a series of in-depth cases studies at the intersection of film and media studies, science and technology studies and economic and social history, Films That Work Harder: The Circulations of Industrial Film presents an in-depth, global perspective on the dynamic relationship between film, industrial organization and economic development. Bringing together new research from leading scholars from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, this book combines the state of the art in the field with an agenda for a future research.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A sequel, and a shift – Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, Yvonne Zimmermann Section 1 : Networks and Flows: Visualizing Value Chains Vinzenz Hediger: The Aesthetics of the Global Value Chain. Container Shipping, Media Networks and the Problem of Visibility in the Global Sphere of Circulation Lee Grieveson: Object Lessons and Infrastructural Imperialism Thomas Turnbull: Energy and Industrial Film: energo-critical registers Florian Hoof: The Afterlife of Industrial Film: Weak Dispositives, Choice Architecture, and the Contemporary Circulation of Industrial Cinema Section 2: Operative Iconographies, Industry and the Nation State Ira Plein: Beautiful Luxembourg, Steel Works, and a Swimming Pool. The Corporate Film Columeta and the Formation of a Corporate and a National Image. Lucie Cesalkova: Hydropower for a Sealess Nation. Representation of Water Energy in Czech Visual Culture Zimmer: Modern Water Sprites. History, Nature, and Landscape in Vattenfall’s Film Production in the 1950s Takuya Tsunoda: Taxonomy of Techniques: Visions of Industrial Cinema in Postwar Japan Yvonne Zimmermann: The Power of Flows: The Spatiality of Industrial Films on Hydropower in Switzerland Section 3: Institutions and Distribution Frameworks: Archives, Festivals, Fairs Steve Foxon: Industry on Screen: The British Documentary in Distribution. British Transport Films – A Case Study Brian Jacobson: On the Red Carpet in Rouen: Industrial Film Festivals and a World Community of Film Makers Haidee Wasson: Cinema and Industrial Design: Showmanship, Fairs and the Exhibition Film. Section 4: Teaching Oneself and Others Gregory A. Waller: Putting Films to Work: System, The Magazine for Business Charles Acland: New Media for the Schools of Tomorrow. The A.V. Instructional Films of Robert W. Wagner Guillherme Machado: We Must Know More than We Can See: Databases of Vocational Training and the Emergence of Cognitive Ergonomics Scott Anthony: Free enterprise film: Aims of Industry, economic propaganda and the development of a neoliberal cinema Section 5: Post/Colonial Industries and Third Industrial Cinemas Rudmer Canjels: Framing Local and International Sentiments and Sounds. Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell in a Changing Nigeria. Tom Rice: Working Through the End of Empire Ravi Vasudevan: Cinema-going on the Railway Tracks: Transportation, Circulation and Exhibition of Information Film in Colonial India Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky: The Latin American Process Film. Section 6 : Production Cultures and/of the Industrial Film: Amateurs and Professionals Maria Vinogradova: Soviet Industrial Film Across Categories: Negotiating Between Utility, Art and Science Luca Peretti: “There exists no life more daring and adventuresome than that of an oil drigger”. Alexander Stark: Industrial Film from the Home Studio: Amateur Cinema and Low Budget Corporate Moving Image Culture in West Germany, from 1950 – 1977 Anna Maria Falchero: Movie and Industry in Italy: The “Golden Age” of Italian Industrial Documentary (1950-1970) Alain Michel: A Film that Doesn’t Seem to Work: A Shot of Renault’s Early Assembly Line (1920 to 1929). A Case Study, Methodology and 3D Restitution for Film Analysis Section 7: Ephemeral Artistry: Ecologies of Authorship in Industrial Cinema Christian Bonah: Business and Art: Pharmaceutical Industries, Film Production and Circulation, and the French Film Production Company ScienceFilm, 1960-1980. Patrick Russell: Transfer of Power: films officers in the British coal industry Martin Stollery: Saudi Arabia’s John Ford? Robert Yarnall Richie, Desert Venture and Ephemeral Authorship in Industrial Film. Annette Davison: Sounds Industrial: Understanding the Contribution of Music and Sound in Industrial Films Alessandro Cecchi: Creative Films for Creative Corporations.
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Amsterdam University Press Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.Trade Review"the most significant contribution of Labour in a Single Shot as both media project and critical anthology is to make visible and sometimes more legible the conditions of labor in a twenty-first century that has overturned, undermined, or—to use that most odious of management terms—“disrupted” how we work under current conditions of capitalism." Michael Zryd, Europe Now, July 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Foreword: Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit/Labour in a Single Shot (Detlef Gericke) 2. Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives – Editors’ Introduction (Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, and Gregory H. Williams) 3. Labour in a Single Shot – Antje Ehmann’s Workshop and Exhibition Journals , 2011–2014 (Antje Ehmann) History 4. Attitudes Towards Work : On the Historical Metamorphoses of Psychotechnology (Peter J. Schwartz) 5. One Shot, Two Mediums, Three Centuries (Roy Grundmann) 6. The Body and the Senses: Harun Farocki on Work and Play (Thomas Elsaesser) Poetics 7. Ten Propositions (Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann) 8. Videopoetics of Labour in a Single Shot (José Gatti) 9. Knowing When to Be Wary of Images (David Barker) Embodiment 10. Punching In/Punching Out: Labour, Care, and Leisure at Work and at Play (Jeannie Simms) 11. Labour’s Mediating Objects: Tools, Tactility, and Embodiment (Gregory H. Williams) Networks 12. Database Labour: Supply Chains, Logistics, and Flow (Thomas Stubblefield) 13. Artwork and Artefact: The Networked Conditions of Labour in a Single Shot (Gloria Sutton) 14. Reading the Web Catalogue: Labour in a Single Shot as Online Environment (Vinicius Navarro) Bibliography Index of Labour in a Single Shot workshop videos General index
£130.15
Amsterdam University Press Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media
Book SynopsisWith machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ‘stable’ moment in media history? Inventing Cinema proposes to approach this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them as archives of users’ gestures, as well as of modes of perception. The epistemology reconstructs the problems that the machines’ designers and users have strived to solve, and the network of concepts they have elaborated to understand these problems. Drawing on the philosophy of technology and anthropology, Inventing Cinema argues that networks of gestures, problems, perception and concepts are inscribed in vision machines, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope, the Cinématographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.Trade Review"Inventing Cinema is meticulously researched, with particular success in focusing on important but neglected aspects of visual technologies." - Stephen Herbert, Journal of Film Preservation, 102, April 2020 "Turquety’s study of the invention of the cinema superbly unpacks the overwhelming impact of the "birth of the cinema" on academia, aesthetics, and both high and popular culture. It is a must-read for all in the fields of history of cinema, technology, and media." - Annie van den Oever (University of Groningen) "Benoît Turquety’s book on the invention of the cinema manages to provide an overview of the way cinema came into the world that is precise in its historical detail and deep in its theoretical considerations. This is the finest single work on the invention of cinema I have yet read." - Tom Gunning (University of Chicago)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Problems of Digital Cinema Part One The Why and How of Machines A FEW DEFINITIONS Technique/Technology Machines/Dispositifs MACHINES, IMAGES, MOVEMENT The Machines of Filippo Brunelleschi Machines and Movement, Machines and Images The Machine and the Non-verbal THE PERFORMANCE AND THE DEVICE: MACHINES-ARCHIVES MACHINES/SYSTEMS AN EXAMPLE: THE PRINCIPLE AND MACHINES - THE CAMERA OBSCURA Part Two Invention, Innovation, History INNOVATION IN CINEMA AND THE FILM SPECTATOR INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES INVENTION AND THE SHAPE OF HISTORY INNOVATIONS AND INVENTIONS IN CINEMA Viewfinders and Those Viewed (The Camera Operator's Body 1: The Eye) Editing FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF MACHINES An Example: An Invention and its Epistemological Conditions, Wheatstone's Stereoscope Part Three The Invention of the Problem THE IDEA AND THE QUESTION OF ORIGINS: ANDRÉ BAZIN AS HISTORIOGRAPHER THE IDEA AND THE QUESTION OF ORIGINS: AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY THE INVENTION AND EVOLUTION OF PROBLEMS: SIMONDON WITH BACHELARD A LOUIS DUCOS DU HAURON PATENT (1864) CHARLES CROS AND 'SCENES IN MOTION' (1867) THE 'CINEMA' PROBLEM Part Four The Invention of the Cinématographe THE CINÉMATOGRAPHE AND THE QUESTION OF INVENTION THE SITE OF THE INVENTION THE EDISON SYSTEM AND THE QUESTION OF CELLULOID REVERSIBILITY, INSTANTANEOUSNESS AND PHOTOGRAM: THE QUESTION OF THE ADJUSTABLE SHUTTER A CONCRETE MACHINE OTHER ASPECTS OF THE CINÉMATOGRAPHE The Crank (The Operator's Body Part Two: The Hand) The Lens Part Five 'Natural Colour Kinematography', a New Cinema Invention: Kinemacolor, Technical Network and Commercial Policies A TECHNOLOGY OF KINEMACOLOR THE CINEMA ACCORDING TO CHARLES URBAN TECHNICS AND THE COMMERCIAL Compatibility and Specialisation Constraints or Coherence Part Six and Epilogue From the Trembling of Film to the Stability of the Digital TOWARDS A TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE DIGITAL BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£107.35
Amsterdam University Press Caro and Jeunet
Book SynopsisThe first book to fully focus on French cult filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Caro & Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema brings a scholarly perspective to the filmmakers' collaborative and solo artistic projects as outliers in approach and content. Studying from their beginning passion for animation history to their most current works, Scatton-Tessier establishes their presence and recognition as do-it-yourselfers in comics culture, advertising, and film production. Covering punk, DIY production, intertextuality, performance, and vigilantism through close film analysis and cultural studies research, this book offers a much-needed look at Caro and Jeunet's forty-plus years of artistic innovation.
£121.60
