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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Von
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition of Richard Koszarski''s ÊThe Man You Loved to HateÊ about a third of the material is completely new or significantly rewritten. It includes information recently unearthed in France and Austria and makes use of documents scrapbooks photographs and correspondence belonging to the Stroheim family. Reshaped and enriched Von becomes once again what ÊSight and SoundÊ called ...the best biographical treatment of Stroheim that we are likely to get ä intelligent judicious and a pleasure to read.
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Cygnnet Costumes for the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Making of Planet of the Apes
Book SynopsisFOREWORD BY FRASER HESTONIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Planet of the Apes, the classic science-fiction film from 1968, The Making of Planet of the Apes tells the film and offers exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and concept art.Based on Pierre Boulle''s novel La Planéte de singes, the original Planet of the Apes was one of the most celebrated films of the 1960s and beyond. Starring Hollywood icons Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall, the movie struck a chord with the world and sparked a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and a long-running comic book. Now, five decades after its theatrical release, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler tells the thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood production—a film even Boulle thought would be impossible to make.With a foreword by Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston''s son, The Making of Planet of the Apes is an entertaining, informative experience that will transport readers back to the strange alternate Earth ruled by apes, and bring to life memorable characters such as Cornelius, Dr. Zira, Dr. Zaius, and Taylor, the human astronaut whose time-traveling sparks an incredible adventure. Meticulously researched and designed to capture the look and atmosphere of the film, The Making of Planet of the Apes is also packed with a wealth of concept paintings, storyboards, and never-before-seen imagery—including rare journal pages and sketches from Charlton Heston''s private collection—as well as color and black-and-white unit photography, posters, and more unique ephemera.Comprehensive in scope, The Making of Planet of the Apes is the definitive look at the original blockbuster film, a must-have for fans, film buffs, and collectors alike.
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Titan Books Ltd Star Trek Beyond: The Makeup Artistry of Joel
Book SynopsisWith the release of Star Trek Beyond in 2016, viewers were given a spectacular visual treat as a whole host of new aliens made their appearance for the first time in the rebooted franchise. At the heart of the process of bringing these breathtaking intergalactic species to life was Academy Award-winning make-up artist Joel Harlow. Together with his team of amazingly talented creatives, Harlow set to work on creating aliens from over 50 different races for the film and documented the entire creative process for each one in exhaustive detail, from preliminary sketches to final make-up application.Star Trek Beyond - The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow presents the extraordinary work done by Harlow and his crew. Featuring fascinating pencil sketches, stunning concept art and beautiful photography, this visually arresting book gives fans a unique in-depth look into the remarkable work that went into this immensely popular movie.Trade Review“Star Trek is a series that’s known for a few incredibly iconic alien races so it’s nice to see a book like this one that reveals there’s a rich tapestry of alien life only begun to be explored” - Adventures in Poor Taste“The first major reference book dedicated solely to the behind the scenes production work on Star Trek Beyond does not disappoint!” - TrekCore.com “a must for fans of movie makeup, for creators of their own strange, new worlds, and Trek fans” - Borg.com “Harlow is an Oscar winner, and the book makes clear why his work has earned so much praise” - The Film Stage
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Michael Wiese Productions Between the Scenes: What Every Film Director,
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisWe can’t shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor viewers will assume it’s amateurish and not take it seriously. Feature films and TV shows, commercials and industrial videos, reality TV and documentaries, even event and wedding videos tell stories. Good lighting can make them look real, while real lighting often makes them look fake. Lighting for Cinematography, the first volume in the new CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts series, is the indispensable guide for film and video lighting. Written by veteran gaffer and cinematographer David Landau, the book helps the reader create lighting that supports the emotional moment of the scene, contributes to the atmosphere of the story and augments an artistic style. Structured to mimic a 14 week semester, the chapters cover such things as lighting for movement, working with windows, night lighting, lighting the three plains of action and non-fiction lighting. Every chapter includes stills, lighting diagrams and key advice from professionals in the field, as well as lighting exercises to help the reader put into practice what was covered. www.lightingforcinematography.comTrade ReviewIt's dense, detailed, thoughtful, simply written and highly educational. Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image might have been created as a practicum for a 14-week course in cinematography, but David Landau's study of the art and craft of lighting has something for everyone, from the neophyte to the veteran. -- Pauline Rogers * ICG Magazine *Lighting for Cinematography is one of the most comprehensive and engaging texts on the subject this reviewer has read … The author fills the volume with outstanding visuals, including screen captures and lighting plans from actual films and television programs, in so doing bringing the lessons to life. Most notably, Landau includes commentary by current practitioners, thus providing an invaluable glimpse into the minds of creative professionals. This is a compelling read for those wishing to improve their craft as well as for those still learning the ropes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, including students in technical programs, through faculty and professionals. -- M. A. Bay, Southern Connecticut State University * CHOICE *Whilst there are some great books with interviews of big time cinematographers out there, there are few books immediately applicable to what emerging cinematographers face on limited budget shoots ... This how-to book addresses how filmmakers on a limited budget and time schedule can achieve professional looking images similar to what they see on the big screen. * British Cinematographer *This unique approach has been needed for a long time and there is simply no other lighting book like this in print. -- Peter Stein, ASC * Student Filmmakers *A master class in cinematography! David Landau’s conversational tone mixed with 35 years of technical experience and aesthetic prowess results in a very accessible text that should be cherished by students and professionals alike. Whether he is describing the process of lighting through a window with a 1200 HMI Par with a double scrim, 250 diffusion and 1/2 CTO or describing his method of achieving a firelight effect with several 250W Inkies with a mixture of amber and orange gels and run through a flicker box, Landau’s multiple accounts from his work in the field give this book a much appreciated practicality and voice of authority that is invaluable for the emerging cinematographer. -- Harlan Bosmajian, Assistant Professor of Cinematography, Emerson College, USA and Local 600 Director of PhotographyDavid Landau has produced an excellent text in Lighting for Cinematography which manages to cover the practicalities of production, the technical aspects of lighting and vitally the artistic importance of this work. Lighting for Cinematography is constructed to appeal and be of value to the practitioner at all levels; it is equally full of detail for careful consideration and quick hints and images for review before filming. Landau's book is helpfully crammed with instructional diagrams and the chosen images act as exemplars of technique. Lighting for Cinematography contains a series of production skills and helpful hints and exercises; these aspects are exceptionally helpful to the student of film wishing to improve their understanding and technique. I would highly recommend Lighting for Cinematography to those to wish to learn more about this field and to all those interested in the technique and process of film making. -- Robert Edgar, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production, York St John University, UKSimply written and highly educational, very few books on the market [have such a] wide perspective on the subject. * Luca Pulvirenti, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Italy *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: No matter how good a camera, good lighting is what sells the picture Chapter 1: The Magic of Light – What lighting does for the image and what light is. Chapter 2: Who and What Makes Light- the lighting crew, lighting units, basic electricity Chapter 3: Lighting the Subject - motivated and three point lighting Chapter 4: Light the shot, not just the subject – three plains of lighting Chapter 5: Common Practical Lighting Set-ups - cross key, chicken coop, china ball, bathrooms Chapter 6: Lighting for Movement – subject & camera, ambient soft light Chapter 7: Dealing with Daylight 1: Shooting Exteriors Chapter 8: Dealing with Daylight 2: Working with windows Chapter 9: Night Light- lighting night exteriors & interiors Chapter 10: Working with Color - using color for mood, gels Chapter 11: Light the scene, not just the shot – High Key, Low Key, contrast ratios, exposure choice, Chiaroscuro lighting, Rembrandt, Butterfly lighting Chapter 12: Special Lighting Considerations & Effects– fire, water, rain, fog, lightening, poor man’s process shot, green screen, product shots, etc Chapter 13: Lighting Non-fiction – Interview, Corporate, News Magazine, Documentary, Reality Chapter 14: Inspiration and Lighting Looks Appendix 1: Tales from the Trade – interviews with professional gaffers, LDs & Cinematographers Appendix 2: Resources – Apps, books, magazines, websites, etc. Glossary Index
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Fordham University Press Girl Head
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Plates and Figures | ix Introduction: The Body of Medusa | 1 1 China Girls in the Film Laboratory | 33 2 Gone Girls of Escamontage | 73 3 Gradivan Footsteps in the Film Archive | 102 Afterword | 129 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 165 Index | 181 Color plates follow page 84
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Michael Wiese Productions Film Production Management 101: Management and
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Manchester University Press Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film
Book SynopsisIf cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively.An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogénie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion. Polish-born, half-Jewish, and the author of a treatise on homosexuality, Epstein has been unfairly relegated to the shadows of film history. This book restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: Epstein at the crossroadsChapter 1: From literary modernism to photogénieChapter 2: Avant-garde working class melodramasChapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexualityChapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern worldChapter 5: Documentaries and sound filmsChapter 6: ‘A young Spinoza’: philosophy of the cinemaConclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinemaFilmographySelect BibliographyIndex
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Distributed Art Publishers William Klein: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Book SynopsisKlein’s madcap romp of a photo-novel brilliantly translates his cult ’60s film into book form Based on the original images and dialogue of William Klein’s 1966 film Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, this fantastic photo-novel tells the adventures of Polly Maggoo, a star model played by Dorothy McGowan (model for Vogue in the 1960s). The plot unfolds across the fashion world of Polly Maggoo; the world of television (based around the character of director Jean Rochefort); and a magical kingdom of operetta whose crown prince (played by Sami Frey) is in love with the young model. Also featuring in this star-studded cast are Alice Sapritch, Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, Roland Topor and Jacques Seiler. The publication ingeniously translates into book form the zany universe of the film. Klein’s masterful framing gives exquisite rhythm to its page composition and flow as we follow the crazy adventures of the extraordinary heroine in a madcap race through the streets and rooftops of Paris, all the way up to a distant palace lost in the snow. Born in New York, William Klein (1926–2022) was a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolutionized photography, particularly fashion and street photography. His fashion work was the subject of several iconic photobooks, including Life Is Good and Good for You in New York (1957) and Tokyo (1964). In the 1980s, he turned to film projects. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
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Lehigh University Press Bloody Women
Book SynopsisBloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of horror, showing how women have been essential in shaping the goals and methods of the genre. Aimed at both scholarly and general readers, the chapters bring together the expertise of filmmakers, festival programmers, and scholars to argue that women have effected a reimagining of horror. To this end, the volume considers a range of historical and theoretical issues relevant to gender and the genre of horror, broadly conceived. The collection explores, for example, female-directed horror films as a distinctive enterprise, one that is potentially marked by unique cinematic techniques and topical concerns. The book also moves into a more public domain, probing how the cultural experience of horror is transformed when the genre's major festivals and conventions are developed and directed by women. Together, these essays offer a wide-ranging investigation into the stakes of women's growing prominence in the horror industry. Most centrally, Bloody Women analyzes how the ethics, investments, and objectives of the genre shift when women deploy horror for their own enjoyment.
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Insight Editions The Batman: The Official Script Book
Book SynopsisYou’re a part of this too. Dive deeper into Matt Reeves’ remarkable film The Batman with this one-of-a-kind edition of the screenplay.Experience The Batman in an all-new way, with this deluxe version of the film’s thrilling script. Follow the Caped Crusader early in his career as he faces off against sinister serial killer The Riddler and reckons with the sins of the Wayne family’s past. Featuring film stills that add visual depth to the story, The Batman: The Official Script Book is an immersive tribute to the Dark Knight’s journey from the page to the screen. • EXPERIENCE THE BATMAN IN AN ALL-NEW WAY: The vision of screenwriters Matt Reeves and Peter Craig will immerse you in the seedy, striking, noir-inspired narrative of The Batman. • CREATE A MOVIE IN YOUR MIND: Beautifully rendered film stills combine with the screenplay to make movie magic in your mind’s eye.
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Duke University Press The Cinema of Naruse Mikio
Book SynopsisOne of the most prolific and respected directors of the Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. This book illuminates Naruse's contributions to Japanese and world cinema.Trade Review“The Cinema of Naruse Mikio presents not only a deft and subtle run-through of the world of an important auteur, but also a virtual encapsulation of the intellectual history of Japanese cinema during its most important period, the 1930s–60s. Catherine Russell contextualizes Naruse in the commercial situation in which he worked and in the historical, social, political, and intellectual project of mid-twentieth-century Japan. I came away firmly believing that Naruse was more attuned to how modernity was leaving its indelible marks on Japanese women than any other director of classical Japanese cinema. For students of feminist film criticism, Russell’s book is an absolute must.”—David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema“A confluence of many forces produced the great (and stereotypical) triumvirate of Japanese cinema: Kurosawa/Mizoguchi/Ozu. However, even as these three took their positions at the forefront of auteurism, a fourth name was regularly invoked and too often ignored. Perhaps this was to be expected. Naruse Makio’s films lacked period color for those searching for Oriental spectacle. Likewise, scholars celebrating formal inventiveness mistook Naruse’s cinematic style for pedestrian convention. Those who looked at the director’s films closely, however, knew that this was an extraordinary body of films and for a good many reasons. Catherine Russell looked closer than anyone, and has discovered a critical framework that provides us solid footing for exploring Naruse’s modern world. Working meticulously through all sixty-seven extant films, Russell gradually reveals a director and team of technicians and actors exploring the contradictions, hopes, and disappointments of modern Japan—particularly for women, who participate in and contribute to modernity both on and off Naruse’s screen. The Cinema of Naruse Mikio is a vivid and long-needed survey of the director’s life work and the everyday landscape of twentieth-century Japan.”—Abé Mark Nornes, author of Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary“A confluence of many forces produced the great (and stereotypical) triumvirate of Japanese cinema: Kurosawa/Mizoguchi/Ozu. However, even as these three took their positions at the forefront of auteurism, a fourth name was regularly invoked and too often ignored. Perhaps this was to be expected. Naruse Makio’s films lacked period color for those searching for Oriental spectacle. Likewise, scholars celebrating formal inventiveness mistook Naruse’s cinematic style for pedestrian convention. Those who looked at the director’s films closely, however, knew that this was an extraordinary body of films and for a good many reasons. Catherine Russell looked closer than anyone, and has discovered a critical framework that provides us solid footing for exploring Naruse’s modern world. Working meticulously through all sixty-seven extant films, Russell gradually reveals a director and team of technicians and actors exploring the contradictions, hopes, and disappointments of modern Japan—particularly for women, who participate in and contribute to modernity both on and off Naruse’s screen. The Cinema of Naruse Mikio is a vivid and long-needed survey of the director’s life work and the everyday landscape of twentieth-century Japan.”—Abé Mark Nornes, author of Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary“Even for those who read Japanese and are familiar with Naruse Mikio’s work, Catherine Russell’s book contributes to a new understanding of his cinema. Russell shows how Naruse’s films contributed to Japanese modernity as a cultural movement, and, using feminist film criticism and Miriam Hansen’s influential concept of ‘vernacular modernism,’ she traces how his films illuminate female subjectivity throughout the studio era.”—Daisuke Miyao, author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational StardomTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: The Auteur as Salaryman 1 1. The Silent Films: Women in the City, 1930-1934 39 2. Naruse as P.C.L.: Toward a Japanese Classical Cinema, 1935-1937 81 3. Not a Monumental Cinema: Wartime Vernacular, 1938-1945 131 4. The Occupation Years: Cinema, Democracy, and Japanese Kitsch, 1945-1952 167 5. The Japanese Woman's Film of the 1950s, 1952-1958 226 6. Naruse in the 1960s: Stranded in Modernity, 1958-1967 315 Conclusion 398 Notes 405 Filmography 431 Bibliography 435 Index 447
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc An Introduction to Film Analysis
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through:-the basic technical terms-shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences-set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more-each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary filmsRyan and Lenos''s updated edition introduces students to the different kinds of lenses and their effects, the multiple possibilities of lighting, and the way post-production modifies images through such processes as saturation and desaturation. Students will learn to ask why the camera is placed where it is, why an edit occurs where it does, or why the set is designed in a certain way.The second section of the book focuses on critical analysis, introducing students to the various approaches to film, from psychology to history, wiTrade ReviewAn exceptionally clear and thorough account of the explicit and implicit ways that narrative cinema makes meaning for viewers. Filled with lucid writing and a profitably wide variety of examples, An Introduction to Film Analysis empowers students to analyze film technique from a range of diverse perspectives. * Kevin L. Ferguson, Associate Professor, Queens College, CUNY, USA *This step-by-step guide to film analysis by Ryan and Lenos is full of beautiful and instructive photography to make the art of moving images come alive on the page. It will entice students into a passion for film through its sophisticated and thorough discussions of a wide range of films, including historical classics, contemporary movies, independent films, and global cinema. This is a textbook that teaches by doing, modeling different approaches to film analysis through thorough and insightful case studies of a unique set of films, including The Silence of the Lambs, Mildred Pierce, Run, Lola, Run, and others. Worthy of special note, Ryan and Lenos provide accessible and productive tools for teachers, including student assignment instructions for specific clips from different films that invite students to develop and demonstrate their analytical skills. Through their many examples, the authors empower students to articulate not only how they react to a movie but also why, drawing clear lines between the cinematic vocabulary they are building with the work of meaning making. * Karen Petruska, Assistant Professor in Communication Studies, Gonzaga University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Meaning in Movies Shot-by-Shot Analysis Writing About Film: The Art of Active Viewing Part 1: Technique and Meaning 1. Composition 2. Camera Work 3. Editing 4. Set Design 5. Lighting 6. Sound 7. Color 8. Narration 9. Structure, Character, Motif 10. Film Style: Realism and Expressionism Part 2: Critical Analysis 11. Historical Criticism 12. Structuralist Criticism 13. Psychological Criticism 14. Ideological Criticism 15. Gender Criticism 16. Ethnic Criticism 17. Post-Colonial / Transnational Criticism 18. Post-Structuralist Criticism 19. Political Criticism 20. Evolutionary Theory 21. Affect & Emotion Part 3: Sample Analyses 22. The Birds 23. The Shining 24. Vagabond 25. In the Mood for Love 26. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Student Assignments Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Virtual Production
Book SynopsisThis book, written by industry experts, provides a comprehensive understanding of virtual production processes, concepts, and technology â helping readers get to grips with this nascent technology.Topics covered are the history of virtual production, underlying technologies, creative potential, and production workflows. In addition, it delivers a detailed overview of the virtual production pipeline, from pre-production planning to post- production finishing. Each chapter explains specific aspects of virtual production, such as real-time rendering, motion capture, virtual cameras, LED screens, game engines, and collaborative workflows. Additionally, the book examines virtual production's ethical and cultural implications, including the impact on actors, the representation of diverse voices, and the democratisation of filmmaking.Whether you're a student, teacher, or industry professional, Virtual Production will provide you with a solid foundation for comprehendin
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Titan Books Ltd Rick Baker: Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisThe definitive visual history of the thrilling make-up artistry of the legendary Rick Baker, a must-have for collectors and special effects afficionados. From the gory zombies of Michael Jackson's Thriller to the staggeringly lifelike results of Bigfoot in Harry and the Hendersons to the groundbreaking effects in An American Werewolf in London, Baker's special effects, makeup, and prosthetics are some of Hollywood's most enduring legacies. This deluxe, two-volume set is replete with more than 1000 four-colour images and original sketches. It covers the makeup artist's 40-plus-year journey, from his early days as a young "monster maker", creating body parts in his parents' kitchen, to his more than 70 film and television credits--that earned seven Academy Awards, one Emmy, and three BAFTAs, among numerous other awards.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rebels on the Backlot
Book SynopsisFollows six top-level film directors, from the origins of their careers through the making and release of their signature films. This book uses the development, writing, shooting, editing, and release of each director's major film, and also explores the lives and struggles each of them faced.Trade Review"Admirably reported ... Waxman unearths juicy anecdotes that'll keep film fans cackling and turning the pages." -- Salon.com "Riveting tales of Hollywood hubris ... a fun read." -- Entertainment Weekly "Vivid ... fascinating ... delightful ... [Waxman's] background as a hard news reporter serves her well." -- New York Times Book Review "A behind-the-cameras fireball of wicked insider revelations ... Love it!" -- Liz Smith, syndicated columnist "[Waxman's] thorough reporting results in a compulsively readable chronicle of the decade's auteurs and their work." -- Premiere "Enjoyably dishy." -- Variety "Addictively readable ... fascinating" -- Miami Herald "A lively book with gossipy and readable stories about some obsessive guys who are as much rascals as rebels." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Terrific ... wildly informative and readable about the plight of the biggest young talents in modern movies" -- Buffalo News "[Rebels on the Backlot] makes a case for creating a new film canon of this late '90s renaissance." -- Pittsburgh Tribune "Waxman perceptively depicts the vocabulary of the new Hollywood ... well-written ... recommended." -- Library Journal "Hums along on detail and gossip, adding up to a template for making it in contemporary Hollywood." -- men.style.com "Up-close, often gossipy" -- The Hollywood Reporter "Fascinatingly candid" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Nicholas Ray The Glorious Failure of an American
Book SynopsisThe visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish. This title presents portrait of Nicholas Ray - a man whose troubled life was punctuated by moments of creative genius.Trade Review"[A] portrait of a filmmaker who managed over time to upstage the movies that made him celebrated." -- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "A clear and balanced portrait of a most complex man." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] fascinating, formidable account of a director whose life was as fraught with complications and melodrama as were his movies...Meticulously researched and gratifying, a biographical page-turner." -- Library Journal (starred review) "McGilligan limns the tragic trajectory of Ray's career with insight and compassion." -- Booklist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Friedkin Connection
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Seduction Sex Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughess
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.” — New York Times Book Review “The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.” — Atlantic “A compelling and relevant must-read.” — Entertainment Weekly “A first-rate work of cultural curation, in which Longworth combs the countless stacks of Hollywood memoirs and biographies, with a focus on the pathological predations of Howard Hughes, Texas millionaire, starmaker and film producer.” — USA Today (four stars) “An astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe filmmaker Howard Hughes. Hardly anyone emerges from the pages of Seduction unblemished by selfishness and greed once they are touched by the movie business and its promise of wealth, power and fame.” — Associated Press “From the force behind the You Must Remember This podcast comes a book exploring the glamour of classic Hollywood cinema through the lens of Texas business magnate, filmmaker (Hell’s Angels, Scarface), and notorious womanizer Howard Hughes—think a Harvey Weinstein–esque character decades before #MeToo.” — Vanity Fair “Longworth blasts through the seductive narratives propagated by men in the film business to uncover the dark stories underneath.” — The Cut “Vibrant… A compulsive page-turner… Much of Seduction reads like a long overdue act of redress, repositioning women into the more central positions where they belong.” — Los Angeles Times “Longworth pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s golden age to reveal, through the stories of some of the actresses pursued by legendary millionaire mogul Howard Hughes, its dark and lasting legacy of power inequity, harassment, and abuse.” — Bustle “Seduction reads like a scandal sheet tempered with primary and secondary research.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “A candid portrait of the multifaceted millionaire…As his romantic tastes shifts from known quantities — like Hepburn, Rogers and Gardner — to powerless unknowns, Seduction reveals the root of Hughes’s interest in women: a desire to exert total control, rather than true affection.” — Washington Post “Audacious and welcome.” — Sight and Sound “Jam-packed with Hollywood scandal and history.” — Refinery 29 “Karina Longworth loves Hollywood the way it ought to be loved — mercilessly. She is a skeptic without cynicism, a feminist without apology, and in Seduction she has found the great subject that her essential podcast has long promised” — James Kaplan, author of Sinatra “An entertaining and timely tour of early Hollywood mores and manipulation. No matter how much you think you know about golden age Hollywood, Longworth serves up fascinatingly fresh perspective on the ways male desire and power shaped movie mythology.” — Joy Press, author of Stealing the Show “Full of insight...illuminating and memorable.” — Booklist “A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age… A lively—and often sordid—Hollywood history.” — Kirkus Reviews “Throughout this densely researched and lively book the siren song of the new medium of film is heard.” — Cineaste
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lights Camera Magic The Making of Fantastic
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Archive of Magic
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Art of Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Harry Potter Film Wizardry Updated Edition From
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fifth Avenue 5 A.M.
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A bonbon of a book . . . as well tailored as the little black dress the movie made famous.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times “Anyone even slightly interested in Capote/Hepburn/Breakfast at Tiffany’s will delight in [Wasson’s] account.” — USA Today “So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn.” — People “This splendid new book is more than a mere ‘making-of’ chronicle. Wasson has pulled it off with verve, intelligence, and a consistent ring of truth...compulsively readable. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. is both enjoyable and informative: everything a film book ought to be.” — Leonard Maltin, author of Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen “A fascination with fascination is one way of describing Wasson’s interest in a film that not only captures the sedate elegance of a New York long gone, but that continues to entrance as a love story, a style manifesto, and a way to live.” — New York magazine “Crammed with irresistible tidbits…[Wasson’s] book winds up as well-tailored as the kind of little black dress that Breakfast at Tiffany’s made famous.” — New York Times “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. offers lots of savory tidbits [from the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s]. Mr. Wasson brings a lively and impudent approach to his subject.” — Wall Street Journal “Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian. . . . [Fifth Avenue, 5 AM] is as melancholy and glittering as Capote’s story of Holly Golightly.” — The New Yorker “A brilliant chronicle of the creation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Wasson has woven the whole so deftly that it reads like a compulsively page-turning novel. This is a memorable achievement.” — Peter Bogdanovich “Wasson’s story is part encyclopedia, part valentine, and worth reading just to find out what exactly went into making the amazing party scene.” — The Huffington Post “Wasson offers enough drama to occupy anyone for days...The whole thing reads like a cool sip of water.” — Daily News “Reads like carefully crafted fiction…[Wasson] carries the reader from pre-production to on-set feuds and conflicts, while also noting Hepburn’s impact on fashion (Givenchy’s little black dress), Hollywood glamour, sexual politics, and the new morality. Capote would have been entranced.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A breezy tale of dresses and breakfast pastries, this is not.... The subtexts of Breakfast at Tiffany’s—materialism, sexual freedom—were decidedly more complicated.” — Women's Wear Daily “Rich in incident and set among the glitterati of America’s most glamorous era, the book reads like a novel…[Wasson] has assembled a sparkling time capsule of old Hollywood magic and mythmaking.” — Kirkus Reviews “The anecdotes are numerous and deftly told. This well-researched, entertaining page-turner should appeal to a broad audience, particularly those who enjoy film history that focuses on the human factors involved in the creative process while also drawing on larger social and cultural contexts.” — Library Journal “Reading a book about a movie is seldom as entertaining as watching the film, but Wasson’s is the rare exception.” — Christian Science Monitor “[We] couldn’t put down Sam Wasson’s new book, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M..... Along with juicy film gossip, the book offers behind-the-scenes insight on how Hepburn and designer Hubert de Givenchy created Holly Golightly’s iconic style.” — AOL Stylelist “Sam Wasson’s exquisite portrait of Audrey Hepburn peels backs her sweet facade to reveal a much more complicated and interesting woman. He also captures a fascinating turning point in American history— when women started to loosen their pearls, and their inhibitions. I devoured this book.” — Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City “Audrey Hepburn dances through the pages of Sammy Wasson’s portrait of a movie and a little black dress that were game changers at the dawn of the sixties. Both juicy and informative, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. provides the inside story while giving Hepburn her due as a true modern original.” — Molly Haskell, author of Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited
£11.99
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Looseleaf for Dynamics of Mass Communication
Book Synopsis
£140.40
Pearson Education (US) Video Storytelling Projects
Book SynopsisRC is an award-winning photographer, podcast host, educator, and the author of 15 best-selling books on photography, video, Photoshop, Lightroom, and HDR. He is an assistant teaching professor of visual communications at the Newhouse School for Visual Communications at Syracuse University. As an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 27 years of experience creating content in creative, information technology, and e-commerce industries and spends his days developing creative content for corporate clients, educational institutions, and students looking to take their creative vision further. As a Photoshop and Lightroom expert, RC also worked with Adobe to write the Adobe Certified Expert exam for Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4, and Lightroom 5. He has written the Lightroom and Photoshop books for the Adobe Press Classroom in a Book series. RC is a highly sought-after public speaker, presenting to corporations and creative studTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 The Elements of Story CHAPTER 2 How to Structure Your Story CHAPTER 3 Previsualizing Your Idea CHAPTER 4 Working with Sound CHAPTER 5 Working with Video CHAPTER 6 The Importance of Dialogue CHAPTER 7 Everything in Its Place CHAPTER 8 Assembling Your Story in Adobe Premiere Pro CHAPTER 9 Basic Edits: Sharpening Your Point in Premiere Pro CHAPTER 10 Editing: Beyond the Basics CHAPTER 11 Mobile Journalism Project CHAPTER 12 Sharing Your Video Online CHAPTER 13 Project: Card Game
£28.04
Penguin Putnam Inc River of Shadows
Book Synopsis
£15.30
Oxford University Press Inc A Medium Seen Otherwise
Book SynopsisThrough a new look at how political, historical, and art documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to better understand what people do with analog and digital photographs as material objects that enable social and political relations through multisensory experience. Moreover, as a time-based medium with sound, film can bring the event of photography into fuller view, demonstrating how no single participant in it (photographer, subject, camera, photograph, or viewer) has sovereignty over its affect, meaning, or value. The book thus explores the ways in which the innovative incorporation of photography into documentary film permits us to see both of these media otherwise. Photographs, whether professional or vernacular, are conventionally understood to furnish documentaries with indexical evidence and visual illustration of history, yet the spatio-temporal and aural dimensions of film permit documentaries to iTable of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction 1. Photographic Images in Documentary Film 2. Filming the Photographic Object 3. Filming the Photographer 4. Discoveries and Restitutions of the Photographic Archive 5. Encounters with Photographic Portraits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
Oxford University Press Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association. This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil''s highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary''s rise to unprecedented vitality in quantity, quality, and diversity of production-which includes polished auteur films as well as rough-hewn collaborative works, films made in major metropolitan regions as well as in indigenous villages and in remote parts of the Amazon, intimate first-person documentaries as well as films that dive headfirst into struggles for social justice. The transformations of Brazilian society and of filmmaking coalesce and become entangled in this cinema''s preoccupation with archives. Historically linked to the exercise and maintenance of power, the concept of the archive is critical for the documentary as a cultural practice that preserves images from the present for the future, unearths and repurposes visual materials from the past, and is historically invested in filmic images as records of the real. Contemporary films incorporate, reflect on, and rework a variety of archives, such as documents produced by official institutions, ethnographic images, home movies, and photo albums-and engage not only with what is preserved but also with lacunas in the record and with alternate forms of remembering, retrieving, and transmitting the past. Through its interaction with archives, this book argues, the contemporary documentary reflects on and intervenes in the distribution of visibilities and invisibilities, centers and margins, silences and speech, living memory and its preservation in the record-thus locating the documentary on archival borders that concern Brazilian society and filmmaking alike.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. * D. West, CHOICE *An exhilarating work, Gustavo Furtado's wide-ranging Documentary Filmmaking in Brazil, heralds a bright future for Brazilian film criticism. Furtado gives us fresh insights even about films whose meaning had presumably been exhaustively covered. Especially impressive is his sensitivity to the issues raised by indigenous media and 'first contact' films. The mobilization of theory for purposes of close analysis is simply brilliant. * Robert Stam, New York University *Addressing both contemporary documentary production in Brazil and documentary cinema in general, Furtado uses the concept of the archive to explore the intersections of memory, representation and power. Skillfully weaving sophisticated theoretical arguments with contextual and detailed film analyses, the book is a pleasure to read. It makes a crucially significant intervention in Brazilian film studies and will also become an essential companion to any discussion of contemporary documentary cinema. * Ana Lopez, Tulane University *This book is eminently political. It tackles documentary filmmaking as a way of interfering in and changing society. Furtado has devised a tremendously original and effective method of understanding documentary making in Brazil as the construction of a huge archive where memory, history and culture combine in order to provide a reliable programme for a better future. For the first time, in this book, indigenous production is given pride of place alongside consecrated masterpieces, such as Eduardo Coutinho's 20 Years Later, João Moreira Salles's Santiago, and Adirley Queirós' recent documentary sci-fi Black Out, White In. With breathtaking erudition, attentive to both the detail and the broader picture, Furtado has given us a riveting and compelling vision of Brazil today. Brazilian politicians would have a lot to learn from it! * Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film, University of Reading *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I - ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE INDIGENOUS 1. Feverish Archives, Feverish Films: Ethnographic Documentary and Crisis at Amazonian Contact Zones 2. Reparative Mediations:Indigeneity, Videomaking, and the Future of the Ethnographic Archive PART II - LAW, EVIDENCE, CAPTURE 3. Scenes of Capture in the City: Documentary on the Margins of Social and Archival Visibilities 4. Tactics of the Invisible, Shadow Archives:Resistance and Filmmaking on the Outskirts of Brasilia PART III - PRIVATE LIFE (GOING PUBLIC) 5. Homes, Archives, and Archons: Reworking the "Home Mode" in the Contemporary Documentary 6. The Melancholy Subject of History: Intimate Films and the Inheritance of Postdictatorship Memory Epilogue Filmography Bibliography Index
£38.69
Oxford University Press Behind the Curtain Making Music in Mumbais Film Studios
Trade ReviewBooth's inquiry is the first of its kind to embrace both film studies and studies on Indian film music ... and should be immensely useful to scholars of music, cinema studies and other social sciences. * Madhuja Mukherjee, Studies in Musical Theatre *Table of ContentsPART ONE - HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, AND A DETERMINIST MILIEU FOR HINDI FILM SONG; PART TWO - THE LIFE OF MUSIC IN THE MUMBAI FILM INDUSTRY; PART THREE - MUSIC, INSTRUMENTS, AND MEANING FROM MUSICIANS' PERSPECTIVES
£29.32
Oxford University Press Inc A Fine Romance Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in
Book SynopsisHow do we compare a Broadway musical to its Hollywood counterpart? A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era answers this question by exploring the symbiotic relationship between a dozen Broadway musicals and their Hollywood film adaptations. From enduring classics like Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, and West Side Story to lesser-known gems such as Cabin in the Sky, Call Me Madam, and Silk Stockings, author Geoffrey Block examines some of the best loved stage and screen musicals of all time as well as neglected works that deserve our attention and respect.Block delves into what happens during the transfer of stories from stage to film, the critical criteria that motivates decisions to alter or preserve stage elements when adapting to film, and the dramatic and musical consequences at play in these artistic and commercial choices. In telling this story, A Fine Romance engages with aesthetic and critical concerns while also considering the social issues around Broadway and Hollywood film through the lenses of race and ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual identity. Beginning with the stage debut of Show Boat in 1927 and concluding with the release of Bob Fosse''s cinematic re-envisioning of Cabaret nearly a half century later in 1972, the romance between Broadway and Hollywood was frequently turbulent. Differing commercial and aesthetic models and goals of Broadway and Hollywood created both conflicting and harmonious collaborations. Attempts at economic and artistic domination, irreconcilable differences, and occasional broken promises ensued. At other times, the screen and stage creative teams aligned, resulting in well-crafted, much admired, and frequently breathtaking films.Trade ReviewA Fine Romance, Geoffrey Block's excellent new book from Oxford University Press. * Peter Filichia, Broadway Select *In this lively and illuminating book, Geoffrey Block reveals the often productive but sometimes fraught relationship between the Broadway musical and the Hollywood studio system that brought it to the big screen. The volume is packed with new information and revealing analysis that will make the reader want to return to it time and again. A showstopper among the scholarship on the American musical! * Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield and author of Loverly: The Life and Times of "My Fair Lady" *A quarter of a century ago, Geoffrey Block's Enchanted Evenings opened a door for the serious study of American musical theater. Now, this pioneering and prolific scholar has produced another compelling and meticulous exploration of the musical, bringing unusual empathy and enthusiasm for both stage and screen, and again offering a vivid and inspiring model for future work. * Jeffrey Magee, author of Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater *Geoffrey Block's A Fine Romance makes meticulous, detailed comparisons between the stage and screen versions of 12 musicals that shaped American popular culture. The film versions of these musicals brought their stories, songs, and dances to more audiences than the theater versions ever could. Rather than assuming the inferiority of the film versions because of their commercialism or broad appeal, Block gives them an open-minded treatment. He notes that the medium of film is different from the stage and reveals the many ways that artists took advantage of this to create film adaptations that merit serious treatment and admiration. In reading the book I gained a deeper appreciation of the versatility of the musical as a genre. * Kara Gardner, author of Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance *A Fine Romance in a seminar-style course on musicals. All in all, Block's most recent entry in his influential body of musical-theater scholarship continues his innovative and thorough research in the field. * Megan Woller, Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association vol. 80 *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Hollywood Studio System and a Brief Survey of Film Adaptations from Show Boat to Cabaret 2. Surviving in the 1930s Movie Studio Jungle: Jerome Kern and Show Boat, The Cat and the Fiddle, and Roberta 3. Challenging the Hollywood Studio Model: On the Town vs. Call Me Madam 4. 1940s Stage Musicals and Their Screen Adaptations: Cabin in the Sky, Brigadoon, and Oklahoma! 5. More Than a
£23.27
Oxford University Press Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMinett offers the most precise account we're likely to get of Robert Altman's unique contributions to the art of American moviemaking. Covering the broad extent of his career, including television work, Minett analyzes the achievement of this 'borderline' Hollywood filmmaker with sensitivity to the changing production contexts. While mounting original arguments, Minett revises, nuances, and challenges earlier work with persuasive arguments and careful documentation. This book is at once an in-depth study of a distinctive director and a revealing look at some unexpected cinematic horizons opened up by the New Hollywood. * David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Emeritus Professor of Film, University of Wisconsin *Minett's impressively extensive background research in Altman's technological and industrial options is combined with precise, perceptive analysis of some of the director's most popular films — all in clear, mercifully jargon-free prose. Tackling topics like Altman's fondness for zoom shots and dense, overlapping dialogue, Minett achieves a convincing account of the flexibility of the classical Hollywood cinema and the ingenuity with which Altman exploited that flexibility. * Kristin Thompson, co-author of The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction Chapter One: Perverse Clotheslines: Altman and Narrative Elaboration Chapter Two: Quantifying the Subliminal: Altman and the Elaborative Zoom Chapter Three: Elaborate Chaos: Altman and Overlapping Dialogue Chapter Four: Improvisation, Transposition, and Elaboration: Altman Chapter Five: Institutional Elaboration: Altman's Training Grounds Conclusion Appendix: Zoom Context Films Bibliography Index
£35.99
Oxford University Press Inc Totally Truffaut
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnne Gillain's book is phenomenal. I dived into every page and learned a thousand things; never before had I understood the importance of Truffaut's work so well. Truffaut invented a world of cinema to which Anne Gillain has found the key. * Arnaud Desplechin, Director *In Anne Gillain, Truffaut found the passionate viewer his films were made to arouse and satisfy, someone preternaturally attuned to his complex emotions yet adroit in deciphering the panoply of techniques he deployed, often slyly and mysteriously, to release feelings into intriguing narratives that bleed onto the screen in unforgettable images and sounds. Adopting both his human warmth and his artistic precision, Gillain has written a novel in 23 chapters with Truffaut as hero, film after film. You can't put it down. * Dudley Andrew, Yale University *Meglin's expertise as well as her passion for her subject matter shine through in her generous, rigorously researched, and comprehensive biography of Ruth Page. Meglin makes a compelling argument for a renewed examination of Page's overlooked contributions: this is a readable and engaging study of an American Midwestern choreographer whose works were unorthodox, experimental, inflected by the rhythms of jazz * and female.Karen Eliot, Emerita Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University *Table of ContentsForeword by Martin Scorsese The Secret Rediscovered: Preface by Michel Marie Foreword Les Mistons (1958) The 400 Blows (1959) Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Jules and Jim (1962) Antoine and Colette (1962) The Soft Skin (1964) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Bride Wore Black (1967) Stolen Kisses (1968) Mississippi Mermaid (1969) The Wild Child (1970) Bed & Board (1970) Two English Girls (1971) A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972) Day for Night (1973) The Story of Adele H (1975) Small Change (1976) The Man Who Loved Women (1977) The Green Room (1978) Love on the Run (1979) The Last Metro (1980) The Woman Next Door (1981) Confidentially Yours (1983) Appendix List of Works Cited Index
£39.78
Oxford University Press Inc Enacting the Worlds of Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMoving within and between disciplines, traditions and paradigms with impressive erudition – and challenging overly simplistic cognitive and affective oppositions at every turn – this study establishes Hven as an original and powerful voice in the expanding theory of cinematic worlds, environments and atmospheres. * Daniel Yacavone, University of Edinburgh *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Diegesis as Environment: A New Theory of Film Worlds Chapter 2: The Atmospheric Worlds of Cinema Chapter 3: Narrative Experientiality and Affect Chapter 4: The Moving Camera and the Motor-Affective Arrangement of Films Chapter 5: Narratives Spaces and Sonic Environments Afterword Index
£86.33
Oxford University Press Inc Alien Legacies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Robert Kolker 1. Introduction Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame 2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A sense of abjection regarding
£20.99
Oxford University Press Inc Classical Projections The Practice and Politics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book's solidly interdisciplinary framing sustains richly detailed research and analysis. It will speak to broad audiences across film, media, and cultural studies, as well as gender and women's studies and critical race theory. Palis's analysis takes the most subtle and incisive type of approach to questions of both the canon and authorship. Her argument bypasses more traditional, additive or inclusive canon 'revision' in favor of a radical reshaping, reframing, and re-contextualizing of the canonical history of U.S. cinema since the 'New Hollywood. * Sharon Willis, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "Quoting Genre and Creating Canon" Chapter 2: "Film Quotation and the Oppositional Gaze" Chapter 3: "'D-I-Y' Quotation and Created Appropriation" Chapter 4: "Film Quotation and Visual Sovereignty" Chapter 5: "Film Quotation, Foreign and Domestic" Chapter 6: "Cinephilic Pilgrimage and Authorial Scandal" Annotated Appendix Index
£50.28
Oxford University Press Stars Studios and the Musical Theatre Screen
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors About the Companion Website Introduction 1. Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942) 2. 'Is this the right material, girl?': How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva, but Not Necessarily Evita 3. Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Dance Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers 4. 'I'm Once Again the Previous Me': Performance and Stardom in the Barbra Streisand Stage-to-Screen Adaptations 5. Lost in Translation: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel on the Silver Screen 6. Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical 7. Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood 8. The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation 9. Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood Select Bibliography Index
£28.94
Oxford University Press Inc Technology and the Making of Experimental Film
Book SynopsisThe Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process. Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial, they cultivated an oppositionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Proscriptive Orientations Chapter 1. The Twitters of the Machine: The Bolex H-16 Camera In and Out of Control Chapter 2. Untrue Truisms: The Paradoxes of Reversal Film Stock Chapter 3. A Lab of One's Own: Personal Cinema Invades the Film Laboratory Chapter 4. Holding the Jalopy Together: The Optical Printer and DIY Culture Epilogue: Midwives for Existence Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£24.69
Oxford University Press The Music of James Bond
The Music of James Bond is the first comprehrensive chronicle of the songs and scores written for the movie adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007. New interviews with Bond songwriters and composers coupled with previously undiscovered details make this book required reading for all 007 fans. This paperback edition is brought up-to-date with a new chapter on Skyfall.
£22.52
Columbia University Press Flickering Empire
Book SynopsisTells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913)Trade ReviewLong overdue... Chicago Tribune An exceptional new book... that immediately joins the ranks of essential film references Chicagoist [Flickering Empire] is a goldmine for popular culture historians and early-film buffs... Recommended. Choice A fascinating read from beginning to end. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, by Susan Doll Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire Preface: Hollywood Before Hollywood Part 1. Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago 1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment 2. The Columbian Exposition 3. The Dawn of Exhibition Part 2. Chicago Rising 4. Colonel William Selig 5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon 6. Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson 7. The Edison Trust Part 3. The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production 8. The Golden Age of Essanay 9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope 10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin 11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New Job Part 4. It All Came Crashing Down 12. The Decline of the Chicago Studios 13. Major M. L. C. Funkhouser and the Chicago Censorship Code Epilogue Post-Script: Oscar and Orson Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture Acting Appendix B: A Complete List of the Extant Chicago-Shot Films Named in This Book and Where to See Them Appendix C: Some Censored Scenes of Chicago Films Noted in Local Newspapers Endnotes Index
£56.00
Wallflower Press Flickering Empire
Book SynopsisTells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913)Trade ReviewLong overdue... Chicago Tribune An exceptional new book... that immediately joins the ranks of essential film references Chicagoist [Flickering Empire] is a goldmine for popular culture historians and early-film buffs... Recommended. Choice A fascinating read from beginning to end. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, by Susan Doll Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire Preface: Hollywood Before Hollywood Part 1. Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago 1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment 2. The Columbian Exposition 3. The Dawn of Exhibition Part 2. Chicago Rising 4. Colonel William Selig 5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon 6. Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson 7. The Edison Trust Part 3. The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production 8. The Golden Age of Essanay 9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope 10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin 11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New Job Part 4. It All Came Crashing Down 12. The Decline of the Chicago Studios 13. Major M. L. C. Funkhouser and the Chicago Censorship Code Epilogue Post-Script: Oscar and Orson Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture Acting Appendix B: A Complete List of the Extant Chicago-Shot Films Named in This Book and Where to See Them Appendix C: Some Censored Scenes of Chicago Films Noted in Local Newspapers Endnotes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press On the Screen
Book SynopsisAriel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. She challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment.Trade ReviewThere is no other book remotely like this. On the Screen is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen dynamics as crucial elements of cinema. -- Haidee Wasson, author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art CinemaOffering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers recharacterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. The screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality. -- Francesco Casetti, author of The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to ComeFilm theory's classic question "What is cinema?" often gets a (stereo)typical answer around the idea that movies exist when projected on standard screens in theaters. With her well-known and lauded attention to archival research, Ariel Rogers revises this received account of cinema and essentially rewrites it from the ground up. This is a rich and rewarding study that combines sharp scholarship with compelling new interpretation to change the field. -- Dana Polan, New York UniversityA thoroughly documented account of the broad culture of synchronicity in screen culture over the long 1930s. * Choice *On the Screen is a major achievement that insists on screen technology as an integral component of film history. * Technology and Culture *Rogers’s detailed and impressively supported account of how film screen technologies have proliferated is a timely and relevant study. * Film Criticism *Rogers provides a vivid sense of the historical particularity of screens in the long 1930s. * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Production Screens in the Long 1930s: Rear Projection and Special Effects2. Theatrical Screens, 1926–1931: Transforming the Screen3. Theatrical Screens, 1931–1940: Integrating the Screen4. Extratheatrical Screens in the Long 1930s: Film and Television at Home and in TransitCoda: Multiplicity, Immersion, and the New ScreensNotesBibliographyIndex
£70.40
Columbia University Press On the Screen
Book SynopsisAriel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. She challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment.Trade ReviewThere is no other book remotely like this. On the Screen is original in the material it unearths and discusses, offering an innovative history of film and technology. It strikes an easy balance between big ideas and focused analysis, addressing unmapped screen dynamics as crucial elements of cinema. -- Haidee Wasson, author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art CinemaOffering an extensive and systematic exploration of screen practices in the 1930s, Ariel Rogers recharacterizes this seemingly solid, coherent era by analyzing its multiplicity and heterogeneity. The screen becomes a kaleidoscopic reality. -- Francesco Casetti, author of The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to ComeFilm theory's classic question "What is cinema?" often gets a (stereo)typical answer around the idea that movies exist when projected on standard screens in theaters. With her well-known and lauded attention to archival research, Ariel Rogers revises this received account of cinema and essentially rewrites it from the ground up. This is a rich and rewarding study that combines sharp scholarship with compelling new interpretation to change the field. -- Dana Polan, New York UniversityA thoroughly documented account of the broad culture of synchronicity in screen culture over the long 1930s. * Choice *On the Screen is a major achievement that insists on screen technology as an integral component of film history. * Technology and Culture *Rogers’s detailed and impressively supported account of how film screen technologies have proliferated is a timely and relevant study. * Film Criticism *Rogers provides a vivid sense of the historical particularity of screens in the long 1930s. * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Production Screens in the Long 1930s: Rear Projection and Special Effects2. Theatrical Screens, 1926–1931: Transforming the Screen3. Theatrical Screens, 1931–1940: Integrating the Screen4. Extratheatrical Screens in the Long 1930s: Film and Television at Home and in TransitCoda: Multiplicity, Immersion, and the New ScreensNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.50
Columbia University Press Absence in Cinema The Art of Showing Nothing Film
Book SynopsisJustin Remes demonstrates how omissions of expected elements can spur viewers to interpret and understand the nature of film in new ways. Through a careful analysis of a broad array of avant-garde works, Absence in Cinema reveals that films must be understood not only in terms of what they show but also what they withhold.Trade ReviewAn enchanting, endearing feature of this detailed and serious study of four films by Walter Ruttmann, Stan Brakhage, Naomi Uman and Martin Arnold is that it advances through a series of anecdotes, conversations, diversions, cross-references and speculations, capturing the spirit of the avant-garde in critical writing, a feat at once difficult and joyful. -- Brinda Bose * Telegraph India *Absence in Cinema is a dazzling, meticulously detailed, even revolutionary work. Remes's style is so assured with such a light and knowing touch that the reader is propelled through the book from first page to last. -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie MachineThis theoretically sophisticated book about a set of exemplary avant-garde films during which there is either “nothing” to see or “nothing” to hear, or both, is a remarkably fun read. Justin Remes is a magician who makes Nothing in cinema Something! -- Scott MacDonald, editor of Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde CinemaAbsence in Cinema is about mysterious gaps and thwarted expectations. Starting from the idea that “every absence is a presence in disguise”, Justin Remes combines aesthetic analysis with psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to construct a powerful theory of erasure in experimental film culture. Taking in invisible art, soundless music and wordless poetry, Absence in Cinema is as incisive and radical as its subject matter. -- Holly Rogers, author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art MusicAn important, vital contribution to film studies that will appeal to all scholars, students, and (especially) teachers of cinema...Highly recommended. * Choice *A witty, richly detailed book... a delight to read. * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Voids1. Walter Ruttman and the Blind Film2. Stan Brakhage and the Birth of Silence3. Naomi Uman and the Peekaboo Principle4. Martin Arnold’s Disappearing ActConclusion: Nothing Is ImportantFilmographyNotesIndex
£64.00
Columbia University Press Absence in Cinema
Book SynopsisJustin Remes demonstrates how omissions of expected elements can spur viewers to interpret and understand the nature of film in new ways. Through a careful analysis of a broad array of avant-garde works, Absence in Cinema reveals that films must be understood not only in terms of what they show but also what they withhold.Trade ReviewAn enchanting, endearing feature of this detailed and serious study of four films by Walter Ruttmann, Stan Brakhage, Naomi Uman and Martin Arnold is that it advances through a series of anecdotes, conversations, diversions, cross-references and speculations, capturing the spirit of the avant-garde in critical writing, a feat at once difficult and joyful. -- Brinda Bose * Telegraph India *Absence in Cinema is a dazzling, meticulously detailed, even revolutionary work. Remes's style is so assured with such a light and knowing touch that the reader is propelled through the book from first page to last. -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie MachineThis theoretically sophisticated book about a set of exemplary avant-garde films during which there is either “nothing” to see or “nothing” to hear, or both, is a remarkably fun read. Justin Remes is a magician who makes Nothing in cinema Something! -- Scott MacDonald, editor of Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde CinemaAbsence in Cinema is about mysterious gaps and thwarted expectations. Starting from the idea that “every absence is a presence in disguise”, Justin Remes combines aesthetic analysis with psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to construct a powerful theory of erasure in experimental film culture. Taking in invisible art, soundless music and wordless poetry, Absence in Cinema is as incisive and radical as its subject matter. -- Holly Rogers, author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art MusicAn important, vital contribution to film studies that will appeal to all scholars, students, and (especially) teachers of cinema...Highly recommended. * Choice *A witty, richly detailed book... a delight to read. * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Voids1. Walter Ruttman and the Blind Film2. Stan Brakhage and the Birth of Silence3. Naomi Uman and the Peekaboo Principle4. Martin Arnold’s Disappearing ActConclusion: Nothing Is ImportantFilmographyNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Hollywoods Artists
Book SynopsisVirginia Wright Wexman offers a groundbreaking history of how movie directors became cinematic auteurs that reveals and pinpoints the influence of the Directors Guild of America. Hollywood’s Artists sheds new light on the ways in which the DGA has shaped the role and image of directors both within the Hollywood system and in the culture at large.Trade ReviewVirginia Wright Wexman’s original, fine-grained study of the Directors’ Guild of America shows us how that organization helped shape the idea of the film director as author, how it managed political tensions within Hollywood, and how it negotiated major changes in the industry. Based on extensive research, this is a revealing and highly important contribution to U.S. film history. -- James Naremore, Indiana UniversityHollywood’s Artists is a groundbreaking study of the Directors Guild of America—viewing it not primarily as a traditional union, but as an organization that has fought for the recognition of its members as artists. Wexman provides a well-researched history of earlier organizations leading up to the formation of the DGA, the cultural context for its claims of artistry (including European traditions and the auteur theory), the effects of the rise of television, as well as a discussion of a controversial moment in its history during the McCarthy era, the HUAC hearings, and the persecution of the “Hollywood Ten.” Furthermore, she examines the notion of the director as authority figure (which requires “charisma”) as well as the legal battles engaged in by the organization. Finally, Wexman explores new challenges to film directors in the current era involving the ascendancy of digital effects and streaming services, as well as the globalization of the industry. In sum, a thorough and masterful study. -- Lucy Fischer, author of Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film HistoryThis book fills a significant void in film history and offers an original and important argument about the role of the director in the ‘authorship’ of Hollywood films. -- Tom Schatz, University of Texas at Austin[A] concise and lucid history of how the Directors Guild focused upon the authorship of film. * Film Quarterly *Introduces academic audiences to the nuances of labor, law, and DGA politics by providing extensive sources from practitioners and adding context to famous moments in DGA history . . . Recommended. * Choice *Wexman has written a perceptive and interesting account of the Guild’s development and its underlying values. * Film & History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Directors as Artists: The DGA Rides the Wave2. Charisma and Competition: The DGA Stakes Its Claim3. Recognition: The DGA Takes Credit4. Politics: The DGA Stages HUAC5. Law: The DGA and Artists as OwnersConclusionAppendix A. Beyond Creative RightsAppendix B. Chronology of the Directors Guild of AmericaAppendix C. Officers of the Directors Guild of AmericaAppendix D. Chronology of the Artists Rights FoundationNotesBibliographyIndex
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