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Legare Street Press Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 1921 12
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Legare Street Press Motion Picture News Oct 1915 21
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Legare Street Press The Technique of Motion Picture Production a Symposium of Papers Presented at the 51st Semiannual Convention of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers Hollywood California
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Legare Street Press Motion Picture News Oct 1915 21
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Legare Street Press Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 1924 181920
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Legare Street Press Photographic Optics and Colour Photography electronic Resource
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Legare Street Press American Cinematographer 1924 4
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Legare Street Press Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 1923 1617
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LEGARE STREET PR My Ivory Cellar the Story of Timelapse Photography
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LEGARE STREET PR My Ivory Cellar the Story of Timelapse Photography
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LEGARE STREET PR Practical Cinematography and Its Applications
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LEGARE STREET PR Handbook of Projection for Theatre Managers and Motion Picture Projectionists
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LEGARE STREET PR Handbook of Projection for Theatre Managers and Motion Picture Projectionists
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LEGARE STREET PR The Film Industry
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LEGARE STREET PR The Film Industry
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LEGARE STREET PR The Story of the Motion Picture
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LEGARE STREET PR Die Kinematographie
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LEGARE STREET PR Living Pictures Their History Photoproduction And Practical Working. With A Digest Of British Patents And Annotated Bibliography
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LEGARE STREET PR Living Pictures Their History Photoproduction And Practical Working. With A Digest Of British Patents And Annotated Bibliography
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Vincent Weberink Stories In Motion
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The Bright Minds Publishing Comment devenir orateur
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Miss May Does Not Exist
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Darkness in the BlissOut
Book SynopsisJames Kendrick is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009) and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also the film and video critic for QNetwork.com.Trade ReviewJames Kendrick is that rare critic who sees and understands the dark side of Steven Spielberg’s films. Kendrick perceptively explores the ways that Spielberg has grappled in film with the nature of human suffering and with personal and historical trauma. Kendrick reveals a depth of complexity in the films that challenges the popular understanding of Spielberg as being mainly a director of popcorn movies. -- Stephen Prince, Professor of Cinema Studies, Virginia Tech, USA, and author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of TerrorismThis is a necessary book – I would say indispensable to Spielberg studies. The book develops the current burgeoning critical mass of scholarly writings on Spielberg in new ways, and is a timely addition to the field. Kendrick is an elegant writer, has grounded his persuasive close readings in a thorough account of film historical and critical contexts, and presents his case with due scholarly rigor. -- Linda Ruth Williams, Professor of Film, University of Southampton, UK“By reinterpreting a significant number of Spielberg’s films, James Kendrick has convincingly argued that dark, unsettling themes and tones permeate his entire output, not just his more ‘serious’ films such as Schindler’s List or Amistad. This book is an important, thought-provoking addition to the growing film studies scholarship devoted to Spielberg.” -- Warren Buckland, Reader in Film Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK, and author of Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006)Taking a fresh and original approach to many Spielberg films that have been scorned or misunderstood, such as the great A. I. and the flawed but fascinating 1941, James Kendrick concentrates on the dark side of Spielberg that only began to be seriously noticed after Schindler's List. In this lively, insightful, provocative study, Kendrick demolishes the conventional wisdom of Spielberg's detractors, showing how ridiculously misguided many of them are, and challenges those of us who have written more favorably on this great director to reconsider or deepen our positions. A major advance in the field of Spielberg studies. -- Joseph McBride, Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University, USA, and author of Steven Spielberg: A BiographyKendrick's book is that rare thing: eminently readable, yet suitably academic. He does not just cover well-travelled ground but examines marginalised, if not underappreciated, works in the Spielberg canon, thus offering something new for contemplation and analysis . . . This is refreshing, thought-provoking criticism. -- Adrian Schober * Senses of Cinema *James Kendrick’s 'reconsideration' of Steven Spielberg’s directorial output invites readers to 'move past comfortable surfaces' to the films’ 'more disturbing and unsettling aspects.' Sensitive textual analysis of selected examples identifies, explores, and explains troubling themes recurrent across Spielberg’s work, while refusing to fall back on received critical opinion. Kendrick’s clear, accessible opening eases from personal response into impressively concise treatment of elements of film history and theory that have conventionally defined Spielberg’s status and reputation. Authoritative examination of a range of approaches, including biography and aesthetics, sociology of suburbia, narrative structure, and Jungian patterns, amounts to a provocation of Spielberg’s diehard critics. Kendrick’s offering is highly recommended to readers within film and cultural studies and beyond. It digs out powerful evidence of filmmaking that is complex and knowing in its engagement with the full spectrum of experience. -- Nigel Morris, Principal Lecturer in Media Theory, University of Lincoln, UK, and author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light (2007)Rather than repeat the traditional criticism that Spielberg's films are upbeat crowd pleasers, Kendrick presents a solid confirmation that the "darkness" more obvious in Schindler's List and Munich, in Lincoln and Amistad, was present in films as early as Sugarland Express and Jaws […]This treatment establishes that the auteur is more than an audience pleaser, not just another pretty face. In his pre-publication review of this book, Nigel Morris, author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light, suggests that Kendrick's "see-agains" moves him into the audience of elite moviegoers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers. -- Allan Hirsh, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction—Steven Spielberg and the Politics of Bliss Chapter 1—'I Didn’t Want to See This': Weekend America and Its Discontents in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and Poltergeist Chapter 2—'Americans Fighting Americans': Incoherence and Animal Comedy in 1941 Chapter 3—'What Exactly Are We Applauding?' Indiana Jones and the Ideologies of Heroism and American Exceptionalism Chapter 4—'Lost and Done For:' The Rejection of War Fantasies in Empire of the Sun and War Horse Chapter 5—'For the World’s More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand': Humanity and Inhumanity in A.I. Artificial Intelligence Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dark Energy
Trade ReviewIn the end, Dark Energy has the considerable virtue of raising questions not only about the value of the particular scientific analogies he develops but of the value of argument by analogy in general. * Hitchcock Annual *Throughout the book, Skerry's enthusiasm is obvious, both for Hitchcock and for popular cosmology. Aficionados of Hitchcock will find new language with which to marvel, and those humanists with an interest in physics will find inviting ways to engage landmark theories of the last century. -- Anthony Collamati, Alma College, US * Cinema Journal *To link Einstein with cinema and Hitchcock with modern physics is a daring experiment, and works on many levels. It is delightful for a physicist (and Hitchcock fan) to see terms like spacetime, antimatter, dark energy, black hole, entropy, etc. turn up as metaphors in a Hitchcock study. A thoroughly enjoyable read. -- Nandor Bokor, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HungaryThe 20th Century scientific theories of relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology substantially changed the way we view the world. In interweaving these revolutions and their implications with the concurrent emergence of moving images as the predominant means of cultural expression, exemplified by their arguably greatest artist and innovator, Phil Skerry does much more than find a fresh angle on the depth in light and dark, the order and chaos in Hitchcock’s visual storytelling. Always careful to emphasize that his approach implies the application of universal scientific truths only as metaphors to the most comprehensive (and, as Skerry argues, indeed spatiotemporal art form), he yet paints a bigger and most intriguing picture on how the 20th century zeitgeist was shaped through seeing the world differently, both in science and cinema. A most engrossing read, admirably aiming to bridge the regrettable modern gap between sciences and arts, via the genius of the likes of Einstein and Hitchcock, and finding nothing less than philosophy therein. -- Ulrich Ruedel, Conservation Technology Manager at British Film Institute National Archive, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Science, Technology and Hitchcock; 2: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Physics; 3: Neurocinematics and Hitchcock's theory of suspense; 4: Three "Princes of Dark Energy": Uncle Charlie, Bruno, and Norman Bates; 5: Space and Place; 6: Vertigo and Psycho - The shower and the bell tower; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Conversations with Gus Van Sant
Book SynopsisOne of the most talented and imaginative artists of independent cinema, Gus Van Sant established himself with a number of important movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning with Mala Noche, the 1986 gay classic of personal film expression, followed by two key works of the American indie movement, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, Van Sant films often feature characters on the borders of mainstream society. Subsequent films included hits, misses, and a notorious remake of Psycho. Regardless of the critical or commercial response to his work, Van Sant has maintained a vision that is unique among contemporary filmmakers. Conversations with Gus Van Sant is the first critical study to include both extensive original interviews with the director as well as discussions of his entire body of work. The exchanges between film scholar Mario Falsetto and the indie filmmaker cover fifteen films directed by Van Sant over a period of thirty years. Throughout these discussions, VTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Hustlers, Addicts and Shakespeare in Portland The Films: The Portland Trilogy: Mala Noche, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho Conversations 1 Chapter Two: Misfires, Mainstream Success, and an Art Experiment The Films: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho, Finding Forrester Conversations 2 Chapter Three: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 1 The Films: Gerry, Elephant Conversations 3 Chapter Four: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 2 The Films: Last Days, Paranoid Park Conversations 4 Chapter Five: Queer Politics, an “Issue” Film, Death (Again), and the Wrap-Up The Films: Milk, Restless, Promised Land Conversations 5 Filmography Index About the Author
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Werner Herzog Interviews
Book SynopsisOver the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on all his major films. Together, these interviews offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Otto Preminger Interviews
Book SynopsisPresents interviews from across Otto Preminger's career, providing fascinating insights into the methods and mindset of a wildly polarizing filmmaker. With remarkable candour, Preminger discusses his filmmaking practices, his distinctive film style, his battles against censorship, his clashes with film critics, and his turbulent relationships.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Su Friedrich Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first volume dedicated exclusively to Su Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich’s films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sofia Coppola Interviews
Book SynopsisThe conversations compiled in this volume mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Book SynopsisSebastian Manley completed a PhD in film studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. He has written on subjects including Hal Hartley, independent cinema, early British film and Jan Svankmajer, and maintains a blog on animals in film called The Cinematic Animal.Trade ReviewFinally, a book about quintessential, and maverick, American independent auteur Hal Hartley! Sebastian Manley cogently analyzes Hartley's anomalous, low budget, 'smart' films, covering both his Long Island suburban films—The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men—and more urban, more global works—Flirt, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and others. That Manley also studies Hartley's independent shorts constitutes a refreshing, much needed, addition to discussions of how 'indie' careers evolve, and why independent film survives. Hartley's distinctive approach to the business of film production, coupled with his iconoclastic stylistic and narrative choices, distinguish his work, as Manley carefully demonstrates, from that of other independent filmmakers, chief among them David Mamet, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, and Richard Linklater, as does his creative presence not just as writer/director, but also often as composer, producer, and editor. Eminently readable, with two revelatory interviews with Hartley collaborators appended as a bonus, The Cinema of Hal Hartley is a welcome, and long overdue, appraisal of one of the most important contributors to contemporary independent film. -- Chris Holmlund, Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French, University of Tennessee, USAn excellent and authoritative study of the films of Hal Hartley, offering substantial new insights into the distinctive qualities of his work and key aspects of the wider independent context in which it is situated. -- Geoff King, Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University, UKSebastian Manley's study of Hal Hartley is an exemplary analysis of a quintessential American independent filmmaker, weaving together production and reception background with trenchant readings of the films. It is especially insightful in considering Hartley's investment in place and its development across his career. -- Michael Z. Newman, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising, & Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA most welcome contribution to the scholarly work on Hal Hartley, a filmmaker who has been, until recently, somewhat neglected in academic writing on independent cinema. This book examines Hartley’s auteur status and places his work within the broader context of American independent cinema, offering important observations on the key points of departure which distinguish Hartley’s films from the more frequently studied examples of commercial indie. An interesting, accessible and engaging account, The Cinema of Hal Hartley will be a valuable addition to reading lists for students of American independent cinema. -- Claire Molloy, Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, Department of Media, Edge Hill University, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Long Island ‘Trilogy’: The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992) Chapter 2 New Horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995) Chapter 3 Imaginative Fictions/Social Realities: The Book of Life (1998), No Such Thing (2001) and The Girl from Monday (2005) Chapter 4 From Old Territory to New: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006) Chapter 5 The Short Films: From Kid (1984) to the PF2 Collection Conclusion Appendix A Interview with Michael Spiller Appendix B Interview with Steve Hamilton Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wild Sound
Book SynopsisMichael Pigott is Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2013).
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Cascade Books Perfect in Weakness
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