Films, cinema Books
Insight Editions Harry Potter Spiral Notebook
Book SynopsisConjure a spell for success with this 144-page lined spiral notebook inspired by the HARRY POTTERTM films. The perfect notebook for students or Potter fans of all ages, it features adorable graphics, indexed pages, and a foldout sticker sheet of your favorite magical characters, creatures, and artifacts.
£13.91
Insight Editions Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron
Book SynopsisExplore the creative evolution of James Cameron through this exclusive journey into his personal art archives, showcasing a range of rare and never-before-seen works from the acclaimed director’s private collection.James Cameron has blazed a trail through the cinematic landscape with a series of groundbreaking films that have each become deeply embedded in the popular imagination. But while Cameron has created and employed advanced filmmaking technologies to realize his unique vision, his process of creative ideation began with pen, pencil, and paints long before he picked up a camera. Cameron displayed remarkable ability at an early age, filling sketchbooks with illustrations of alien creatures, faraway worlds, and technological wonders. As he grew older, his art became increasingly sophisticated, exploring major themes that would imbue his later work—from the threat of nuclear catastrophe to the dangers inherent in the development of artificial intelligence. Working in the film industry in his twenties, Cameron supported himself by illustrating theatrical posters and concept art for low-budget films before creating the visionary concept pieces that would help greenlight his first feature, The Terminator. For the first time, Tech Noir brings together a dazzling and diverse array of personal and commercial art from Cameron’s own collection, showcasing the trajectory of ideas that led to such modern classics as The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar. Including everything from his earliest sketches through to unrealized projects and his acclaimed later work, this book features the filmmaker’s personal commentary on his creative and artistic evolution throughout the years. A unique journey into the mind of a creative powerhouse, Tech Noir is the ultimate exploration of one of cinema’s most imaginative innovators.
£47.20
Insight Editions Star Wars: The Tiny Book of Jedi (Tiny Book):
Book SynopsisHold a thousand generations of Jedi history in the palm of your hand with Star Wars: The Tiny Book of Jedi.This tiny book compiles the lore behind the most legendary Jedi and Light Side heroes from every era of Star Wars, from Yoda, to Luke Skywalker, Ezra Bridger, Rey, and beyond. Packed with dazzling art, this pocket-sized book is part of Insight Editions’ new collectible series of tiny books — the perfect gift for any Star Wars fan. Hold Jedi lore in the palm of your hand: A pocket-sized format makes this book the cutest addition to your Star Wars bookshelf. A cloth bookmark also lets you hang this tiny book as an ornament or keepsake. The perfect Star Wars gift: Great as a stocking stuffer, or as a novelty gift for your favorite Star Wars fan, this tiny book is sure to please readers of all ages. Discover Jedi wisdom: This tiny book features quotes from and fun facts about Jedi from all of Star Wars. From the Jedi Order to the Age of Resistance, this is a fun and exciting overview of beloved Jedi and Light Side heroes. Packed with art: Experience a range of iconic illustrations and photographs spanning the Star Wars films, television shows, novels, and beyond.
£999.99
MA Music, Leisure and Travel Gramophone Presents Film Music
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£12.34
ECW Press,Canada Sinemania!: A Satirical Expose of the Most
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£21.59
ECW Press,Canada A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday
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£24.64
ECW Press,Canada Gentlemen Of The Shade: My Own Private Idaho: pop
Book SynopsisGus Van Sant s film and the 90s cult of the alternative
£12.34
Upfront Publishing The Lovejoy Trail
Book SynopsisA comprehensive list of many of the locations used in the TV series 'Lovejoy'. Locations in Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Essex.
£20.89
Titan Books Ltd World War Z The Art of the Film
Book SynopsisWorld War Z is the eagerly awaited film starring Brad Pitt. The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to annihilate humanity itself.World War Z: The Art of the Film is the official illustrated companion to the movie, and features a wealth of stunning production art, design sketches and storyboards, alongside the full shooting script.(TM) & © 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
£15.29
Equinox Publishing Ltd Representations of Antiquity in Film: From Griffith to Grindhouse
Book SynopsisRepresentations of Antiquity in Film offers an introduction to how the ancient world is represented in film and especially Hollywood cinema. McGeough considers the potential that movies have for helping us think about antiquity and their relationship to more traditional academic historical work. The book shows how contemporary issues are drawn out through the cinematic presentations of the past and how modern values are naturalized through their presentation in ancient settings. Through discussion of films from the silent film era to the present, McGeough traces the formative role that films of various genres have had in shaping our perceptions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Greece, Rome, barbarian Europe, and the Maya. Not ignoring the traditional historical epic film, the book also presents detailed analyses of comedies, action films, art house fare, exploitation flicks and any type of movie in which audiences experience depictions of the past. By considering cinematic narrative as well as various elements of film design, McGeough presents a comprehensive overview of the topic designed for students and scholars with varying backgrounds in media studies, archaeology, religious studies, and ancient history.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Importance of Popular Culture Chapter 1. Film as History and History as Hyperreality Chapter 2. Epic Egyptian Kitsch: Historical Thinking and Statecraft in the Cinematic Ancient World Chapter 3. Nero the Nazi and Akhenaten the Lutheran: The Presentism of the Ancient World on Film Chapter 4. Evil Seductresses, Feisty Housewives, and the Temptation of Victor Mature Chapter 5. The Judean People’s Front and Jesus’s Mod Tour Bus: Musicals and Comedies Set in the Ancient World Chapter 6. From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: The Ancient Epic Subverted Chapter 7. Gods, Monsters, and Musclemen Chapter 8. Cavegirls and the Upper Paleolithic Fur Bikini Chapter 9. The New Epic: Ultraviolence, Comic Books, and CGI Chapter 10. Conclusions
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC All The Best Lines An Informal History of the
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£11.25
Titan Books Ltd Great Showdowns: The Revenge
Book SynopsisThey're back - with a grudge to settle! Following the bestselling first and second volumes, here's an all-new collection of artist Scott C's strangely good- natured confrontations between his favorite movie characters. These memorable moments of melee deserve to be celebrated - once more, with feeling! Ladies and gentlemen, presenting: Great Showdowns - The Revenge. 'Featuring a foreword by acclaimed comedian Paul Scheer!'Trade Review"In this beautifully funny chronicle of the world's most momentous confrontations, there is only one true victor. And his name is Scott Campbell." - Edgar Wright. "It's smart. It's simple. It's hilarious." - Neil Patrick Harris. "Scott Campbell really is some kind of genius." - Mike Mignola.
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Abbas Kiarostami and Iranian National Cinema
Book SynopsisIranian cinema explored through its greatest filmmaker
£72.00
Berghahn Books Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its
Book Synopsis By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”Trade Review “Taken together, the essays [by a diverse group of international scholars] create a coherent whole representing the richness of film production before, during, and after DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft), the state-owned East German film production company at the loose center of this [useful and compelling] collection.” • Choice “…a significant contribution to contemporary DEFA scholarship…with an emphasis on breaking open temporal and spatial boundaries. The superb introduction offers an incisive overview of the rapid evolution of DEFA scholarship over the past 25 years, and invites readers to re-imagine DEFA within a much broader framework of both German and global filmmaking histories and traditions… The diversity of approaches offered here and throughout the entire volume affirms the power and promise of transnational and transtemporal inquiry; thanks to projects like this, and the rich resources of both German archives and the DEFA Film Library, our appreciation of DEFA’s multiple legacies will only continue to grow.” • Monatshefte “It is in the marvellous orchestration of case studies of films, stars, stylistic means and genres that Allan and Heiduschke, [two of the most respected scholars of East German film culture], provide to scholars a multi-layered exploration in DEFAs national and transnational contexts, while also opening up their book to a broader readership to take it on a fascinating journey into DEFA’s rich past.” • Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television “Berghahn is known for its publication of excellent books on German Cinema within its catalog. This recent work proves no exception to the rule. Including fifteen essays by well known scholars in the field aware of the changing complexities of subject matter and well versed in necessary archive research, [it] presents a fine collection exploring a cinema that is very little known to most Western viewers…a sterling example of what a scholarly academic anthology should be, an excellent model in its own right that should stimulate others to investigate this former national cinema and not consign it to oblivion.” • Film International “Re-Imagining DEFA represents a comprehensive examination of East German film-making at every level of production and distribution which will appeal both to readers familiar with and those who are new to East German cinema. As the title suggests, each chapter in this volume is characterized by the idea of looking anew at both familiar and also overlooked material…[It] represents a clear milestone in East German Film Studies and not only serves as an excellent starting point for those new to East German Film Studies, but also opens up fascinating new avenues of exploration for scholars in the field.” • Modern Language Review “This is an excellent book that includes among its contributors many of the most respected scholars on DEFA and East German cinema. There is an impressive array of critical and historical approaches on offer here, reflecting the breadth of scholarship on the subject and relating GDR film to a whole array of other areas and disciplines from Third Cinema to science fiction.” • Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz “Looking back from what is now 25 years after reunification, this fine and original collection of essays represents a new phase in scholarship on East German films and filmmakers, one that builds on the achievements of past research while asking valuable new questions.” • Brad Prager, University of MissouriTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-Imagining East German Cinema Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke PART I: INSTITUTIONS & IDEOLOGY Chapter 1. The State-Owned Cinema Industry and Its Audience Rosemary Stott Chapter 2. History and Subjectivity. The Evolution of DEFA Film Music Larson Powell Chapter 3. ‘Fatal Attractions’. Modernist Set Design and the East-West Divide in DEFA Films of the 1950s and early 1960s Annette Dorgerloh PART II: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS Chapter 4. DEFA and the Legacy of Film Europe. Prestige, Institutional Exchange, and Film Co-Productions Mariana Ivanova Chapter 5. Betting on Entertainment. The Cold War Scandal of Spielbank-Affäre [Casino Affair, 1957] Stefan Soldovieri Chapter 6. ‘Operación Silencio’. Studio H&S’s Chile Cycle as Latin American Third Cinema Dennis Hanlon Chapter 7. Deconstructing Orientalism. DEFA’s Fictions of East Asia Qinna Shen Chapter 8. Transnational Stardom. DEFA’s Management of Dean Reed Seán Allan PART III: GENRE & POPULAR CINEMA Chapter 9. Walter Felsenstein and the DEFA Opera Film Sabine Hake Chapter 10. Dreams of ‘Cosmic Culture’ in Der schweigende Stern [The Silent Star, 1960] Sonja Fritzsche Chapter 11. The DEFA Indianerfilm. Narrating the Postcolonial through Gojko Mitic Evan Torner Chapter 12. Defining Socialist Children’s Films, Defining Socialist Childhoods Benita Blessing PART IV: DEFA’S LEGACY Chapter 13. DEFA’s Last Gasp. Ruins, Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking Nick Hodgin Chapter 14. KLK an PTX. Die Rote Kapelle. DEFA’s Antifascist Myth Revisited Sebastian Heiduschke Chapter 15. DEFA’s Afterimages. Looking Back at the East from the West in Das Leben der Anderen [The Lives of Others, 2006] and Barbara (2012) Daniela Berghahn Bibliography
£36.51
Titan Books Ltd Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus: Inside a Film
Book SynopsisBecome a part of history with this exploration of the art and creation of the Assassin's Creed film. Based on the highly popular game series, the fight between the Assassins and Templars comes to the big screen in Assassin's Creed, directed by Justin Kurzel. This visually stunning book chronicles the creation of this historical epic in vivid detail, including interviews with stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
£29.75
Titan Books Ltd Marvel’s Black Panther: The Illustrated History
Book SynopsisExplore over fifty years of history and art of the first mainstream black superhero, Marvel’s Black Panther, with insight from those who helped create the character himself. From his first appearance in Fantastic Four #52 (1966) to his current New York Times best-selling solo series, the King of Wakanda has been a force to be reckoned with on the page—and now, on the silver screen. A veteran Avenger and a member of the Illuminati, T’Challa’s evolution from being a Jack Kirby and Stan Lee creation, to inspiring his own character-led film for Marvel Studios, to serving as a literal voice of the people and the state of race relations in twenty-first-century America has been legendary. As the first black superhero in mainstream American comics, debuting years before other industry heavy hitters like the Falcon, Luke Cage, and John Stewart (Green Lantern), Black Panther is a seminal figure in pop culture history. This deluxe hardcover book not only covers the history and creation of the character but also features exclusive concept art, layout and sketch art, and interviews.
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Titan Books Ltd Justice League: Official Collector's Edition Book
Book SynopsisThe official companion to the Justice League movie, due to be one of 2017's biggest films!Following the success of Batman Vs. Superman, the second biggest opening for Warner Brothers and the fourth biggest opening of all time, Titan presents the official guide to the WB movie event of 2017, Justice League. This 96-page deluxe collector's edition presents exclusive interviews with cast and crew, behind-the-scenes secrets and concept art, and stunning images from the film.Includes interviews with the full main cast of Justice League, including Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot and Ezra Miller, plus the supporting cast, including Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons and Ciaran Hinds. Also includes behind-the-scenes interviews with the producers of the movie, the costume department and the production design team, and special features on the history of the characters in comics.
£13.49
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West
Book SynopsisMany studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. 'Tropical Dream Palaces' seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema's arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.Trade Review'Tropical Dream Palaces is an intriguing story of the origins, productions, and various development levels of the motion picture industry in the region. … Georg’s book adopts a unique approach in its use of various sources and hermeneutic cues to deliver an engaging history of the connections between cinematics, leisure, and the West African imperial landscape… a pleasurable and educational read.' -- African Studies Review
£40.50
Titan Books Ltd Star Wars: The Galaxy's Greatest Heroes
Book SynopsisThe actors and creators behind 15 of Star Wars' most popular heroes discuss the process behind creating some of the most iconic characters in cinematic history. Includes Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Harrison Ford (Han Solo), and George Lucas (the creator of Star Wars), Lawrence Kasdan (writer: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens), J.J. Abrams (writer, director: The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker), to name a few
£19.79
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Stairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film
Book SynopsisWhat has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a parlous state. The number of films produced in the UK was tiny. Cinema attendance had dipped to an all-time low, cinema buildings were in a state of disrepair and home video had yet to flourish. Since then, while many business challenges - especially for independent producers and distributors - remain, the industry overall has developed beyond recognition. In recent years, as British films have won Oscars, Cannes Palms and Venice Golden Lions, releases such as Love Actually, Billy Elliot, Skyfall, Paddington and the Harry Potter series have found enormous commercial as well as critical success. The UK industry has encouraged, and benefitted from, a huge amount of inward investment, much of it from the Hollywood studios, but also from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council and BFI. This book portrays the visionaries and officials who were at the helm as a digital media revolution began to reshape the industry. Through vivid accounts based on first-hand interviews of what was happening behind the scenes, film commentator and critic Geoffrey Macnab provides in-depth analysis of how and why the British film industry has risen like a phoenix from the ashes.
£24.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film:
Book SynopsisCinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly is the relationship between cinema and modernism? Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film explores how in the early twentieth century cinema came to be seen as one of the new technologies which epitomised modernity and how cinema itself reflected ideas, hopes and fears concerning modern life. Howard Finn examines the emergence of a new ‘international style’ of cinema, combining a poetic aesthetic of the image with genre-based fictional narrative and documentary realism. He provides concise accounts of how theorists such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière have discussed this cinematic aesthetic, clarifying debates over terms such as ‘realism’, ‘classical’ and ‘avant-garde’ as well as recent controversies over terms such as ‘slow cinema’ and ‘vernacular modernism’. He further argues the influence of modernism through close readings of many contemporary films, including films by Abbas Kiarostami, Béla Tarr, Jia Zhangke, and Angela Schanelec. Drawing on a broad range of examples, including Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, postwar new waves and the ‘new cinema’ of Taiwan and Iran, this book explores the cultural significance of modernism and its lasting influence over cinema.Trade ReviewCinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film sets a new standard for discussions of art cinema and modernist film. Finn convincingly argues that key elements of contemporary cinematic modernism are inspired by a commitment to realism, even as such realism is continually questioned and often undermined. The range of films and filmmakers discussed here is impressive and gives readers a comprehensive account of cinematic modernism from its beginnings to the present. -- Richard Rushton, Lancaster University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.What is Modernism? What is Cinema? 2.Cinema and the Modernist Arts: The Cult of the Image 3.Cinematic Modernism in the Silent Film Era 4.Postwar Cinematic Modernism: From Neorealism to the New Wave 5.Postwar Cinematic Modernism: Critical Perspectives 6.The Return of Cinematic Modernism 7.Contemporary Cinematic Modernism: Currents and Controversies 8.Contemporary Cinematic Modernism: An International Style – Commentaries on Ten Contemporary Films Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£85.50
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Titan Books Ltd Gemini Man - The Art and Making of the Movie
Book SynopsisUncover the secrets of Gemini Man in this highly illustrated hardback packed with cast and crew interviews, stills, plus previously unseen concept art. Two-time Academy Award-winner Ang Lee, the director of Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, brings his unique talents to Gemini Man, an innovative action thriller that implements ground-breaking visual effects to deliver a unique and compelling story. Gemini Man follows the elite but aging assassin Henry Brogan (Will Smith) who finds himself suddenly targeted by a mysterious young operative - one who knows his every move. Now the focus of an international manhunt, Brogan must confront his past, his choices, and himself if he plans to survive. Gemini Man - the Art and Making of the Movie offers exclusive concept art, interviews, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of this extraordinary film. Discover Brogan's journey from page to screen, including the progressive VFX and cinematic technology that made the film possible.Trade Review“for fans of the film, fans of Will Smith, and anyone who wants to stay current on the latest and greatest film technology available” - Borg.com
£25.49
Titan Books Ltd Harry Potter: The Film Vault - Volume 2: Diagon
Book SynopsisHarry Potter: The Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and visionary artistry behind the Harry Potter films into a series of twelve deluxe collectible volumes. Each intricately designed book features gorgeous concept art and unit photography from the Warner Bros. archive paired with striking insights about bringing JK Rowling's Wizarding World to the big screen. In addition, a collectible poster accompanies each volume.
£13.49
Titan Books Ltd Harry Potter: The Film Vault - Volume 7:
Book SynopsisThe Harry Potter Film Vault series condenses the rich concept art of the Harry Potter film series into twelve collectible volumes. Harry Potter: The Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and visionary artistry behind the Harry Potter films into a series of twelve deluxe collectible volumes. Each intricately designed book features gorgeous concept art and unit photography from the Warner Bros. archive paired with striking insights about bringing JK Rowling's Wizarding World to the big screen. In addition, a collectible poster accompanies each volume.
£13.49
Titan Books Ltd Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks
Book SynopsisMondo: The Art of Soundtracks highlights the all original art created exclusively for Mondo's vinyl releases by world-renowned artists for film, television, and video game soundtracks. Featuring stunning new takes on classic and modern material, this collection reinvigorates the bygone era of unique and collectible vinyl record artwork. From vintage re-creations to new interpretations, from digital and painterly to photographic and abstract, the record art compiled in this volume captures the spirit of the record label that reinvigorated the soundtrack industry, in a beautiful mash-up fit for a book -- or record -- shelf.
£35.99
Titan Books Ltd Harry Potter - Festivities and Feasts
Book SynopsisEvery event is magical when it's inspired by the imaginative Wizarding World of the Harry Potter films! Bursting with gorgeous photography and sprinkled with fascinating behind-the-scenes film facts, Harry Potter: Festivities & Feasts offers step-by-step instructions on how to create, craft, and cater six unique Harry Potter-themed events. Packed with fun and unique crafts, recipes, and activities, this book includes complete blueprints for a colorful house-themed birthday party, mysterious magical creatures-themed Halloween party, glittering Yule Ball-inspired soiree, cozy movie marathon, elegant Slug Club-themed mixer, and a charming Harry Potter-inspired wedding reception. Each party includes a complete planning strategy, plus ideas, photos, and instructions for decorating your space, catering your buffet table, sending out invitations, creating favors, planning activities, and more. Crafts and menu are chosen to match the occasion, and include projects like our DIY Sorting Hat, decorations like the Deathly Hallows Wreath, party foods like our color-coded Hogwarts House Pizzas, and games like Quidditch Bean Bag Toss. Each project or recipe is easy to make using common household items and ingredients, and many include free downloadable templates based on the original graphic art from the films. With ideas ranging from simple plans for beginner hosts to more elaborate arrangements for experienced party-planners, you can re-create each party in full or mix and match elements to create your own unique celebration. Whether you're planning a casual small gathering or a large-scale formal event, this book includes everything you need to make your next party an event family and friends will not want to miss.
£21.24
Bonnier Books Ltd The Classic Movies Colouring Book
Book SynopsisRevisit more than 40 cinema classics, and add your own creative spin, with quotes, titles and patterns to colour.
£7.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Grace
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Book SynopsisWinston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It’s a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it’s a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of honour. A. L. Kennedy, writing as a Scot, is fascinated by the nationalism which The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp explores. She finds human worth in the film and the pathos of stifled emotions and unfulfilled lives. ‘If he is unaware of his passions, ‘ she writes of Clive Candy, the film’s central figure, ‘this is because his pains have become habitual, a part of personality, and because he was never taught a language that could speak of emotions like pain.’. This edition includes a foreword by the author exploring the film's continuing relevance in an age of Brexit, when English and British national identity are deeply contested concepts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Soho and Home A Love of Flags Manifesto The Matter of Life and Death The Enemy Alien Looking for Lermontov Notes Credits
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)
Book SynopsisKenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, aesthetic and social contexts of this film which is at once rooted in folk legend and a modern artwork released in the aftermath of World War II. This edition includes a new foreword by the authors in which they consider the film's contemporary parallels in modern slavery and children torn from their families by malevolent authorities.Table of ContentsForeword to the 2020 edition Preface Synopsis Sanshô Dayû and the overthrow of history: Carole Cavanaugh Mizo Dayû: Dudley Andrew Notes Credits Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Caché (Hidden)
Book SynopsisEver since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Caché. The film's enigmatic and multi-layered narrative leaves its viewers with many more questions than answers. The plot revolves around the mystery of who is sending a series of sinister videos and drawings to Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil), the presenter of a literary talkshow. As Georges becomes increasingly secretive, much to the distress of his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche), a culprit fails to surface. And even at the film's end, audiences are left struggling to make sense of what has gone before. This hasn't stopped people trying. In an in-depth and illuminating account, Wheatley examines the key themes at the heart of the 'meaning' of Caché: the film as thriller; post-colonial bourgeois guilt; political accountability and lastly, reality, the media and its audiences, tracing these strands through the film by means of close readings of individual scenes and moments. Inspired by the director's claim that we might understand the film as a set of Russian dolls, each of which is complete in itself but together forms a whole in which layers of unseen depth are concealed, Wheatley avoids a single, unifying approach to understanding Caché. Instead, her detailed analysis of the film's shifting perspectives opens up the multiplicity of meanings that Caché contains, in order to understand its secrets. This edition includes a new foreword in which the author reflects upon Caché in the context of Haneke's subsequent work, and considers the film's contemporary resonances in an era of omnipresent surveillance technology and doctored 'fake news' videos.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Beginnings and Endings 1. Whodunit? 2. Home and the Family 3. Politics and Memory 4. Screens and Spectators Conclusion: Hidden Meanings? Notes Credits Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mother India
Book SynopsisMehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic, Gayatri Chatterjee draws on new research in the Mehboob studio archive to outline the film's eventful production history, the ambitious vision of its director, and the performances of its stars. Rooted both in Hindu mythology and in the collective experience of a newly-independent nation-state on the brink of industrialisation and social change, this family melodrama inexorably towards tragedy and renewal. Chatterjee's careful analysis reflects the film's vibrancy and passion and illuminates its many aspects - performance styles, reception and reputation, mythological underpinnings, its relationship to India's post-Independence culture and politics, and its many references to the history of a country in transition. In her foreword to this new edition, the author reflects upon the film's impact at the time of its release, and its continuing resonance for audiences in many different countries around the world.Table of ContentsForeword to the 2020 Edition Acknowledgements 'Mother India' Notes Credits Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship
Book SynopsisDrawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - ‘field’, ‘frame’ and ‘interval’ and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Bruce Baillie, Maya Deren, Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes, from the 1920s through to the present day. A seminal voice in film culture, Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death, and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film.Trade ReviewAl Rees's testament is a cinematic thinking: film and world swooping towards each other across a landscape of fields and intervals, projections and geometries, movements in and of time and space. On every page, the generosity of the man, the curator and the teacher shape new insights into our audiovisual century and its lineage. A work of permanent illumination. -- Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen Studies, University of Melbourne, AustraliaIn the unlikely event that there was any doubt, Fields of View affirms A.L. Rees as one of experimental cinema’s most erudite, insightful, and passionate critics and advocates. His writings, which range across a breathtaking array of subjects, ideas, works, and references, are intelligent - frequently brilliant - without ever devoting into intellectualism. They are astonishingly well-read without succumbing to mere scholasticism; we never lose the sense of an original voice, a distinct sensibility, and a great mind. Like all the best critical writing, Rees’s is itself elegant, artful, provocative, and personal. This collection of essays is an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with Rees, and a reminder to those of us who already knew his writing how important he was (and remains), and what great writing about art looks like. -- Dr Jonathan Walley, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema, Denison University, USAIn this posthumous collection of essays, A.L. Rees has woven his outstanding knowledge of avant-garde film into a startlingly original, and non-linear, reconfiguration of its history. With great agility and lightness of touch, his perceptive but unexpected juxtapositions between theorists and artists, ideas and technologies, movements and moments throw new light on key issues of film theory and aesthetics. This radical rejection of chronology, however, has an underlying message. Rees traces ways in which experimental art and artists’ film have challenged traditions of space and time that, rather than abrupt rupture, create a direct connection with the forms of digital art. In the brilliant last chapters of the book, he zeroes in on this dialectic. -- Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.Table of ContentsForeword: Harvesting Fields Acknowledgements Fields Film Machine Film as Optic and Idea Expanding Cinema Room Films Film Objects Projection Space Time Frames Realisms Asymptote Digital Dialectic Fields in Braque and Gehr Classic Film Theory and the Spectator Field and Gestalt Monet, Lumière and Cinematic Time Displacement, Sculpture Bodies in Motion Intervals Methods of Montage Frames Frames and Windows Constructivism and Computers Geometry of Intervals Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara)
Book SynopsisRitwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as ‘one of the great classics of world cinema’ (Adrian Martin), and ‘one of the five or six greatest melodramas in cinema history’ (Serge Daney). A striking blend of modernist aesthetics and melodramatic force, it is arguably the best-known film by Ghatak, widely considered to be one of the most original, politically committed, and formally innovative film-makers from India. The film’s focus on a family uprooted by the Partition of India and its powerful exploration of displacement and historical trauma gives it a renewed relevance in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Manishita Dass situates the film in its historical and cultural contexts and within Ghatak’s film-making career, and connects it to his theatrical work and his writings on film and theatre. Her close reading of the film locates its emotional and intellectual power in what she describes as its ‘cinematic theatricality,’ and brings into focus Ghatak’s modernist experiments with melodramatic devices, his deliberate departures from cinematic realism, and distinctive use of sound and music. The book draws on extensive archival research, excavates new layers of meaning, and offers fresh insights into the cosmopolitan cinematic sensibility of a director described as ‘one of the most neglected major film-makers in the world’ (Jonathan Rosenbaum).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prefatory Note/Synopsis 1. Introduction: Echoes of a Cry 2. Chronicler of Troubled Times 3. A Familiar Face 4. Cinematic Theatricality
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Story of British Propaganda Film
Book SynopsisAll art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the War on Terror' and beyond, The Story of British Propaganda Film shows how the emergence of film as a global media phenomenon reshaped practices of propaganda, while new practices of propaganda in turn reshaped the use of the moving image. It explores classic examples of cinematic propaganda such as The Battle of the Somme (1916), Listen to Britain (1942) and Animal Farm (1954) alongside little-known newsreels, telemagazines' and digital media initiatives, in the process challenging our understanding of propaganda itself, and its many diverse manifestations.Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film, and how it has filtered our understanding of modern British history, from narratives of decolonisation to the celebration of pop culture and t
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)
Book SynopsisIn Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much younger Moroccan migrant worker. Set in Munich during the 1970s, the film melds the conventions of melodrama with a radical sensibility to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in post-war Germany. It is a film about the way conventional society detests anything and anybody unfamiliar - but also a film about the hopes and limits of love. Intricately directed, beautifully performed, and designed to show Munich life in all its shabby kitschiness, Fear Eats the Soul may be Fassbinder’s finest film. Laura Cottingham celebrates Fassbinder’s achievement, placing Fear Eats the Soul in relation to his extraordinarily prolific career in theatre, film and television. Her analysis pulls back the thin curtain that separated his work from his tumultuous life. She also explores the director’s debt to the lush Hollywood melodramas made by fellow German Douglas Sirk, especially All That Heaven Allows (1955). In a detailed scene-by-scene analysis, Cottingham shows how Fassbinder managed to combine beauty and tenderness with fierce political critique.Table of ContentsForeword to the 2020 Edition A Career of Despair The Theatre and its Anti-Teater An Imperfect Realism Mirroring Douglas Sirk The Story of a Marriage 'Fear Eats the Soul' Notes Credits Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Caravaggio
Book SynopsisCaravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a sentimentalising of gay relationships and in making no neat distinction between the exercise and the suffering of violence. Film-making involves a coercive power which, for Bersani and Dutoit, Jarman may, without admitting it to himself, have found deeply seductive. But in Caravaggio this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman’s most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity.Table of ContentsDerek Jarman’s Caravaggio Notes Credits
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 100 Bible Films
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Höritz Passion Play was filmed in the Czech Republic back in 1897. Ever since, these stories have inspired musicals, comedies, sci-fi, surrealist visions and the avant-garde not to mention spawning their own genre, the biblical epic. Filmmakers across six continents and from all kinds of religious perspectives (or none at all), have adapted the greatest stories ever told, delighting some and infuriating others. 100 Bible Films is the indispensable guide to this wide and varied output, providing an authoritative but accessible history of biblical adaptations through one hundred of the most interesting and significant biblical films. Richly illustrated with film stills, this book depicts how such films have undertaken a complex negotiation between art, commerce, entertainment and religion. Matthew Page traces the screen history of the biblical stories from the very earliest silent passion plays, via the golden ages of the biblical epic, through to more innovative and controversial later films as well as covering significant TV adaptations. He discusses films made not only by some of our greatest filmmakers, artists such as Martin Scorsese, Jean Luc Godard, Alice Guy, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lotte Reiniger, Carl Dreyer and Luis Buñuel, but also those looking to explore their faith or share it with lovers of cinema the world over.Trade ReviewMatthew Page’s impressive book on the history of scripture adaptations is a Christian cinephile’s dream, covering everything from five-minute silent films to four-hour Italian epics. ... it is an insightful addition to your bookshelves. * Premier Christianity magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (1898) - Georges Hatot and Louis Lumière: France 2. Martyrs Chrétiens ("Christian Martyrs", 1905) - Lucien Nonguet: France 3. La Vie du Christ ("The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ", 1906) - Alice Guy: France 4. Vie et passion de N.S. Jésus-Christ ("The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ", 1907) - Ferdinand Zecca: France 5. Jephthah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton: US 6. L'Exode (The Exodus, 1910) - Louis Feuillade: France 7. Jaël et Sisera (1911) - Henri Andréani: France 8. From the Manger to the Cross (1912) - Sidney Olcott: US 9. Judith of Bethulia (1914) - D.W. Griffith: US 10. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) - D.W. Griffith: US 11. Blade af Satans bog ("Leaves From Satan's Book", 1920) - Carl Theodor Dreyer: Denmark 12. La Sacra Bibbia ("After Six Days", 1920) - Pier Antonio Gariazzo and Armando Vey: Italy 13. Der Galiläer ("The Passion Play", 1921) - Dimitri Buchowetzki: Germany 14. Salomé (1922) - Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova: US 15. Sodom und Gomorrha ("The Queen of Sin", 1922) - Michael Curtiz: Germany/Austria 16. The Ten Commandments (1923) - Cecil B. DeMille: US 17. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - Fred Niblo: US 18. The King of Kings (1927) - Cecil B. DeMille: US 19. Noah's Ark (1928) - Michael Curtiz: US 20. Lot in Sodom (1933) - Melville Webber and James Sibley Watson: US 21. Golgotha ("Behold the Man", 1935) - Julien Duvivier: France 22. The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) - Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper: US 23. The Green Pastures (1936) - Marc Connelly and William Keighley: US 24. Jesús de Nazareth (1942) - José Díaz Morales: Mexico 25. Samson and Delilah (1949) - Cecil B. DeMille: US 26. David and Bathsheba (1951) - Henry King: US 27. Quo Vadis (1951) - Mervyn LeRoy: US 28. The Robe (1953) - Henry Koster: US 29. Sins of Jezebel (1953) - Reginald Le Borg: US 30. The Prodigal (1955) - Richard Thorpe: US 31. The Ten Commandments (1956) - Cecil B. DeMille: US 32. The Star of Bethlehem (1956) - Lotte Reiniger: UK 33. Celui qui doit mourir ("He Who Must Die", 1957) - Jules Dassin: France/Italy 34. Solomon and Sheba (1959) - King Vidor: US 35. Ben-Hur (1959) - William Wyler: US 36. Esther and the King (1960) - Raoul Walsh and Mario Bava: Italy/US 37. The Story of Ruth (1960) - Henry Koster: US 38. King of Kings (1961) - Nicholas Ray: US 39. Barabbas (1961) - Richard Fleischer: Italy/US 40. Il vecchio testamento ("The Old Testament", 1962) - Gianfranco Parolini: Italy/France 41. Il vangelo secondo Matteo ("The Gospel According to St. Matthew", 1964) - Pier Paolo Pasolini: Italy/France 42. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) - George Stevens: US 43. I grandi condottieri ("Samson and Gideon", 1965) - Marcello Baldi and Francisco Pérez-Dolz: Italy/Spain 44. The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) - John Huston: Italy/US 45. Les Actes des apôtres ("Acts of the Apostles", 1969) - Roberto Rossellini: France/Italy/ Spain/West Germany/Tunisia 46. La voie lactée ("The Milky Way", 1969) - Luis Buñuel: France/Italy/West Germany 47. Son of Man (1969) - Gareth Davies: UK 48. Jesús, nuestro Señor ("Jesus, our Lord", 1971) - Miguel Zacarías: Mexico 49. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) - Norman Jewison: US 50. Godspell (1973) - David Greene: US 51. Moses und Aron (1975) - Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: West Germany/Austria/France/Italy 52. Il messia ("The Messiah", 1975) - Roberto Rossellini: Italy/France 53. The Passover Plot (1976) - Michael Campus: Israel/US 54. Jesus of Nazareth (1977) - Franco Zeffirelli: Italy/UK/US 55. Karunamayudu ("Man of Compassion", 1978) - A. Bhimsingh and Christopher Coelho: India 56. Jesus (1979) - John Krish and Peter Sykes: US 57. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones: UK 58. Camminacammina ("Keep Walking", 1983) - Ermanno Olmi: Italy 59. Je vous salue, Marie ("Hail Mary", 1985) - Jean-Luc Godard: France/Switzerland/UK 60. King David (1985) - Bruce Beresford: UK/US 61. Esther (1986) - Amos Gitai: Austria/Israel/UK 62. Samson dan Delilah (1987) - Sisworo Gautama Putra: Indonesia 63. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Martin Scorsese: Canada/US 64. Jésus de Montréal (1989) - Denys Arcand: Canada/France 65. The Garden (1990) - Derek Jarman: UK/Germany/Japan 66. The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) - Regardt van den Bergh: South Africa 67. Al-mohager ("The Emigrant", 1994) - Youssef Chahine: Egypt/France 68. Jeremiah (1998) - Harry Winer: Italy/Germany/US 69. The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells: US 70. The Book of Life (1998) - Hal Hartley: France/US 71. La Genèse ("Genesis", 1999) - Cheick Oumar Sissoko: Mali/France 72. Jesus (1999) - Roger Young: Italy/USA etc. 73. The Miracle Maker (2000) - Stanislav Sokolov and Derek W. Hayes: Russia/UK 74. The Real Old Testament (2003) - Curtis Hannum and Paul Hannum: US 75. The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003) - Philip Saville: Canada/UK 76. The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson: US 77. Shanti Sandesham ("Message of Peace", 2004) - P. Chandrasekhar Reddy: India 78. Color of the Cross (2006) - Jean Claude LaMarre: US 79. Jezile (Son of Man, 2006) - Mark Dornford-May: South Africa 80. The Nativity Story (2006) - Catherine Hardwicke: US 81. Mesih ("Jesus, the Spirit of God", 2007) - Nader Talebzadeh: Iran 82. The Passion (2008) - Michael Offer: UK 83. El cant dels ocells ("Birdsong", 2008) - Albert Serra: Spain 84. Oversold (2008) - Paul Morrell: US 85. Year One (2009) - Harold Ramis: US 86. Io sono con te ("Let It Be", 2010) - Guido Chiesa: Italy 87. Su re ("The King", 2012) - Giovanni Columbu: Italy 88. The Bible (2013) - Crispin Reece, Tony Mitchell and Christopher Spencer: US 89. Noah (2014) - Darren Aronofsky: US 90. The Savior (2014) - Robert Savo: Palestine/Jordan/Bulgaria 91. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) - Ridley Scott: UK/Spain/US 92. The Red Tent (2014) - Roger Young: US 93. Os Dez Mandamentos: O Filme ("The Ten Commandments: The Movie", 2016) - Alexandre Avancini: Brazil 94. Risen (2016) - Kevin Reynolds: US 95. Get Some Money (2017) - Biko Nyongesa: Kenya 96. Mary Magdalene (2018) - Garth Davis: UK/Australia/US 97. Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018) - Andrew Hyatt: US 98. Seder-Masochism (2018) - Nina Paley: US 99. Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) - Jim Carroll: US 100. Lamentations of Judas (2020) - Boris Gerrets: Netherlands
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On Kubrick: Revised Edition
Book SynopsisIn a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001). Naremore offers provocative analyses of each of Kubrick's films, considering his emphasis on the absurdity of combat, as in Paths of Glory (1957) and Full Metal Jacket (1987), the failure of scientific reasoning, as in 2001 (1968), and the fascistic impulses in masculine sexuality, as in Dr Strangelove (1964) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). He argues that while Kubrick was a voracious intellectual and a life-long autodidact, the fascination of his work has less to do with the ideas it espouses than with the emotions it evokes. Combining close readings with new insights into the production histories and cultural contexts of key films, Naremore provides a concise yet thorough discussion that will be useful to students of Kubrick's filmmaking and cinephiles who seek a deeper insight into the work of this perfectionist genius. Revised throughout, this new edition also includes a fully updated bibliography of critical writings on Kubrick's cinema.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements for the Revised Edition Acknowledgements for the First Edition Introduction to the New Edition: Kubrick’s Cold Modernism and Major Themes PART I Prologue 1. Portrait of the Late Modernist as a Young Photographer 2. Silence, Exile and Cunning 3. Grotesque Aesthetics PART II Early Kubrick 1. No Other Country but the Mind 2. Dream City PART III Kubrick, Harris, Douglas 1. The Criminal and the Artist 2. Ant Hill 3. Dolores, Lady of Pain PART IV Stanley Kubrick Presents 1. Wargasm 2. Beyond the Stars 3. A Professional Piece of Sinny 4. Duelist 5. Horrorshow PART V Late Kubrick 1. Warriors 2. Lovers PART VI Epilogue 1. Summation 2. Some Unproduced Films 3. Love and Death in A. I. Artificial Intelligence Filmography Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity: Film, Fame, and
Book SynopsisChallenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the 17th century and the theatre of the 18th, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today’s celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives – permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the artist’s film, and our self-exhibition on social media. Examining a range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour (2014) , the many remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors, artists, politicians or activists.Trade ReviewIt was an exhilarating read, in its hugely impressive range of references, the unexpected connections it made, and the wide range of films it considered. This is a major study which advances the theorization of melodrama, celebrity culture, and the relationship between the two. -- Sue Thornham, Professor of Media and Film Studies , University of Sussex, UKHere is one of the most astute uses of melodrama theory to analyze popular fiction film, documentary, and television as well as events in popular circulation to have been produced in recent years. It is a work of subtle wit and sharp insight that carries over a tradition at the same time that it supplements it significantly. -- Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, University of Columbia, USAMandy Merck’s exploration of the charms and pitfalls of a self-worth to be gained through the public attention celebrity affords in our media saturated culture is truly an eye-opener. Witty yet scrupulous in its analysis of texts ranging from Rousseau’s theatrical melodrama Pygmalion to Dreiser’s stardom novel Sister Carrie, from the renown tramp in Chaplin’s City Lights to royal prestige in Frears’ The Queen, and culminating in the news notoriety of former congressman Anthony Weiner and whistleblower Edward Snowden, it dissects the long cultural history that has made fame such an interesting thing – on the page, the stage, the screen and in politics. -- Elisabeth Bronfen, author of Crossmappings. On Visual CultureTable of ContentsTOC List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Personal Worth and Public Attention 2. The Drama of a Recognition: City Lights 3. Imitations of Celebrity 4. Women’s Pictures 5. Melotrauma 6. Melodrama, Celebrity, The Queen 7. Home from the Hill: Weiner 8. Unmasked: Hacktivism, Anonymity and Celebrity Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Memories of Underdevelopment: Memorias del
Book SynopsisTomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a classic of Cuban revolutionary culture, and is hailed as a prime example of a radical style of 1960s political filmmaking that became known worldwide as Latin American “new cinema.” Darlene J. Sadlier’s detailed study approaches this much-written-about film from a new perspective. Her analysis situates the film in its historical context, considering how Cuban political history affected and informed the production of the film, particularly its use of archival footage. She discusses the film as an adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes’s novel Memorias del subdesarrollo (1965), exploring how the novel itself is “re-written” in significant ways by the film. Sadlier goes on to analyse the curious opening of the film on an outdoor scene of Afro-Cubans dancing to the “new” music of Pello del Afrokán, arguing that this opening scene prefaces the film’s exploration of both class and race. She focuses on the unique style of the film, particularly the use of voiceover, music and documentary footage to show how the themes of ennui, isolation, writing, and remembering are depicted. In doing so, she highlights the film’s lasting impact and its role in defining Latin American “new cinema”.Trade ReviewTomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 classic ... Memories of Underdevelopment was designed to challenge even viewers of its own time and place. Those far from both are likely to find it indecipherable, without some help. Thus, for today's English language-speaking cinephiles, the BFI Film Classics series has done a great service in turning its attention, and that of film scholar Darlene J. Sadlier, to this exemplar of the Latin American Third Cinema movement. * Cineaste Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Some Historical and Cinematic Contexts 2. Alea as Auteur 3. A Novel and Its Translation 4. Portrait of a Nobody 5. Sergio and Women 6. The Intellectual and the Revolution 7. The Intellectual and the Law 8. Cuba in Crisis 9. A Note on Reception Notes Credits Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 100 Queer Films Since Stonewall
Book Synopsis100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles. By highlighting hidden gems alongside well known classics, this book makes a valuable, accessible contribution to queer film studies.While queer films have existed since the beginning of cinema, this book focuses on films released after the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Stonewall is considered a turning point for queer politics and representation, and the 50 years since that event have generated an explosion of queer creativity.The book describes significant formal elements of each film and connects them to their interrelated contexts. By moving in chronological order, it introduces a contemporary history of queer film and provides an overview of major developments in LGBTQ communities, cultures, and politics. This volume presents a framework for understanding the value of queer film.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen:
Book SynopsisThis collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen’s collaborative films, Wollen’s solo feature film, Friendship’s Death (1987), and Mulvey’s later collaborations. Each text is followed by a new essay by a leading writer, offering a critical interpretation of the corresponding film. The collection also includes Wollen’s short story Friendship’s Death (1976), the outlines for two unrealised Mulvey and Wollen collaborations, and a selection of scanned working documents. The scripts and essays collected in this volume trace the historical significance of a complex cinematic project that brought feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic concerns together with formal devices and strategies. The book includes original contributions from Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B. Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Oliver Fuke Introduction - Laura Mulvey Section 1 - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s Collaborative Films 1.Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 2.Scorch the Earth, Start from Zero: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons - Nicolas Helm- Grovas 3.Riddles of the Sphinx - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 4.Towards New Theoretical Instruments: Riddles of the Sphinx - Volker Pantenburg 5.AMY! - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 6.The Curse of Celebrity, Colonial Territory and the Flight to Freedom: AMY! - Griselda Pollock 7.Crystal Gazing - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 8.Economic Forecasting and the End of the Avant- Garde: Crystal Gazing - Esther Leslie 9.Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 10.Muse, Mutilation, Mastery, Martyr: Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti - B. Ruby Rich 11.The Bad Sister - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 12.Timeshifting: The Bad Sister - Sukhdev Sandhu Section 2 - Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death 13.Friendship’s Death (Fiction) - Peter Wollen 14. Friendship’s Death (Script) - Peter Wollen 15.‘Aliens wherever they have to go’: Friendship’s Death - Kodwo Eshun Section 3 - Laura Mulvey’s Later Collaborative Films 16. Disgraced Monuments - Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey 17. Preserving History: Disgraced Monuments - Nora M. Alter 18. 23rd August 2008 - Faysal Abdullah, Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey 19.Two Portraits: 23rd August 2008 - Laura Mulvey Section 4 - Outlines for Unmade Collaborative Films 20.Possible Worlds - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 21.Chess Fever - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen Section 5 Working Documents Bibliography Filmography List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Film Studios in Britain France Germany and Italy
Book SynopsisSarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. Her publications include British National Cinema (1997), British Cinema in Documents (2000), Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-1955 (British Film Institute, 2012) and Deborah Kerr (British Film Institute, 2018). She is the co-author of Cinema and State: the Film Industry and the British Government 1927-84 (British Film Institute, 1985) and Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution (British Film Institute, 2021). She has also co-edited Moving Performance: British Stage and Screen, 1890s-1920s (2000, with Linda Fitzsimmons) and European Cinema: an Introduction (2000, with Jill Forbes). She is an editor of the Journal of British Cinema and of Screen.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) We Have Some Notes...
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Xala
Book SynopsisJames S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013); Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2016); Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), winner of the R. Gapper Prize for the best book in French Studies; and Frantz Fanon (2023).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reviewing Hitchcock
Book SynopsisRobert E. Kapsis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Film Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (1992); the e-book version was released in 2022. Shortly after its publication, Kapsis developed Multimedia Hitchcock, an innovative, interactive software project. Originally conceived as a pedagogical tool for his college courses on Hitchcock, the project grew into an interactive kiosk exhibited at MoMA, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and at other museums and nonprofit institutions celebrating the Hitchcock Centennial in 1999. Kapsis is also editor of Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated Edition (2016), Jonathan Demme: Interviews, Charles Burnett: Interviews, and Conversations with Steve Martin; and coeditor (with Kathie Coblentz)of Clint Eastwood: Interviews (2006). He is currently working on a book on Hitchcock's posthumous reputation, to be published by Bloomsbury.Kapsis's work on Hitchcock and the Hitchcockian has been featured in many publications and venues, including the New York Times, Oxford University Press's American National Biography, American Film, The Sociological Quarterly, Hitchcock Annual, Cineaste, and the Village Voice. It has also influenced the creation and development of documentaries about Hitchcock for the BBC, PBS's American Masters series, Universal's Dial H for Hitchcock: The Genius Behind the Showman, and promotional materials for the release of a Hitchcock stamp from the United States Postal Service.
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