Individual film directors Books
Phaidon Press Ltd Tim Burton
Book Synopsisââ From Edward Scissorhands to Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton hassucceeded in creating a body of work that is both extraordinarilyeccentric, inventive and personal, and extremely popularââ Supported by interviews with the filmmaker, anecdotes and in-depthresearch, this monograph reveals the keys to Burton's unique world,film by filmââ The author,
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Dis Voir Raul Ruiz - the Wit of the Staircase
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Springer International Publishing AG Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth
Book SynopsisThis book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two distinct systems at work in Spielberg's application of style. One is the use of deep space compositions and staging, a form that was commonly seen in Hollywood cinema until the rise of the 'New Hollywood' in the early 1970s. The other system is based on the ubiquitous shot, reverse shot arrangement most commonly used for dialogue scenes, and which Spielberg has modified into what the author describes as wide reverses. Through the integration of both systems, Spielberg is able to create a more complete visual sense of scenographic space and a more comprehensive world of the narrative, while still remaining within the conventional boundaries of classical style. The wide reverse system also permits him to present a more highly developed version of Hollywood's conventional practice of rendering style as transparent or unnoticed. This volume shows that this, together with the wide reverse further enables Spielberg to create a narrative that offers the spectator both a more immersive and more affective experience. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Setting the Scene.- Section I: Origin Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Classical Narration.- Chapter 3: Spielberg as Filmmaker.- Chapter III: Continuity Editing as System.- Section II: Function.- Chapter 4: Deep Space Composition and Staging.- Chapter 5: Space and the Wide Reverse Strategy.- Chapter 6: The Wide Reverse and Extended Variation.- Section III: Effect, Affect and Precedent.- Chapter 7: The Wide Reverse, Cognition and Affect.- Chapter 8: Manifestations of the Wide Reverse in Mainstream Narrative Cinema.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Style by Stealth.
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Brill U Fink Die Filme Fatih Akins
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Brill U Fink Authentizitat Nach Pasolini
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£74.25
Hirmer Verlag Barbara Hammer: Evidentary Bodies
Book SynopsisBarbara Hammer (b. 1939) is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. In October 2017, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art will present a comprehensive solo exhibition to celebrate the depth and expa nse of Hammer’s five decades of art making. Bringing together both known and previously unseen works of film and video, installations, works on paper, and material from her archive, the exhibition addresses critical themes that appear in Hammer’s work, inc luding: lesbian representation, subjectivity, and sexuality; intimacy and sensation; and conditions and maintenance of life and illness. This exhibition highlights the resonating impact of Hammer’s artistic narrative and material experimentation across dis ciplines within queer art history. Additionally, as part of this exhibition, we are putting together a publication that will touch on different aspects of Hammer’s body of wor k and practice. The material included will look at her work in relationship to experimental queer cinema; lesbian sexuality and lesbian feminist history; hapticity and wildness; viruses, medicine, and environment; to name a few. We desire for the book to f eature a wide range of responses, from academic analysis to poetic interpretation, sprinkled with personal and artistic anecdotes. More of a hybrid monograph and catalogue raisonne, we are very excited that this book will be the first of its kind that cele brates five decades of Hammer's work.
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Hirmer Verlag Ericka Beckman
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot against black, spatially ambiguous backdrops, her moving image works are structured according to the logic of child’s play, games, folklore, or fairy tales, and populated by archetypical characters and toy-like props in bright, primary colours. Throughout her work, Beckman engages profound questions of gender, role-playing, competition, power and control. The publication will include selected works spanning thirty years of Beckman’s career, providing the first opportunity to survey her contribution to the art world. With new scholarly essays on Beckman’s work that offer an art-historical consideration of her early Super-8 Films and a critical situating of the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with the structures of games, gambling, and capitalism, the exhibition catalogue contextualizes Beckman’s practice on the occasion of this major survey exhibition. More than 20 colour images in the catalogue include photo- documentation of Beckman’s works since 1983 and installation views of the MIT List Center exhibition.
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TASCHEN The Ingmar Bergman Archives
Book SynopsisSince his release of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in 1957, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in international cinema. In a career that spanned 60 years, he wrote, produced, and directed 50 films that defined how we see ourselves and how we interact with the people we love, through works like Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander.Before his death in 2007, Bergman gave TASCHEN and the Swedish publishing house Max Ström complete access to his archives at the Bergman Foundation as well as permission to reprint his writings and interviews, many of which have never been seen outside of Sweden. Picture researcher Bengt Wanselius, who was Bergman's photographer for 20 years, scoured photo archives all over Sweden, discovered previously unseen images from Bergman's films, and selected unpublished images from many photographers' personal archives.This re-edition draws from our out-of-print Bergman Archives, the most complete book on the director to date. For this award-winning production, TASCHEN Editor Paul Duncan gathered a team of Bergman experts who have researched and written a narrative that, for the first time, combined all of Bergman's working life in film. Such is the depth of Bergman's writings that most of the story is told in his own words. This book also features an introduction by Bergman's close friend and collaborator, actor Erland Josephson.On November 24, 2008, Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius won the 2008 August Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book published in Sweden. This is the most prestigious literary prize in Sweden, voted on by booksellers and librarians throughout the country.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Peter Liechti Dedications
Book SynopsisPeter Liechti (1951-2014) was a Swiss film author and director, cinematographer, and producer. Many of his more than 100 documentaries, music and experimental films have been shown at international festivals. His last and unfinished project Dedications he began when he already suffered from his terminal illness. Originally intended to become a trilogy dedicated to the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956), the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1880), and to "the unknown Sudanese Chief", the progress of his illness made him to alter his concept to a very personal review and reflection on his life's most significant personal and artistic impressions and moments. Liechti's widow and working partner Jolanda Gsponer, together with a group of his former collaborators, has assembled all the material of Dedications in three parts to preserve it and make the work visible. Part one is a filmed reading by Liechti from the diary he kept during his stays at the hospital and which was intended to be the film's underlying text. Part two is an audio-visual installation of the raw material for Dedications.Part three is this book, a self-contained publication of Liechti's entire diary, illustrated with some 100 video stills with captions, and including a DVD with the film's unedited 15 opening minutes.
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Romuald Karmakar
Book SynopsisRomuald Karmakar's work in the fields of fiction and documentary holds a unique place in European film. It also stands in clear opposition to the dominant ways of the German film industry - both aesthetically and in its head-on treatment of several sore spots in German history. Time and again the 45-year-old director has engaged with "impossible" characters and "borderline" subjects: mercenaries, a notorious Nazi speech, the terror of being in a relationship, an imprisoned serial killer, or what it means to truly experience electronic and techno music. The book presents Karmakar's work in its entirety for the first time. It includes a 130-page essay by Olaf Möller, several conversations with the artist, an annotated filmography, and selected writings by Romuald Karmakar, including a number of unproduced treatments.Trade ReviewOlaf Möller's knowledge about Karmarkar is vast, and each page here is proof of a striking conversation between a critic and a filmmaker. * TAZ – Die Tageszeitung *
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Werner Schroeter
Book SynopsisIn a four-decade-long career that generated more than forty films and numerous stage productions, Werner Schroeter became one of the most important directors in Germany and Europe since the late 1960s. After making a flurry of short films in a climate of feverish artistic experimentation and political upheaval, Schroeter soon gained recognition for Eika Katappa (1969) and The Death of Maria Malibran (1971), early mature works showcasing avant-garde performance as iconoclastic expression of rebellion and pathos. Following a decade of uncompromising experimental work, his deeply humanist features Il Regno di Napoli (1979) and Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) brought him broader success. Yet Schroeter maintained his reputation as an enfant terrible of the German cultural scene with controversial stagings of operas and plays and with smartly observed documentaries on art, film, and politics.This volume traces Schroeter’s career as a filmmaker from early and rarely discussed works such as Salome (1971) and Willow Springs (1973) to his late 1970s breakout hits and later complex and mature art-house productions such as The Rose King (1986), Malina (1991), and Nuit de Chien (2008). The volume is supplemented by Schroeter’s own writings and conversations and includes an interview with his long-time collaborator Elfi Mikesch as well as an authoritative and completely updated filmography.Trade ReviewThis beautiful collection is yet another example of Grundmann’s tireless attempts at making the work of filmmakers considered “difficult” palatable to viewers brought up on the easy fare of Hollywood narrative cinema. * EuropeNow *
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Guy Debord – Das filmische Gesamtwerk
Book SynopsisIn his films Guy Debord (1931–1994) worked according to the following principle: do nothing you should, do everything you should not. Created between 1952 and 1978, all the films reflect this rule and confirm what he referred to as his “detestable ambition.”Gathered in a single volume for the first time in German, this publication unites the texts of all of Guy Debord’s films in a new translation: from his first film made in affiliation with the Lettrist group led by Isidore Isou, Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952), an alteration of black and white sequences devoid of images; to works that originated in the course of his participation in the Situationist International, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (1959) and Critique de la séparation (1961); to the adaptation of his best known theoretical work, La Société du spectacle (1973), followed by the response to his critics entitled Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu'hostiles, qui ont été jusqu'ici portés sur le film "La Société du spectacle" (1975) and his résumé, intended as an act of closure: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978).Texts and images are true to the French original edition and complemented by a list of sources for the quotes, Debord’s notes on his films, drafts of unrealized film projects, as well as the text of the TV documentary he coauthored, Guy Debord, son art et son temps (1994).
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Ruth Beckermann
Book SynopsisViennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. Her work is both deeply personal and political. She discusses the complex relationship between history and the present and reflects on her identity as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe. Tropes of travel and migration feature heavily in her work as means of experiencing the world and of staying alive, literally as well as artistically.Beckermann’s films speak about identity conflicts and class struggle (Suddenly, a Strike), her family history in the Habsburg monarchy (Paper Bridge), and the war generation as it confronts the crimes of the Wehrmacht (East of War). In 2016, she turned the love affair between poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann in postwar Vienna into an unconventional feature film (The Dreamed Ones). In her latest project, The Waldheim Waltz (2018), Beckermann uses 1980s archival footage of the “Waldheim Affair” to reflect on the mechanisms of populism and the media.This is the first English-language publication on Ruth Beckermann’s filmic oeuvre, including an original essay by Nick Pinkerton, an in-depth conversation with the artist conducted by Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta, and a detailed filmography by Michael Omasta and Brigitte Mayr.Trade Review“Do you know Ruth Beckermann?” I do not know her, I say. But as soon as I take the Paper Bridge, its paths, its voices, its mists, its rivers, its passages, I realize that I recognize her, that I have always already known her. With joy I make her acquaintance again [re-connais], and I salute her, poet in images, painter in words, Voice that listens to the voices of old, the voices of the ages, today. -- Hélène Cixous
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Archive Books Film Material N 5: The Cast
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Archive Books Da Capo: Fifteen Films
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Spector Books The Third Life of Agnès Varda
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£30.40
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Loretta Fahrenholz - Seven Films
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Satyajit Ray: Essays 1970-2005
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Ediciones Ctedra Fernando FernánGómez
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Museum Tusculanum Press Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners
Book SynopsisLone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig''s Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe''s most noteworthy women directors. Danish and international critics lavished praise on Scherfig and her film, and their reactions harmonized with those of festival juries. Battered by life, but by no means defeated or destroyed, the characters in Italian for Beginners are all in touch at some deep intuitive level with the truth that is the film''s basic message: that happiness and a sense of self-worth are sustained by loveby romantic love, to be sure, but also by inclusion in a community of like-minded people. The book includes the Dogme manifesto and interviews with the filmmaker as well as with the cast and crew.
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At Last Books Privilege
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Humboldt Fara Fara: A Film Not Made
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Leiden University Press Camering: Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image
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Lund University Press,Sweden Ingmar Bergman: An Enduring Legacy
Book SynopsisThis unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman’s birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses. Established themes such as Bergman’s interest in philosophy and psychology are addressed, but also less familiar topics, notably his relationship with Hollywood and his elaborate use of film music and autobiographical writing that characterised his later work. There are new analyses of aspects of Bergman’s most famous films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander, but also insightful readings of lesser-known works, such as Saraband and Sawdust and Tinsel.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198557718/9789198557718.xmlTable of ContentsIngmar Bergman at 100: an introduction – Erik Hedling1 Ingmar Bergman on the international scene – Peter Cowie2 Bergman transnational: Munich–Rome–Los Angeles, or ‘the last temptation of Ingmar Bergman’ – Thomas Elsaesser3 Bergman and the business: notes on the director’s ‘worth in the market’ – Olof Hedling4 Bergman, writing, and photographs: the auteur as an ekphrastic ghost – Maaret Koskinen5 The playfulness of Ingmar Bergman: screenwriting from notebooks to screenplays – Anna Sofia Rossholm6 Cinema as a detour: Ingmar Bergman, writer – Jan Holmberg7 Laughing through tears: the soundscape of Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night – Alexis Luko 8 Sound, act, presence: classical music in the films of Ingmar Bergman—a lecture recital – Anyssa Neumann9 Film-musical moments in Ingmar Bergman’s films – Ann-Kristin Wallengren10 Where does music come from? Musical meaning and musical discourse in Ingmar Bergman’s films – Per F. Broman11 Bergman, Janov, and Autumn Sonata – Paisley Livingston12 Persona’s penis – Daniel Humphrey13 Battlefield family: Ingmar Bergman, Henrik Ibsen, and television – Michael Tapper14 Bergman/Birdman/Vogler: an ecocritical examination of the birds of Bergman – Linda Haverty Rugg15 Visionaries and charlatans: Ingmar Bergman’s filmmaking – Laura Hubner16 Imagined without dialogue: Sawdust and Tinsel and Dreams – Dan Williams17 The ghost in the machine: Saraband – Lars Gustaf Andersson18 Return to the bourgeoisie: Fanny and Alexander in Swedish politics – Erik HedlingIndex
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National University of Singapore Press Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
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Five Continents Editions Pier Pasolini Everything is Sacred: The Political
Book SynopsisThis volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini — sacredness — with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a poet, writer, director, and artist and on the cultural influence he wielded. This is the catalogue for the exhibition at Fondazione MAXXI, which explores the many facets of Pasolini’s political engagement. Texts, images, movies, notes, and documents will narrate the beginning of a protest that has endured to this day, with interpretations of Pasolini’s work is seen through the voices of contemporary artists. An essay by Anne Violaine Houcke analyses Pasolini’s final period, while Ara Merjan’s text explores his aesthetics. Marco Belpoliti explores the 1975 timeline, giving special attention to the political events most closely connected to Pasolini. Incudes contributions by Eleonora Cardinale, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia De Laude, Fabio Francione, Giuseppe Garrera, and Vincenzo Trione. Text in English and Italian.Table of Contents8 Foreword Giovanna Melandri 10 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is Sacred. The Political Body Bartolomeo Pietromarchi 20 “It Was Indeed a Firefly, in the Crack of a Wall.” 1975 – 2022 Giulia Ferracci 58 Pasolini and the Inferno of the Present: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Roberto Chiesi 64 Pasolini. Volgar’eloquio Fabio Francione 70 Lutheran Letters Eleonora Cardinale 76 Pasolini the Lutheran and the Apostle Exercises in Sanctity Giuseppe Garrera 84 Beast of Style Eleonora Cardinale 92 Petrolio Silvia De Laude 105 Works on Display 106 Noor Abed 108 Sammy Baloji 110 Elisabetta Benassi 112 Paul Chan 114 Alvin Curran 116 Dante Ferretti 118 Claire Fontaine 120 Jorge Fuembuena Loscertales 122 Aziz Hazara 124 Huang Yong Ping 126 Nalini Malani 128 Fabio Mauri 130 Marzia Migliora 132 Giulio Paolini 134 Pino Pascali 136 Francesco Vezzoli 138 Ming Wong 140 Yan Pei-Ming 144 Let’s Imagine It, Together! Notes on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Influences on the Global Contemporary Art World Hou Hanru 158 Pasolini and the Metaphysical Experience Paul Chan 166 Hieratical Empiricism: On Pasolini’s “Technical Sacrality” Ara H. Merjian 180 Pasolini and the Form of the Revolution Anne-Violaine Houcke 196 The Glorious Body. Pasolini and Soccer Vincenzo Trione 206 1975: The Final Year Marco Belpoliti
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Independently Published I'm Just The Guy Who Says Action
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Dream Come True
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