Individual film directors Books
Faber & Faber Tenet
Book SynopsisTenet is a global thriller whose action stretches across time zones, and stars Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and John David Washington.
£11.69
Palazzo Editions Ltd James Cameron: A Retrospective
Book SynopsisJames Cameron is the most successful filmmaker of all time by some margin. Which is something we tend to take for granted. The question at the heart of his story isn’t only how this came about, but what is it about Cameron that makes him such a universal storyteller? Cinema has had its godlike directors, lifting it up into new spaces, but he is their Zeus. The man who made the biggest film of all time, Titanic, then topped that by making the next biggest film of all time, Avatar. Encapsulating not only the magnitude of James Cameron as a filmmaker but the minutiae too – the incredible stories of an artist whose commitment to the medium knows few bounds. The tales behind the films are as epic as the films themselves. The astonishing making of The Abyss, much of it shot submerged in a decommissioned nuclear plant, could fill a book on its own. James Cameron: A Retrospective is an enthralling and beautifully illustrated film-by-film biography – from The Terminator to Aliens to Avatar 2 – of the most popular director in movie history.Trade Review'Brimming with insight and packed with a dropship's worth of interviews, Ian Nathan's James Cameron: A Retrospective is a valuable look into the man behind the myth. Cameron's persistence, technical wizardry, and reverence for the art of filmmaking shine off the page. Essential reading for fans of film history; REQUIRED reading for fans of Aliens.' * Perfect Organism Podcast *'James Cameron: A Retrospective is a super-interesting book, lots of information and pictures, and I love the way Ian Nathan tells the story.' * Luis Nostromo, Alien Museum, Barcelona *'James Cameron: A Retrospective is the best written book I have ever read on a filmmaker.' -- Terry Wickham, Mantaray Pictures
£25.50
Abrams Bong Joonho
Book Synopsis Brilliantly illustrated and designed by the London–based film magazine Little White Lies, Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema examines the career of the South Korean writer/director who has been making critically acclaimed feature films for more than two decades. First breaking out into the international scene with festival-favorite Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), Bong then set his sights on the story of a real-life serial killer in 2003’s Memories of Murder and once again won strong international critical attention. But it was 2006’s The Host that proved to be a huge breakout moment both for Bong and the Korean film industry. The monster movie, set in Seoul, premiered at Cannes and became an instant hit—South Korea’s widest release ever, setting new box office records and selling remake rights in the US to Universal. Bong’s next feature, Mother (2009), also premiered at Cannes
£26.25
Hong Kong University Press Ozu: A Closer Look
£61.20
Manchester University Press Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film
Book SynopsisIf cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively.An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogénie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion. Polish-born, half-Jewish, and the author of a treatise on homosexuality, Epstein has been unfairly relegated to the shadows of film history. This book restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: Epstein at the crossroadsChapter 1: From literary modernism to photogénieChapter 2: Avant-garde working class melodramasChapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexualityChapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern worldChapter 5: Documentaries and sound filmsChapter 6: ‘A young Spinoza’: philosophy of the cinemaConclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinemaFilmographySelect BibliographyIndex
£18.88
Titan Books Ltd The Art of the Boss Baby
Book SynopsisGo behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation's smart,hilarious comedy The Boss Baby. This beautifully illustratedbook includes a wide range of colorful development art,storyboards and character sketches, as well as in-depthinterviews with director Tom McGrath, writer MichaelMcCullers, producer Ramsey Naito, plus key members ofthe storyboard, visual development, visual effects, CGanimation, modeling and layout departments.
£23.99
Faber & Faber God and the Devil
Book SynopsisPeter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead.Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused.Bergman's films stand alone as beacons in film history.' Wim Wenders
£25.50
Faber & Faber Asteroid City
Book SynopsisASTEROID CITY (adapted from a hypothetical play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. A theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life.The film stars Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, and Jake Ryan, among others.In addition to the screenplay, the book contains a gallery of colour images, and a conversation about the film with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Jake Ryan.
£13.49
Thames & Hudson Ltd Spielberg
Book SynopsisThe definitive illustrated retrospective on the Oscar-winning director of some of the most resonant and enduring films of all time. For more than five decades, Steven Spielberg has created inspiring, exciting and unforgettable movie magic. Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones series, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and West Side Story are among the many favourites that have thrilled cinema audiences all over the world. They are some of the highest-grossing, most captivating and enduring films of all time contemporary classics that indelibly remain part of our lives. This timely retrospective celebrates more than fifty years of Steven Spielberg's boundless energy and his unwavering commitment to excellence in all areas of his work. Drawing on his many first-person interviews, distinguished writer and critic Richard Schickel provides unique insight on every one of Spielberg's thirty-four major movies. Including a personal foreword by the direct
£22.40
Five Continents Editions Pier Pasolini Everything is Sacred: The Seeing
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 catalogue for the exhibition at the Palazzo Barberini connects a selection of paintings from the Gallerie Nazionali as well as other national and international museums to photographs, audio samples, and texts linked to Pasolini. It investigates what we may call “Pasolinian imagery” by focusing on a series of questions, such as: What is Pasolini’s influence on today’s visual culture? To what extent are our observations of past works, their interpretation, and the impressions they elicit indebted to a manner of seeing, an “optical subconscious” of sorts, that Pasolini’s aesthetics and ideology contributed to shaping? Text in English and Italian.Table of Contents6 Foreword Flaminia Gennari Santori 12 Figures of Figures: Pasolini and the Resistance of Images Michele Di Monte 42 Chaplin, Dreyer, Murnau, and the Others. Auteur Cinema in Pasolini’s Filmaking Roberto Chiesi 70 The Caravaggio Theorem Andrea Cortellessa 106 “Cardboard Man” Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, 1961 Philippe-Alain Michaud 130 Prologue | Figures | Epilogue 132 Prologue | The Virtual Body of Images 138 Figure I | The Epiphanic Body 150 Figure II | The Body of the Scandal 162 Figure III | The Body of Grief 172 Figure IV | The Body of the People 184 Epilogue | The Body as Subject 192 Bibliography: Pasolini and Visual Art
£20.00
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
£24.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
Book SynopsisMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). Delving into their magical and obsessive worlds, this lavishly-illustrated publication presents fresh perspectives on the filmmaking duo, shining the spotlight not only on them, but also on their circle of talented collaborators. Thelma Schoonmaker, Caitlin McDonald, Alexandra Harris, Mahesh Rao, Sarah Street, Ian Christie and Marina Warner write about the key figures who shared Powell and Pressburger’s creative journey, and Tilda Swinton, Tim Walker, Sarah Greenwood, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Sandy Powell, Joanna Hogg and Stephen Jones reflect on the ways in which Powell and Pressburger’s stories and images have haunted and inspired them in their own work. The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger draws on the BFI’s stunning design and archive collections, as well as key objects held in other public and private collections.Trade ReviewThis book is a pleasure to read, full of generous appreciations of Powell and Pressburger’s work from a multitude of personal angles. -- Philip Kemp * Sight & Sound *A lavish volume. -- Robin Ashenden * The Spectator *A richly illustrated book … Alongside the films themselves, this splendid book is testament to a unique creative collaboration. -- Jacqueline Riding * The Art Newspaper *The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger raids the BFI’s archive to provide definitive visual gloss on the partnership’s career. Gorgeous paintings from the production-design teams. Reproductions of pages from Powell’s diary revealing his immaculately vertical penmanship. Lavish promotional stills that work subtle variations on the moving images. No coffee table is complete without it. -- Donald Clake * The Irish Times *A superb acknowledgement of the powerfully collaborative nature of filmmaking … [And] a record of remarkable artistic freedom made possible for a prolifically imaginative director and writer to cast their spells, enthusiasm and love. * London Grip *Table of ContentsA Letter from Tilda Swinton A Letter from Michael Powell to Emeric Pressburger 1. INTRODUCTION by Claire Smith and Nathalie Morris A Note on Collaboration by Thelma Schoonmaker 2. EXILES by Caitlin MacDonald Notes from a Photographer by Tim Walker 3. PILGRIMS by Alexandra Harris Notes from a Production Designer by Sarah Greenwood 4. BLACK NARCISSUS by Mahesh Rao Notes from an Artist by Michelle Williams Gamaker 5. STARVED FOR TECHNICOLOR by Sarah Street Notes from a Costume Designer by Sandy Powell 6. METAPHORS OF VISION by Ian Christie Notes from a Director by Joanna Hogg 7. THE RED SHOES by Marina Warner Notes from a Milliner by Stephen Jones Index
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Abrams Cimino
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewassiduously researched and fascinating * The Wall Street Journal *“Intriguing...Elton has a sure hand with behind-the-scenes details and is even-handed in his appraisals...A somewhat murky picture of Cimino emerges, though Elton wrestles commendably with an elusive subject...Film buffs will find much to enjoy.” * Publishers Weekly *“One of the strangest and most mysterious of all Hollywood lives gets the treatment it’s been crying out for in this brilliantly insightful biography.” -- author of Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron * John Preston *“While Elton’s book first appears structured as a conventional biography, it ultimately plays more like a mystery novel, as the author interrogates various witnesses in search of the Rosebud that offers a key to Cimino’s hidden life” * The Hollywood Reporter *“I inhaled this book in two sittings. In a magnificent feat of investigative reporting, Charles Elton provides a revelatory reappraisal of Michael Cimino and a tragicomic portrait of late twentieth-century Hollywood.” -- author of Notes on a Scandal * Zoë Heller *“Charles Elton's new book, featuring exhaustive original research and interviews, seeks to upend the narrative on the late filmmaker, whose oeuvre definitely deserves a reappraisal.” * Yahoo! *“The author, Charles Elton, has ably sifted through the lies, evasions, busted budgets, broken friendships, damaged careers, and lurid press clips that the filmmaker left in his wake across his quarter century in Hollywood. The result is riveting...” * AirMail *“Elton masterfully maneuvers through the web of lies surrounding Cimino, providing riveting details and fascinating interviews with key players...A must for film aficionados. Fans of Cimino’s will be satisfied that he has been vindicated.” * Library Journal *“Charles Elton’s Cimino is a riveting, sure-footed, cinema-savvy piece of biographical sleuthing. In his sprightly, sly approach, Elton manages to trap Cimino’s reclusive, mercurial genius—a compelling dissection of both a volatile career and the business of show.” * John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrim of the Flesh and Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows *“Whether you believe Michael Cimino represents an unfairly maligned genius or a monumental example of Hollywood hubris, Elton’s Cimino is a compelling account of an elusive life.” -- author of The Devil's Candy and Wendy and the Lost Boys * Julie Salamon *“What Charles Elton covers in this biography of Cimino reveals a much more complex figure — and might just leave you rethinking your preconceived notions of him.” * Tobias Carroll, Inside Hook "One of the 10 Best Books of 2022" *“Sprawling and granular, structured around on-the-record-testimonies about an artist who, as he got older, did his best to live a hidden, private life. … Indispensable.” * Adam Nayman, The Nation *
£12.34
Vintage Publishing Every Man for Himself and God against All: A
Book Synopsis'He is in a category of one. You can't believe that a person like this stalks the earth. A complete original and an amazing person' MARINA HYDE'A visionary masterpiece' JOHN GRAY, NEW STATESMANThe long-awaited memoir by the legendary filmmaker and celebrated author. Told in Werner Herzog's inimitable voice, this is the story of his epic artistic career, as inventive and daring as anything he has done before.Hauling a steamship over a mountain in the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - Werner Herzog has always been intrigued by extremes of human experience. Here, he illuminates the influences and ideas that have driven his creativity and shaped his unique worldview.Herzog's life matches the drama of his famous films: the boy growing up in poverty in a small village in the Alps after the Second World War; the teenager travelling the world in search of adventure that almost cost him his life; the director trying to calm his leading actor Klaus Kinski in the Amazonian jungle. And along the way, Herzog tells of ordinary people with extraordinary stories: rural labourers, circus acrobats, child soldiers.Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great self-invented lives of our time, and a masterpiece that will enthral fans old and new. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.*A New Statesman Book of the Year 2023*---Praise for Werner Herzog's previous books:'Has the eerie power of the best fairytales. It hits you with the force of dreams' HELEN MACDONALD'Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know ... only Herzog could have written this weird, slender classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Herzog's writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his films' GUARDIANTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALLWerner Herzog's life story reads like a Hollywood film * Daily Telegraph *Most film memoirs are boring because film-makers don't have a life outside film. But Herzog has lived the nine lives of a cat ... and his book actually gets more interesting the further it gets from the big films * Sunday Times *Book of the Week* *Herzog’s memoir… is as intense, surprising and wacky as his films, with a real sense of reason underlying all the madness and eccentricity * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* *A visionary masterpiece * John Gray, New Statesman *A joyous, fulfilling read … there are some terrific, wild stories … [Herzog] has lived an extreme and extraordinary life * Observer *
£21.25
La Fabrica Bruce Baillie: Somewhere from Here to Heaven
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£27.00
Quercus Publishing A Sea of Unspoken Things
Book Synopsis''Haunting, heartbreaking, and gorgeously atmospheric'' KATE GOLDEN''Adrienne Young''s writing is simply magic'' EMILY RATHTwo twins. An unbroken bond. A truth unspoken.The only thing James and Johnny Golden have ever had is each other. For as long as she can remember, James''s deep connection with her twin brother, Johnny, has gone beyond intuition - she can feel what he feels. So, when Johnny is killed in a tragic accident, James knows before her phone even rings that her brother is gone and that she''s alone - truly alone - for the first time in her life.When James arrives in the rural town of Hawthorne, California to settle her brother''s affairs, she''s forced to rehash the ominous past she and Johnny shared and finally face Micah, the only person who knows about it. He''s also the only man she''s ever loved.But James soon discovers that the strange connection she had with Johnny isn''t quite gone, and the more she immerses herself into his world, the more questions she has about the brother she thought she knew. Johnny was keeping secrets, and he''s not the only one. What she uncovers will push her to unravel what happened in the days before Johnny''s death, but in the end, she''ll have to decide which truths should come to light, and which should stay buried forever.READERS LOVE ADRIENNE YOUNG''Oh my god, I adored this book'' 5* reader review''Spellbinding'' Jodi Picoult''Delightful'' 5* reader review''Bewitching'' Rebecca Ross''Incredibly atmospheric'' 5* reader review''Exquisite'' Stephanie Garber''Eerie and mysterious'' 5* reader review''Captivating'' Sue Lynn Tan
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University of Wales Press Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror
Book SynopsisBlumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse’s cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and toxic masculinity. Blumhouse’s business strategies and funding model are considered – including the company’s high-profile franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Happy Death Day, and Halloween – alongside such key standalone films as Get Out and Black Christmas, and nonhorror films like BlackKklansman. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough primer for one of the most significant drivers behind the contemporary resurgence of horror cinema.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Blumhouse at the Box Office, 2009-2018 ‘Those Things You See Through’: Get Out, Signifyin’, and Hollywood’s Commodification of African American Independent Cinema Haunted Bodies, Haunted Houses Gothixity: Evoking the Gothic through New Forms of Toxic Masculinity Space Invaders: Aliens and Recessionary Anxieties in Dark Skies The (Blum)House Found Footage Horror Built Insidious Patterns: An Integrative Analysis of Blumhouse’s Most Important Franchise The Purge: Violence and Religion as Toxic Cocktail Happy Death Day: Beyond the Neoslasher Cycle Haunted Networks: Transparency and Exposure in Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web Blumhouse’s Halloween (2018) the Shifting Ethos of Slasher Remakes ‘Disobedient Women’ and Malicious Men: A Comparative Assessment of the Politics of Black Christmas (1974) and (2019) What Lies Behind the White Hood: Looking at Horror Through a Realistic Lens Through Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Bibliography Index
£42.75
The Crowood Press Ltd Animation Techniques
Book SynopsisAnimation can be used to illustrate, simplify and explain complicated subjects, as well as to transform stories into engaging, fantastical narratives. There are many types of animation, all of which can incorporate different artistic techniques such as sculpture, drawing, painting, printing and textiles. In this practical guide, animation tutor Steve Roberts explores the twelve basic principles of animation, demonstrating the different techniques available and offering helpful exercises for readers to practise in their chosen style. From pencils to pixels, flip books to feature films, and plasticine to puppets, this helpful book covers everything you need to know about how to start animating and will be of great interest for anyone looking to learn how to make their own animated films.
£18.00
Documentext Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
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£15.20
Academic Studies Press Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the
Book SynopsisHow do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and non-representational art form? Drawing on state-of-the-art discoveries within embodied cognitive science, this book sets out to address these and other questions by revealing Kubrick as a genuine artist of embodied meaning-making, a filmmaker who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense manner as to elicit the embodied tools necessary to achieve a level of conceptual clarity.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: The Theoretical Context of This Study CHAPTER 1: Identifying the Meaning: In Search of the Concepts of Kubrick's Films CHAPTER 2: Embodying the Meaning: The Role of Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Metonymies CHAPTER 3: Setting the Conditions of Embodied Meaning-Making in Film: The Role of Film Style and Acting CHAPTER 4: Fleshing Out the Embodied Meaning Visually: The Art of Kubrick CHAPTER 5: Seeing and Listening to Kubrick's Films: The Embodied Film Viewer Appendix Glossary Filmography Discography Bibliography Index
£95.39
Academic Studies Press Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the
Book SynopsisHow do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and non-representational art form? Drawing on state-of-the-art discoveries within embodied cognitive science, this book sets out to address these and other questions by revealing Kubrick as a genuine artist of embodied meaning-making, a filmmaker who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense manner as to elicit the embodied tools necessary to achieve a level of conceptual clarity.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: The Theoretical Context of This Study CHAPTER 1: Identifying the Meaning: In Search of the Concepts of Kubrick's Films CHAPTER 2: Embodying the Meaning: The Role of Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Metonymies CHAPTER 3: Setting the Conditions of Embodied Meaning-Making in Film: The Role of Film Style and Acting CHAPTER 4: Fleshing Out the Embodied Meaning Visually: The Art of Kubrick CHAPTER 5: Seeing and Listening to Kubrick's Films: The Embodied Film Viewer Appendix Glossary Filmography Discography Bibliography Index
£30.39
Edinburgh University Press Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle
Book SynopsisEngages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema
£17.99
HarperCollins Publishers Anything You Can Imagine Peter Jackson and the
Book SynopsisThe definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory.Trade Review‘This book truly is the definitive history of the Lord of the Rings films. Nearly every single element of the productions is coverd here, from writing, to shooting, to Oscar-night jitters. Nathan’s prose does exactly what you want from a book like this: it makes you feel as if you’re really there.’SlashFilm ‘In breezy and often cheeky prose, Nathan tells a grand story worthy of the annals of great filmmaking… there is much to learn, to chuckle over and to admire as Jackson and his band of indefatigable Kiwis face down the naysayers.’Daily Mail
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HarperCollins Publishers Twelve Days in May
Book SynopsisThey haven't spoken for 12 years.Can they fall in love in 12 days?'I've been bowled over by this perfect little rom com . . . FULL of good lines and great moments' JANE CASEYSnap-crackling with wit and energy, ridiculously enjoyable' MHAIRI MCFARLANE'Fresh, funny and beautifully written. Niamh Hargan is going to be huge' SOPHIE COUSENS'A sweepingly romantic debut . . . it's sexy, escapist and FUN everything a romantic comedy should be!' LAURA JANE WILLIAMSSmart, funny and sizzling with chemistry but with a big, tender heart' CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN'I adored this thoughtful, funny, intelligent and very hot romcom' SARRA MANNINGA sparkling, witty debut from a talented new voice' LAUREN HOFunny, smart and very romantic . . . the perfect escape' ALEX BROWN____________________Lizzy Munro is working at the Cannes Film Festival, in a job that involves a lot more admin than red-carpet glamour.There, Ciaran Flynn is the man everyone is talking about: heartthrob of the moment and director of the most romantic movie of the year.What nobody knows is that twelve years ago, they were best friends . . . and they haven't spoken since.But when Ciaran's film runs into trouble, there's only one person he can turn to.Is twelve days enough to save not only Ciaran's film, but also the spark he and Lizzy once shared?____________________READERS ARE LOVING TWELVE DAYS IN MAY:If you want a fun, romantic book to sweep you off your feet this summer: look no further' ?????Such a lovely debut novel about finding a spark again . . . warm and full of joy' ?????I finished this book in one sitting. I would definitely recommend' ?????The writing is outstanding and the plot extremely original' ?????This has all of the makings of a great story: romance, a twisted past, Cannes festival, and the dreamy taste of Tunnocks' ?????Trade ReviewPraise for Niamh: 'Could Niamh be Ireland's answer to Nora Ephron?' Stellar ’A fun, smart romcom about second chances’ The Sun ’Hargan’s novel is about our inaccuracies of perception, as well as being a behind-the-scenes look at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s a smart, wry, engaging debut’ Sunday Independent ‘A gloriously gossipy read, written with intelligence and style’ Irish Examiner ’Picture-perfect romance . . . Fizzes with fun’ Best
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rebels on the Backlot
Book SynopsisFollows six top-level film directors, from the origins of their careers through the making and release of their signature films. This book uses the development, writing, shooting, editing, and release of each director's major film, and also explores the lives and struggles each of them faced.Trade Review"Admirably reported ... Waxman unearths juicy anecdotes that'll keep film fans cackling and turning the pages." -- Salon.com "Riveting tales of Hollywood hubris ... a fun read." -- Entertainment Weekly "Vivid ... fascinating ... delightful ... [Waxman's] background as a hard news reporter serves her well." -- New York Times Book Review "A behind-the-cameras fireball of wicked insider revelations ... Love it!" -- Liz Smith, syndicated columnist "[Waxman's] thorough reporting results in a compulsively readable chronicle of the decade's auteurs and their work." -- Premiere "Enjoyably dishy." -- Variety "Addictively readable ... fascinating" -- Miami Herald "A lively book with gossipy and readable stories about some obsessive guys who are as much rascals as rebels." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Terrific ... wildly informative and readable about the plight of the biggest young talents in modern movies" -- Buffalo News "[Rebels on the Backlot] makes a case for creating a new film canon of this late '90s renaissance." -- Pittsburgh Tribune "Waxman perceptively depicts the vocabulary of the new Hollywood ... well-written ... recommended." -- Library Journal "Hums along on detail and gossip, adding up to a template for making it in contemporary Hollywood." -- men.style.com "Up-close, often gossipy" -- The Hollywood Reporter "Fascinatingly candid" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Nicholas Ray The Glorious Failure of an American
Book SynopsisThe visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish. This title presents portrait of Nicholas Ray - a man whose troubled life was punctuated by moments of creative genius.Trade Review"[A] portrait of a filmmaker who managed over time to upstage the movies that made him celebrated." -- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "A clear and balanced portrait of a most complex man." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] fascinating, formidable account of a director whose life was as fraught with complications and melodrama as were his movies...Meticulously researched and gratifying, a biographical page-turner." -- Library Journal (starred review) "McGilligan limns the tragic trajectory of Ray's career with insight and compassion." -- Booklist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Young Orson The Years of Luck and Genius on the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Young Orson] takes the directorial hero from his birth to the threshold of 'Citizen Kane.' I've only just started it and can so far confess to fascination and pleasure; the wealth of detail and the measured tempo are up to the Shakespearean complexity of Welles's character." -- New Yorker "McGilligan's Orson is a Welles for a new generation...McGilligan's book vibrates with uncertainty and risk, and it hums with the possibility that talented people actually can realize their dreams in the forms they choose." -- BookForum "No one writes biographies of film legends like Patrick McGilligan... It is a meticulous recreation of Welles's life and achievement up to 1941." -- Daily Beast "Welles's native brilliance and his ascent from producing plays as a boy at the Todd School to his conquest of New York theater and radio as an adult has seldom been documented with more clarity." -- Library Journal (starred review) "To read this book is to be taken with just how much meaningful work [Welles] packed into his youth, and awestruck by the self-assurance with which he approached his burgeoning career... With McGilligan's superb biography, we have the definitive portrait of Welles in his youth." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Engrossing ... Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years." -- Publishers Weekly "A richly detailed, often nuanced study of Welles' life and work. It's a welcome addition to the burgeoning shelf of books on one of America's most distinctive talents... Although Young Orson reads easily, it is powered by an evenhanded, almost scholarly rigor." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Must reading for anyone interested in the history of film." -- Mark Levine, Booklist (starred review) "Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years." -- Publishers Weekly "An indefatigable reporter and masterful biographer, McGilligan has unearthed endless revelations that will change our view of Welles's. This book is a constant joy to read, showing that the truth about Welles's upbringing and youthful artistic triumphs is even more remarkable than the legend." -- Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? and Searching for John Ford "No other biographer has done such a superb job of investigating Orson Welles's Midwestern origins and dazzling early success. McGilligan convincingly refutes untruths and myths that others have accepted. This is by far the best book on the most formative period of Welles's life." -- James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles "A prodigious and illuminating account of the extraordinary life of Orson Welles up to when he turned from theater and radio to launch his fabled movie career. McGilligan blends valuable new reporting with insights from existing sources to draw a bold portrait of the master that can fairly be called definitive." -- George Stevens, Jr., producer and founder of the American Film Institute "In many ways,Young Orson is my favorite of all the Welles biographies to date. The overall portrait of Welles's character and background that emerges, uncharacteristically sympathetic, is both dense and persuasive - and a page-turning pleasure to read." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Guillermo del Toros Pans Labyrinth Inside the
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Woody Allen
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Vintage Publishing At Your Own Risk
Book SynopsisImpassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman''s defiant celebration of gay sexuality.In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia. Reissued here 25 years after Jarman''s death, with an introduction by Straight Jacket author Matthew Todd, At Your Own Risk remains a singular work. It is a powerful reminder of how far we have come and how much further we have left to go.''It blew my mind quiteTrade ReviewIf there is any such thing as the literary equivalent of an incendiary bomb, then this is it... His semtex-packed sentences are welcome thunderflashes of dissent in the grey drizzle of a dispirited political climate * New Statesman *At Your Own Risk gives the reader access to something that is hard to articulate, the near asphyxiating pain, anxiety and rage which many gay people have felt living under the physical, legal and cultural attacks of the last few years * Observer *For all his anger, Jarman never seems brutalised. He retains his humanity and good humour. His is a wonderfully garrulous, mercurial, polymathic daemon * Literary Review *
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Vintage Publishing Alfred Hitchcock
Book SynopsisAlfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father''s shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century?As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press''s portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endTrade ReviewSuperb, insightful short life... Deft and moving -- Bee Wilson * The Guardian *Irresistible -- Louise Jury * The Independent *An elegant and hugely enjoyable read -- Alexander Larman * Sunday Express *[A] nutritious, compact and superb critical biography -- Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *Shelves of serious biographies have been written on Alfred Hitchcock, but perhaps none as pleasurable as Peter Ackroyd’s -- Kate Muir * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing My Last Breath
Book SynopsisA master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel''s method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence. Like Pasolini, his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis, but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling, and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter.
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Vintage Publishing Orson Welles Volume 1
Book SynopsisA brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.Trade ReviewA book of titanic achievement * Daily Telegraph *Simon Callow's brilliant account of the early years is the best Welles book yet -- David HareCallow is not just that rare phenomenon, an actor who can write. He is a superb biographer. His description of the making of Kane is masterly... This is an extraordinary book with extraordinary insights -- Godfrey Hodson * Independent *A knock-down, brass-bound, copper-bottomed triumph...tremendous fun to read... It is Simon Callow's triumph that at the end of this book Orson Welles comes before us just as Oscar Wilde did at the end of Richard Ellmann's superb biography -- Keith Baxter * Daily Telegraph *Welles might seem a difficult subject for a new biography. The legend is already pretty much written in stone. Callow's achievement is threefold: he embraces his subject with such gallumphing energy that the extraordinary power of his subject is conveyed as if for the first, fascinating time; he attempts a sober reassessment, trying to get an honest measure of someone who seemed larger than life...and he provides a genuinely interesting actor's view of the actor -- Nigella Lawson * The Times *
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Cornerstone Fifty Years Of Carry On
Book SynopsisIn August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then and in the future. Not only did it become one of the top three grossing films for that year, it also kick started the longest running and most successful comedy series of all time.Here, for the very first time, is the essential biography of this most treasured institution in the world of British cinema. Complete with exclusive interviews with cast and crew, and the debut publication of Vince Powell''s script of Carry On Down Under, Fifty Years of Carry On is a must for any fan of the unique and ever hilarious spectacle that is Carry On.Trade ReviewOne for Carry On naysayers as well as the fans, this anniversary insight into a very British world is filled with waspish bon mots, extensive interviews and lots of amusing detail. A comprehensive and warm biography of the key players, as well as the films themselves. * Empire *Richard Webber's book is a chronological trawl through the Carry On series covering everything from early successes like Carry On Sergeant, to classics like Carry On up the Khyber ... our most enduring films have been about getting nookie at all costs and the consolations of the biscuit tin. The French got Truffaut, we got Bisto. Bring it on * Sunday Times *enjoyable * Sunday Telegraph *In this sympathetic, well-researched history, Richard Webber retrieves some of the more lubricious lines lost to the British Board of Censors ... the Carry Ons have become a part of British film history, like Hitchcock and Hammer horror. As vulgar as flock wallpaper, as cheap as fish and chips, they hold a special place in the hearts of young and old alike * Telegraph *fascinating * GT (Gay Times) *
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Vintage Publishing Orson Welles Volume 3
Book SynopsisIn One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities.The book begins with Welles' self-exile from America, and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film-maker, a one-man band; by 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete, Mr Arkadin, the biggest conundrum in his output, and his masterpiece Chimes at Midnight, as well as Touch of Evil, his sole return to Hollywood and, like all too many of his films, wrested from his grasp and re-edited. Along the way Trade ReviewOne Man Band gathers strength page by page. This is by far the funniest volume of the three, and in some ways the most revelatory. The more vulnerable Welles becomes, the more vivid Callow’s writing. The fear was always that a description of Welles’ later years would be depressing. But this is that rare thing: a book about decline which is actually exhilarating -- David HareOne Man Band gathers strength page by page. This is by far the funniest volume of the three, and in some ways the most revelatory. The more vulnerable Welles becomes, the more vivid Callow’s writing. The fear was always that a description of Welles’ later years would be depressing. But this is that rare thing: a book about decline which is actually exhilarating -- David HareA biography as huge as if it had been fed a Welles-style diet of roasted chicken and foie gras -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times *Callow continuously strikes to the quick and the essential in Welles -- Michael Coveney * Independent *Impeccably detailed research peppered with anecdotes and […] his witty conversational style -- Kevin Maher * The Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd On Directing Film
Book SynopsisA masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the DogCalling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing—from script to cutting room—to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking.Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet. —Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-nominated director of 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Childrens Film Oxford
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Children's Film offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.Table of ContentsList of Illustration About the Contributors Introduction: Coming to Terms with Children's Film, Noel Brown Part I.ENGenre and Form 1. Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining a Children's Film, Becky Parry 2. Screening Innocence in Children's Film, Debbie Olson 3. Screen Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz and Metafilmicity in Children's Film, Ryan Bunch 4. Children's Films and the Avant-Garde, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 5. Intertextuality and "Adult" Humour in Children's Film, Sam Summers 6. Children's Film and the Problematic "Happy Ending," Noel Brown Part IIENChildren, Childhood, and Growing Up 7. The Cop and the Kid in 1930s American Film, Pamela Robertson Wojcik 8. History, Forbidden Games, Children's Play, and Trauma Theory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews 9. Changing Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of the Children's Film Foundation, Robert Shail 10. Migrant Children and the "Space Between" in the Films of Angelopoulos, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 11. Iranian Cinema and a World through the Eyes of a Child, John Stephens 12. The American Tween and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Timothy Shary 13. Growing Up on Scandinavian Screens, Anders Lysne Part IIIENChildren's Film and Performance 14. Mary Pickford, Alma Taylor, and Girlhood in Early Hollywood and British Cinema, Matthew Smith 15. Craft and Play in Lotte Reiniger's Fairy-Tale Films, Caroline Ruddell 16. Disney's Musical Landscapes, Daniel Batchelder 17. Hayley Mills and the Disneyfication of Childhood, David Buckingham 18. Danny Kaye as Children's Film Star, Bruce Babington 19. Real Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism in Children's Film, Claudia Alonso-Recarte and Ignacio Ramos-Gay Part IVENChildren's Cinema, Society, and National Identity 20. Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children's Cinema, Adrian Schober 21. Nationalism in Swedish Children's Film and the Case of Astrid Lindgren, Anders Wilhelm Åberg 22. Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-fascist Politics of the Children's Films of Satyajit Ray, Koel Banerjee 23. Gender, Ideology, and Nationalism in Chinese Children's Cinema, Yuhan Huang 24. Ethnic and Racial Difference in the Hungarian Animated Features Macskafogó/Cat City (1986) and Macskafogó 2/Cat City 2 (2007), Gábor Gergely 25. Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Katherine Whitehurst 26. Coming of Age in South Korean Cinema, Sung-Ae Lee Part V.ENHollywood and Family Audiences 27. The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Global Movie Hits, Peter Krämer 28. Reading Jason and the Argonauts as a Children's Film, Susan Smith 29. Hollywood and the Baby Boom Audience in the 1950s and 1960s, James Russell 30. Don Bluth and the Disney Renaissance, Peter C. Kunze 31. On "Love Experts," Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen, Amy M. Davis 32. Hollywood, Regulation, and the "Disappearing" Children's Film, Filipa Antunes Part VI. Audiences, Engagement, and Participatory Culture 33. How Children Learn to "Read" Movies, Cary Bazalgette 34. Star Wars, Children's Film Culture, and Fan Paratexts, Lincoln Geraghty 35. Norwegian Tween Girls and Everyday Life through Disney Tween Franchises, Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen 36. A Multimethod Study on Contemporary Young Audiences and Their Film/Cinema Discourses and Practices in Flanders, Belgium, Aleit Veenstra, Philippe Meers, and Daniël Biltereyst 37. An Empirical Report on Young People's Responses to Adult Fantasy Films, Martin Barker 38. Disney's Adult Audiences, James R. Mason Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Doubting Vision
Book SynopsisThe film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each other. In Doubting Vision, film scholar Malcolm Turvey argues that their work constitutes a distinct, hitherto neglected tradition, which he calls revelationism, and which differs in important ways from modernism and realism. For these four theorists and filmmakers, the cinema is an art of mass enlightenment because it escapes the limits of human sight and reveals the true nature of reality. Turvey provides a detailed exegesis of this tradition, pointing to its sources in Romanticism, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, modern science, and other intellectual currents. He also shows how profoundly it has influenced contemporary film theory by examining the work of psychoanalytical-semiotic theorists of the 1970s, Stanley Cavell, the modern-day followers of Kracauer and Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze. Throughout, Turvey offers a trenchant critique of revelatTrade ReviewClassical film theory represents a rich body of work that is generally overlooked nowadays by contemporary scholars of cinema. In Doubting Vision, Malcolm Turvey demonstrates that this is a mistake. He identifies a hitherto ill-recognized strand of the tradition--the revelationist tradition--and he shows astutely how critical engagement with it has great significance for debates in contemporary film theory. * Noel Carroll, Temple University *In this philosophically acute and elegantly concise book, Turvey proves himself a bold and highly original interlocutor of the tradition of classical film theory. Anyone interested in the cognitive value of cinema, modernist aesthetics, and visual culture will find his study indispensable, and long overdue. * Edward Dimendberg, author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity *In this profoundly original book Turvey anatomizes with acuity and precision a third revelationist tradition of film theory alongside the familiar creationist and realist traditions and traces its persistence in contemporary writers such as Cavell and Deleuze. Further, he demonstrates how the roots of this tradition lie in the denigration of vision within modernism, a denigration that is based upon a conceptual confusion about the nature of seeing. This Turvey systematically extirpates with the tools of ordinary language philosophy. Written with remarkable lucidity and panache, Doubting Vision is an intellectual tour de force that is required reading for all film scholars and anyone who is interested in the history of modernism. * Richard Allen, New York University *Classical film theory represents a rich body of work that is generally overlooked nowadays by contemporary scholars of cinema. In Doubting Vision, Malcolm Turvey demonstrates that this is a mistake. He identifies a hitherto ill-recognized strand of the tradition--the revelationist tradition--and he shows astutely how critical engagement with it has great significance for debates in contemporary film theory. * Noel Carroll, Temple University *In this philosophically acute and elegantly concise book, Turvey proves himself a bold and highly original interlocutor of the tradition of classical film theory. Anyone interested in the cognitive value of cinema, modernist aesthetics, and visual culture will find his study indispensable, and long overdue. * Edward Dimendberg, author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Revelationist Tradition: Exegesis ; 2. The Revelationsit Tradition: Critique ; 3. Revelationism and Contemporary Film Theory ; 4. The Lure of Visual Skepticism ; Notes
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Oxford University Press Inc Sesame Street A Transnational History
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Culture-Free TV? CHAPTER 1 Domestic Origins: The Workshop's Business Model CHAPTER 2 Ensuring Early Success: Strategies to Conquer the International Market CHAPTER 3 Ban and Bother: The Workshop's troubles in the UK CHAPTER 4 Negotiating Local Needs: Sesame Street in West Germany CHAPTER 5 Other Childhoods: Sesame Street in Scandinavia CONCLUSION Narrow Vision: Looking Back at a Global Success Consulted Archival Material Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Alien Legacies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Robert Kolker 1. Introduction Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame 2. Boundaries of Viscerality: A sense of abjection regarding
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Oxford University Press Inc How Documentaries Went Mainstream A History
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independent film movement, support from public and cable television, and the rise of streaming video services. Documentary films have become reliable earners at the U.S. box office and ubiquitous on streaming platforms, while historically they existed on the margins of mainstream media. How do we explain the growing commercialization of documentary films and the conditions that fueled their transformation?The growing commercialization of documentary film has not gone unnoticed, but it has not been sufficiently explained. Streaming and the growing interest in reality TV are usually offered as initial explanations whenever a documentary enters the cultural conversation or breaks a box-office record, but neither of those causes grapple with the overlapping causal mechanisms that commercialized documentary film. How Documentaries Went Mainstream provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of the commercialization of documentary film. Although the commercial ascension of documentary films might seem meteoric, it is the culmination of decades-long efforts that have developed and fortified the audience for documentary features. Author Nora Stone refines rough explanations of these efforts through a robust synoptic history of the market for documentary films, using knowledge of film economics and the norms of industry discourse to tell a richer story. This periodization will allow scholars to compare the commercialization of documentary film with other genres. Drawing on archival documents, industry trade journals and popular press, and interviews with filmmakers and film distributors, Stone illuminates how documentary features have become more plentiful, popular, and profitable than ever before.Trade ReviewStone's history of post-vérité U.S. documentary is, simply put, the book I've been waiting for. For too long, documentary histories have focused primarily on makers and movements, but Stone weaves an account of the film markets, documentary institutions, and shifts in film culture driving documentary's increased public visibility. Whether discussing canonical works, box office flops, public television broadcasts, or popular documentary hits, this book provides a narrative that reframes and illuminates the major changes in the documentary landscape over the last half century. * Chris Cagle, Associate Professor, Temple University, Film and Media Arts *How Documentaries Went Mainstream explores the tension between public service and commodity exchange in the documentary film market by tracing the shifting industrial trends in documentary distribution and exhibition between the 1960s and today. Deftly researched and incisively written, Stone's book offers an important intervention in the history of documentary by focusing on the mode's industrial concerns. Essential reading for anyone interested in how and why documentary has come to occupy such a prolific and lucrative corner of the media market in recent years. * Kristen Fuhs, Professor of Media Studies, Woodbury University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Documentaries Went Mainstream Chapter 1: 1960 to 1977, Direct Cinema Blossoms, But Little Support for Documentary Films in Theaters Chapter 2: 1978 to 1989, A Rising Tide: How the Independent Film Movement Boosted Documentaries Chapter 3: 1978 to 1990, Fighting For A Place On Public Television: Independent Filmmakers Lobby Chapter 4: 1990 to 1999, Television or Cinema? Redefining Documentary for Prestige and Profit Chapter 5: 2000 to 2007, The Docbuster Era Chapter 6: 2008 to 2022, Streaming Video Drives Documentary Production Trends and Private Investment Conclusion: Documentary Film Inches Closer to the Center, But Core Tensions Remain Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Some Versions of Cary Grant
Book SynopsisCary Grant famously said, Everyone wants to be Cary Grant--even I want to be Cary Grant. His development of that star image required serious work, but he also played a variety of characters requiring special performing talents. He was equally skilled in the screwball farce The Awful Truth, the dark thriller Notorious, the romantic melodrama An Affair to Remember, the domestic comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and the social drama None But the Lonely Heart. In a lively style accompanied by many illustrations, James Naremore analyzes these and other of Grant''s best films, demonstrating that he had exceptional talent and greater range than usually recognized.Trade ReviewJames Naremore, our foremost expert on film acting, has given us a kaleidoscopic survey of the allure of Hollywood's dazzling prince. Always sensitive to each film's historical context and production circumstances, Naremore analyzes how Grant deployed gesture, expression, posture, vocal delivery—all the tools in the actor's kit—to generate unforgettable crazy comedy and somber drama. His supple crouch and pivot, his unpredictable facial reactions, and the fine shading he brings to a line or a look come to resemble the signature brushstrokes of a master painter. Not least, Naremore shows how Grant generously calibrated his performance to blend with the contributions of other players. Some Versions of Cary Grant is a model of nuanced, witty analysis and an admiring appreciation of one of cinema's greatest artists * David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison *James Naremore's rare and dazzling ability to analyze the subtleties of screen acting makes this study of what he shows to be the surprisingly rich persona of Cary Grant an engrossing, enlightening, and entertaining read. * Joseph McBride, author of biographies of FrankCapra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg and critical studies of Orson Welles, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Moving Form of Film
Book SynopsisThe Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film and other arts and media can provide an encompassing, inclusive, and non-teleological understanding of film history. Evolutionary narratives of cinema have traditionally adopted the Second World War as a watershed that separates ''classical'' Hollywood films from ''modern'' European productions, a scheme that subjects the entire world to the cinematic history of two hegemonic centres. In turn, histories of film as a technological medium have focused on the specificity of cinema as it gradually separated from the other art and medial forms - theatre, dance, fairground spectacle, painting, literature, still photography and other pre-cinematic modes. Taking an ambitious step forward with relation to these approaches, this book focuses on the fluid quality of the film form by exploring an array of exciting and often neglected artistic expressions worldwide as they compare and interconnect films across temporal, geographical, and cultural borders. By observing the ebb and flow of film''s contours within the bounds of other artistic and medial expressions, the chapters aspire to establish a flexible historical platform for the moving form of film, posited, from production to consumption, as a transforming and transformative medium.Trade ReviewThis is a truly remarkable volume, not just on account of its list of distinguished contributors. Using intermediality as its method, this collection manages to establish this most precious of balance: a study of film form that never loses sight of the medium's historicity. Naguib and Solomon's book literally brims with useful theorizations and concepts. * Martine Beugnet, Université de Paris *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Stefan Solomon and Lúcia Nagib Part I - Methodologies 1. Hegel, Cinema and the Other Arts Alain Badiou 2. One-Dimensional Man? A Reply to Alain Badiou James Hellings 3. Hybrid Variations on an Intermedial Theme Robert Stam 4. Parallax Historiography and Metareference: The intramedial case of Nagasaki Shunichi's Heart, Beating in the Dark Mark Player Part II - Technologies and Environments 5. Intermediality and the Carousel Slide Projector Julian Ross 6. Up the Junction, Intermediality and Social Change Sarah Street 7. When the Past is Present: Digital Cinema and the Philosophical Toys of Pre-Cinema Ismail Xavier 8. Panoramic Views, Planetary Visions: An Intermedial Analysis of Medium Earth and Walden Tiago de Luca 9. Elemental Intermedia Stefan Solomon Part III - National and Regional Phenomena 10. Cinema from the perspective of the stage: for an integrated history of theatrical entertainment in Brazil Luciana Corrêa de Araújo 11. Flamenco on Screen: The Intermedial Legacy of Carmen Amaya in Bajarí Albert Elduque 12. Impurity and Identification: Historicising Chinese Cinema through the Opera Cecília Mello 13. Historicising the Story through Film and Music: An Intermedial Reading of Heimat 2 Lúcia Nagib Part IV - Intermedial Artists 14. Stephen Dwoskin, an Intermedial Artist Rachel Garfield, Jenny Chamarette and Darragh O'Donoghue 15. Intermedial Voices: Intersections in feminist sound and moving image Claire M. Holdsworth 16. Entanglements of Intermediality: Polanski, Pinter, Steptoe and Son Jonathan Bignell 17. The Intermedial Reworking of History in Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases Trilogy Fátima Chinita Index
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Oxford University Press Stars Studios and the Musical Theatre Screen
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors About the Companion Website Introduction 1. Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942) 2. 'Is this the right material, girl?': How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva, but Not Necessarily Evita 3. Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Dance Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers 4. 'I'm Once Again the Previous Me': Performance and Stardom in the Barbra Streisand Stage-to-Screen Adaptations 5. Lost in Translation: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel on the Silver Screen 6. Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical 7. Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood 8. The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation 9. Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood Select Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Films of Luis Bunuel
Book SynopsisThis is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie and enduring influence on European cinema. Uniquely, the book offers an extended analysis of Buñuel''s films in the context of contemporary debates in film studies, focusing in particular on questions of subjectivity and desire. Throughout, Buñuel''s films are viewed as both the brilliant, subversive expressions of the director''s fantasies and obsessions and as reflections of wider cultural norms and preoccupations. Making use of psychoanalysis and gender theory, Peter Evans explores Buñuel''s characteristic thematics of transgression and his status as exile or outsider. The whole range of his work is discussed, from the critically neglected `bread and butter'' Mexican melodramas of the 1950s to such classics of European cinema as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, and Belle de Jour. Accessible, lively, and compelling, The Films of Luis Buñuel provides a mucTrade Review'Evans interprets the films as if they are dreams, teasing out their hidden meanings. It's his ingenuity in doing so that keeps The Films of Luis Bunuel afloat.' Geoffrey Macnab, Literary ReviewThis is certainly a book for the theorist and you don't need to know Bunnel's films to benefit from its contents. * Film *Intelligent and eclectic study of cinema's great taboo-breaker. * Sight and Sound *a brilliant start to the new series on Hispanic themes launched by OUP...A must for any Bunuel bibliography * Forum for Modern Language Studies *One of the principal virtues of Peter Evan's landmark study is its concern to provide a multiple readership in hispanism and film studies with a precise set of indicators to hispanic contexts and traditions that inform Bunuel's films. What emerges is an appreciation of Bunuel's achievement as an auteur that is considerably fuller and more nuanced than previous accounts. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Exhaustive and compelling book. This important study is a concise, informed and challenging work which should invigorate discussion about the most iconoclastic of directors. Peter William Evans has thrown the films of Luis Bunuel to the wolves of contemporary critical debates in film studies. It is a fight which the sly, old Aragonese dog would have relished. * Rob Stone, University of Aberystwyth, Tesserae 2 (1996) *Evans's perceptive discussion of the films' cinematic intertextuality is criss-crossed with enlightening literary associations, from Golden-Age authors and Buñuel's French and Spanish contemporaries to gothic novelists and Latin-American writers ... useful in providing a unified interpretation of Bunñuel's work and gives many new insights into the individual films under discussion. * Xon de Ros, King's College, London, MLR, 91.4, 1996 *Peter Evans works in generous swathes of thought, bringing what seems to be a large amount of learning and clarity to his subject. * British Bulletin of Publications, No. 95, October 1996 *
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Oxford University Press Film Noir
Book SynopsisFilm noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw lovers, criminal heists, corrupt police, and doomed or endangered outsiders. But as this VSI demonstrates, film noir actually predates the 1940s and has never been confined to Hollywood. International in scope, its various manifestations have spread across generic categories, attracted the interest of the world''s great directors, and continue to appear even today. In this Very Short Introduction James Naremore shows how the term film noir originated in in French literary and film criticism, and how later uses of the term travelled abroad, changing its implications. In the process, he comments on classic examples of the films and explores important aspects of their history: their critical reception, their major literary sources, their methods of dealing with censorship and budgets, their social and cultural politics, their variety of styles, and their future in a world of digital media and video streaming. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewJames Naremore, film noir's most subtle historian, has given us the most incisive, wide-ranging study of this powerful cinematic tradition. His book admirably analyzes trends in the critical literature, traces the social and cultural contexts of noir, and introduces strikingly original ideas--notably noir's ties to literary modernism. As a bonus, Naremore presents carefully judged and gracefully written appreciations of important movies from The Maltese Falcon to Mulholland Drive and beyond. His book is an indispensable work for both novice and connoisseur. * David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Table of ContentsPreface1: The idea of film noir2: The modernist crime novel and Hollywood noir3: Censorship and politics in Hollywood noir4: Budgets and critical discrimination5: Styles of film noir6: The afterlife of noir and the changing mediascapeFurther readingIndex
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The University of Chicago Press Alexander Medvedkin Reader Cinema and Modernity
Book SynopsisFilmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of total documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, and for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of selected writings by Medvedkin is the first of its kind and reveals how his work is a crucial link in the history of documentary film. Although he was a dedicated communist, Medvedkin's satirical approach and social critiques ultimately led to his suppression by the Soviet regime. State institutions held back or marginalized his work, and for many years, his films were assumed to have been lost or destroyed. These texts, many assembled for this volume by Medvedkin himself, document for the first time his considerable achievements, experiments in film and theater, and attempts to develop satire as a major S
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The University of Chicago Press The Alexander Medvedkin Reader Cinema and
Book SynopsisFilmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of total documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, and for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of selected writings by Medvedkin is the first of its kind and reveals how his work is a crucial link in the history of documentary film. Although he was a dedicated communist, Medvedkin's satirical approach and social critiques ultimately led to his suppression by the Soviet regime. State institutions held back or marginalized his work, and for many years, his films were assumed to have been lost or destroyed. These texts, many assembled for this volume by Medvedkin himself, document for the first time his considerable achievements, experiments in film and theater, and attempts to develop satire as a major S
£29.45
