Individual film directors Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"A carefully constructed book with a favorable tone about an eccentric Swedish director and his debut film. Stenport’s writing is rich with interest in the film as well as the director, which brings life to a topic unfamiliar to many readers." -- Ivy Burridge * Film Matters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Moodysson’s contexts 2. The ambivalence of Show Me Love 3. the geography of Show Me Love 4. Moodysson’s continuation Festival Screenings and Awards Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the most plausible solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process the author paints a portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture. He provides an answer to a mystery and a study of a place, and an industry, that has always let people reinvent themselves.Trade ReviewThe most thoroughly researched and carefully considered of all the books on the legendary William Desmond Taylor murder case. - James Curtis, author of W. C. Fields: A Biography ""Drawing on unpublished documents compiled by director King Vidor, and making witty, insightful comments as he does, Higham cuts through a thicket of suspects, motives, and cover-ups to point the finger where it had rather clearly been pointing all along, arguing that for some years a hypocritical, moralistic press did its best to point the finger in other directions. More than the solution, what impresses here are Higham's portraits of Taylor, Minter, et al, as scarred souls who believed Hollywood would be their Lourdes on the Pacific. They were mistaken."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Murder in Hollywood is engrossing, as much for chronicling the murder as it is for capturing an era as rollicking as a Keystone Cops two-reeler. Higham presents a persuasive argument for his favored suspect,... and the evidence is compelling. But inevitably, it is the time-capsule quality of the storytelling, and a peek at 'hiding in plain sight' homosexuality, that makes the book so interesting."" - Lambda Book Report ""Paints a dazzling picture of Los Angeles in a golden age of sleaze and corruption."" - Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisIn this biography, now translated into English for the first time, Bert Rebhandl provides a balanced evaluation of the work of Jean-Luc Godard. In this sympathetic yet critical overview, he argues that Godard’s work captured the revolutionary spirit of Paris in the late 1960s as no other filmmaker has dared, and in fact reinvented the medium.Trade ReviewA wonderfully fact-filled new biography of Godard. . . . You immediately want to watch the best of his films again as you read Rebhandl’s confidently narrated book about the filmmaker, which analyzes with genteel restraint." - Der Spiegel"Rebhandl has undoubtedly hit it big here." - Walter Gasperi, Die Furche"A wonderful, dense tapestry of cinematic knowledge, not without a pattern of personal enthusiasm, which lets one walk reasonably safely into the workrooms of a guy who doesn’t exactly welcome guests with open arms." - Georg Seeßlen, epd Film"Rebhandl’s lucidly written monograph offers a perfect introduction to Godard’s complex intellectual and cinematic world." - Stefan Grissemann, Profil "Rebhandl’s treatise lends itself to introductory reading, but also provides enough page-turners for Godard connoisseurs. . . . No small feat." - Andreas Busche, TagesspiegelTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1 Modern Times: 1950 to 1959 2 Pop Art: 1959 to 1967 3 Revolutionary Cinema: 1967 to 1972 4 Video, Ergo Sum: 1973 to 1980 5 The Idiot of Cinema: 1980 to 1996 6 The Partisan of Images: 1997 to 2020 7 The Joy of Learning Notes Bibliography Filmography Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisCelebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. This book presents Guy Blache's film oeuvre in an effort that restores her to the rightful place in film history.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of his films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite."—Dwight Garner, New York Times “Mikics is a forensic film critic, and fascinating on what might have been in Kubrick’s career.”—Ed Potton, The Times “Mikics proves to be a perceptive critic...The result of his labours is an extremely useful primer for anyone wanting to learn more about Kubrick and his work. It’s thoughtful, concise...and fluently written.”—Tom Ryan, The Sydney Morning Herald “Some of [Kubrick’s] shots are reproduced in Mikics's book. They show that Kubrick's eye for clever compositions — left balances right, background speaks to foreground — was there from the off.”—Christopher Bray, Spectator “Not least of the pleasures afforded by this heroically concise biography of Stanley Kubrick, a man who neither embraced brevity nor encouraged it, is that it all but compels you to revisit his wonderful films.”—Brian Viner, Standpoint “[Mikics'] chapter on Eyes Wide Shut...is well worth reading, not least for its painful details about Kubrick’s terrible illness during the shoot and his friends’ view that ‘it killed him, really, making that movie’.”—Kevin Jackson, Literary Review CHOICE 2021 Outstanding Academic Title “A joy to read . . . elegant and penetrating as both biography and film criticism. Mikics offers such persuasive arguments for the individual movies that I found myself continually rethinking them.”—Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

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Book SynopsisBy 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards at the same time he was over 20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically examines Coppola''s singular vision and why it makes such paradoxes not only possible but prevalent in his long turbulent career. At the age of 32 Coppola became a superstar in Hollywood with The Godfather, which rapidly climbed to the top of the all-time box-office hits. Two years later he won the coveted Palme d''Or at the Cannes festival for The Conversation. His savage epic of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, established him as the most daring, brilliant filmmaker of his generation. This book not only goes behind the cameras to track the creative and financial turmoil involved in his productions, but offers perceptive analyses of his films, including all three parts of The Godfather and the visually stunning remake of Dracula. Based on three years of research and exclusive intervTable of Contents* Introduction * The Italian Connection * The Studio Grind * Independence and the Dream of Zoetrope * The Godfather * Picking Up The Conversation * Back to Corleone * Lost in the Jungle * Blows to the Heart * Back to Back in Tulsa * Playing The Cotton Club * From Rip van Winkle to Peggy Sue * Tragedy and Revival * TuckerThe Dream Triumphant * Back to the Future * Filmography

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Book Synopsis"One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, and Amarcord. His prodigious body o"Table of Contents* Rimini, My Home Town * Sweet Beginnings * Miscellany IIm a liar, but an honest one. * Letter to a Marxist Critic * Letter to a Jesuit Priest * Via Veneto: dolce vita * Notes On Censorship * The Bitter Lifeof Money * With 8 in Moscow * Miscellany IILike a puppet-master who falls in love with his puppets * Why Clowns? * Comic-Strip Heroes * Whom Do You Most Admire? * Miscellany IIII See No Dividing Line Between Imagination and Reality * The Birth of a Film

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Book SynopsisAlthough Frank Capra (1897–1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can''t Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It''s a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director''s Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer''s Guild. He worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from Mack Sennett, Chaplin, and Keaton in the silent era through the illustrious names of the golden age. He directed Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and others. Reading his autobiography is like having Capra sitting in your living room, regaling you with his anecdotes. In The Name Above the Title he reveals the deeply personal story of how, despite winning six Academy Awards, he struggled throughout his life against the glamors, vagaries, and frustrations of Hollywood for the creative freedom to make some of the most memorable films of all time.Table of ContentsStruggle for Success * Its About Time, You Bum * Great Week for Screwballs * Comedy and the King * Baby Face * Columbia the Germ of the Ocean * The Sound and the Fury * In Search of the Holy Grail * Bitter Times and Bitter Tea Struggle with Success * Winning the Grail * Burn the First Two Reels * The Common Bond * If You Could Only Cook * You Cant Take It with You * If You Have to Think About It, Forget It * Film Power vs. Freedom of Film * Five Endings in Search of an Audience The Great Struggle * Why We Fight * F.D.R., Mr. P.M., & W.W. II An Entirely New Ball Game, With Entirely New Rules * Giver Me Liberty * Balabans Law * Self-Exile * Stars over Hollywood * Pocketful of Troubles

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Book SynopsisRevealing biography of one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures; and the first significant biography to have been published since the subject's deathTrade ReviewBach's book might be called exemplary, except that that word is too cold for the excitement he generates . . . Powerful and enlightening * SUNDAY TIMES *Meticulous * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Not only powerful but also remarkably exciting * SUNDAY TIMES *Bach systematically and thoroughly chronicles a life so full of contradictions and denials it almost makes you want to scream . . . A superb work * OBSERVER *

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Book SynopsisAlexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.

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Book SynopsisA companion to "Citizen Kane" - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.

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Book SynopsisSo You Want to Be a Producer is packed with information and advice from top Hollywood producers, writers and directors and is a must-read for anyone interested in what it really takes to get a film made, including:- Finding your story- Obtaining the rights- Developing the script- Hiring your cast and crew- Distributing your movie Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate, The River Wild, Short Circuit and American History X, offers an insider''s guide that covers every aspect of the role, from finding a story and hiring actors to developing a script and marketing the finished product. Trade Review"* 'Turman has made smart, superior films for forty years. This is a straightforward and clear guide to being a producer' Paul Newman * 'It's worth four years of film school' David Brown, four time Oscar-nominated producer of Chocolat, A Few Good Men and Jaws. * 'A smart, savvy survivior's guide to the galmorous producing game' Peter Bart, Editor in Chief, Variety"

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Book SynopsisâWill there ever be an end to the supply of books about Alfred Hitchcock?â, pleaded the Times Literary Supplement in 2008. It is a fair question for, as Michael Walker pointed out in Hitchcockâs Motifs, more has been written about Hitchcock (1899â1980) than any other film director. Indeed, Jane E. Sloanâs 1993 Hitchcock bibliography revealed that well over seventy-five scholarly books and nearly 1,000 articles had been published by 1990; and those figures have, of course, continued inexorably to rise.So, while the prospective viewer of Vertigo or Rear Window is likely to feel a compelling need for some preparation before consuming the film itself, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of Hitchcock criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new Routledge title, compiled by Neil Badmington, is so urgently needed. In four volumes, the collection meets the need for an authoritative reference work to allow researchers and students to make sense of the vast Hitchcock literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Users will now be able easily and rapidly to locate the best and most influential critical scholarship, work that is otherwise often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. With material gathered into one easy-to-use set, researchers and students can now spend more of their time with the key journal articles, book chapters, and other pieces, rather than on time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches.The collection is supplemented with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is also fully indexed and includes an expertly compiled âThematic Guideâ to enable users readily to discover and follow thematic pathways through the assembled works. Alfred Hitchcock is an essential reference work and is destined to be valued as a vital research resource.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, Suzuki Seijun met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s.Trade Review“Fans, aficionados and, yes, even scholars will treasure this long-awaited study of the work of one of Japan’s greatest, and most wonderfully eccentric, directors. Yacavone demonstrates the startling originality of Suzuki’s cinema and continuity of his vision—a genuine auteur study that does not ignore other factors, like genre, industry, and social context.”—David Desser, Emeritus University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign“This is an excellent, passionate study that illuminates Suzuki’s work in its broad features as well as its nuances and striking idiosyncrasies. Yacavone develops an analytic template that he terms the ‘Suzuki Difference’ which deals with the manifold ways that Suzuki challenged, subverted, undercut, and blithely disregarded the norms of professional studio filmmaking that bound most other filmmakers in the period.”—Stephen Prince, Virginia TechTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction A Note on the Text and Translations Throughout this Book Chapter 1. The Recusant Chapter 2. The Dog (Rajo to kenjū, Ankokugai no bijo, Kagenaki koe, Kaikyō chi ni somete, Kutabare gurentai, Tokyo kishitai, Subete ge kurutteru, Akutarō, Toge wo wataru wakai kaze, Akutarō-den: warui hoshi shita demo) Chapter 3. The Mirror (Yajū no seishun, Tantei Jimusho 2-3: Kutabare akutō-domo, Kemono no nemuri) Chapter 4. The Tattoo (Kanto mushuku, Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai, Hana to doto, Irezumi ichidai) Chapter 5. The Flesh (Nikutai no mon, Shunpuden, Kawachi karumen) Chapter 6. The Break (Tokyo nagaremono, Kenka erejii, Sandanjū no otoko, Mikkō 0-Rain, 13-go taihisen yori sono gosōsha wo nerae) Chapter 7. The Hinge (Koroshi no rakuin, Pisutoru opera) Chapter 8. The Double (Zigeunerweisen, Kagerō-za, Yumeji, Hishū monogatari, Rupan sansei: Babiron no ōgon no densetsu) Bibliography Filmography Appendix: A Complete Filmography of Suzuki Seijun, Director

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Book SynopsisQuentin Tarantino is one of the most influential and distinctive filmmakers at work in the world today. His films are so admired that nearly every one he makes becomes an instant cult classic. Here, Tom Shone presents in-depth commentaries on each of the ten films Tarantino has directed, from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as well as looking at his early life, acting career, and his indisputable talent for scriptwriting. Illustrated with more than two hundred film stills and behind-the-scenes images, Tarantino: A Retrospective is a tribute to the great auteur's unique talent.Trade Review'Eloquent and acute' - Film Book of the Year, Herald

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Book Synopsis'Its exterior is one of the most photographed in Britain but the inside of the artist and director's home has seldom been seen, until now... a riveting portrait of the later years of an important British artist' Sunday Times Over a near-decade from 1986, the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman and his partner Keith Collins created a home and sanctuary at Prospect Cottage. After Jarman's death in 1994, Collins hung net curtains to shield the home they had shared from the eyes of visitors to Prospect's world-famous garden. In 2018, the photographer Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbour in Dungeness, was asked to record the house, a vital artwork in its own right. It was the first time this private world had been so extensively chronicled. Unfolding room by room, McCarragher's photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside Prospect Cottage, revealing something of its history and his experience of photographing there.

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Book SynopsisPau Gómez has a degree in Journalism and a PhD in Film. He has spent most of his career at Ràdio 9, where he directed and presented specialized cinema programmes. He is the author of ten books on film.

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Book SynopsisImpeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema's most enduring talents. Since his emergence in the early seventies, Martin Scorsese has become one of the most respected names in cinema. Classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas are regularly cited as being among the finest films ever made. This lavish retrospective is a fitting tribute to a remarkable director, now into his sixth decade in cinema and showing no signs of slowing up. Leading film writer Tom Shone draws on his in-depth knowledge and distinctive viewpoint to present refreshing commentaries on all twenty-three main features, from the rarely shown Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) to the latest release, The Irishman (2019), as well as covering Scorsese's parallel career as a documentary maker.Trade Review'A glory to leaf through … excellent text … Tom Shone, a film critic worth reading whatever aspect of the industry he talks about' - Clive James, Prospect'A beautiful book' - The Times'The definitive celebration of Scorsese's illustrious career at the helm of film making' - Hungry Eye Magazine

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Book SynopsisIan Nathan is one of the UK's best-known film writers. He is the author of eight previous books, including Alien Vault, the bestselling history of Ridley Scott's masterpiece, Terminator Vault, Burton, The Coen Brothers and Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth. He is the former editor and executive editor of Empire, where he remains a contributing editor.

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Book SynopsisContaining poetry, drawings, pressed flowers, photographs, excerpts from scripts and notes, this book features Derek Jarman's sketchbooks that are part autobiography and part social history, bursting with the energy and creativity of this groundbreaking artist.Table of ContentsContents: ‘Foreword’ Tilda Swinton • ‘An Introduction to Derek Jarman as Film-maker’ Jon Savage • ‘Early Experiments with Film 1964–1977’ Andrew Logan • ‘Jubilee to Angelic Conversation 1978–1986’ Toyah Willcox • ‘Caravaggio 1986’ Christopher Hobbs • ‘The Last of England to War Requiem 1987–1989’ James Mackay • ‘The Garden 1990’ Howard Sooley • Edward II to Glitterbug 1991–1993 Neil Tennant • ‘Blue 1994–1997’ Keith Collins

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Book SynopsisWoody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime thrillers. This book deals with his life and work.Trade Review'Shone’s analysis is most piercing … [his] prose has a beauty of its own, abounding in nonchalantly exquisite turns of phrase' - Observer'Intelligently constructed' - Independent on Sunday'An extraordinary career is celebrated with behind-the-scenes shots and informative prose' - The Times'A luxuriant photo-history' - ProspectTable of ContentsIntroduction • The Early Years • The Hollywood Years • The Director • Take the Money and Run • Bananas • Play it Again, Sam • Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex... • Sleeper • Love and Death • Annie Hall • Interiors • Manhattan • Stardust Memories • A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy • Zelig • Broadway Danny Rose • The Purple Rose of Cairo • Hannah and her Sisters • Radio Days • September • Another Woman • Crimes and Misdemeanors • Alice • Shadows and Fog • Husbands and Wives • Manhattan Murder Mystery • Bullets over Broadway • Mighty Aphrodite • Everyone Says I Love You • Deconstructing Harry • Celebrity • Sweet and Lowdown • Small Time Crooks • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion • Hollywood Ending • Anything Else • Melinda and Melinda • Match Point • Scoop • Cassandra’s Dream • Vicky Cristina Barcelona • Whatever Works • You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger • Midnight in Paris • To Rome with Love • Blue Jasmine • Magic in the Moonlight • Conclusion • Filmography

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Book SynopsisEdgar G Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German emigre directors - Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak.Trade Review"A page turner of a biography." -- Andrew O'Hehir New York Times "The story of his [Edgar G. Ulmer's] life is told with remarkable research and insight." -- Richard Brody New Yorker "The season's must read [for film buffs] ... Noah Isenberg's long-awaited biography 'Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins.' Ulmer-whose CV includes "People on Sunday," "The Black Cat," "Detour," four Yiddish talkies, a half dozen bargain basement classics and as many indescribable oddities-had a life that was every bit as interesting as his film. The writing is scholarly but, given the material, charged with irony and full of pep." -- J. Hoberman Artinfo "[A] cogent treatment of a singularly unlikely career. Isenberg's writing...allows the monumental eccentricities of Ulmer's underground journey to shine through." -- Howard Hampton Bookforum "Long considered as something of a guilty pleasure among filmmakers, critics, and fans, director Edgar G. Ulmer finally gets the attention and scholarship he deserves in Noah Isenberg's new book." -- Matthew Steigbigel The Credits "A rare coupling of intellectual treatise and entertaining biography that beckons to both the film scholar and the public." -- Miguel Rodriguez KPBS "With sober intrepidness, Isenberg tethers down to earth some of the more wild claims made by and about his subject. In recounting the filmmaker's amazing career, he moves easily between describing the drama going on behind the scenes and analyzing the provocative work that Ulmer put on screen... This fascinating biography gives us the chance to weigh the many frustrations in Ulmer's career against the joy he found in the act of creation." -- Betsy Sherman Arts Fuse "Operating mostly outside of the Hollywood system, Edgar G. Ulmer (the original King of the B's) is a fascinating character whose rather notorious mysterious life is somewhere between fact and fiction. All of this is explored and solved ... in scholar Noah Isenberg's brilliant new critical biography Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins." -- Caryn Coleman Vice "A most welcome book, which can lay claim to being a definitive study of Edgar G. Ulmer... Isenberg has given us more than an academic study of the filmmaker's eclectic career. He manages to paint a rounded, sympathetic but honest picture of the man whose endless dreams were so often dashed... Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins is scholarly but never dry. It is a valuable reference and a good read." -- Leonard Maltin Indiewire "As Isenberg reveals in this utterly necessary book, Ulmer was a nonpareil slinger of [exaggerated stories] even for a business that thrives on everything inauthentic except avarice... In so many ways he was the Micawber of Poverty Row, and the something that turned up was not the big budget spectaculars with A-list casts that he fervently hoped for, but the wormy little movies about failure that he actually made. They were more than good enough to justify a life, and this very good book." -- Scott Eyman ScottEyman.com "The first English-language biography of the studio-era director oft crowned 'King of Poverty Row,' Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins explores an itinerant, ramshackle, and occasionally brilliant career that encompassed proto-proto-New Wave experiments, Yiddish utopia, influential B-noirs, fly-by-night exploitation, and Cold War sci-fi super-cheese...Isenberg creates a picture of a filmmaker as ragtag and resourceful as the films he directed... [He] effectively traces Ulmer's artistic identity through the thematic (existential dread and rootlessness) and aesthetic (German Expressionism, classical music and opera) continuity of a body of work unified by little else." -- Michael Joshua Rowin Film Comment "Isenberg makes a scrupulously honest case for the director and 'l'aesthetique du cheap,' as a French critic called Ulmer's kind of style, avoiding injudicious praise and recognizing his weaknesses as well as his strengths. Then again, with Ulmer the weaknesses often are the strengths, and vice versa. That's what makes him so fascinating and Isenberg's energetic study so engrossing." -- David Sterritt Film Quarterly "While other authors are drawn to celebrities of greater stature whose lives are well documented, Isenberg preferred the challenge of unraveling the mystery of this European transplant who clearly had talent but never found success in Hollywood... Ulmer may not have had the resources given to his fellow emigre directors but that didn't stop him from endowing his films with a unique personal vision that may finally be finding the appreciation it deserves." -- Beth Accomando Brooklyn Rail "The Ulmer that emerges from the detail-packed, though rarely dry, pages of Isenberg's biography is tragicomic. During his lifetime, the emigre director was rightly renowned for his ability to spin straw into gold (or silver, at any rate), yet this meant that he became in many ways a victim of his own success." -- Eric J. Iannelli TLS "Now we have what is destined to become the definitive English-language critical biography from Noah Isenberg... The movies speak for themselves, but they have gained an eloquent companion." -- Nick Pinkerton Sight & Sound "This definitive study of fringe director Edgar G. Ulmer is also an anatomy of the B-movie industry... The stories of Ulmer's offscreen seat-of-the-pants artistry make for a delightful and inspiring read. Recommended." -- M. Yacowar Choice "Remarkable for its revealing of the hidden career of a minor genius is Noah Isenberg's Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins." Best Film Books of 2014 -- Thomas Gladysz Huffington Post "An authoritative new biography." -- Kenneth Turan Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Traces of a Viennese Youth 2. Toward a Cinema at the Margins 3. Hollywood Horror 4. Songs of Exile 5. Capra of PRC 6. Back in Black 7. Independence Days Postscript Filmography Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThree-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day, James Ivory is a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. This title features interviews with James. It comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career.Trade Review"Ivory is a robust and intelligent man, interested in all sorts of things and a good observer of what goes on around him." - The Times "This series of conversations... informs and engages. Ivory charmingly speaks about a career that includes credits ranging from 'A Room with a View' to 'Surviving Picasso.' He offers insight into his technique and artistic approach, selection of subject matter, choice of actors, and interactions with associates like producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.... Illuminating and often humorous." - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal "James Ivory is one of our greatest living directors, and these pages, deliciously poised between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his vast experience of every nook and cranny of the film world. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie." - Kazuo Ishiguro"Table of ContentsSetting the Scene The Early Years Documentaries, 1952--1972 Venice: Theme and Variations The Sword and the Flute The Delhi Way Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization FEATURE FILMS India The Householder Shakespeare Wallah The Guru Bombay Talkie Autobiography of a Princess Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures Heat and Dust America Savages The Wild Party Roseland The Europeans The Five Forty-eight Jane Austen in Manhattan The Bostonians Slaves of New York Mr. and Mrs. Bridge England A Room with a View Maurice Howards End The Remains of the Day The Golden Bowl France Quartet Jefferson in Paris Surviving Picasso A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Le Divorce List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisCollects a film critic's writings on Orson Welles - some thirty-five years of them - and makes a case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man.Trade Review"The intellectually insatiable Rosenbaum is just the person to dissect the myths and expose the inaccuracies that have grown to define the Welles legend. [It] has both breadth and depth." American CinematographerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to "Raising KANE" 2. The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the HEART OF DARKNESS Script 3. Notes on a Conversation with Welles 4. First Impressions of F FOR FAKE 5. The Butterfly and the Whale: Orson Welles's F FOR FAKE 6. Prime Cut (The 107-Minute TOUCH OF EVIL) 7. Andre Bazin and the Politics of Sound in TOUCH OF EVIL 8. The Invisible Orson Welles: A First Inventory 9. Review of Biographies by Barbara Leaming and Charles Higham and a Critical Edition of TOUCH OF EVIL 10. Afterword to THE BIG BRASS RING, a Screenplay by Orson Welles (with Oja Kodar) 11. Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan (New York University Welles Conference) 12. Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 13. Review of Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography 14. Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation 15. The Seven ARKADINs 16. OTHELLO Goes Hollywood 17. Truth and Consequence: On IT'S ALL TRUE: BASED ON AN UNFINISHED FILM BY ORSON WELLES 18. Afterword to THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles 19. Orson Welles in the U.S.: An Exchange with Bill Krohn 20. The Battle over Orson Welles 21. TOUCH OF EVIL Retouched 22. Excerpt from "Problems of Access: On the Trail of Some Festival Films and Filmmakers" (On TOUCH OF EVIL) 23. Welles in the Lime Light: THE THIRD MAN 24. Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge 25. Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F FOR FAKE 26. When Will--and How Can--We Finish Orson Welles's DON QUIXOTE? Appendix: The Present State of the Welles Film Legacy Index

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Book SynopsisMichelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers. This book demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni's greatest works. It discusses "The Red Desert," "Blow-Up," "Professione: Reporter (The Passenger)," and others to analyze the director's subtle and complex use of color.Trade Review"Superb, one-of-a-kind volume... required reading for anyone interested in Antonioni's life and work." -- W. W. Dixon ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgments Note on Images Introduction Beyond the Clouds Identification of a Woman The Red Desert The Dangerous Thread of Things The Mystery of Oberwald Zabriskie Point The Passenger Blow-Up Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisMakes a contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, the author provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films.Trade Review"[Morgan navigates] provocative claims ... with a rigorous logic that his lucid prose is able to explicate on both micro and macro levels." -- Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine "Valuable... An enormous boon for thinking about Godard's late work and an enjoyable read beyond that... Highly Recommended." -- R. P. Kinsman Choice "An essential tool for understanding Godard, and the essential resource on Godard's later years." -- James Harvey-Davitt Film-Philosophy "Compelling arguments [that] Morgan approaches with care and subtlety." -- Richard Rushton The Years Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1. The Work of Aesthetics 2. Nature and Its Discontents 3. Politics by Other Means PART TWO 4. Cinema without Photography 5. What Projection Does 6. Cinema after the End of Cinema (Again) Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of materials untapped by previous historians, this book offers an comprehensive study of Weber's remarkable career as director, screenwriter, and actress. It also provides a compelling evidence of the extraordinary role that women played in shaping American movie culture.Trade Review"A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years." * Journal of Film and Video *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Portrait of a Filmmaker 1. Creating a Signature 2. "Life's Mirror": Progressive Films for a Progressive Era 3. Women's Labor, Creative Control, and "Independence" in a Changing Industry 4. "Exit Flapper, Enter Woman"; or, Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Conclusion: "Forgotten with a Vengeance" Notes Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisGathers together Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. More than forty films are explored, including Open City, Paisan, Voyage to Italy, The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, and films made in the director's later years that documented crucial epochs in human history. Brunette's book is based on eight years of research, during which he interviewed members of the director's family as well as Rossellini himself. Brunette also draws on an enormous body of European and American criticism and discusses the various intellectual debates spawned by the director's work. This landmark study is both a comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential practitioners of the contemporary cinema and a boldly original discussion of Italian Neorealism. This ti

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Book SynopsisWhen Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship,Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and bad archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, Trade Review"Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits is an essential read for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating piece of World Cinema history and the fabulous icon that was Isabel Sarli." * CinemaRetro *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Note on Translation Foreword by Annie Sprinkle Acknowledgments Introduction The Signature of a “Bad Cinema” Part I: Bodies and Archives 1. Bodies through Time . . . Time through Bodies 2. Reading Bad Cinema through “Bad Archives” Part II: Censoring Bodies in Labor and Leisure 3. Disciplining Bodies through Censors’ Shears 4. Collective Working-Class Male Bodies 5. Affective Intimate Interludes The Risky Female Body Conclusion “You won with the censors. . . . They couldn’t stop you!” Notes Selected Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship,Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and bad archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, and ecstasy in Bó and Sarli's films interrupted the already fragmented film narratives of the day and created alternative sexual possibilities. Trade Review"Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits is an essential read for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating piece of World Cinema history and the fabulous icon that was Isabel Sarli." * CinemaRetro *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Note on Translation Foreword by Annie Sprinkle Acknowledgments Introduction The Signature of a “Bad Cinema” Part I: Bodies and Archives 1. Bodies through Time . . . Time through Bodies 2. Reading Bad Cinema through “Bad Archives” Part II: Censoring Bodies in Labor and Leisure 3. Disciplining Bodies through Censors’ Shears 4. Collective Working-Class Male Bodies 5. Affective Intimate Interludes The Risky Female Body Conclusion “You won with the censors. . . . They couldn’t stop you!” Notes Selected Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisThe most celebrated director of colour photography tells the story of his adventures in celluloid. The ''Magic Hour'' is the special light that occurs just at twilight, and a very special light is what cameraman Jack Cardiff brought to films such as The Red Shoes, The African Queen, and Black Narcissus for which he won an Oscar. In Magic Hour Jack Cardiff details the adventures of his life: on tour on the music-hall circuit with his parents; acting in silent films; being chosen by Technicolor as the first British cameraman to be trained in colour photography; filming with British convoys in the Atlantic during World War II; his big break when Michael Powell asked him to photograph A Matter of Life and Death; his rambunctious expolits with Errol Flynn; and his triumph at the Cannes Film Festival as the director of Sons and Lovers.As a master of light, Cardiff came to photograph some of the most beautiful women in cinema history: Maril

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Book SynopsisThe mercurial Danish director of Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating, opinionated and witty addition to Faber''s ''Directors on Directors'' series.Lars Trier affected the lordly ''von'' in his name while still a film student, in homage to such great movie-makers of the past as von Sternberg and von Stroheim. His own brilliant directing career has been marked by similarly grand ambitions, and he is unique in having premiered all of his features - from the highly styled The Element of Crime to the digital-video-originated The Idiots - at the Cannes Film Festival. Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema, a restless innovator and polemicist, as his participation in the back-to-basics Dogme95 movement attests; and these conversations with Stig Bjorkman, author of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, trace the evolution of his career an

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Book SynopsisRudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America''s idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive retelling of Valentino''s short and tragic life - the first fully documented biography of the star - Emily W. Leider looks at the Great Lover''s life and legacy, and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of his time. Valentino was reviled in the press for being too ''feminine'' a man; yet he also brought to the screen the alluring, savage lover who embodied women''s darker, forbidden sexual fantasies. In tandem, Leider explores notions of the outsider in American culture as represented by Valentino''s experience as an immigrant who became a celebrity: the silver screen''s first dark-skinned romantic hero.Trade Review"'Emily Leider scores a bull's eye with this perceptive and compassionate treatment of the star who "helped deflower post-war America".' Sunday Times; 'Brilliantly evocative... brings to life all that was exciting and decadent about the so-called Jazz Age.' Film Review"

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