Individual film directors Books
Faber & Faber Alan Clarke
Book SynopsisAn unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions - Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain - attracted great controversy. But he was greatly admired by his fellow professionals: ''He became the best of all of us'', Stephen Frears observed after Clarke''s untimely death in 1990.In his work Clarke explored working-class lives and left-wing themes with unflinching directness and humour. He forged alliances with gifted writers and producers, and his facility for encouraging stunning performaces (from Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Ray Winstone) made him a hero amongst actors. As a man, Clarke''s wit, vigour and generosity were legendary. Yet he retained a privacy which made him enigmatic and imbued his work with much of its austere radiance. This volume is a tribute to Clar
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McFarland & Company Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews
Book SynopsisThis work features 16 uncensored interviews with filmmakers who have struggled to realise their visions in a constantly shifting political landscape.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd I Feel Bad About My Neck
Book SynopsisNora Ephron was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia. She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep), and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers. She died in 2012.Trade ReviewThe book that most influenced me... It triggered me to write my own book, and ask myself questions about who I was, what kind of woman I am and how the world had shaped me. * LILY ALLEN, Guardian *So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don’t know how she did it. * PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE, Vogue *
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Abrams Books The Oliver Stone Experience
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Christian Publishers LLC Director's Eye: A Comprehensive Textbook For
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ellipsis London Ltd Isaac Julien: Minigraphs
Book SynopsisIsaac Julien is one of Britain''s foremost artist film-makers, as equally acclaimed for his fluent and arresting single-screen works as his vibrant and inventive gallery installations. Moving deftly between filmworld and artworld, Julien remains one of the most original voices on the contemporary scene. This minigraph edition, published at the time of his nomination for the 2001 Turner Prize, features essays by Kobena Mercer and Chris Darke. Minigraphs is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
£12.00
Monash University Publishing John Darling: An Australian Filmmaker in Bali
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A24 Films LLC Two of Me Notes of Living and Leaving
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Museum Tusculanum Press Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners
Book SynopsisLone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig''s Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe''s most noteworthy women directors. Danish and international critics lavished praise on Scherfig and her film, and their reactions harmonized with those of festival juries. Battered by life, but by no means defeated or destroyed, the characters in Italian for Beginners are all in touch at some deep intuitive level with the truth that is the film''s basic message: that happiness and a sense of self-worth are sustained by loveby romantic love, to be sure, but also by inclusion in a community of like-minded people. The book includes the Dogme manifesto and interviews with the filmmaker as well as with the cast and crew.
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HarperCollins Publishers My Week With Marilyn
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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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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 Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
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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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Hachette Books Coppola
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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Hachette Books Fellini On Fellini
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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Hachette Book Group USA The Name Above the Title
Book SynopsisAlthough Frank Capra (18971991) 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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Little, Brown & Company George Lucas
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Random House USA Inc My Last Sigh
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Little, Brown Book Group Leni The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl
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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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) So You Want to be a Producer
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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Penguin Random House LLC Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Book SynopsisLegendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done beforeWernerHerzogwas born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in theSecondWorldWar. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids,Herzog?s mother took him and his older brothertoa remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhoodhungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there,as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed. Until age 11,Herzogdid not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildlyproductive working life that followed?spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction?was an adventure as grand andotherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films. Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory,Herzoguntangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
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Lexington Books Images for a Generation Doomed The Films and
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily at queer audiences. Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki explores the films and career trajectory to date of this New Queer Cinema pioneer. Offering in-depth analyses of films such as The Living End, Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, and Splendor, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart demonstrates how, over the course of the 1990s, the director''s cinematic offerings became increasingly devoid of their early subversive potential. Hart goes on to argue that as the 1990s progressed, Araki''s films were largely irrelevant to the cultural project of providing groundbreaking on-screen representations of non-heterosexual individuals living in the age of AIDS. However, Hart sees Mysterious Skin as evidence of Araki''s successful attempt at reestablishing his cinematic and cultural relevancy in relation to the approaches and subject matter of contemporary queer cinema in the new millennium.Trade ReviewProvides a succint overview of the controversial so-called new queer director....Well-documented study....Helpful reading for any film course.... Recommended. -- G.R. Butters Jr. * CHOICE, June 2010 *Kylo-Patrick Hart’s impassioned and insightful exploration of controversial auteur Gregg Araki is another laudatory achievement for this award-winning scholar. By combining his years of teaching auteur studies with an immense knowledge of Araki’s work, Hart raises thought provoking questions about the director’s career trajectory and places him within the context of the New Queer Cinema. The author’s unique approach to his subject is what makes this treatise unique. His integrative study of Araki's film grammar, unique storytelling devices, problematic sexual politics, and fan reception are arranged within the chronological arch of the director’s oeuvre. Images for a Generation Doomed will be a welcome addition both to film libraries and to college and graduate courses in media and cultural studies. It truly is an unforgettable book about an unforgettable director. -- Catherine R. Burke, Independent Media ScholarTable of ContentsChapter 1: Gregg Araki and the New Queer Cinema Chapter 2: Queerly Making a Splash with The Living End Chapter 3: Refining an Authorial Style with Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation Chapter 4: Losing Focus with Nowhere and Splendor Chapter 5: Reestablishing Relevancy with Mysterious Skin Chapter 6 Afterword: Smiley Face and Beyond Chapter 7 Supplementary Chapter: Cinematic Trash or Cultural Treasure? Conflicting Viewer Reactions to the Extremely Violent World of Bisexual Men in Gregg Araki's "Heterosexual Movie" The Doom Generation Chapter 8 Filmography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Smoking in Bed
Book SynopsisBruce Robinson is a cult writer and director of Withnail and I. Here, he reveals to the author the truth about his work and life in a series of interviews. He talks candidly about his career; his acting, writing and directing, and the many tussles he has faced with Hollywood moguls.Trade Review'It's alive with Robinson's voice ... he is fully engaged, driven by an endless compulsion to entertain: his conversation is a work of art' Guardian 'Intelligent, honest and pungently expressed, the recollections of Bruce Robinson are a treat' Independent
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University Press of America Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity
Book SynopsisDramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel''s thought, highlighting facets that are sure to interest many different audiences. Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity presents a clear exposition of the nature of creative fidelity, a central theme in Marcel''s life and work. The distinctive contribution of this book, however, is its illustration of how theater and philosophy are complementary in Marcel''s investigation and reflective clarification of life''s existential questions. Each chapter of the book studies a play and a contemporary philosophic essay and examines how they relate to clarify a particular aspect of creative fidelity. Thus, this work communicates Marcel''s understanding of the nature of creative fidelity, illustrates the relationship that links theater and philosophy, and demonstrates the important rTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction by Paul Ricoeur Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Part One: Gabriel Marcel: Philosopher-Dramatist-Musician Chapter 4 Chapter I. Introduction to Gabriel Marcel's Philosophic Quest Part 5 Part Two: Dramatic Approaches to Creative Philosophy Chapter 6 Chapter II. The Unfathomable: A Search for Presence Chapter 7 Chapter III. The Lantern: and The Light of Truth Chapter 8 Chapter IV. Dot the I: An Existential Witness of the Light of Truth Chapter 9 Chapter V Rebellious Heart: and Human Creativity Chapter 10 Chapter VI. The Double Expertise: Fidelity and Infidelity Chapter 11 Chapter VII. Colombyre or the Torch of Peace: The Role of Person-Community in Living Creative Fidelity to Values Chapter 12 Chapter VIII. The Sting: Threatening the Foundations of Fidelity Chapter 13 Chapter IX. Rome Is No Longer in Rome: Challenge for Creative Incarnations of Fidelity Chapter 14 Chapter X. Conclusion: Creative Fidelity, Sketch of the Essential Features Highlighted Part 15 Part Three: Resources for Research Chapter 16 I. Biblio-biography Chapter 17 II. Parallel of Theater and Philosophy Chapter 18 III. Works by Gabriel Marcel in chronological order of composition Chapter 19 IV. Bibliographic References Chapter 20 V. Partial List of Plays Produced Chapter 21 VI. Centers of Research Part 22 Index
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The University Press of Kentucky John Ford
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBringing in the Sheaves Half Genius, Half Irish Himself The Noble Outlaw Men and Women at War Ireland Rebels What Really Happened The Last Place on Earth Addendum Filmography Bibliography Acknowledgments
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University Press of Kentucky Clarence Brown
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Preface A Brown Boy Brown Goes to War...and Returns to Tourneur Striking Out Early Years at Universal Brown and the Universal Women Brown at United Artists Brown Meets Garbo On the Trail of '98 An "Uplifting" Film The Master's Apprentice Transition to Sound A Year with Garbo Starmaker Devotion and Deceit Service and Passion Back with Crawford Reunited Going Home Back to the Formual Conquest A Little Piece of Humanity Foreign Affairs Inventions and Conventions Representing the War Front at Home and Away Velvet and Pie A Year with The Yearling Songs and the South The Twilight of a Career Slow Fade-out Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Wayne State University Press The Films of Hal Ashby Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisHal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. This title analyzes the films and filmmaking career of Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. It also provides an overview of Ashby's filmmaking career.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Directed by Steven Spielberg Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster
Book SynopsisFocusing on Spielberg's blockbusters, this book examines Spielberg's distinct manipulation of film form, and his singular use of stylistic and narrative techniques. It demonstrates the aesthetic options available to Spielberg, and particularly the choices he makes in structuring his blockbusters.Trade Review "Buckland offers...a close examination of the filmic structures of Spielberg's blockbusters-from Jaws to War of the Worlds-with practically a shot-by-shot breakdown of some scenes. In deconstructing these films, Buckland uses his own definition of poetics: the activities and techniques involved in constructing a work of art. [He] is an admirer of Spielberg's and absolves him of the oft-repeated accusation that his production of the ‘first' blockbuster (Jaws) ultimately spelled doom for the ‘little' movie.... highly enlightening." - Library Journal, May 15 "Analyzing a film's style--camerawork, editing, an actor's position in the image, etc.--may seem rather dry at first glance. Also, analyzing Spielberg's most-popular blockbusters from an aesthetic perspective may seem a little unusual. Yet, this is what Dr. Warren Buckland carries out to enlightening success in his latest book, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster." -DVDTown.com (*also features an interview with Buckland) "Buckland's new book release, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster is the most comprehensive manual on Spielberg's style that I have yet found.... [Buckland] examines Spielberg's unique style and manipulation of the camera. He delves into his themes, his use of stylistic and narrative techniques, and the visual style that emerged throughout the course of his career. If you're a casual fan looking for a quick time-passer, you may want to skip to the next book on the aisle. But if you're a serious fan of Spielberg, his work and specific technique, or directing in general, then Buckland's book may be just the ticket." -SpielbergFilms.com *Interview with Buckland on http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/ Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mentionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: An overview of the production, exhibition, financial, and managerial structures predominant in contemporary Hollywood cinema.; Chapter 2: Poetics, aesthetics, formalism and stylistics.; Chapter 3: Night Gallery: Eyes, Columbo: Murder by the Book, Duel.; Chapter 4: Jaws; Chapter 5: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Chapter 6: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Chapter 7: E. T; Chapter 8: Jurassic Park; Chapter 9: Minority Report; Conclusion.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) JeanPierre Melville An American in Paris
Book SynopsisGinette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author or editor of numerous publications including The Encyclopedia of European Cinema, Stars and Stardom in French Cinema, Pepe le Moko and (with Alastair Phillips), the forthcoming Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood.
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New University Press LLC Navarros Silent Film Guide
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Latin American Women Filmmakers
Book SynopsisDeborah Martin is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at University CollegeLondon. She has published widely on Latin American film, including Painting, Literature and Filmin Colombian Feminine Culture: Border Guards, Nomads and Women (2012) and The Cinema ofLucrecia Martel (2016).Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where her keyresearch interests are in transnational film theory and Latin American cinema. She is the foundingco-editor of the Transnational Cinemas journal and her books include Contemporary Latin AmericanCinema: Ten Key Films (2003) and The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo delToro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron (2013).Table of ContentsIntroduction Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight B. Ruby Rich Part 1: Industrial Contexts Chapter 1. Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s Lúcia Nagib Chapter 2. Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on Screen Sarah Barrow Chapter 3. “Parando la olla documental”: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film Claudia Bossay and María-Paz Peirano Part II: Representations Chapter 4. Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales’ A Crushing Love Catherine Leen Chapter 5. Intimacy and Distance: Domestic Servants in Latin American Women’s Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman and El niño pez/The Fish Child Deborah Shaw Chapter 6. Women’s filmmaking and comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert’s Durval Discos and É Proibido Fumar Leslie Marsh Chapter 7. Young women at the margins: Discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig Hoogesteijn Constanza Burucúa Part III: Key Agents Chapter 8. Re-Framing Mexican Women’s Filmmaking: The case of Marcela Fernández Violante Niamh Thornton Chapter 9. Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics Marvin D’Lugo Chapter 10. Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women’s Filmmaking Deborah Martin
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Chantal Akerman
Book SynopsisAndreja Novakovic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, USA and affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. She is the author of Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life (2017).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh 2 Critical Companions
Book SynopsisPatrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His first book, Theatre and Globalization, was awarded the 2008 Theatre Book Prize. He has authored two Student Editions of plays by Martin McDonagh, is editor of The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays and series editor of the Critical Companions series. Trade ReviewPatrick Lonergan - as enthusiastic as a true film buff ought to be, yet as defensive as a proud father - seeks to soothe the hostilities, and to show that the sheer force of the reactions to McDonagh's work has provoked only prove his momentous talent... [the book provides] a wealth of information and resources. -- Ruth Gilligan * Times Literary Supplement *As Patrick Lonergan's entertaining and enjoyable study of the playwright and film-maker points out, academics have frequently been more hostile [than critics]. Lonergan attempts to re-address this...By shifting the focus of his debate away from perennial debates surrounding the authenticity of Irish representation, Lonergan is able to pose much more interesting questions about the relationship between the author and his work...each section includes a very useful section of production analysis. The book also includes an extremely detailed glossary offering readers explanations of all the terms and major historical events dis cussed in McDonagh’s plays...Lonergan’s easy conversational tone and knowledgeable discussion of the plays will, though, be of interest to a general readership interested in McDonagh’s work, and this book offers a comprehensive account of his varied and occasionally controversial career to date. -- Catherine Rees * New Theatre Quarterly *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: ‘MARTIN MCDONAGH: FACTS AND FICTIONS' 1 THE LEENANE TRILOGY Introduction: The Murder Capital of Europe? The Beauty Queen of Leenane A Skull in Connemara The Lonesome West Druid Theatre and The Leenane Trilogy in production 2 THE ARAN ISLANDS PLAYS Introduction The Cripple of Inishmaan The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Aran Islands Plays Staging The Lieutenant and The Cripple 3 WORLD PLAYS The Pillowman A Behanding in SpokaneThe Plays in production 4 THE FILMS Six Shooter In Bruges McDonagh and cinema 5 CRITICAL AND PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVESGarry Hynes in conversation: Monstrous Children‘Like Tottenham': Martin McDonagh's Postmodern Morality Tales (José Lanters)A Symbiotic Relationship: The Works of Martin McDonagh and Ecocriticism (Karen O'Brien)McDonagh and Postcolonial Theory: Practices, Perpetuations, Divisions, and Legacies (Eamonn Jordan)McDonagh's Gender Troubles (Joan Dean) 6 CONCLUSION 7 RESOURCESChronology of the life and work of Martin McDonaghA note on languageGlossary of Irish words and slangCultural, Political, Literary and Historical References Further Reading
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Understanding Machinima Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds
Book SynopsisJenna Ng is Anniversary Research Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York, UK. She was previously a Newton Trust/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.Trade ReviewThis welcome anthology helps usher machinima out of the gamer niche and into the nexus of digital animation, cinema, and art video. As the chapters of this book demonstrate, machinima realizes new ways of documenting and archiving the mediality of our set-up, far beyond the early ambitions of entertainment convergence. * Peter Krapp, Professor & Chair, Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, US *Understanding Machinima is a timely and much needed intervention in Machinima studies. Comprising an excellent range of contributors, this collection focuses on Machinima's diversity of use at the same time as it considers its many media specificities, making it a necessary resource to any scholar working in the field. * Leon Gurevitch, Senior Lecturer, The School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds, is personable yet edgy, conversational yet controversial. The chapters draw on personal reflection, Spinal Tap, mixed reality, Sesame Street, Bakhtin’s dialogic theory, Chaucer, Iraq, First Nations, and psychoanalysis, yet they are clear and lucid. I found much to engage with, and even more to debate with. The field of machinima scholarship is small but engaging, and Understanding Machinima is a worthy contribution. * Erik Champion, Digital Humanities Lab Denmark, Aarhus University, Denmark *As machinima has evolved an intersected with many different media, the study of machinima has become increasingly interdisciplinary. With this study, Ng (Univ. of York, UK) erases many of the boundaries that existed around the study of this art form to explore machinima as ‘less a discrete, distinguishable media form than a fluid dialogue of and between media.’ The second major theme of the collection is ‘the diversity of this machinima world and how it sands against all other ralities – physical animated, virtual, blended, hybrid, augmented.’ The collection gives equal attention to the theoretical and the practical, offering readers a divers selection of perspectives on machinima and related media. Some chapters take a fairly standard approach and examine machinima as digital puppetry and machinima in a First Nations context. This title would make an excellent complement to introductory texts on machinima because it offers a timely exploration of many aspects of machinima that will not be found in most other works on the subject. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- B. H. McMillin, Pratt Institute * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Henry Lowood Introduction Jenna Ng I. Thinking Machinima 1. Machinima: Cinema in a minor or multitudinous key? William Brown and Matthew Holtmeier 2. Beyond Bullet Time: Media in the knowable space Chris Burke 3. Be(ing)Dazzled: Living in machinima Sheldon Brown 4. Moving Digital Puppets Michael Nitsche, Ali Mazalek and Paul Clifton 5. Facing the Audience: A dialogic perspective on the hybrid animated film Lisbeth Frølunde 6. Dangerous Sim Crossings: Framing the Second Life art machinima Sarah Higley II. Using Machinima 7. The Art of Games: Machinima and the limits of art games Larissa Hjorth 8. Playing Politics: Machinima as live performance and document Joseph DeLappe 9. Virtual Lens of Exposure: Aesthetics, theory, and ethics of documentary filmmaking in Second Life Sandra Danilovic 10. Call It a Vision Quest: Machinima in a First Nations context Beth Aileen Dillon and Jason Edward Lewis 11. World of Chaucer: Adaptation, pedagogy, and interdisciplinarity Chris Moore and Graham Barwell 12. A Pedagogy of Craft: Teaching Culture Analysis with machinima Jenna Ng and James Barrett Agency, Simulation, Gamification, Machinima: An interview with Isabelle Arvers Isabelle Arvers and Jenna Ng Notes on Contributors Glossary Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Darkness in the BlissOut
Book SynopsisJames Kendrick is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009) and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also the film and video critic for QNetwork.com.Trade ReviewJames Kendrick is that rare critic who sees and understands the dark side of Steven Spielberg’s films. Kendrick perceptively explores the ways that Spielberg has grappled in film with the nature of human suffering and with personal and historical trauma. Kendrick reveals a depth of complexity in the films that challenges the popular understanding of Spielberg as being mainly a director of popcorn movies. -- Stephen Prince, Professor of Cinema Studies, Virginia Tech, USA, and author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of TerrorismThis is a necessary book – I would say indispensable to Spielberg studies. The book develops the current burgeoning critical mass of scholarly writings on Spielberg in new ways, and is a timely addition to the field. Kendrick is an elegant writer, has grounded his persuasive close readings in a thorough account of film historical and critical contexts, and presents his case with due scholarly rigor. -- Linda Ruth Williams, Professor of Film, University of Southampton, UK“By reinterpreting a significant number of Spielberg’s films, James Kendrick has convincingly argued that dark, unsettling themes and tones permeate his entire output, not just his more ‘serious’ films such as Schindler’s List or Amistad. This book is an important, thought-provoking addition to the growing film studies scholarship devoted to Spielberg.” -- Warren Buckland, Reader in Film Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK, and author of Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006)Taking a fresh and original approach to many Spielberg films that have been scorned or misunderstood, such as the great A. I. and the flawed but fascinating 1941, James Kendrick concentrates on the dark side of Spielberg that only began to be seriously noticed after Schindler's List. In this lively, insightful, provocative study, Kendrick demolishes the conventional wisdom of Spielberg's detractors, showing how ridiculously misguided many of them are, and challenges those of us who have written more favorably on this great director to reconsider or deepen our positions. A major advance in the field of Spielberg studies. -- Joseph McBride, Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University, USA, and author of Steven Spielberg: A BiographyKendrick's book is that rare thing: eminently readable, yet suitably academic. He does not just cover well-travelled ground but examines marginalised, if not underappreciated, works in the Spielberg canon, thus offering something new for contemplation and analysis . . . This is refreshing, thought-provoking criticism. -- Adrian Schober * Senses of Cinema *James Kendrick’s 'reconsideration' of Steven Spielberg’s directorial output invites readers to 'move past comfortable surfaces' to the films’ 'more disturbing and unsettling aspects.' Sensitive textual analysis of selected examples identifies, explores, and explains troubling themes recurrent across Spielberg’s work, while refusing to fall back on received critical opinion. Kendrick’s clear, accessible opening eases from personal response into impressively concise treatment of elements of film history and theory that have conventionally defined Spielberg’s status and reputation. Authoritative examination of a range of approaches, including biography and aesthetics, sociology of suburbia, narrative structure, and Jungian patterns, amounts to a provocation of Spielberg’s diehard critics. Kendrick’s offering is highly recommended to readers within film and cultural studies and beyond. It digs out powerful evidence of filmmaking that is complex and knowing in its engagement with the full spectrum of experience. -- Nigel Morris, Principal Lecturer in Media Theory, University of Lincoln, UK, and author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light (2007)Rather than repeat the traditional criticism that Spielberg's films are upbeat crowd pleasers, Kendrick presents a solid confirmation that the "darkness" more obvious in Schindler's List and Munich, in Lincoln and Amistad, was present in films as early as Sugarland Express and Jaws […]This treatment establishes that the auteur is more than an audience pleaser, not just another pretty face. In his pre-publication review of this book, Nigel Morris, author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light, suggests that Kendrick's "see-agains" moves him into the audience of elite moviegoers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers. -- Allan Hirsh, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction—Steven Spielberg and the Politics of Bliss Chapter 1—'I Didn’t Want to See This': Weekend America and Its Discontents in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and Poltergeist Chapter 2—'Americans Fighting Americans': Incoherence and Animal Comedy in 1941 Chapter 3—'What Exactly Are We Applauding?' Indiana Jones and the Ideologies of Heroism and American Exceptionalism Chapter 4—'Lost and Done For:' The Rejection of War Fantasies in Empire of the Sun and War Horse Chapter 5—'For the World’s More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand': Humanity and Inhumanity in A.I. Artificial Intelligence Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Cinema of Eric Rohmer
Trade ReviewStill grieving Eric Rohmer, I applaud this even-handed discussion of his 23 feature films. Jacob Leigh steers clear of cant (whether from theorists or Catholics), sticking close to this consistently intelligent, surprising, and beloved oeuvre. Sensitive to the master's seductive draw and tonic irony, Leigh uncovers a calculated method and discovers the relevance of classic concerns. -- Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University, USAAt a time when the hackneyed phrase 'the magic of the movies' seems to apply only to special effects spectacles, Eric Rohmer's films remind us that cinema's greatest magic is its intimate engagement with reality. In this book, Jacob Leigh effectively articulates the ways that Rohmer's commitment to this truth is developed across dozens of films. A fine and much needed study of a filmmaker whose works appear more impressive and essential with each passing year. --Christian Keathley, Associate Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury CollegeJacob Leigh's rich and erudite book is filled with subtle analyses that do justice to the complexity, delicacy, and sensuousness of the work of one of the greatest filmmakers. Both newcomers to Rohmer and those who know his films well will find much that is fresh and stimulating in Leigh's detailed and penetrating close readings. -- Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film FestivalLeigh (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) avoids the well-trod paths of Rohmer’s Catholicism and the nouvelle vague moment to provide fresh, close, illuminating readings of the master’s 23 feature films, all now available on video or DVD….In providing evidence, Leigh balances telling dialogue with the unique inflection of cinematic devices. And he explores the individual films and their sequence without trimming them to an overarching theory or expectation, other that Rohmer’s celebration of life. This would be an excellent companion for those working through the Rohmer DVDs. There are 83 pages of worthy notes and a 28-page bibliography, but only a smattering of small, in-text stills. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers -- M. Yacowar, emeritus, University of Calgary * CHOICE *Recommended. * Times Higher Education Textbook Guide *A major achievement from one of the leading Rohmer scholars. As the last few paragraphs make clear, cinema has lost a major voice in Rohmer: his “optimism, hope and faith in humanity” are rare commodities these days. Leigh reminds us throughout that the films left behind are full of a delightful tension: there are strong undercurrents of romanticism aching to break through the surface of these elegant, erudite films. -- Ben McCann, University of Adelaide, Australia * Screening the Past *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - 1950s and Early 1960s - Beginnings The nouvelle vagueShort filmsDocumentariesTelevision workLe Signe du Lion (1959)La Carrière de Suzanne (1963) shortLa Boulangère de Monceau (1963) short Chapter 2 - First SuccessesLa Collectionneuse (1967)Ma Nuit chez Maud (1969)Le Genou de Claire (1970)L'Amour l'après-midi (1972) Chapter 3 -Two Period FilmsLa Marquise d'O... (1976) Perceval le Gallois (1978) Chapter 4 - Comédies et proverbes - Part OneLa Femme de l'aviateur (1980)Le Beau mariage (1982)Pauline à la plage (1983) Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) Chapter 5 - Comédies et proverbes - Part Two Le Rayon vert (1986) Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987) L'Ami de mon amie (1987) Chapter 6 - Contes des quatre saisons - Part One Conte de printemps (1990) Conte d'hiver (1992)L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995) Chapter 7 - Contes des quatre saisons - Part TwoConte d'été (1996)Conte d'automne (1998) Chapter 8 - Late ExperimentsL'Anglaise et le Duc (2000) Triple Agent (2004)Les Amours d'Astrée et Céladon (2007) BibliographyIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield Conversations with Gus Van Sant
Book SynopsisOne of the most talented and imaginative artists of independent cinema, Gus Van Sant established himself with a number of important movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning with Mala Noche, the 1986 gay classic of personal film expression, followed by two key works of the American indie movement, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, Van Sant films often feature characters on the borders of mainstream society. Subsequent films included hits, misses, and a notorious remake of Psycho. Regardless of the critical or commercial response to his work, Van Sant has maintained a vision that is unique among contemporary filmmakers. Conversations with Gus Van Sant is the first critical study to include both extensive original interviews with the director as well as discussions of his entire body of work. The exchanges between film scholar Mario Falsetto and the indie filmmaker cover fifteen films directed by Van Sant over a period of thirty years. Throughout these discussions, VTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Hustlers, Addicts and Shakespeare in Portland The Films: The Portland Trilogy: Mala Noche, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho Conversations 1 Chapter Two: Misfires, Mainstream Success, and an Art Experiment The Films: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho, Finding Forrester Conversations 2 Chapter Three: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 1 The Films: Gerry, Elephant Conversations 3 Chapter Four: Death, and Aesthetic Experimentation, Part 2 The Films: Last Days, Paranoid Park Conversations 4 Chapter Five: Queer Politics, an “Issue” Film, Death (Again), and the Wrap-Up The Films: Milk, Restless, Promised Land Conversations 5 Filmography Index About the Author
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Jean Renoir
Book SynopsisFrancois Truffaut called him, simply, the best . Jean Renoir is a towering figure in world cinema and fully justifies this monumental survey that includes contributions from leading international film scholars and comprehensively analyzes Renoir s life and career from numerous critical perspectives.Trade Review“Phillips and Vincendeau’s volume is intelligently organized, extremely comprehensive, and generously illustrated with images from many of the films. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionanls.” (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Notes on the Text xvii Introduction: Renoir In and Out of His Time 1 Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau Part I Renoir in Close-Up 13 Section 1 Reassessing Renoir’s Aesthetics 15 1 Shooting in Deep Time: The Mise en Scène of History in Renoir’s Films of the 1930s 16 Martin O’Shaughnessy 2 The Exception and the Norm: Relocating Renoir’s Sound and Music 35 Charles O’Brien 3 The Invention of French Talking Cinema: Language in Renoir’s Early Sound Films 53 Michel Marie 4 Renoir and His Actors: The Freedom of Puppets 72 Christophe Damour 5 Design at Work: Renoir’s Costume Dramas of the 1950s 88 Susan Hayward Section 2 Critical Focus on Selected Films 107 6 Sur un air de Charleston, Nana, La Petite Marchande d’allumettes, Tire au flanc: Renoir and the Ethics of Play 108 Anne M. Kern 7 La Grande Illusion: Sound, Silence, and the Displacement of Emotion 121 Valerie Orpen 8 La Bête humaine: Double Murder at the Station at Le Havre 131 Olivier Curchod 9 La Règle du jeu: Lies, Truth, and Irresolution (A Critical Round Table) 144 Christopher Faulkner, Martin O’Shaughnessy, and V. F. Perkins 10 The River: Beneath the Surface with André Bazin 166 Prakash Younger Part II Renoir: The Wider View 177 Section 1 Renoir’s Filmmaking and the Arts 179 11 Seeing with His Own Eyes: Renoir and Photography 180 Alastair Phillips 12 Popular Songs in Renoir’s Films of the 1930s 199 Kelley Conway 13 Renoir and the Popular Theater of His Time 219 Geneviève Sellier 14 Theatricality and Spectacle in La Règle du jeu, Le Carrosse d’or, and Éléna et les hommes 237 Thomas Elsaesser 15 French Cancan: A Song and Dance about Women 255 Ginette Vincendeau 16 Social Roles/Political Responsibilities: The Evolving Figure of the Artist in Renoir’s Films, 1928–1939 270 Charles Musser Section 2 Renoir’s Place in the Critical Canon 291 17 Seeing through Renoir, Seen through Bazin 292 Dudley Andrew 18 Henri Agel’s Cinema of Contemplation: Renoir and Philosophy 313 Sarah Cooper 19 Renoir and the French Communist Party: The Grand Disillusion 328 Laurent Marie 20 “Better than a Masterpiece”: Revisiting the Reception of La Règle du jeu 347 Claude Gauteur 21 Renoir and the French New Wave 356 Richard Neupert 22 Renoir between the Public, the Professors, and the Polls 375 Ian Christie Part III Renoir, a National and a Transnational Figure 395 Section 1 Renoir, the Chronicler of French Society 397 23 Renoir under the Popular Front: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Paradoxes of Engagement 398 Brett Bowles 24 The Performance of History in La Marseillaise 425 Tom Brown 25 Toni: A Regional Melodrama of Failed Masculinity 444 Keith Reader 26 La Règle du jeu: A Document of French Everyday Life 454 Christopher Faulkner 27 Renoir’s Jews in Context 474 Maureen Turim Section 2 Renoir, the Transnational Figure 493 28 Renoir’s War 494 Julian Jackson 29 Interconnected Sites of Struggle: Resituating Renoir’s Career in Hollywood 514 Elizabeth Vitanza 30 The Southerner: Touching Relationships 533 Edward Gallafent 31 The Woman on the Beach: Renoir’s Dark Lady 544 Jean-Loup Bourget 32 Remaking Renoir in Hollywood 555 Lucy Mazdon Filmography 572 Select Bibliography 585 Index 592
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Architecture of David Lynch
Book SynopsisRichard Martin completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, having previously worked at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). He has taught at Birkbeck, Middlesex University and Tate Modern.Trade ReviewA thoughtful exploration of Lynchian space, The Architecture of David Lynch ... [provides] a wealth of architectural readings, a diverse bibliography, and a wonderfully insightful analysis of Lynch's filmography that inspire and enrich re-viewings. * New Review of Film and Television Studies *Architecture is more central to the cinema of David Lynch than that of any other film-maker, and now a book finally exists that not only grasps architecture's significance for Lynch but shows that it is impossible to understand these films without a thorough knowledge of the role that architecture plays in them. Martin's book is godsend for anyone with even a passing interest in David Lynch or the relationship between architecture and cinema. He bombards us with insight after insight. -- Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USAIn this important and original study Richard Martin explores connections between the cinema of David Lynch and a series of distinctive urban spaces, drawing on insights from architectural history, cultural geography and contemporary film theory. -- Matthew Gandy, University College London, UKWhile David Lynch’s admirers have long marvelled at his talents as an engineer of atmosphere, the director’s architectural thinking has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. The Architecture of David Lynch is thus a welcome study. Brimming with insight and intelligence, this book inhabits the obsessive spatial topoi of Lynch’s films, and finds there the traces of history. In Martin’s fascinating account, Lynch’s moody architecture is a way of engaging modernity’s built environments through the kinds of spaces that only cinema can fashion. -- Justus Nieland, Michigan State University, USAThe reviewer commends the author on the work’s intelligence and insightful considerations of Lynch’s use of space, place and architecture in his films... With an impressive bibliography and 62 color plates of film stills, reproductions of paintings, and photographs of filming locations, the book is an important contribution to Lynch scholarship and engages film scholars to consider the dynamics of space, place and architecture in cinema... Martin’s text effectively joins the canonical works of Lynch scholarship, while simultaneously forcing all film scholars to re-evaluate the impact, effect and importance of space, place and architecture in film. * CINEJ Cinema Journal *Incisive and highly readable... Martin finds solid rhetorical ground and a plethora of interdisciplinary source material from which to articulate astonishingly deep, intricate, and, yes, original readings of Lynch’s work... The Architecture of David Lynch is clearly an indispensable entry in a densely analyzed field of film and auteur studies. * Jason Clemence, Cultural Politics *Martin’s study is such an important addition to ‘Lynch’ studies, offering a unique analysis of Lynch’s cinematic work through design and construction... Martin’s particular, unique focus shows how architecture forces us to confront the strange within the urban and suburban, and the social forces at work in the use of architecture, essentially re-establishing and altering our conceptions of the everyday. * Siobhan Lyons, Media International Australia *Table of ContentsPrologue: Three Journeys Introduction: Mapping the Lost Highway 1. Town and City 2. Home 3. Road 4. Stage 5. Room Acknowledgments Notes Image Credits Works Cited Index
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Path of Blood The PostSoviet Gangster His Mistress and Their Others in Aleksei Balabanovs Genre Films Volume 1 Thinking Outside the Box
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Book SynopsisSebastian Manley completed a PhD in film studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. He has written on subjects including Hal Hartley, independent cinema, early British film and Jan Svankmajer, and maintains a blog on animals in film called The Cinematic Animal.Trade ReviewFinally, a book about quintessential, and maverick, American independent auteur Hal Hartley! Sebastian Manley cogently analyzes Hartley's anomalous, low budget, 'smart' films, covering both his Long Island suburban films—The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men—and more urban, more global works—Flirt, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and others. That Manley also studies Hartley's independent shorts constitutes a refreshing, much needed, addition to discussions of how 'indie' careers evolve, and why independent film survives. Hartley's distinctive approach to the business of film production, coupled with his iconoclastic stylistic and narrative choices, distinguish his work, as Manley carefully demonstrates, from that of other independent filmmakers, chief among them David Mamet, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, and Richard Linklater, as does his creative presence not just as writer/director, but also often as composer, producer, and editor. Eminently readable, with two revelatory interviews with Hartley collaborators appended as a bonus, The Cinema of Hal Hartley is a welcome, and long overdue, appraisal of one of the most important contributors to contemporary independent film. -- Chris Holmlund, Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French, University of Tennessee, USAn excellent and authoritative study of the films of Hal Hartley, offering substantial new insights into the distinctive qualities of his work and key aspects of the wider independent context in which it is situated. -- Geoff King, Professor of Film Studies, Brunel University, UKSebastian Manley's study of Hal Hartley is an exemplary analysis of a quintessential American independent filmmaker, weaving together production and reception background with trenchant readings of the films. It is especially insightful in considering Hartley's investment in place and its development across his career. -- Michael Z. Newman, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising, & Media Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA most welcome contribution to the scholarly work on Hal Hartley, a filmmaker who has been, until recently, somewhat neglected in academic writing on independent cinema. This book examines Hartley’s auteur status and places his work within the broader context of American independent cinema, offering important observations on the key points of departure which distinguish Hartley’s films from the more frequently studied examples of commercial indie. An interesting, accessible and engaging account, The Cinema of Hal Hartley will be a valuable addition to reading lists for students of American independent cinema. -- Claire Molloy, Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, Department of Media, Edge Hill University, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Long Island ‘Trilogy’: The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992) Chapter 2 New Horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995) Chapter 3 Imaginative Fictions/Social Realities: The Book of Life (1998), No Such Thing (2001) and The Girl from Monday (2005) Chapter 4 From Old Territory to New: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006) Chapter 5 The Short Films: From Kid (1984) to the PF2 Collection Conclusion Appendix A Interview with Michael Spiller Appendix B Interview with Steve Hamilton Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Jaws Book
Book SynopsisAfter 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film's significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Krämer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the film's release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself.Trade ReviewAn excellent variety of fascinating readings about a surprisingly complex film of the 1970s. The range of approaches is stimulating, accessible, and superbly thought out. Each essay increases our knowledge of Jaws from a variety of perspectives and heightens our understanding of the film. * Robert P. Kolker, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA *The Jaws Book is rich, insightful and comprehensive. It revisits this landmark film from an extremely wide range of perspectives, covering production, film style, genre, representation and reception. As a consequence, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American popular cinema, as well as the impact and legacy of this enduring, ever-popular film * Kate Egan, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Northumbria University, UK *45 years after its release, Steven Spielberg's Jaws continues to endlessly fascinate and function as a cornerstone for contemporary popular culture. Hunter and Melia's collection brings together an impressive group of scholars, who deftly debate and analyse Jaws in a series of original, insightful and highly readable essays. Distinguishing fact from myth, and scrutinizing details pertaining to its production, textual organisation and reception, The Jaws Book offers genuinely new perspectives on why the film continues to resonate. No doubt, it will appeal to everyone interested in the film, its director and the industrial, cultural and political cultures that produced it. * Yannis Tzioumakis, Reader in Film and Media Industries, University of Liverpool, UK *This is a terrific collection of essays that genuinely brings new insight, and with a foreword provided by Jaws’ screenwriter and supporting actor Carl Gottlieb himself, The Jaws Book is highly recommended for any fan of Jaws, or for anyone with even a passing interest in this crucial moment in film history. * Cinema Retro Magazine *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Carl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws) Introduction I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part One: Production, Reception and Style 1. ‘She Was the First’: The Place of Jaws in American Film History Peter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK) 2. Not the First: Myths of Jaws Sheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 3. Cutting to the Chase: Editing Jaws Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. ‘The Shark is Not Working’ – But the Music Is: Scoring a Hit with Jaws Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK) 5. In the Teeth of Criticism: Forty-Five Years of Jaws Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK) 6. Jaws, in Theory Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) Part Two: Interpretation 7. Jaws as Jewish Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 8. Children as Bait Linda Ruth Williams (Exeter University, UK) 9. Reflexive Epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 10. ‘We Delivered the Bomb’: On Jaws, Guilt, and the Atomic Myth Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK) 11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK) 12. Relocating the Western in Jaws Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part Three: Beyond Jaws 13. ‘Just When You Thought It Was Safe...’: The Jaws Sequels Kathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Martha’s Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative Strategies Felix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany) 15. Ben Gardner’s Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation Edit Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK) 16. Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History Documentary Vincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) After Kubrick
Book SynopsisJeremi Szaniawski is Assistant Professor of comparative literature and film studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (both 2014), as well as the translator, into French, of Thomas Elsaesser's and Malte Hagener's Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (2011) and Alexander Sokurov's V tsentre okeana (2015).Trade Review[T]reads new ground in Kubrick-ademia. * The Film Stage *Here is a collection of lambently written and fascinating explorations of an important filmmaker's scintillating career. Admirers and students will rightfully cherish After Kubrick for its unprecedented depth, its smart variety of approaches, and the intense light it shines on films that have become classics. * Murray Pomerance, author of Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (2019) *These fascinating, often ingenious, and always insightful essays explore the complex legacy of one of the great artists of the 20th century. * Robert P. Kolker, Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland, USA *Never sentimental, fawning, or uncritical, this collection tackles the complex subject of the legacy of Kubrick’s films with the most promiscuous possible sense of aesthetic influence. Kubrick, or, rather, 'Kubrick,' thereby becomes a machine, a form, a process, a method, a medium, an excuse, a vibrant philosophical conceit, enabling the revisiting of some of the most pressing contemporary debates in the study of representation—the aesthetic status of affect; the post- and trans-human relation to technology and artificial intelligence; environmental catastrophe and the machinery of war; in addition to film-philosophical concerns with cinematic time; the grotesque and violent; and the status of aesthetic form itself. Grounding its far-reaching considerations in exemplary close readings, and with a particularly rich editorial introduction, After Kubrick thereby brings out the etymological debt of the word 'influence' itself: from the Latin influere, to flow into, an undetermined streaming of energy, fluid, or even unobservable forces, demonstrating that aesthetic influence is the unpredictable and impersonal capacity to produce new and surprising effects. * Eugenie Brinkema, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of The Forms of the Affects *After Kubrick represents an infusion of rich blood into Kubrick studies and contemporary cinema studies. Contributing authors are among the finest in those fields, but this volume is not a collection of “the usual Kubrick suspects”: it extends much further than that in its inclusiveness and in its ambitious scope to cut new pathways back into Kubrick’s work and forward into emergent work. * Senses of Cinema *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1999–2019, and Beyond: A Post-Kubrickian Odyssey (Jeremi Szaniawski, UMass Amherst, USA) 1. Stanley Kubrick’s Prototypes: the Author as World-Maker (Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 2. “Kubrick’s Cube”: Stanley Kubrick, Judaism and his Jewish Heirs (Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, UK) 3. Kubrick’s Inheritors: Aesthetics, Independence, and Philosophy in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen (Rodney F Hill, Hofstra University, USA) 4. Blurring the Lines between Victim and Perpetrator: Yorgos Lanthimos and Stanley Kubrick’s legacy (Pierre Simon Gutman, ESRA, France) 5. Glimpses of Eternity: Stanley Kubrick’s Time Machines (Jeremi Szaniawski, UMass Amherst, USA) 6. Kubrickian Dread: Echoes of 2001 and The Shining in Works by Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Lynch (Rick Warner, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) 7. Excessive and Incomplete: Kubrick’s Turing (Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University, USA) 8. Thus Spoke Kubrick: “Guide Pieces,” Modes of Citation and the Rise of the Temp Track (Adrian Daub, Stanford University, USA) 9. Fade to Crude: Petro-Horror and Kubrick’s The Shining (Pansy Duncan, Massey University, New Zealand) 10. The Anxiety of Interpretation: The Shining, Room 237I, and Film Criticism (Daniel Fairfax, Frankfurt am Main University, Germany) 11. Political Opacity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (John Pitseys, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, France) 12. Coping with the Unknown in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar (Mircea Deaca, University of Bucarest, Romania) 13. Biopolitical Abjection and Sexuation: Stanley Kubrick’s Political Films (Seung-hoon Jeong, NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 14. Kubrick at the Museum: Post-cinematic Conditions, Limitations, and Possibilities (Jihoon Kim, Chung-Ang University, South Korea) 15. The Dead Kitten: Sacrifice in Barry Lyndon (Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University, USA) Appendix: Interview with Gaspar Noé (Pip Chodorov, Dong-Guk University, South Korea) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Mario Bava
Book SynopsisHow do we approach a figure like Mario Bava, a once obscure figure promoted to cult status? This book takes a new look at Italy's maestro of horror' but also uses his films to address a broader set of concerns. What issues do his films raise for film authorship, given that several of them were released in different versions and his contributions to others were not always credited? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes credited with having pioneered? This volume addresses these questions through a thorough analysis of Bava''s shifting reputation as a stylist and genre pioneer and also discusses the formal and narrative properties of a filmography marked by an emphasis on spectacle and atmosphere over narrative coherence and the ways in which his lauded cinematic style intersects with different production contexts. Featuring new analysis of cult classics like Kill, Baby Kill (1966) and Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970), Mario BTrade Review[A] meticulously researched new book on the Italian filmmaker … an excellent way to develop an even deeper appreciation of his work. * Cinema Retro Magazine *Leon Hunt’s Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Auteur is a thorough exploration of a director whose cult status has grown in recent times. Hunt explores several themes in this book, including the relation between Bava’s work and genre cinema, his status as an artisan-auteur and the broader critical reception of his work. Written in an accessible style, this book is essential reading for those interested in Italian genre cinema, cult cinema and authorship and film. * Jamie Sexton, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Northumbria University, UK *Leon Hunt’s Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur masterfully asks and answers perennially important questions in relation to the study of the auteur and film: how can we approach a filmmaker like Bava whose achievements are often compromised by their production circumstances, and what issues do his films raise with regards to cultural value? * Dolores Tierney, Head of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and co-editor of Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas and Latin America *Table of Contents1. Between Expendability and Connoisseurship - Situating Bava 2. Artisan or Auteur - Bava and Authorship 3. Navigating filoni- From Sword and Sandal to il gotico italiano 4. Giallo all’italiana - Bava and the ‘Italian style’ Thriller 5. The poetics of ‘Serie B’ Cinema - Bava and Film Style 6. ‘Grande stronzate’? - Reception and Reputation 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Paul Verhoevens Cinema of Violence
Book SynopsisThe first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative films such as Robocop, Basic Instinct, and Elle.
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