Individual film directors Books
Manchester University Press Joseph Losey
Book SynopsisThe career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over fourdecades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht,director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director ofseminal British films such as Time Without Pity, Eve,The Servant, and The Go-Between. -- .
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Manchester University Press Maurice Pialat
Book SynopsisOne of the most gifted French directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Rebert Bresson. This is the first book-length study of his work in English. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction: Maurice Pialat, the outsider2. Pialat and La Nouvelle Vague3. A family of works4. Family portraits I: Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, La Gueule ouverte and Passe ton bac d’abord5. Family portraits II: Loulou, A nos amours and Police6. The saint and the artist: men apart7. Conclusion: paternity and Le GarçuFILMOGRAPHYSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Manchester University Press Georges Franju French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisThe fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967Table of ContentsSeries Editors' ForewordAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. Documenting modernity: Franju's cinema in the age of the 'court métrage'2. Beyond 'cinéma fantastique': The genres of Franju's 'longs métrages'3. 'Mise en scène' and the art of the real: Franju's cinematic aesthetics4. Surviving the reign of the father: Gender, the family and eroticismConclusionFilmographySelect bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Georges Franju
Book SynopsisThe fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967 -- .Table of ContentsSeries Editors' ForewordAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. Documenting modernity: Franju's cinema in the age of the 'court métrage'2. Beyond 'cinéma fantastique': The genres of Franju's 'longs métrages'3. 'Mise en scène' and the art of the real: Franju's cinematic aesthetics4. Surviving the reign of the father: Gender, the family and eroticismConclusionFilmographySelect bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Films of Luc Besson
Book SynopsisA fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie1. Three neo-baroque directors - Raphaël Bassan2. Du côté de Europa, via Asia: the post-Hollywood Besson - Rosanna Maule3. Musical narration in the films of Luc Besson - Gérard Dastugue4. Hearing Besson: the music of Eric Serra in the films of Luc Besson - Mark Brownrigg5. Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson - Phil Powrie6. From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément - Susan Hayward7. The sinking of the self: Freudian hydraulic patterns in Le Grand bleu - Laurent Jullier8. Imprisoned freedoms: space and identity in Subway and Nikita - Mark Orme9. Nikita: consumer culture’s killer instinct and the imperial imperative - Hilary Ann Radner10. Léon and the cloacal labyrinth - Phil Powrie11. Jeanne d’Arc: high epic style and politicising camp - Susan Hayward12. An unpublished interview with Luc Besson - Gérard DastugueFilmographySelect bibliography
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Manchester University Press The Films of Luc Besson
Book SynopsisA fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie1. Three neo-baroque directors - Raphaël Bassan2. Du côté de Europa, via Asia: the post-Hollywood Besson - Rosanna Maule3. Musical narration in the films of Luc Besson - Gérard Dastugue4. Hearing Besson: the music of Eric Serra in the films of Luc Besson - Mark Brownrigg5. Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson - Phil Powrie6. From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément - Susan Hayward7. The sinking of the self: Freudian hydraulic patterns in Le Grand bleu - Laurent Jullier8. Imprisoned freedoms: space and identity in Subway and Nikita - Mark Orme9. Nikita: consumer culture’s killer instinct and the imperial imperative - Hilary Ann Radner10. Léon and the cloacal labyrinth - Phil Powrie11. Jeanne d’Arc: high epic style and politicising camp - Susan Hayward12. An unpublished interview with Luc Besson - Gérard DastugueFilmographySelect bibliography
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Manchester University Press Negotiating the Auteur Dominique Cabrera Noemie
Book SynopsisDobson provides detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and presents common threads including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia in contemporary French cinema.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Series editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements ntroduction: continuing negotiations 1. Dominique Cabrera: intimate constructions of a ‘bonheur collectif’ 2. Noémie Lvovsky: rupture and transmission 3. Laetitia Masson: suspect identities 4. Marion Vernoux: encountering difference Index
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Manchester University Press Eric Rohmer French Film Directors French Film
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of Eric Rohmer generously surveys the director’s five-decade career, exploring questions of production, cinematic realism, style and technique, serial filmmaking, and historical adaptation.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Career overview2. Theory and criticism3. Style and technique4. Seriality and theme5. Literature and historyConclusion
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Manchester University Press Mike Leigh
Book SynopsisMike Leigh may well be Britainâs greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘You’ve gotta laugh’1. ‘Really wants to direct’: formative years2. ‘A kind of language’: Bleak Moments3. ‘A long time in the womb’: the TV films4. ‘A different world’: High Hopes5. ‘So long as you’re happy’: Life is Sweet6. ‘The future is now’: Naked7. ‘Welcome to the family’: Secrets and Lies8. ‘All these memories’: Career Girls9. ‘Laughter – tears – curtain’: Topsy-Turvy10. ‘Life’s too short’: All or Nothing11. ‘Out of the kindness of her heart’: Vera DrakeConclusion: ‘The journey continues’Filmography
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Manchester University Press From Perversion to Purity The Stardom of
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays, by a selection of international film and cultural studies scholars, undertakes analyses of Catherine Deneuve's status as one of the world's most celebrated French actresses, as well as a glamorous fashion muse.Trade ReviewA studious but approachable collection of essays and discussions, this should more than satisfy admirers of the star, as well s more serious students keen to explore the myth and meaning of her important contribution to international cinema. -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionLisa Downing and Sue Harris1. Polanski’s Deneuve. ‘Frigidity’ and FeminismLisa Downing2. Buñuel BlondePeter William Evans3. Demy and Deneuve: The Princess and the post-68 FairytaleSusan Weiner 4. Deneuve’s Italian InterludesPauline Small5. Incongruous Femininity: Catherine Deneuve and 1970s Political CultureBridget Birchall6. ‘Madame La France’: Deneuve as Heritage IconSue Harris7. Of Faces and roles: Deneuve/TéchinéBill Marshall8. Deneuve in the 1990sCristina Johnston9. The Killing of Sister Catherine: Deneuve’s Lesbian TransformationsAndrew Asibong10. Belle Toujours : Deneuve as Fashion iconFiona Handyside
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Manchester University Press David Lean British Film Makers
Book SynopsisComprehensive overview of the director’s body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean’s career as well as its lesser-known treasuresTrade ReviewThis valuable and enjoyable book serves as a useful reminder for those of us exploring the obscurer reaches of British cinema that there are major landmarks out there which we would be unwise to ignore.'Financial pressures, plus the sheer proliferation of film books, mean that libraries have to be more selective now than in the past. All one can say is that this book on David Lean should be a high priority. Librarians and department heads, please note... The book constitutes an excellent guide for retracing and reassessing Lean's career from start to finish... Williams clinches her argument with a confident final chapter entitled 'Feminising the Epic'. Anyone writing or teaching about Lean from now on will need to take into account that argument, and her readings of individual films across four decades... this book is as important as Brownlow's, and forms an ideal companion to it.'Charles Barr, Viewfinder'One might wonder if another book on Lean's films is really necessary. Williams proves that it is... Williams' enthusiasm for Lean's films makes her a persuasive advocate and she argues cogently and intelligently... her assessments are always acute and even when one disagrees with her judgement there's enough to give pause for thought and reconsideration. This valuable and enjoyable book serves as a useful reminder for those of us exploring the obscurer reaches of British cinema that there are major landmarks out there which we would be unwise to ignore.'Robert Murphy, Journal of British Cinema and Television'Williams sets out to refute the common view of Lean as an "essentially cold" director. On the contrary, she detects in his films a strong emotional undercurrent and, rather unexpectedly, a distinct feminine angle in much of his work... drawing worthwhile attention to several of his lesser known films.'Philip Kemp, Sight and Sound'In this convincingly argued text, the author redresses the balance of previous books on the director... Williams' volume is an essential addition to the publishers' British Film Makers series, which has mostly been confined to cinema's lesser luminaries. Ultimately she argues convincingly and accessibly for the reconsideration of Lean.'Elaine Lennon, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Cutting and coward: David Lean’s early career and In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944) and Blithe Spirit (1945)2. Nineteenth century blues: Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), Madeleine (1950) and Hobson’s Choice (1954)3. Women in love: Brief Encounter (1945), The Passionate Friends (1949) and Summer Madness (1955)4. Men of Vision: The Sound Barrier (1952), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962)5. Feminising the epic: Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan’s Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984)Select BibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The New Pornographies Explicit Sex in Recent
Book SynopsisWhy do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The battle of the sexes2. Catherine Breillat: Touch/Cut3. Inside, Outside: Guillaume Dustan, Érik Rémès4. From revolution to abjection5. Critical diistance : Catherine Millet, Virginie Despentes6. Michel Houellebecq: Misery, pornography, utopia7. The uses and abuses of children
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Manchester University Press The New Pornographies Explicit Sex in Recent
Book SynopsisWhy do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The battle of the sexes2. Catherine Breillat: Touch/Cut3. Inside, Outside: Guillaume Dustan, Érik Rémès4. From revolution to abjection5. Critical diistance : Catherine Millet, Virginie Despentes6. Michel Houellebecq: Misery, pornography, utopia7. The uses and abuses of children
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Manchester University Press The cinema of Pedro Almodvar Spanish and
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.Trade Review'Sánchez-Arce adds significantly to understanding of Almodóvar with these insightful close readings of his features—readings that employ a methodology blending feminism and formalism while situating the films in appropriate sociopolitical and historical contexts.'CHOICE‘The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar successfully manages the difficult task of finding new things to say about an auteur who has been widely written about and studied.’Dolores Tierney, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The early films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón and Laberinto de pasiones2 Kicking the habit: Entre tinieblas3 High windows and ugly aesthetics: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?4 Faking Spain: Matador5 Other voices, other stories: La ley del deseo6 Pure theatre: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios7 On the verge of a genre breakdown: ¡Átame!, Tacones lejanos and Kika8 The end of romance: La flor de mi secreto9 Circle lines and memory work: Carne trémula10 Remembering children: Todo sobre mi madre11 Still lives: Hable con ella12 Faking memory: La mala educación13 Motherlands: Volver14 Archaeology in the dark: Los abrazos rotos15 Visual seduction: La piel que habito16 'Crisis cinema': Los amantes pasajeros and JulietaAfterword: Dolor y gloriaFilmographyReferencesIndex
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Manchester University Press Jacques Rivette
Book SynopsisA complete survey – the first in English – of Jacques Rivette’s sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day.Trade ReviewThis book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience.Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films.This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject. -- .Table of ContentsList of platesSeries editors’ foreword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 The art of the present and the dialectics of duration: The film criticism of Jacques Rivette 3 In the labyrinth: Narrative, conspiracy, community 4 Story as space: Space as story 5 Family secrets 6 La Règle du jeu: Games and play 7 Play, theatre and performance 8 Adaptation 9 Pushing the envelope: Bodies, love and jealousy 10 Out of time: The unconsoled in Rivette’s late works ConclusionSelect bibliography Filmography Index
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Manchester University Press Chantal Akerman French Film Directors
Book SynopsisThis new book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking to date and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.Trade Reviewwell informed and engagingly written -- .Table of ContentsList of PlatesSeries editor’s forewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: the multiple faces of Chantal Akerman1. The 1970s: anatomy of an avant-garde2. The golden 80s: performance, parody, identity3. The archaeology of suffering4. Love and intimacy in a post-lapsarian worldFilmographySelect BibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Germaine Dulac
Book SynopsisThis book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Impressionist cinema: the ‘psychological films’2 Avant-garde cinema: pure cinema and dada/surrealist films3 Documentary cinema: France-Actualités and beyondConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Humphrey Jennings British Film Makers
Book SynopsisFrom dramatic reflections on the Blitz to insightful examinations of post-war conditions, Jennings' startling documentary films redefined the genre. The book carefully examines and explains the central components of Jennings’ most significant films, and considers the relevance of his filmmaking to British cinema and contemporary experience.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Modernity, myth, colour and collage: the early films2. Work and leisure: *Spare Time*3. Sound, image, and nation: *Words for Battle* and *Listen to Britain*4. Documentary reconstruction and prognostication: *Fires Were Started* and *The Silent Village*5. ‘What will befall Britain?: *A Diary for Timothy*6. An ambiguous national iconography: *Family Portrait*7. LegaciesAfterwordFilmography ReferencesIndex
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Manchester University Press Glorious Catastrophe Jack Smith Performance and
Book SynopsisGlorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators.Trade Review‘In Glorious Catastrophe, Johnson celebrates the fabulous, freakish spectacle of Jack Smith and his work to its fullest extent in a manner that reflects his subject’s contempt for assimilation. In this, he seems inspired by Kathy Acker’s injunction to writers ‘to scream, to forget, to do anything except reduce radical difference, through representation, to identities, singularity, calculable and controllable’ in the rethinking of art’s histories.’Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre Review 24:1 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jack Smith’s glorious catastrophes1. ‘Little triumphs of disaster’: failure, boredom and excess2. ‘Beyond self-disappearance’: Jack Smith and art’s histories3. Flaming Creatures and the burden of disgust4. Innocent monsters and Normal Love5. The deaths of Maria Montez6. ‘Glamorize your messes’: scenes of writing7. Rehearsals for the destruction of AtlantisAppendix of illustrationsBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Lindsay Anderson Cinema Authorship British Film
Book SynopsisStudents and Lecturers in British film, television and cultural history.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Lindsay Anderson’s ideas about authorship in the cinema 2 On the Diaries: Lindsay Anderson’s Private Writing 3 The early films 4 This Sporting Life 5 The White Bus and Raz Dwa Trzy or The Singing Lesson 6 If…. 7 O Lucky Man! 8 In Celebration 9 The Old Crowd 10 Britannia Hospital 11 The Whales of August 12 Glory! Glory 13 Is That All There Is? 14 Lindsay Anderson in the archive Filmography References
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Manchester University Press Karel Reisz British Film Makers
Book SynopsisThis first full-length critical analysis of the Czech-born, British director, Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture.Table of ContentsList of figuresSeries Editors’ forewordAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Karel Reisz, ‘The last great man in England’2. Reisz the critic3. Free Cinema and the New Left: Momma Don’t Allow (1956), We Are The Lambeth Boys (1959) and March to Aldermaston (1959)4. ‘Kitchen Sink’ realism and the birth of the British ‘New Wave’: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)5. Keeping up with the Truffauts: Night Must Fall (1964)6. Gorilla war: Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)7. Life into art - Reisz and the ‘bio-pic’: Isadora (1968) and Sweet Dreams (1985)8. Reisz in Hollywood: deconstructing existentialism and the counterculture in The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers/Who’ll Stop The Rain (1978)9. A sentimental education: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)10. Theatre of the absurd: Arthur Miller’s Everybody Wins (1990) and Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words I (2000)11. ConclusionAppendixTheatre credits and filmographyBibliography
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Manchester University Press Five Directors Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon
Book SynopsisLooks at Francophone filmmakers - those who are working in the French language. Contains an excellent appraisal of the auteurist concept's meaning and value to Francophone cinema. The five directors are among the most acclaimed contemporary film makers: Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and Francois Ozon.Trade Review‘It is a thoughtful book that does wave the flag convincingly for arefreshed notion of the auteur. I would be interested to see a 2017revisit.’Jon Davies, MediaEducation Journal, Issue 62, Winter 2017-18 -- .Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Kate Ince1 Olivier Assayas and The Cinema af Catastrophe - Paul Sutton2 Jacques Audiard: Contesting Filiations - Julia Dobson3 Ethics in The Ruin of Politics: The Dardenne Brothers - Martin O’shaughnessy4 Close Encounters with Distant Suffering: Michael Haneke’s Disarming Visions - Libby Saxton 5 François Ozon’s Cinema of Desire - Kate InceConclusion - Kate Ince Filmographies Index
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Manchester University Press Intersections Writings on Cinema Cinema
Book SynopsisA penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known – Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles – to those that he feels need more attention – Painlevé, Vigo and Franju.Table of ContentsPreface1. Louis Feuillade 2. Jean Painlevé 3. Jean Vigo 4. Georges Franju 5. Jacques Tati 6. Raymond Depardon 7. Alfred Hitchcock 8. Jacques Rivette 9. Jean-Luc Godard 10. Orson Welles 11. Anthony Mann 12. Luchino Visconti 13. François Truffat 14. John FordBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Jacques Demy
Book SynopsisThe first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Un demi, Jacques, bien frais, avec de la mousse’: background and early filmmaking1. Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague and beyond 2. Melodic reconfigurations: Demy’s musicals 3. Fantasy and its disenchantments: fairytale, fable and myth in the Demy-monde4. Gender and sexuality in the Demy-monde 5. Mythologising Demy Concluding remarks FilmographySelect bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Richard Attenborough British Film Makers
Book SynopsisThe first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough’s work as a filmmakerTrade Review...for anyone wanting to understand the problems of independent production in a key period in British cinema, this book is a key text. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. On Screen - Attenborough as Actor2. Attenborough as Producer: Beaver Films and Allied Film Makers3. New Directions: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) 4. Anglo-American Alliances: Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Magic (1978) 5. Race, Nation and Conflict: Gandhi (1982), A Chorus Line (1985) and Cry Freedom (1987) 6. Public and Private Identities: Chaplin (1992) and Grey Owl (1999) 7. Brief Encounters: Shadowlands (1993), In Love and War (1996) and Closing the Ring (2007) ConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Screenwriters in French cinema
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital age. Using key figures as case studies, it considers how the role has evolved industrially and critically, and sheds light on screenwriting practices in the context of debates on word and image, national cinema and authorship.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Charles Spaak: dramaturge and mauvais esprit2 Jacques Prévert: from reluctant author to screenwriter as myth3 Henri Jeanson: spectacular dialogue4 Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost: writing the ‘tradition of quality’5 The screenwriter sacrificed? The ‘screenplays’ of the New Wave auteurs6 Le cinéma du samedi soir: Michel Audiard’s screenplays and cult dialogue 7 Screenwriting trends in popular comedy 8 Dialogue writing in multicultural France since 2000: exploring the words of young people9 Réalisa(c)trices screenwriting the self: Noémie Lvovsky, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, MaïwennConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Emilio Fernandez Pictures in the Margins Spanish
Book SynopsisThis book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).Table of ContentsIntroduction1. ‘Poor reception’ and the popular in classical Mexican cinema2. ‘El Indio’ Fernández, Mexico’s marginalized golden boy and national auteur 3. Calendar María - hybridity, indigenismo and the discourse of whitening4. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Enamorada5. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Salón México, Las abandonadas and Víctimas del pecado6. Progress, modernity and Fernández’ ‘anti-modernist utopia’: Río EscondidoEpilogue: Mexican Cinema and Emilio Fernández post the Golden Age – From Golden Boy to ‘the man in black’Filmography
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Manchester University Press Julien Duvivier French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisDuvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national.Trade Review‘McCann’s study of Duvivier argues coherently for the director’s status as an auteur, particularly with its emphasis on recurring themes and its descriptive, but informative, discussions of a range of key films. This book fits well within the French filmmakers series, but can also stand individually as a case study on a long neglected director.’Gillian Kelly, University of Glasgow, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 37, No. 3'McCann provides a wealth of information on the director’s life, times and work as well as an accessible yet rigorous critical study of Duvivier’s cinema which brings Duvivier into line with his other more revered contemporaries.... If, as McCann argues, Duvivier’s work is ripe for re-evaluation, then this book is surely the guide to such an endeavour. Indeed, it might serve well as a companion to the revisiting of Duvivier’s cinema or, for those familiar only with his best-known films, an exhaustive introduction to those films which, for one reason or another, found their way into the ashcan of cinema history.Felicity Chaplin, Monash University, senses of cinema, No. 87 (June 2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: we need to talk about Julien1 The 'impure' auteur2 Duvivier's silent films3 Sound, image, Gabin: Duvivier and the 1930s4 'Piloting with concentration': Julien goes to Hollywood5 1946-56: darkness and light6 Late style7 ConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Glorious Catastrophe Jack Smith Performance and
Book SynopsisGlorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators.Trade Review‘In Glorious Catastrophe, Johnson celebrates the fabulous, freakish spectacle of Jack Smith and his work to its fullest extent in a manner that reflects his subject’s contempt for assimilation. In this, he seems inspired by Kathy Acker’s injunction to writers ‘to scream, to forget, to do anything except reduce radical difference, through representation, to identities, singularity, calculable and controllable’ in the rethinking of art’s histories.’Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre Review 24:1 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jack Smith’s glorious catastrophes1. ‘Little triumphs of disaster’: failure, boredom and excess2. ‘Beyond self-disappearance’: Jack Smith and art’s histories3. Flaming Creatures and the burden of disgust4. Innocent monsters and Normal Love5. The deaths of Maria Montez6. ‘Glamorize your messes’: scenes of writing7. Rehearsals for the destruction of AtlantisBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Laurent Cantet French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Cantet’s work in English. It explores his unique working ‘method,’ and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.Trade Review‘While every chapter of the volume charts a compelling path through Cantet’s work,the probing critical analysis in the chapter devoted to Vers le sud is particularly rewarding.’Laura McMahon, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Contmporary French Civilization‘This study provides students and scholars of contemporary French social cinema with a useful key to understand the reinvention of political cinema in France since the mid-1990s.’Audrey Evrard, Fordham University, Modern and Contemporary France‘O’Shaughnessy’s book is nuanced, insightful and an important contribution to the study of contemporary political cinema.’ Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, H-France Review Vol. 17, March 2017‘The publication offers a wide-ranging and scrupulous evaluation of the filmic, thesocial and the political contexts in which Cantet operates. It conveys with an acute awareness how he has become one of France’s most exciting working directors. Indexed, complete with thirteen illustrations, a detailed filmography and suggestions for further reading, O’Shaughnessy’s Laurent Cantet will provide a rich trove of information for all those with an interest in contemporary France, and its cinematic output specifically. It should also appeal to those concerned with questions of power relations, political address and sociocultural equality more generally. Staying true to the series editors’ intention “to contribute to the promotion of the formal and informal study of French films, and to the pleasure of those who watch them” (x), the author’s blend of scholarship and accessibility is fitting for a broad audience. Amplifying the sociological implications of Cantet’s cinema, O’Shaughnessy’s compelling appraisal also stimulates careful introspection, undoubtedly prompting those who read it to ponder “elle est où, ma place?”’Ally Lee, University of Warwick, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, Issue 11‘O’Shaughnessy’s writing is clear and engaging, and his discussions move supply between filmic material, theoretical reference points and contextual French political and cultural issues. In its elucidation of Cantet’s work through a cogent interdisciplinary framework, this is an addition to scholarship on contemporary French cinema that feels as punctual as the film-making with which it engages.’Rhiannon Harries, University of Cambridge, New Review of Film and Television Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. A director and his methods2. Early applications3. The work diptych4. Going global, heading south5. Between republican walls6. Before and after the politicalConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Partners in suspense Critical essays on Bernard
Book SynopsisA compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history.Trade Review‘As well as the intrinsic interest of the subject-matter, the book is indispensable on account of the quality of the contributors and their contributions. Some of the leading scholars of Hitchcock and Herrmann studies have been assembled for this volume, with the result that the text is not only authoritative but brimming with recent discovery. It is a book at the cutting-edge of current research on film authorship and a re-consideration of the relationship between image and soundtrack.’Neil Sinyard, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, University of Hull -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - K. J. Donnelly and Steven Rawle1. Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's secret sharer - Jack Sullivan2. Hitchcock, music and the mathematics of editing - Charles Barr3. The anatomy of aural suspense in Rope and Vertigo - Kevin Clifton4. The therapeutic power of music in Hitchcock's films - Sidney Gottlieb5. A Lacanian take on Herrmann/Hitchcock - Royal S. Brown6. Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much - Murray Pomerance7. On the road with Hitchcock and Herrmann: sound, music and the car journey in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) - Pasquale Iannone8. A dance to the music of Herrmann: a figurative dance suite - David Cooper9. The sound of The Birds - Richard Allen10. Musical romanticism v. the sexual aberrations of the criminal female: Marnie (1964) - K. J. Donnelly11. The murder of Gromek: theme and variations - Tomas Williams12. Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography - Gergely Hubai13. The Herrmann-Hitchcock murder mysteries: post-mortem - William H. Rosar14. How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship - Steven RawleIndex
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Manchester University Press Robert GuéDiguian
Book SynopsisConsiders Guédiguian's career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in FranceTrade Review‘With the excellence of his scholarship, his judicious but accessible use of theory, his thorough knowledge of context and his careful eye for detail, Mai has written a book that will be a key reference on the director for years to come.’ Martin O’Shaughnessy, Nottingham Trent University, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (January 2018), No. 24 -- .Table of Contents1. Living with friends2. Fragile friendships: films of the 1980s3. Crossing every barrier: the decade of the conte de l'Estaque4. Themes and variation: films since 20005. Conclusion: another cinema - a project in timeFilmographySelect bibliography
£76.50
Manchester University Press Jacques Rivette
Book SynopsisA complete survey the first in English of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. -- .Trade ReviewThis book makes a strong case for explaining what is specific, innovative and exciting about Rivette's films, focusing on his exploration of form and the relationship of artist to audience.Smith and Morrey offer a vital defence of some of Rivette's more maligned films.This overdue study makes for an erudite introduction and a thoroughly explanatory 'user guide' to its slightly forbidding subject. -- .Table of ContentsList of platesSeries editors’ foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The art of the present and the dialectics of duration: The film criticism of Jacques Rivette 3. In the labyrinth: Narrative, conspiracy, community 4. Story as space: Space as story 5. Family secrets 6. La Règle du jeu: Games and play 7. Play, theatre and performance 8. Adaptation 9. Pushing the envelope: Bodies, love and jealousy 10. Out of time: The unconsoled in Rivette’s late works ConclusionSelect bibliography Filmography Index
£18.88
Manchester University Press The cinema of Oliver Stone
Book SynopsisAn insightful study of the master filmmaker's work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself. -- .Trade Review'A wonderful, bracing book, Scott and Thompson have brought exemplary clarity and thoroughness to the complex and multifaceted career of Oliver Stone. Dividing Stone's work into major themes such as War, Money and Love, the authors provide a focused exploration of the critical intelligence that permeates all of the filmmaker's work - and the political thinking that informs it. Full of insights, this beautifully written book is a major contribution to the literature of film.' Robert Burgoyne, Chair in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, and author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at US History (2010)‘The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism is a remarkable and timely book on one of the key American directors of the second half of the twentieth century. With its unparalleled access to the film-maker and his archive, its lucid and comprehensive engagement with both the films and the political context in which they were made, the project emerges as not only the definitive book on Oliver Stone but also one of the most compelling books on American film in the last decade.’ - Terence McSweeney, Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Author of The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014)‘Oliver Stone has cast greater light on late-twentieth and early twenty-first century America than any other movie-maker. In this incisive, erudite, and very well conceived volume, Ian Scott and Henry Thompson offer a nuanced and thematic analysis of Stone's cinematic importance and with the benefit of their numerous interviews with him – his understanding of the United States and its place in the world. Well-written and deeply researched, this fine book is a major contribution to film studies and should also be read by anyone interested in America's recent past and current politics.’ - Iwan Morgan, Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University College London. Author of Reagan: American Icon (2016)‘The Cinema of Oliver Stone is a fascinating examination of one of the most important political filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Ian Scott and Henry Thompson offer telling insights into how Stone's films altered the ways in which audiences have thought about war, politics, money, love and corporations. This is must reading for anyone interested in the intersection of Hollywood and politics.’Steven J. Ross author of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Oliver Stone: the remaking of a maverick filmmaker1. War2. Politics3. Money4. Love5. CorporationsConclusionInterviewsIndex
£68.00
Rlpg/Galleys Edgar G. Ulmer
Book SynopsisEdgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies. Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important to Ulmer''s career, such as his work at the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), and his work in exploitation films and ethnic cinema. Part II analyzes Ulmer''s film noirs, featuring an emphasis on Detour (1945) and Murder Is My Beat (1955). Part III covers a variety of Ulmer''s individual films, ranging from Bluebeard (1944) and Carnegie Hall (1947) to The Man from Planet X (1951) and Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957). Part IV concludes the volume with a case study of The Black Cat (1934), offering three different analyses of Ulmer''s landmark horror film.Trade ReviewGary D. Rhodes, a master at making out-of-the-way topics both accessible and appealing, performs a grand service with this savvy forum on the strange and necessary filmmaking career of Edgar G. Ulmer. From the martyred brilliance of The Black Cat through the unlikely finery of Bluebeard and Detour—with his own tangle of detours into ethnic cinema, symphonic soap opera, and drive-in schlockery—Ulmer comes into view for the first time as a compleat artist, perhaps the most influential forebear of the New Century's independent-cinema movement. -- Michael H. Price, Author of Forgotten Horrors, Vols. 1-5Few filmmakers have been as criminally underrated as Edgar G. Ulmer, doyen of Hollywood's more modest studios and an artist of rare, luminous talent. Four decades after his death his unique and idiosyncratic oeuvre receives proper and rightful consideration in Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row—a book that probes into the genius behind Ulmer's shoestring offerings and finds it lurking there, in abundance. -- Tony Earnshaw, National Media Museum (UK)These authors have interesting and sometimes challenging ideas and write about them well. Rhode's volume shows the hand of a strong editor with strong convictions, which are laid out in his introduction. -- Bill Krohn * Cineaste *This volume fills an important gap in film studies, offering many insights into the work of a key auteur, the understudied Edgar G. Ulmer. Using Ulmer's many contributions as a lens, it shows the roles of the small independent film company and independent filmmaker in the Hollywood studio era. By taking us through Ulmer's work directing ethnic and minority films, his creative producing practices, and his signature efforts at fashioning a visual style that invariably transcended low budgets and creaky narratives, Gary Rhodes and his contributors have provided one of the most revealing assessments to date of alternative film practices in an era largely dominated by a classical narrative aesthetic. Detour on Poverty Row is a significant contribution to film history. -- J. P. Telotte, Georgia Institute of Technology; author of Science Fiction TV; editor of The Essential Science Fiction Television ReaderTable of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Dedication Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I: Texts and Contexts Chapter 5 1. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Low-End Independent FilmmakerPar Excellence Chapter 6 2. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Godfather of Sexploitation? Chapter 7 3. At the Border: Edgar G. Ulmer's The Singing Blacksmith (1938) and Cossacks in Exile (1939) Part 9 II: Film Noir Chapter 10 4. Dead Fathers and Other Detours: Ulmer's Noir Chapter 11 5. See Spot: The Parametric Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer Chapter 12 6. Even the Pictures Lie: The Unreliable Narrator in the Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer Chapter 13 7. Edgar G. Ulmer's Homicidal Noirs: Psychosis and Possession in Strange Illusion, The Strange Woman, and Bluebeard Chapter 14 8. All Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Detour (1945) Chapter 15 9. Masculinity and Masochism in Detour (1945) Part 16 III: Individual Films Chapter 17 10. Puppets and Painting: Authorship and Artistry in Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard Chapter 18 11. Beyond Citizen Kane: Ruthless as Radical Psychobiography Chapter 19 12. "The Gateway to America": Assimilation and Art in Carnegie Hall (1947) Chapter 20 13. Meeting The Man From Planet X (1951) Chapter 21 14. Nothing to Hyde: Reading The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) Chapter 22 15. Murder, Family, and Weird Science:The Amazing Transparent Man Chapter 23 16. "A Sword and Sandal Gone Screwy" or, Edgar G. Ulmer's Journey to the Lost City—L'Atlantide Part 24 IV: Case Study—The Black Cat (1934) Chapter 25 17. Bauhaus of Horrors: Edgar G. Ulmer and The Black Cat Chapter 26 18 The Devil's Contract: The Satisfaction of Self-Destruction in Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat Chapter 27 19 "Tremonstrous" Hopes and "Oke" Results: The 1934 Reception of The Black Cat
£101.70
Lexington Books Edgar G. Ulmer
Book SynopsisEdgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies. Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important to Ulmer''s career, such as his work at the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), and his work in exploitation films and ethnic cinema. Part II analyzes Ulmer''s film noirs, featuring an emphasis on Detour (1945) and Murder Is My Beat (1955). Part III covers a variety of Ulmer''s individual films, ranging from Bluebeard (1944) and Carnegie Hall (1947) to The Man from Planet X (1951) and Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957). Part IV concludes the volume with a case study of The Black Cat (1934), offering three different analyses of Ulmer''s landmark horror film.Trade ReviewGary D. Rhodes, a master at making out-of-the-way topics both accessible and appealing, performs a grand service with this savvy forum on the strange and necessary filmmaking career of Edgar G. Ulmer. From the martyred brilliance of The Black Cat through the unlikely finery of Bluebeard and Detour—with his own tangle of detours into ethnic cinema, symphonic soap opera, and drive-in schlockery—Ulmer comes into view for the first time as a compleat artist, perhaps the most influential forebear of the New Century's independent-cinema movement. -- Michael H. Price, Author of Forgotten Horrors, Vols. 1-5Few filmmakers have been as criminally underrated as Edgar G. Ulmer, doyen of Hollywood's more modest studios and an artist of rare, luminous talent. Four decades after his death his unique and idiosyncratic oeuvre receives proper and rightful consideration in Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row—a book that probes into the genius behind Ulmer's shoestring offerings and finds it lurking there, in abundance. -- Tony Earnshaw, National Media Museum (UK)These authors have interesting and sometimes challenging ideas and write about them well. Rhode's volume shows the hand of a strong editor with strong convictions, which are laid out in his introduction. -- Bill Krohn * Cineaste *This volume fills an important gap in film studies, offering many insights into the work of a key auteur, the understudied Edgar G. Ulmer. Using Ulmer's many contributions as a lens, it shows the roles of the small independent film company and independent filmmaker in the Hollywood studio era. By taking us through Ulmer's work directing ethnic and minority films, his creative producing practices, and his signature efforts at fashioning a visual style that invariably transcended low budgets and creaky narratives, Gary Rhodes and his contributors have provided one of the most revealing assessments to date of alternative film practices in an era largely dominated by a classical narrative aesthetic. Detour on Poverty Row is a significant contribution to film history. -- J. P. Telotte, Georgia Institute of Technology; author of Science Fiction TV; editor of The Essential Science Fiction Television ReaderTable of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Dedication Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I: Texts and Contexts Chapter 5 1. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Low-End Independent FilmmakerPar Excellence Chapter 6 2. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Godfather of Sexploitation? Chapter 7 3. At the Border: Edgar G. Ulmer's The Singing Blacksmith (1938) and Cossacks in Exile (1939) Part 9 II: Film Noir Chapter 10 4. Dead Fathers and Other Detours: Ulmer's Noir Chapter 11 5. See Spot: The Parametric Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer Chapter 12 6. Even the Pictures Lie: The Unreliable Narrator in the Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer Chapter 13 7. Edgar G. Ulmer's Homicidal Noirs: Psychosis and Possession in Strange Illusion, The Strange Woman, and Bluebeard Chapter 14 8. All Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Detour (1945) Chapter 15 9. Masculinity and Masochism in Detour (1945) Part 16 III: Individual Films Chapter 17 10. Puppets and Painting: Authorship and Artistry in Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard Chapter 18 11. Beyond Citizen Kane: Ruthless as Radical Psychobiography Chapter 19 12. "The Gateway to America": Assimilation and Art in Carnegie Hall (1947) Chapter 20 13. Meeting The Man From Planet X (1951) Chapter 21 14. Nothing to Hyde: Reading The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) Chapter 22 15. Murder, Family, and Weird Science:The Amazing Transparent Man Chapter 23 16. "A Sword and Sandal Gone Screwy" or, Edgar G. Ulmer's Journey to the Lost City—L'Atlantide Part 24 IV: Case Study—The Black Cat (1934) Chapter 25 17. Bauhaus of Horrors: Edgar G. Ulmer and The Black Cat Chapter 26 18 The Devil's Contract: The Satisfaction of Self-Destruction in Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat Chapter 27 19 "Tremonstrous" Hopes and "Oke" Results: The 1934 Reception of The Black Cat
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Lexington Books The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom
Book SynopsisAcclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom is renowned for the abundance and diversity of his output. His films span a wide range of genres in art house and mainstream cinema alike, from the heritage film to neo-noir. Working with different genres gives Winterbottom a framework in which to explore favored themes, while incorporating new ideas and taking on new challenges. At the same time, his manner of undermining familiar generic qualities and frustrating audience expectations also refreshes the genres he explores. In The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison investigates Winterbottom's contributions to contemporary cinema, using ideas of genre as a critical tool. Focusing on eight films, Allison examines the ways he adopts, inflects, and challenges the main attributes of the films' associated genres, enriching a highly personal and idiosyncratic style of filmmaking. The potency and integrity of his authorship unites films as generically diverse as the road movie ButteTrade ReviewDeborah Allison has grasped [Winterbottom’s] distinctive modus operandi, which no other filmmaker would dare imitate, or could afford to. Her tour of Winterbottom’s glorious ups and occasional downs, a mid-career assessment, confirms Winterbottom’s place as the most versatile and prolific director of his generation. The reader can decide whether Winterbottom’s determination to take on so many varied challenges is courageous or crazy, or both. -- David D'Arcy, Screen InternationalMichael Winterbottom is terrifically prolific and diverse in his cinematic output. It is difficult to write about someone who is still producing work, and Allison makes no claim to offer definitive statements. It remains to follow Winterbottom’s career in the years ahead, and the growth of critical analysis of his work, to which The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom makes a sterling contribution. * Screening The Past *The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom is. . . traditional in terms of methodology, but. . . eloquent and explicit on the question of value. * Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. Butterfly Kiss: The Road Movie Chapter Two. Jude: The Heritage Film Chapter Three. Welcome to Sarajevo: War Cinema Chapter Four. Wonderland: Social Realist Drama Chapter Five. The Claim: The Western Chapter Six. Code 46: Science Fiction Chapter Seven. The Road to Guantanamo: Docudrama Chapter Eight. The Killer Inside Me: Neo-Noir Conclusion Filmography
£88.20
Lexington Books The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom
Book SynopsisAcclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom is renowned for the abundance and diversity of his output. His films span a wide range of genres in art house and mainstream cinema alike, from the heritage film to neo-noir. Working with different genres gives Winterbottom a framework in which to explore favored themes, while incorporating new ideas and taking on new challenges. At the same time, his manner of undermining familiar generic qualities and frustrating audience expectations also refreshes the genres he explores. In The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison investigates Winterbottom's contributions to contemporary cinema, using ideas of genre as a critical tool. Focusing on eight films, Allison examines the ways he adopts, inflects, and challenges the main attributes of the films' associated genres, enriching a highly personal and idiosyncratic style of filmmaking. The potency and integrity of his authorship unites films as generically diverse as the road movie ButteTrade ReviewDeborah Allison has grasped [Winterbottom’s] distinctive modus operandi, which no other filmmaker would dare imitate, or could afford to. Her tour of Winterbottom’s glorious ups and occasional downs, a mid-career assessment, confirms Winterbottom’s place as the most versatile and prolific director of his generation. The reader can decide whether Winterbottom’s determination to take on so many varied challenges is courageous or crazy, or both. -- David D'Arcy, Screen InternationalMichael Winterbottom is terrifically prolific and diverse in his cinematic output. It is difficult to write about someone who is still producing work, and Allison makes no claim to offer definitive statements. It remains to follow Winterbottom’s career in the years ahead, and the growth of critical analysis of his work, to which The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom makes a sterling contribution. * Screening The Past *The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom is. . . traditional in terms of methodology, but. . . eloquent and explicit on the question of value. * Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. Butterfly Kiss: The Road Movie Chapter Two. Jude: The Heritage Film Chapter Three. Welcome to Sarajevo: War Cinema Chapter Four. Wonderland: Social Realist Drama Chapter Five. The Claim: The Western Chapter Six. Code 46: Science Fiction Chapter Seven. The Road to Guantanamo: Docudrama Chapter Eight. The Killer Inside Me: Neo-Noir Conclusion Filmography
£40.50
Lexington Books John Dahl and NeoNoir
Book SynopsisIn John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre, Paul Monaco provides a focused inquiry into the first three feature films that director John Dahl made for theatrical release: Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1993), and The Last Seduction (1994). Subsequent to their releases, these three films became identified in academic film criticism as neo-noir, and Dahl was labeled a noir-meister who made a cottage industry of neo-noir. The importance of these three films, and Monaco''s investigation of them, is how they illuminate a modern director''s creative process in relation to an emerging genre. Dahl is rightly recognized for his directorial vision and his creative style. His approach to film direction, and his distinctiveness of vision, is thoroughly explored in the book. Using interviews with the professionals with whom Dahl has worked closely, Monaco also explores basic notions about auteurism and how genre is defined. Considering Dahl''s extensive directing for televisionTrade ReviewIn his incisive and well-informed study of John Dahl's first three neo-noir thrillers, Paul Monaco uses close reading, background interviews, commentary, and theory to throw light on the idea of the director as author. What interests Monaco is the particular circumstances that enable a contemporary film maker to place his signature on a film. This book is for all those seriously interested in creativity, film-making, direction, and the movie business. -- Ian C. Jarvie, York UniversityJohn Dahl and Neo-Noir is a terrific book, carefully researched and keenly written. Monaco is a master at unpacking directorial nuance and production logic, illuminating how tightly film authorship and genre are woven together in neo-noir. -- John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Auteurism Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Noir and Neo-Noir Chapter 4 Chapter Three:Kill Me Again Chapter 5 Chapter Four:Red Rock West Chapter 6 Chapter Five:The Last Seduction Chapter 7 Conclusion
£82.80
Lexington Books Images for a Generation Doomed The Films and
Book SynopsisTrade 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
£78.30
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
£41.80
Lexington Books Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Book SynopsisTerrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick's films enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Useful for both professional philosophers interested in film and scholars of cinema intrigued by philosophy, this book shows the ways Malick's films cast philosophy in new cinematic light.Trade ReviewA painstaking craftsman, Malick has made only a handful of films in his career, but each bears the mark of a deeply individualistic director who makes only films in which he is really invested. He has completed five feature films in all--he is a meticulous auteur indeed--and this makes him an ideal subject for this detailed, compact book, as each film can have a chapter all to itself. Rybin (Georgia Gwinnett College) offers persuasive readings of Badlands (1973), which is based on the Charles Starkweather murder spree in Nebraska; the romantic period drama Days of Heaven (1978); the epic WW II narrative The Thin Red Line (1998); the underrated The New World (2005), which looks at the founding of the American colony at Jamestown, Virginia; and The Tree of Life (2011), a family drama set in 1950s Texas, which takes on cosmic overtones as the film progresses. This is a concise, measured, intelligent study of Malick's work, ideal for a course on his films or as an introduction for the general reader. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Deftly combining theoretical reflection with detailed film analyses, Rybin opens up Malick’s unique cinematic worlds—from Badlands to The Tree of Life—with skill and subtlety, bringing fresh philosophical insight and fine critical understanding to our appreciation of his cinematic achievements. -- Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie UniversitySteven Rybin has written a superbly rich and much needed study of character in the films of Terrence Malick. Taking his cue from the burgeoning field of film-philosophy, Rybin is unhampered by any one philosophical dogma and instead lucidly argues that Malick’s films and characters should be viewed as 'companions to thought' through a wide range of philosophical lenses. This book is essential reading for any serious thinker interested in the films of Terrence Malick. -- Thomas Deane Tucker, Chadron State CollegeThis book is by far the most comprehensive, thorough, and readable monograph on Terrence Malick’s five films. His approach is varied and inclusive, defining and adopting different strategies to engage distinct problems in film criticism and in Malick’s cinema. Rybin is as attentive to the details and nuances of Malick’s films as he is to the observations and arguments of Malick’s other critics and commentators. -- Stuart KendallExamines the slender but critically acclaimed oeuvre of director Malick (born 1943) in five chapters, each examining the intersection of film and philosophy for a single film: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter One: Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters Chapter 4 Chapter Two: On Badlands Chapter 5 Chapter Three: On Days of Heaven Chapter 6 Chapter Four: On The Thin Red Line Chapter 7 Chapter Five: On The New World Chapter 8 Postscript: On The Tree of Life Chapter 9 Terrence Malick Filmography Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author
£88.20
Lexington Books Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Book SynopsisTerrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick's films enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Useful for both professional philosophers interested in film and scholars of cinema intrigued by philosophy, this book shows the ways Malick's films cast philosophy in new cinematic light.Trade ReviewA painstaking craftsman, Malick has made only a handful of films in his career, but each bears the mark of a deeply individualistic director who makes only films in which he is really invested. He has completed five feature films in all--he is a meticulous auteur indeed--and this makes him an ideal subject for this detailed, compact book, as each film can have a chapter all to itself. Rybin (Georgia Gwinnett College) offers persuasive readings of Badlands (1973), which is based on the Charles Starkweather murder spree in Nebraska; the romantic period drama Days of Heaven (1978); the epic WW II narrative The Thin Red Line (1998); the underrated The New World (2005), which looks at the founding of the American colony at Jamestown, Virginia; and The Tree of Life (2011), a family drama set in 1950s Texas, which takes on cosmic overtones as the film progresses. This is a concise, measured, intelligent study of Malick's work, ideal for a course on his films or as an introduction for the general reader. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Deftly combining theoretical reflection with detailed film analyses, Rybin opens up Malick’s unique cinematic worlds—from Badlands to The Tree of Life—with skill and subtlety, bringing fresh philosophical insight and fine critical understanding to our appreciation of his cinematic achievements. -- Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie UniversitySteven Rybin has written a superbly rich and much needed study of character in the films of Terrence Malick. Taking his cue from the burgeoning field of film-philosophy, Rybin is unhampered by any one philosophical dogma and instead lucidly argues that Malick’s films and characters should be viewed as 'companions to thought' through a wide range of philosophical lenses. This book is essential reading for any serious thinker interested in the films of Terrence Malick. -- Thomas Deane Tucker, Chadron State CollegeThis book is by far the most comprehensive, thorough, and readable monograph on Terrence Malick’s five films. His approach is varied and inclusive, defining and adopting different strategies to engage distinct problems in film criticism and in Malick’s cinema. Rybin is as attentive to the details and nuances of Malick’s films as he is to the observations and arguments of Malick’s other critics and commentators. -- Stuart KendallTable of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter One: Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters Chapter 4 Chapter Two: On Badlands Chapter 5 Chapter Three: On Days of Heaven Chapter 6 Chapter Four: On The Thin Red Line Chapter 7 Chapter Five: On The New World Chapter 8 Postscript: On The Tree of Life Chapter 9 Terrence Malick Filmography Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author
£40.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Alfred Hitchcocks America
Book SynopsisWith a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock''s films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock''s work. Alfred Hitchcock''s America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock''s method and works. The American spirit of place, is seen here in light of the titanic American personality, American values in a consumer age, social class and American social form, and the characteristic American marriage. The book's analysis ranges across a wide array of films from Rebecca to Family Plot, and examines in depth the location sequences, characterological types, and complex social expectations that riddled AmericanTrade Review"A must-have for the shelves of any horror lover, film buff or teenager wondering where on earth the idea for the slasher genre could have been born and what cultural landscape could have fostered such ideas."—Film Ireland "Written with immense brio and an effortless command of its materials, Murray Pomerance provides surprising readings of both neglected and familiar films, but never strays from the overarching question of how Hitchcock's work, from 1940 till 1975, achieves an identifiably American character."—George Toles, University of Manitoba "This book is a treasure-trove for students of film, historians, and sociologists. Drawing on extremely close analysis, Pomerance leads us through the ways Hitchcock observed and took careful note of American topographies before exploiting complex technologies that he — Pomerance — explains to uninitiated readers with deft clarity. Written with flair and panache, Alfred Hitchcock's America brings to the reader dazzling insights about Hitchcock's studies of American life."—Tom Conley, Harvard University "What comes through most vividly in this stylish study is the physical poetry of Hitchcock's American films. With grace and insight, Murray Pomerance describes the colors, the rhythms of speech and movement, and the concrete spaces of Hitchcock's America in a way that makes these films new again. This is a book every cinephile will want to read."—Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews and author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at US History "Pomerance’s analysis is insightful, and his film analysis is superb. This book makes the reader want to watch these keynote films again and again: and as such, we join Pomerance in his celebration of the great master himself."—Ian Dixon, SAE Institute and Qantm College, MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Alfred Hitchcock in America 1 1 Hitchcock's American Scapes 18 2 Hitchcock's American Personalities 71 3 Hitchcock and American Values 123 4 Hitchcock and American Social Form 176 5 Hitchcock and the American Marriage 225 Works Cited and Consulted 284 Index 305
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Alfred Hitchcocks America
Book SynopsisWith a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.Trade Review"A must-have for the shelves of any horror lover, film buff or teenager wondering where on earth the idea for the slasher genre could have been born and what cultural landscape could have fostered such ideas."—Film Ireland "Written with immense brio and an effortless command of its materials, Murray Pomerance provides surprising readings of both neglected and familiar films, but never strays from the overarching question of how Hitchcock's work, from 1940 till 1975, achieves an identifiably American character."—George Toles, University of Manitoba "This book is a treasure-trove for students of film, historians, and sociologists. Drawing on extremely close analysis, Pomerance leads us through the ways Hitchcock observed and took careful note of American topographies before exploiting complex technologies that he — Pomerance — explains to uninitiated readers with deft clarity. Written with flair and panache, Alfred Hitchcock's America brings to the reader dazzling insights about Hitchcock's studies of American life."—Tom Conley, Harvard University "What comes through most vividly in this stylish study is the physical poetry of Hitchcock's American films. With grace and insight, Murray Pomerance describes the colors, the rhythms of speech and movement, and the concrete spaces of Hitchcock's America in a way that makes these films new again. This is a book every cinephile will want to read."—Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews and author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at US History "Pomerance’s analysis is insightful, and his film analysis is superb. This book makes the reader want to watch these keynote films again and again: and as such, we join Pomerance in his celebration of the great master himself."—Ian Dixon, SAE Institute and Qantm College, MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Alfred Hitchcock in America 1 1 Hitchcock's American Scapes 18 2 Hitchcock's American Personalities 71 3 Hitchcock and American Values 123 4 Hitchcock and American Social Form 176 5 Hitchcock and the American Marriage 225 Works Cited and Consulted 284 Index 305
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Performance
Book SynopsisLooks at the surreal seventies film Performance, which starred Mick Jagger and James Fox.
£9.34
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
£14.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Which Side are You On Ken Loach and His Films
Book SynopsisThis biography is about radical filmmaker Ken Loach.Trade Review'A clear-headed and diligently researched biography, it benefits enormously from contributions from Loach himself ... It's hard to imagine how this perfectly pitched biography could be bettered' Film Review 'Hayward has amassed an impressive body of material, much of it direct from the horse's mouth' Guardian 'It's time Loach's output was considered as being about real people rather than abstract social issues, and so an accessible biography (rather than another academic essay) is welcome' Empire 'An eloquent insight into the work of Britain's finest and most courageous film director' John Pilger, New Statesman
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