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Book SynopsisA unique memoir featuring one of the most legendary Hollywood figures of all time

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Book SynopsisMarch 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth Century-Fox was one of the preeminent producers of films, stars, and filmmakers. Its unique identity in the industry and place in movie history is unparalleled -- and one of the greatest stories to come out of Hollywood. One man, a legendary producer named Darryl F. Zanuck, is the heart of the story. This narrative tells the complete tale of Zanuck and the films, stars, intrigue, and innovations of the iconic studio that was.

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Book SynopsisFor nearly 40 years, David Lynch''s works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch''s films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch has pushed the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director''s unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch''s life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter.To fully delineate thTrade ReviewSimply put, the book, "Beautiful Dark" by Greg Olsen is a work of art...The one thing that hits you about this book is the amount of passion that Olsen has put into his work....Olsen covers nearly every imaginable work that Lynch has ever done to date and does so with great enthusiasm and passion. He insightfully moves between Lynch's works with a precision that is both refreshing and exhaustive at the same time. The result is a chance between two worlds...into a place where no one has gone before....So if you were hesitating picking this one up, as Coop would say, "Every day, once a day, give yourself a present..." And grab this book today! -- Brian Kursar * Dugpa.Com, 10/4/08 *An essential resource in understanding Lynch’s work. -- David Bushman, Curator, Television, The Paley Center for MediaWith unprecedented access to Lynch, his parents, family, and colleagues, Olson has captured and defined the raw, mysterious energy that flows through the works of this iconoclastic auteur. * Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, February 2009 *Olson's comprehensive biography of this highly original filmmaker contains a wealth of information, much of it previously unpublished. * CHOICE, June 2009 *A thorough-going critical study of Lynch's works in all media that is firmly embedded in a clear biographical narrative and backed by lengthy interviews with almost everyone in his life....The result is exactly the kind of complex, keen-eyed but sympathetic critical biography one wishes every great filmmaker could receive. * Dga Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisAbbas Kiarostami's films have taken their place alongside the masterworks of world cinema. Respected cinema historian Alberto Elena, using Iranian sources wherever possible, has written a comprehensive and instructive overview of Kiarostami's work.Trade Review'Film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.' Jean Luc Godard 'In the last fifteen years Abbas Kiarostami has been one of the most important and influential film makers in the world.' Geoff Andrew, National Film Theatre, London 'Kiarostami will find a quiet place and listen to a man's heart, right up until it stops beating. And then he will listen some more.' Time magazine 'I'm so impressed by the immediacy and the truth that you find in Kiarostami's films that it just transports you to a completely different level, as if nothing is truly staged.' Walter Salles, director of Motorcycle Diaries 'Words cannot describe my feelings about his films... When Satyajit Ray passed on, I was very depressed. But after seeing Kiarostami's films I thanked God for giving us just the right person to take his place.' Akira Kurosawa

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Book SynopsisYorkshire-born Ken Annakin is one of the greatest international film directors. The last of the English directors to make it in the international arena (others included Hitchcock and Lean), this autobiography traces Annakin's career from his early British films through to Hollywood. He has directed, written and produced over 50 feature films in Africa, India, Malaysia, Scandinavia, China, Europe and the United States. His films include: Swiss Family Robinson, The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge, and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Annakin's autobiography includes personal and revealing insights into many film personalities, including: Claudette Colbert; Edward G. Robinson; David Niven; Raquel Welch; Rod Steiger; Tony Curtis; Henry Fonda; Olivia de Havilland; Robert Ryan; Charlton Heston; Julie Christie; Robert Wagner; Charles Bronson; Peter Sellers; Peter Ustinov; Darryl Zanuck; Walt Disney and Terry Thomas. This book is forthright and pulls no punches. It will soon be

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Book SynopsisAs more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream, where are the all-girl bands?Why aren''t they getting the attention they deserve?In WOMEN MAKE NOISE musicians, promoters, journalists and fans explore the best girl bands of the last 50 years - from the Motown groups who wrote their own hits to the post-punk, rock and pop acts which dominate the contemporary music scene currently. In the mainstream media, the creative abilities, motivations and relevance of all-girl bands are continually questioned. This book uncovers a more accurate narrative. In the past fifty years, girl bands have made a radical contribution to struggles of nation, ethnicity, class, gender, age and feminism. As well as producing some amazing music. Itâ??s time to pay due credit to the politics, performances, song- writing skills and creative talent of the best all-girl bands.Including interviews with members of the original 60s girl groups and classic punk outfits like The Raincoats and The Slits as well as household names of today. This timely exploration of the best female bands will show magazines like NME that sidelining girl bands is a major oversight.Interviews and b/w photographs throughoutEditorJulia Downes is a musician, promoter, academic, editor and writer whose published work includes contributions to Riot Grrrl Revolution Girl Style Now (2007) and In Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Genders and Sexualities (2008). She lives in Leeds, plays drums in the band Vile Creatures and runs gigs in clubs, pubs, community centres and al-ternative venues as well as producing a riot grrrl zine.Trade Review"The level of public consciousness about the barriers faced by female filmmakers is higher than it has ever been. Despite this, the discussion more often than not centres around North America and to a lesser extent, Europe, Australia and New Zealand (and I am guilty as charged). This is perfectly understandable, but clearly women do make films outside of these countries, and it can be illuminating to consider how their experiences reflect or differ from those with which we are more familiar. To this end, the arrival of a new book, "Celluloid Ceiling," could not be more timely. Edited by Gabrielle Kelly and Cheryl Robson, it takes a purposefully global overview of the status quo and in doing so provides some fascinating stories and insights, reminding us of what is lost when we limit the discussion to Anglophone directors." - Matthew Hammett Knott - indiewireTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Gabrielle Kelly and Cheryl Robson AFRICA . African Women Directors: 'Francophone African Women Filmmakers: 40 years of cinema, Paris (1972-2012)' Beti Ellerson 2. Speak Up! Who's Speaking?: 27 African Female Filmmakers Speak for Themselves Maria Williams-Hawkins AMERICAS 3. The home, the body and otherness: 54 Canadian representations of identity and feminism in Mary Harron's American Psycho, Sarah Polley's Away From Her and the Soska Sisters' American Mary Karen Oughton 4. Female Filmmakers in Latin America 77 Ana Maria Bahiana 5. USA: Flouting the System: Lois Weber, 92 Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino Jacqui Miller 6. From Hollywood to Indiewood to Chinawood: 106 Women Film Directors in the US Gabrielle Kelly 7. US: Women Film Directors of the Indie 127 World Nathan Shaw 8. Oscar-worthy Women Directors 140 Patricia Di Risio 9. Interview with Kathryn Bigelow 155 Ana Maria Bahiana ASIA 10. Moving Up: 160 Women Directors and South-east Asian Cinema Anchalee Chaiworaporn 11. Films from an Unknown Woman: 179 Remediating the absence of gender politics in the films of women directors in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong Pieter Aquilia 12. Women Filmmakers of South Korea 203 Anchalee Chaiworaporn 13. 'Why are you making such a big deal just 210 because I am a woman?' Women Directors of Popular Indian Cinema Coonoor Kripalani 14. Cats and Dogs and Wild Berries: 233 New Voices in Japanese Cinema Adam Bingham 15. To Direct Patriarchy: Women Film Directors 249 in Pakistan Iram Parveen Bilal AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 16. Brilliant Careers: Three Waves of 255 Australian, New Zealand and Indigenous Women Film Directors Pieter Aquilia EUROPE 17. Alice Guy-Blache, True Pioneer 272 Tania Field 18. A Century of Madchen: Femmes 280 and Frauen in Fascist, New Wave, and Contemporary European Cinema Heidi Honeycutt 19. Hidden Histories on Film: 309 Female Directors from South Eastern Europe Dina Iordanova 20. Iron and Reel: Russian Women Directors 316 Through the Soviet Era and Beyond Karlanna Lewis 21. Where's Britannia? 329 Melody Bridges MIDDLE EAST 22. Coming Forth (Day) by Day: Arab Female 349 Filmmakers Making Strides Ronan Doyle 23. In Their Own Words: Interviews with 355 Contemporary Women Directors from the Middle East Elhum Shakerifar 24. Voices of Israeli Women Filmmakers 366 Amy Kronish SUMMARY 380 Gabrielle Kelly

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Book SynopsisAng Lee came to the fore in the 1990s as one of the 'second wave' of Taiwanese directors. After studying at New York University, Lee returned to Taiwan where he directed Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman. Austen's Sense And Sensibility was a tremendous critical and commercial success. But it was his triumphant return to...Trade Review"The latest work from acclaimed writer Ellen Cheshire arrives at a time when the reputation of Ang Lee could be considered as being in need of repair. And Cheshire offers an excellent reminder of both his brilliance and his desire to experiment. A thoroughly well-researched and authoritative work, this film by film guide offers detailed analysis and original insights. It's also a pleasure to read and this is both a fine starting point and a lovely refresher for Lee obsessives."--Jason Wood "Creative Director of Film and Culture at HOME "

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Book SynopsisFor over forty years, Shyam Benegal has been one the leading forces in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking, Benegal is both of, and not of, Bollywood. As a philosophical filmmaker Benegal brings to life the existential crisis of the downtrodden Indian, the subaltern' if you willthe serf, the peasant, the womanand imposes a distinctive philosophical vision on his cinematic reworkings of literary products. To understand Benegal's cinema is to understand, through his lens, modern India's continued process of political and social becoming. Focusing on the philosophical depth of Benegal's oueuvre, Samir Chopra identifies three key aspects of his work:- A trio of films which signalled to middle-class India that a revolt was brewing in India's hinterlands- Two sets of movies which make powerful feminist statements and bring viewers into the lives of Indian women by showcasing strong, interesting female chTrade ReviewSamir Chopra’s fine-grained analyses of Shyam Benegal’s prolific output does great justice to the filmmaker’s intellectual reach and ambitions, putting Benegal’s deeply committed visions of social and gender justice in conversation with what Chopra calls “philosophy in cinematic form”—“expressions,” that is, “of a moral and political philosophy” enacted via the medium of cinema. Those looking for a compelling reading of Benegal’s substantial oeuvre will also find much to enjoy and ruminate over in Shyam Benegal: Philosopher and Filmmaker. * Anuradha Needham, Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Oberlin College, USA *For over four decades, India’s celebrated filmmaker Shyam Benegal’s films have delighted audiences even as they chasten the social order—one that hurls indignities at those perceived as social outcasts. Unfiltered and unfettered by the weight of ideological prisms, Benegal’s films speak through the body of women at the margins, revealing her resistance in speech and action. Samir Chopra brings us closer to the legendary filmmaker and his films. Chopra curates a selection of Benegal’s films and persuades us to see films as “philosophy in action” and rumination in celluloid. This smart book has much to offer to the novice as well as film enthusiasts familiar with India’s cinema. * Ritu Gairola Khanduri, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Arlington, USA *Table of ContentsPrelims Preface 1. Introduction 2. Ankur, Nishant, Manthan: The Uprising Trilogy 3. An Indian Feminist –I : Bhumika, Mandi 4. An Indian Feminist – II: The Muslim Women Trilogy – Mammo, Zubeidaa, Sardari Begum 5. The Fabulist – Junoon, Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda, Kondura, Kalyug Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, USA. He is the author of five books and works in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of language, and German philosophy.Trade ReviewHegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger are prominent among the philosophical sources, but Eldridge also draws extensively on commentary by contemporary film scholars and reviewers and on Herzog’s own writings and interviews. Particularly effective are Eldridge’s insightful close readings of particular films, both fiction and documentary … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *The range of films discussed is excellent, avoiding the over-familiar concentration on the output of the 1960s and 70s. * Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media *Richard Eldridge's excellent contribution to Bloomsbury's Philosophical Filmmakers series creates a significant set of interpretations of Werner Herzog's films, by showing how these films not only interact with philosophy, but do work parallel to that done by philosophy. * Monatshefte *Werner Herzog, although patently an auteur, has not always fared well with academic critics, due to their theoretical biases. Herzog’s art is Romantic, with a capital R, committed to defamiliarizing reality in the spirit of Heidegger. But in Richard Eldridge, Herzog has finally found his ideal interpreter. A philosopher steeped in German philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as Wittgenstein and Cavell, Eldridge is able to demonstrate Herzog’s attention to fundamental existential themes in ways that makes an exemplary case for the power of humane letters to reveal the importance of great art. -- Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The City University of New York, USAIn his brilliant and stimulating study, Richard Eldridge shows that the issues addressed in Herzog’s films are continuous with those of concern to philosophers, most centrally that of finding meaning in our lives. Eldridge enriches our understanding of the philosophical capabilities of film through his detailed exploration of how Herzog’s films present the human quest for meaning in a world that is, if not hostile, indifferent to our purposes. A major achievement! -- Thomas E. Wartenberg Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, USAThis book brings remarkable intellectual breadth and depth to bear on Herzog as a filmmaker wrestling with the fundamental issues of human existence…With always acutely perceptive and often surprising results, Eldridge places the director’s work in mutually enlightening dialog with numerous conceptual, artistic, and historical traditions, while remaining highly sensitive to the fine-grained experiential and cinematic textures of the films discussed. Elegantly integrating Ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophical perspectives with film theory and criticism, this is not only a major original study of Herzog, but a template for a richer form of philosophy of, and through, film, with its own version of ‘ecstatic truth’. -- Daniel Yacavone Lecturer of Film Studies, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Images and Contemporary Culture 2. Nature 3. Selfhood 4. History Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe.Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these iconic films were shaped by global cultural mythologies and world cinema, as well as philosophical ideas from the fields of aesthetics and political theory, and now serve as a platform for public philosophy. Cyrus R. K. Patell also looks at how this ever-expanding universe of cultural products and enterprises became a global brand and asks: can a corporate entity be considered a filmmaker and philosopher?More than any other film franchise, Lucasfilm's Star Wars has become part of the global cultural imagination. The new generation of Lucasfilm artists is full of passionate fans of the Star Wars universe, who have now been given the chance to build on George Lucas''s oeuvre. Within these pages, Patell explores what it means for films and their creatoTrade ReviewOffers an informative overview on Star Wars, focusing on the importance of storytelling combined with filmmaking and its overarching connection to philosophy. * AMERICANA - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary *Cyrus Patell's immensely engaging volume dismantles the long-assumed tension between film as industrial production and film as an art form capable of philosophical reflection when controlled by an auteur. In considering Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe as evidence for the existence of a corporate cogito, Patell argues for the films' cosmopolitanism, working with their viewers to build a model of the world and contemplate how best to live in it. * Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA *In Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe, Cyrus R. K. Patell takes cultural criticism to a new level, advancing a cosmopolitan reading practice that grounds the concerns of contemporary critical theory in the discursive realities of media production and media reception. From the Modesto-born Journal of the Whills to the StageCraft-enabled filming facilities of The Mandalorian, Patell clearly and humanely charts an emergent mythology of the postmodern age. * Marc Dolan, Professor of English, Film Studies, and American Studies, The City University of New York, USA *Table of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Filmmaking and Philosophizing 2. From Lucas to Lucasfilm 3. Reversal and Recognition, Exile and Return 4. Melodrama 5. Individualism 6. Technophobia 7. Cosmopolitanism 8. Fallibilism 9. Moral Compass Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKenneth Lonergan's three filmsYou Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches to central issues of human behaviour. In particular, they ask questions about how to cope with suffering that one cannot overcome, the role that self- deception plays in people's lives and how to think about characters who do not embody simplistic moral ideas of virtue and vice. By philosophically engaging with these themes as they unfold in Lonergan's films, we are then able to formulate a more nuanced answer to the questions they pose. Kenneth Lonergan: Philosophical Filmmaker will draw from Lonergan's films and plays, along with the philosophical literature on the topics that they explore. The rich history of philosophical reflection surrounding these areas enables the reader to determine how the themes central to Lonergan's work have combined to create a rich ciTrade ReviewWith a lucidity typical of all his work, Todd May engages with Lonergan’s cinema through moral philosophy, but with none of the technical knowledge from ethics or film studies that might alienate a non-expert. Beginning with only Nietzsche’s famous adage concerning suffering and survival, this impressive study expands to find an equally philosophical spirit at work throughout Lonergan’s art. * Professor John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film, Kingston University, UK. *Todd May’s accessible and engaging book will drive the uninitiated into the films of Kenneth Lonergan and enhance the experience of those who are already admirers. May connects philosophy to the films in ways that both professional scholars and laypersons can appreciate. One wishes more books like this existed. * Paul Schofield, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bates College, USA *Table of Contentsprelims acknowledgements 1. Kenneth Lonergan: An Introduction to his Work 2. Irredeemable Suffering 3. Self-Deception 4. Moral Complexity 5. Conclusion: Complicating Philosophical Reflection bibliography index

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Book SynopsisJoan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA. He is the author and editor of many books most recently The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (2017) and Joseph Pla: The World Seen in the Form of Articles (2017).Trade ReviewAn original, productive approach to a major filmmaker with unmistakable philosophical relevance, makes a major contribution not just to the study of Visconti’s legacy but to the exploration of the dialogue between film, history and philosophy. * Antonio Monegal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain *A wonderful book of oxymoric strenghts: provocative, yet made to become a standard work; lucid in its analytic abstraction, yet palpably concrete; aesthetic, yet political; historical, yet for our times. * Jan Söffner, Professor and Chair in Cultural Theory and Analysis, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Ludwig 2. Death in Venice 3. The Damned Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLuchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure.Looking beyond this colourful façade, however, Resina explores the philosophical implications of decadence with a particular focus on three films from the late phase in Visconti's production, Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), and Ludwig (1972). From the incestuous relationship between decadence and power to decadence as an outcome of straining toward formal perfection, Resina uncovers the unity and philosophical cohesiveness of these films that deal with different subjects and historical periods.Reading these films and their decadence Trade ReviewAn original, productive approach to a major filmmaker with unmistakable philosophical relevance, makes a major contribution not just to the study of Visconti’s legacy but to the exploration of the dialogue between film, history and philosophy. * Antonio Monegal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain *A wonderful book of oxymoric strenghts: provocative, yet made to become a standard work; lucid in its analytic abstraction, yet palpably concrete; aesthetic, yet political; historical, yet for our times. * Jan Söffner, Professor and Chair in Cultural Theory and Analysis, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Ludwig 2. Death in Venice 3. The Damned Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directors

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Book SynopsisIdentifies in 'Silicon Valley Cinema' a recent trend in twenty-first century Hollywood film.Trade Review"Silicon Valley Cinema is a timely and captivating investigation of how tech futurism has colonized our imaginations as it simultaneously truncates our material prospects. Adroitly balanced between contextual analysis and filmic example, this indispensable book maps the parameters of this new stage of capitalist excess personified in the figure of the entrepreneurial genius." -Sherryl Vint, University of California Riverside

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of classics. Consequently, most original slasher films have been ignored by academics (and critics), leaving the field with a limited understanding of this highly popular subgenre. This book corrects that mischaracterisation by analysing contemporary slasher films that sincerely attempt to innovate within the subgenre. I argue that these films reflect broader cultural turns towards sincerity, optimism in the face of crisis, and an emphasis on felt experience that are indicative of a metamodern sensibility. This is the first book to use metamodernism to analyse film in a sustained way, and the first academic work to use metamodernism to examine horror. The Metamodern Slasher offers readers new ways to understand the slasher film, the horror genre, and also the cultural moment we find ourselves in.

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Book SynopsisA major academic study of John Waters's films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture.

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Book SynopsisNo one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world''s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.Studded with cameos of Waters''s stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and iTrade ReviewThe essays are wildly discursive and funny. * The Guardian *There are walk-on parts for the likes of Kathleen Turner ("Sure, Kathleen liked a cocktail") and Justin Bieber (who drew a Waters moustache on to his own hairless upper lip), and freewheeling musings on music and food. Waters here is a raconteur on top form. * New Statesman *This is the work of a deliciously entertaining, irreverent genius * Attitude magazine *Even if you've never seen a single frame of the sublimely trashy oeuvre of director John Waters, Mr-Know-it-All is this year's standout film autobiography. * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla explores how Almodóvar's cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. The volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition.

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Book SynopsisCelluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards.

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Book SynopsisAn inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico

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Book SynopsisOffering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Transnational Film Remakes, lain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis PART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS; 1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon; 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood; Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer; 3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis; 4. For the Dead Travel Fast: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, lain Robert Smith PART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE; 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou's A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan; 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence; 7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards; 8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The ParentTrap, Constantine Verevis PART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS; 9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt; 10. Crazed Heat: Nakahira Ko and theTransnational Self-Remake, David Desser; 11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke's Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock; 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy, Daniel Martin; 13. TheTransnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel Herbert; Contributors; Notes.

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Book SynopsisThe first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of the artistic debates that raged in 1920s Europe and the post-war United States.

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Book SynopsisIn this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.

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Book SynopsisTaking 5 filmmakers (Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard) as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema.

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Book SynopsisTroubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.

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Book SynopsisA range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.

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Book SynopsisAddressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension.

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Book SynopsisGary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career. Case studies include celebrated films like Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945), and Boetticher's continuing influence on contemporary classics like Series Breaking Bad.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates how horror films have rendered the humanbody as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation.

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Book SynopsisFemale Agency and Documentary Strategies' centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, this book demonstrates dialogue's ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the Chinese Reform Era is contrusted and felt in the films of Jia Zhangke, using the concept of structures of feeling

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Book SynopsisIn Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.

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Book SynopsisExamines how changes to the French film industry have resulted in popular films which in turn are changing perspectives on French cinema.

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