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Book SynopsisDiscover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the
fascinating stories behind their
creation, reception and legacy.
From unbelievable developments in technology (
Citizen Kane, 1941) to feminist triumphs (
Wanda, 1970); films that kickstarted New Queer Cinema (
Paris is Burning, 1990) to others that challenged lawmakers (
A Short Film About Killing, 1988) –
FilmQuake presents the movies that
questioned boundaries,
challenged the status quo and
made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
From film's first innovators, people like the
Lumière brothers, whose short film of a train arriving was reported to have terrified audiences
Trade Review “
Smith’s selections are often startling and surprising…” -- Christopher Schobert * The Film Stage *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: 1895–1929The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumière
Women in Film
The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux
Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau
German Expressionism
Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty
Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Cinema
The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sound in Film
A WORLD IN FLUX: 1930–1959The Golden Age: Luis Buñuel
Avant-Garde Cinema
L’Atalante: Jean Vigo
Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl
Propaganda on Film
The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles
Auteur Cinema
Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealism
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray
The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman
Art Film
The Rise of Animation
Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder
BREAKING ALL THE RULES: 1960–1979Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard
The French New Wave
Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock
New Adventures in Horror
Victim: Basil Dearden
Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda
The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo
Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn
New Hollywood
2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick
Wanda: Barbara Loden
Feminist Film
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles
Black Cinema in the US
Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cinema of Transgression
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman
Jaws: Steven Spielberg
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
Developments in Sound
INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY: 1980–1999Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog
An Epic Cinema
Shoah: Claude Lanzmann
The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris
A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Changing the World
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston
New Queer Cinema
Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron
Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino
US Indie Cinema
Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai
Cinema in Hong Kong, China
Recent New Waves
La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz
The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
Recent Horror
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: 2000–PRESENTRussian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cinema and Time
Digital Cinema
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee
United 93: Paul Greengrass
Cinema Post-9/11
Tangerine: Sean Baker
Get Out: Jordan Peele
Film and Black Lives Matter
Change for the Future
Atlantics: Mati Diop
For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Citizen Journalism
Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho
Glossary
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index
