Description
Book Synopsis Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life.
“I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can’t put it down and then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail’s pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn’t be over so quickly.”—Mike Downey, European Film Academy
From his post-Nazi-era childhood in Yugoslavia to his college years during the 1968 invasion of Prague, the Yugoslav dissolution wars, and his subsequent exile in the United States, these personal stories combine to provide insight into socialist film industries, contextualizing south Slavic film while also highlighting its contacts with Western filmmakers and film industry.
From the introduction by Aida Vidan:
The one hundred and seventy-seven film terms provide sometimes a direct and at other times a metaphoric path to Grlić’s stories and concurrently serve as a self-referential mechanism to comment on a series of film attributes. The entries can be read in any order, allowing for the reader’s own “montage” of the book’s universe…. Grlić adroitly captures the absurdities and paradoxes in one’s life resulting from the sort of tectonic shifts with which East European history abounds.
Trade Review “I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can’t put it down and then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail’s pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn’t be over so quickly.” • Mike Downey, European Film Academy
“This unique and engaging book is both a non-chronological memoir and an idiosyncratic cinematic history textbook of sorts, one that informs the reader about the director’s own life, work and creative processes, but also about the broader context of cinema’s untold, hidden history through entertaining vignettes and little known (yet important) facts.” • Dijana Jelača, Brooklyn College.
“Anyone interested in the artists’ real and imaginative lives, in European and global cinema and history, or simply in the plethora of inspiring lives and stories—the knowledge of which makes one humbled and grateful—will find this a most fulfilling, joyful read.” • Gordana P. Crnkovic, University of Washington
Table of Contents Introduction: Rajko Grlić and Cadences of Reality
Aida Vidan
Preface
Lexicon of Untold Tales
A
Animal Movies
Anti-Climax
B
The Beginning & The End
Biopic
Black Wave
Bollywood
Box Office
C
Cameo
Camera Angle
Character Arc
Chase Movies
Children’s Movies
Cineaste
Cinema’s Exiles
Cinema’s Exiles II
Cinematography
Cliché
Close-Up
Cold Open
Completion Guarantee
Continuity
Courtroom Movies
Courtroom Movies II
Courtroom Movies III
D
Damnatio memoriae
Defining Premise
Deliverance
Dialogue
Director
Director’s Cut
Director’s Language
Documentary (Autobiographical)
Double Feature
Dream Sequence
Dream Sequence II
DVD
E
Editor
Entertainment Trade Magazine
Epic Movies
Epiphany
Escape Movies
Escape Movies II
Establishing Shot
Extras
F
Faces
Fade to Black
False Ending
Festival de Cannes
Festival Opening Speech
Festival Selector
Fiction & Nonfiction
Fifty-Fifty
Film Critics
Film Festival
Film History
Film Library
Filming Permit
Film Manifesto
Filmmaking
Film Style
Film Stock
Flashback
Flash Cutting
Foley
Food Movies
Food Movies II
G
Gentleman
Great Movie Quotes
Guarantee
H
Head & Final Shoot
Hollywood Blacklist
Horror Movies
How to Film in Front of a Mirror
How to Make Your Movie
I
Imaginary line
Independent Production
In Memoriam
In Memoriam II
In Memoriam III
Intermission
Internal Dialogue
Invisible Editing
Italian Neorealism
J
Jewish Film Festival
Jump Cut
L
Lady
La Paloma Blanca
Larger Than Life
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show II
Legal Movies
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Location
Lost Movies
Lost in Translation
Love Letters
Lunatic Asylum Movies
M
Magic Hour
Master Class
Maverick
Mediterranean Cinema
The Melody Haunts My Reverie
Military Movies
Monolog
MOS
Movie Star
Movie Theatre (Cinema)
Movie Violence
Movies with a Number in the Title
Multimedia
N
The New Hollywood
Newsreel
No & Yes Man
No & Yes Man II
No & Yes Man III
O
Opening Scene
Oscar
Oscar II
P
Paradox
Partisan Movies
Partisan Movies II
Partisan Movies III
Performer
Phobia
Photographer
Photographer II
Photographer III
Photographer IV (& Painter)
Plagiarism
POV - Point of View
Porno Movies
Porno Movies II
Porno Movies III
Pre-Production
President Movies
Prison Movies
Producer
Product Placement
R
Reality Check
Research
Revenge Movies
Road Movie
Rock and Roll Documentaries
Rome
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy II
Rules of the Game
Russian Cinema
S
Script
Secret to Great Film Acting
Selfie
The Seventh Seal
Silent Movies
Silver Screen
Sound
Soundstage Isolation
Special Screenings
Sport Movies
Sport Movies II
Spy Movies “Based-on-True-Story”
Stage Fright
State Award
Subtitles
Superstar
Suspense
Sync Sound
T
Television
Third Act
Time
Timing
Travel Movies
Twist Ending
W
Walt Disney
Western
Wipe
Wrap
Wrap Party
Biography and Filmography
Index
