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Animation: a Handy Guide (+DVD) Sheila Graber A&C Black, 2009 $49.99 pb This handy guide is just that. It is small enough to handle and carry around easily, and is a must-have resource for everyone interested in animation history, theory and practice. The whole book is structured round 20 key events in animation history from Cave Art to the development of 3D computer-generated images. Each of the 20 sections is linked to a practical "Stuff for Students" section which gives clever first-hand instructions for animating anything from plasticine to pixels. Furthermore each of these 20 sections is linked to animated examples from the work of the author herself. The book provides a clearly laid out visual guide to animation at all levels and is further - and most importantly - directly linked to moving examples on a supporting DVD. The DVD also provides a wealth of web links and addresses to steer the user to animated examples of the historical works discussed and more. Although aimed squarely at first year animation students this package could prove equally valuable in the hands of secondary school pupils, MA students or people at home who have 'always wanted to have a go' at animation.
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The Animation Bible: From Flip Books to Flash Maureen Furniss Laurence King, 2008 $59.95 pb The Animation Bible is the first book any aspiring animator will want to own—and with increasingly affordable tools for digital animation and the vast forum of the Internet for free distribution, animation is becoming more popular than ever. Animation authority Maureen Furniss covers every aspect of production, from finding a concept, choosing a medium, and creating characters all the way to getting the end result screened and distributed. In addition to traditional cel animation, Furniss also examines direct filmmaking, stop-motion animation, and Flash, as well as early motion devices and toys that produce animated images, all with case studies illustrating the successes and difficulties experienced by professional animators. Furniss goes beyond the image on the screen, discussing visual storytelling, sound design, and how to schedule, budget, and pitch an animated film. The Animation Bible is the essential guide for a new generation of animators.
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The Animator’s Survival Kit Richard Williams Faber, 2010 $85.00 pb Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today. During his more than 40 years in the business, Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators, and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes. In this book, based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator - from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz - needs. Using hundreds of drawings, Williams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students and fans. This new expanded edition includes more on animal action, invention and realism with sophisticated animation examples.
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The Anime Machine: a media theory of animation Thomas Lamarre University of Minnesota Press, 2009 $46.95pb Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media.
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The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga Helen McCarthy, Katsuhiro Otomo Thames & Hudson, 2009 $65.00hb Osamu Tezuka has often been called the Walt Disney of Japan, but he was far more than that, he was incredibly prolific and he changed the face of Japanese culture forever. This lavishly packaged book reveals what made him one of the key figures of 20th Century pop culture. The book is also accompanied by a DVD with a fly-on-the-wall documentary, The Secrets of Creation, made in 1986 and never before translated or shown in the West.
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The Art of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli Library, 2008 $53.95 hb The Art of Spirited Away collects colour illustrations of Spirited Away for the first time in an English edition! This book includes paintings and designs from the new animated film from the director of Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke. Large-size, hardcover coffee-table book featuring artwork from the renowned animated film, Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Features commentary, colour stills, sketches, storyboards, and illustrations used to envision the rich fantasy world of the film. Also includes a complete English-language script.
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The Art of Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli Library, 2009 $53.95 pb Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, is a hand-drawn feature-length film. This ART OF book includes not only cell artwork, but also striking watercolour and pastel concept sketches and layout pages. The book also has interviews with production principals about their daring choice to hand draw a film in the age of CGI and the screenplay completes the package.
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The Art of Up Tim Hauser Chronicle Books, 2009 $79.95hb After Toy Story, Ratatouille, WALL E, and other award-winning blockbusters, where else could Pixar Animation Studios go but UP? The Art of UP contains more than 250 pieces of concept art developed for the feature, including storyboards, full-colour pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, colour scripts, and more. Quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team reveal the sky-high creativity that elevated this whimsical film to new heights.
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Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: an animated history (includes DVD) Vivien Halas Southbank Publishing, 2007 $55.00 pb This richly illustrated book is a part-history, part-tribute, part-critical analysis of the Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Studio, Britain's leading and most influential animation company for over fifty years (1940-1995). It draws on the archives of the Halas and Batchelor Collection and looks at the key works of the studio, including Animal Farm, Britain's first full length animated feature; The Tales of Hoffnung, with the legendary Peter Sellers; and the cult classics Autobahn, featuring the music of Kraftwerk, and Butterfly Ball, with the work of Beatles illustrator, Alan Aldridge. Established writers, including Giannalberto Bendazzi and John Canemaker have contributed to celebrate the achievements of the studio, and the book features an autobiographical account by Vivien Halas, as well as critical insights by Paul Wells, Richard Holliss and Jim Walker. British animation and the whole art and culture of animation worldwide would have achieved less without the impact of John Halas and Joy Batchelor's outstanding work. This book explores their art and legacy.
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The Making of Fantastic Mr Fox Wes Anderson Rizzoli, 2010 $65.00 hb The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox is for the visual companion for the stop
motion animated movie based on the popular children’s story by Roald Dahl.
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Once Upon a Time - Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios Bruno Girveau Prestel, 2007 $160.00 hb The origins of Disney's masterpieces and the works the studio in turn inspired are the subject of this lavishly illustrated book. While the works of Walt Disney rank among the icons of American mass culture, it is easy to forget that Disney's characters and stories were inspired by original works of art. From the launching of the Walt Disney Company until the founder's death in 1967, this book includes more than 300 original works selected from the Disney archives and from private collections, together with paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and film stills. Here Disney fans will discover the fairy tales behind Sleeping Beauty and Snow White; they'll learn that Pinocchio's village was modelled on the medieval city of Rothenburg in Bavaria; that Bambi's forest took its inspiration from fifteenth-century Chinese painting; that Dumbo's bird's-eye views drew on the work of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. One chapter is even devoted to the mutually admiring relationship between Salvador Dali and Disney.
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Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation Hans Bacher Focal Press, 2007 $69.00 hb Hans Bacher is acknowledged as one of the greats of production design for animation and he has been given unparalleled access to Disney's archives to uncover eye-popping examples of both his own work and that of his colleagues. With illustrations from Bambi, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Brother Bear and many more - it is a visual feast of never-before-seen artwork, complete with insight from the artist on how and why they were designed as they were.
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The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation Alan Cholodenko (ed) Power Institute, 2007 $59.95 pb Continues Cholodenko’s first volume's pioneering work on the theory of animation. Covering a range of key topics, including post-WWII animation in Japan and the United States, computer animation, games, flight simulation and war, as well as issues of a general theoretical nature, the sixteen essays and introduction provide an abundance of new understandings, approaches, correctives, and challenges to scholars of animation as well as film.
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500 Essential Anime Movies: The Ultimate Guide Helen Mccarthy Ilex Press, 2008 $45.00 pb Here you'll find expert reviews of all the most significant standalone titles, the core of any English-speaking fans anime library. 500 Essential Anime Movies reveals the huge range of titles available in English, making them accessible to everyone from newcomers to experts. Divided into chapters by genre, so you can easily find the kind of story you like, and with advisory icons to warn you of sexual or violent content, the book also has details of directors, writers, designers and English-language release labels. Reviews from a leading anime expert are sure to provoke debate, as well as helping you find the anime you want, quickly and easily.
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Starting Point 1979-1996 Hayao Miyazaki (trans. Beth Cary) Viz Media, 2009 $47.95pb Starting Point is a compilation of essays (both pictorial and prose), notes, concept sketches and interviews by (and with) Hayao Miyazaki. Arguably the most respected animation director in the world, Miyazaki is the genius behind Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, the Academy Award-winning film, Spirited Away and most recently, Ponyo.
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Studio Ghibli: the Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc Kamera Books, 2009 $39.99pb The animations of Japan’s Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the film industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio’s founders, long-time animators Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, have created timeless masterpieces. Although their films are distinctly Japanese their themes are universal—humanity, community, and a love for the environment. No other film studio, animation or otherwise, comes close to matching Ghibli for pure cinematic experience. All their major works are examined here, as well the early output of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, exploring the cultural and thematic threads that bind these films together.
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To Infinity & Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios Karen Paik Virgin, 2007 $170.00 hb The official story of Pixar studios and the team of pioneering talents that brought you Toy Story, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. For ten years, Pixar Animation has been at the forefront of animated film, bringing unlikely heroes to the big screen and delighting fans young and old. But the road to studio superstardom was often hampered by technical limitations, studio disputes and budget problems. To Infinity and Beyond! is the complete history of Pixar and a stunning collector's item, including exquisite concept art, storyboard sketches and interviews from the creators and stars of some of the most innovative animated films of all time.
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Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer Joan Simon(ed) Yale University Press, 2009 $77.95pb This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, she created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her own film company, Solax.
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The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design Ian Christie Wallflower Press, 2009 $75.00 pb John Box had one of the most continuously productive design careers in British cinema, winning a record four Academy Awards and four BAFTAs. After learning his craft in the 1950s, he shot to fame with Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Directors from David Lean and Carol Reed to Michael Mann and Norman Jewison have valued his experience, as he brought 'a vocabulary of life' to bear on the new challenges posed by each film. Whether creating China in Wales for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), or revolutionary Russia in Spain for Dr. Zhivago (1965), imagining the future in Rollerball (1975) or the mythic past in First Knight (1995), Box shaped screen worlds across five decades, helping to establish the traditions of British production design which continue today. His greatest wish was that his career should encourage others by example.
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Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing Lee Server Bloomsbury, 2010 $26.99 pb Ava Gardner
was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and
Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She
drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around
one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes begged her to
marry him, she punched out his front teeth.
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Behind a Velvet Light Trap Anthony Buckley Hardie Grant, 2009 $59.95hb As the editor of the classic films Wake in Fright, Age of Consent and Nureyev’s Don Quixote, and producer of such masterly films as Caddie, Bliss, The Oyster Farmer, The Night, the Prowler and The Killing of Angel Street, as well as television series that include Poor Man’s Orange, Celluloid Heroes and Man on the Rim, Tony Buckley is well placed to take us behind the scenes to observe through his eyes the fascinating growth of Australian film making.
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Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies Michael Deeley Faber, 2010 $24.99 pb One man links The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell To Earth. Producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fight wars to get these movies made, from defending the legendary sex scene of Don't Look Now from a disapproving Warren Beatty to seizing control of Convoy from a cocaine-ridden Sam Peckinpah. This is a no-holds-barred look at the true stories behind some of the greatest cult movies ever made.
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Born to Be Hurt: the Untold Story of Imitation of Life Sam Staggs St. Martins Press, 2010 $28.95 pb Douglas Sirk's film Imitation of Life sparks another beguiling celebration of Old Hollywood for Staggs, author of All About All About Eve. Staggs sections the 1959 melodrama’s subplots into a campy blonde side (Lana Turner and Sandra Dee as a Broadway star and her daughter, battling over a man), and a tragic dark side (Juanita Miller and Susan Kohner as a black maid and the light-skinned daughter who repudiates her). Refracting themes of racial anxiety, confused identity and the mutual wounds parents and children inflict through Sirk’s subtly ironic direction, the movie, Staggs writes, is a florid valentine with a deaths-head where Cupid ought to be. Staggs's luxuriously digressive account ranges far beyond the featured attraction.
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Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film Will Schemmer Northwestern University Press, 2008 $64.95 pb Alfred Hitchcock is often held up as the prime example of the one-man filmmaker, conceiving and controlling all aspects of his films’ development - the archetype of genius over collaboration. An exhibition at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, however, put the lie to Hitchcock-as-auteur, presenting more than seventy-five sketches, designs, watercolors, paintings, and storyboards that, together, examine Hitchcock’s very collaborative filmmaking process. The four essays in this collection were written to accompany the exhibition and delve further into Hitchcock’s contributions to the collaborative process of art in film. Curtis considers the four functions of Hitchcock’s sketches and storyboards and how they undermine the impression of Hitchcock as a lone artist. Tom Gunning examines the visual vocabulary and cultural weight of Hitchcock’s movies. Bill Krohn focuses sharply on the film I Confess, tracking its making over a very cooperative path. Finally, Jan Olsson draws on the television series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to show the ways that collaboration contributes to the formation of his well known public persona.
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The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen Whitney Dilley Wallflower, 2008 $49.95 pb Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile yet popular directors, whose ability to cut across cultural, national and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world. His astonishingly diverse CV shows him tackling culture clashes and globalisation (Eat Drink Man Woman, 1993), period drama (Sense and Sensibility, 1995), blockbusters (Hulk, 2003) and even the western (Brokeback Mountain, 2005). In this book, the first full-length study of Ang Lee's work, Dilley uses suggestive readings of gender and identity to uncover the enormous appeal of this acclaimed contemporary director.
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The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy Peter Hames Wallflower, 2008 $49.95 pb Explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton, and one of the greatest animators in cinema history. This updated second edition - still the only full-length study of his work - features contributions from scholars and colleagues within the Czech Surrealist movement, as well as a new chapter on Svankmajer's feature films and an extended interview with Svankmajer himself.
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The Cinema of Sally Potter: the Poetics of Performance Sophie Mayer Wallflower Press, 2009 $49.95 pb Sally Potter is one of the great independent film-makers. She's best known for Orlando, but her career goes back to the avant-garde feminist cinema of the 1970s, and is still finding new fans across the world, thanks to cutting-edge films such as YES and Rage. Her films are stylish, engaging and unusually intelligent - all of which could be said of this pioneering study of her work. It provides a thorough career overview, as you'd expect from a book in the Wallflower Directors' Cuts series, but also delves deeper into the themes of Potter's work, exploring areas that film books often neglect - performance, music, politics, metaphysics. It's a rare film book that can find connections between punk rock, alchemy and poetry, but Mayer achieves it effortlessly.
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The Cinema of Terence Malick: Poetic Visions of America Hannah Patterson Wallflower, 2007 $49.95 pb Terrence Malick is one of Hollywood's most enigmatic and legendary film-makers. Despite his limited output, and a famous twenty-year absence from cinema, Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line have challenged genre expectation and redefined notions of contemporary film language. This collection explores his work from a series of vantage points, encompassing issues of identity, the poetics of cinema, representation of the road, youth culture and the American West, depiction of landscape and nature, use of sound and music, and the influence of philosopher Martin Heidegger. Particular emphasis is placed on The Thin Red Line, Malick's haunting evocation of human suffering during World War II, an important classic of modern cinema. Tracing his unique and under-explored film-making style from the 'golden age' of Hollywood to the present, each essay provides innovative ways of reading his films, thus highlighting the significance this truly original director.
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The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy & Truth Brad Prager Wallflower, 2007 $49.95 pb Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work. It explores the director's continuing search for what he has described as 'ecstatic truth,' drawing on over thirty-five films, from the epics Aguirre: Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982) to innovative documentaries like Fata Morgana (1971), Lessons of Darkness (1992), and Grizzly Man (2005). Special attention is paid to Herzog's signature style of cinematic composition, his "romantic" influences, and his fascination with madmen, colonialism, and war.
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Clint Eastwood ICON: the Essential Film Art Collection David Frangioni Insight Editions, 2009 $80.00 hb Clint Eastwood ICON presents an unprecedented collection of film art surrounding the legendary actor. This comprehensive trove gathers together poster art, lobby cards, studio ads, and esoteric film memorabilia from around the world. From his early roles as the nameless gunslinger in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, to the vigilante films of the 1970s and 1980s, through his directorial roles and latest releases, Clint Eastwood ICON captures the powerful presence and quiet intensity that turned Eastwood into the definitive American hero.
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David Lynch Colin Odell Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 pb Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal; an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. Examining Lynch's entire body of work—from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery Inland Empire—this book considers the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost, redemption gained at a terrible price, and where there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie, and fine coffee.
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Dennis Hopper & the New Hollywood Matthieu Orlean et al Flammarion, 2009 $75.00hb Dennis Hopper's many talents—actor, director, photographer, painter, and collector—are showcased in this monograph on an American icon. Dennis Hopper’s role in the seminal film Easy Rider (1969) made him an icon for the greatest directors of modern times, such as Coppola, Peckinpah, Altman, Wenders, Lynch, and Ferrara. Alternately a wonder boy and a pariah of the industry, Hopper’s original ideas have transformed film as we know it.
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Ever, Dirk: the Bogarde Letters John Coldstream (ed) Phoenix, 2009 $35.00 pb Dirk Bogarde was known as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was also a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde's letters were invariably frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk and no conversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull. Also available – Dirk Bogarde: the Authorised Biography John Coldstream Phoenix, 2005 $29.99 pb
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Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard Richard Brody Faber, 2008 $69.95 hb Jean-Luc Godard is one the most influential film-makers of the last fifty years. Scorsese, Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai and Lars von Trier are but a few of the directors who have fallen under the spell of his free-wheeling style. In his 1960s heyday Godard - always in dark shades, cigarette in hand - epitomised European cool. But he subsequently grew into one of the most formidable artists the cinema has produced. Writer and film-maker Richard Brody, one of the few to have interviewed Godard in his Swiss retreat, here offers an accessible account of this extraordinary and fascinating artist.
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Farber on Film: the complete film writings of Manny Farber Robert Polito (ed) Library of America, 2009 $59.95hb Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called ‘termite art’ (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to ‘white elephant’ monumentality), master of a one-of-a- kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing & incandescent twists & turns made every review an adventure, he has long been revered by his peers. Susan Sontag called him ‘the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced’. With an introduction by editor Robert Polito that examines in detail the stages of Farber’s career Farber on Film contains his extraordinary body of work in its entirety.
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Federico Fellini: His Life & Work Tullio Kezich I.B. Tauris, 2007 $39.95 pb In 1963, with the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens - and changed the art of cinema. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini's long-time friend Tullio Kezich has written the work against which all other biographies of the filmmaker will be measured. In this moving and intimately revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Kezich utilises his friendship with Fellini to step outside the mythologies that surround him - many of which are of the director's own making. A great lover of women and a meticulous observer of dreams, Fellini, perhaps more than any other director of the twentieth century, created films that embodied a thoroughly modern sensibility, eschewing traditional narrative along with religious and moral precepts. His is the art of delicate pathos, of episodic films that directly address the intersection of reality, fantasy, and desire that existed as a product of mid-century Italy - a country that was reeling from a Fascist regime as it struggled with an outmoded Catholic national identity. As Kezich reveals, the dilemmas Fellini presents in his movies reflect not only his personal battles but also those of Italian society.
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Federico Fellini The Book of Dreams Federico Fellini Rizzoli, 2008 $270.00 hb His insights into the world of dreams have contributed to his many famous cinematic creations, including La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Strada. A unique combination of memory, fantasy, and desire, this illustrated volume is a personal diary of Fellini's private visions and night-time fantasies. Fellini, winner of four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, kept notebooks filled with unique sketches and notes from his dreams from the 1960s onward. This collection delves into his cinematic genius as it is captured in widely detailed caricatures and personal writings. This dream diary exhibits Fellini's deeply personal taste for the bizarre and the irrational. His sketches focus on the profound struggle of the soul and are tinged with humour, empathy, and insight. This is an intriguing source of never-before-published writings and drawings, which reveal the master filmmaker's personal vision and his infinite imagination. 584 pp
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Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King Mike McColl-Jones Melbourne University Press, 2008 $64.99 hb In this insider portrait of Graham Kennedy, Mike McColl-Jones offers a never-before-seen side to the life of the King of Television. This lavishly illustrated memoir tells Kennedy's remarkable story, from his childhood in suburban Melbourne to the radio years, and his eventual dominance of television with programs such as In Melbourne Tonight, Blankety Blanks, Coast to Coast and Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Videos, to his life in the country after he retired. Included are insight, gossip and stories from all of Kennedy's friends, including Bert Newton, Noeline Brown, Tony Sattler, Philip Brady, and the people who took care of him towards the end of his life.
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Hollywood Hellraisers: the Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson Robert Sellers Random House, 2010 $24.95 pb “I dont know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I’m going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.” -Marlon Brando “I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.” - Dennis Hopper “The best time to get married is noon. That way, if things don’t work out, you haven’t blown the whole day.” - Warren Beatty “You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.” – Jack Nicholson. They’re the baddest bad asses Hollywood has ever seen: Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. These are men for whom rules did not apply, men for whom normal standards of behaviour were simply too wearisome to worry about. These are men who brawled, boozed, snorted and shagged their way into legend-hood but along the way they changed acting and the way movies were made forever.
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A Hundred More Hidden Things: the Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli Mark Griffin Da Capo Press, 2010 $24.99 pb This highly readable volume about Hollywood director Vincente Minnelli deftly balances Griffin’s strong emotional connection to Minnelli’s work, which he celebrates generally in the heartfelt introduction, and a scholarly desire to unearth the truth about the man and critically analyse the work. By turns gossipy and informative, catty and objective, Griffin is utterly fixated on questions of Minnelli’s not-well-closeted homosexuality and also fascinated by Minnelli’s ability to turn Hollywood straw into gold. As a biographer, Griffin reveals fascinating details of Minnelli’s early life and artistic development, including a formative friendship with “the Andy Warhol of his day,” mannequin designer Lester Gaba. On the cineaste side, Griffin’s informative discussions of Minnelli’s masterpieces (among them Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi) and misses (notably The Pirate) go a long way toward showing why Minnelli should be remembered for more than his ill-fated marriage to Judy Garland (and more successful fathering of Liza Minnelli).
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I Peed on Fellini: recollections of a life in film David Stratton Random House, 2008 $34.95 pb This is the long-awaited memoir from local film critic David Stratton - an honest, funny and thoroughly entertaining journey through a remarkable life in film. Passionate since boyhood about the cinema, Stratton has reviewed thousands of movies, directed and adjudicated at international film festivals, and lectured in film history at the University of Sydney. His best-known role, however, has been as the co-host, with Margaret Pomeranz, of The Movie Show on SBS and - more recently - At the Movies on the ABC. Since 1986 the duo has entertained Australia with their honest and often controversial reviews and interviews; for many, they are the most influential film critics in the country.
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In My Father’s Shadow: Orson Welles Chris Welles Feder Random House, 2010 $49.95 hb Of all the myriad stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame and, some would say, infamy of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest film ever, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well as his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has come so close to the real man as Chris Welles Feder does in this beautifully realised portrait of her father. In My Fathers Shadow is a classic story of a life lived in the public eye, told with affection and the wide-eyed wonder of a daughter who never stopped believing that some day she would truly know and understand her elusive and larger-than-life father. The result is a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure and an immensely entertaining story of growing up in the unreal reality of Hollywood.
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Ingmar Bergman: The Life & Films of the Last Great European Director Geoffrey Macnab I. B Tauris, 2009 $59.95hb Ingmar Bergman was the last and arguably the greatest of the old-style European auteurs and his influence across all areas of contemporary cinema has continued to be considerable since his death in July 2007. Drawing on interviews with collaborators and original research, this book puts Bergman's career into the context of his life and offers a new and revealing portrait of this great filmmaker. Macnab explores the often painfully autobiographical nature of Bergman’s work, while also looking in detail at him as a craftsman. He considers Bergman's working relationship with his actors (especially the actresses he helped make into international stars), his passion for theatre, literature and classical music and his obsession with death and cruelty.
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The Ingmar Bergman Archives Paul Duncan (ed) Taschen, 2008 $449.00 hb This book presents the complete works of Ingmar Bergman: a tribute to one of the most esteemed film and theatre artists of all time, began in co-operation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives. Since 1957, when he released The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in international cinema, along with others such as Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. In a career that spanned 60 years, he wrote, produced, and directed 50 films that defined how we see ourselves and how we interact with the people we love, in films like Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander. Before his death in 2007, Bergman gave co-publishers TASCHEN and Max Strom complete access to his archives at The Bergman Foundation, and permission to reprint his writings and interviews, many of which have never been seen outside of Sweden. This book also features a new introduction by Bergman's close friend, actor and collaborator Erland Josephson, as well as a DVD full of rare and previously unseen material, and a film strip from Fanny and Alexander.
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Jane Campion (Routledge Film Guidebooks) Deb Verhoeven Routledge, 2009 $48.00 pb Jane Campion is one of the most celebrated auteurs of modern cinema and was the first female director to be awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or. Throughout her relatively short career, Campion has received extraordinary attention from the media and scholars alike and has provoked fierce debates on issues such as feminism, colonialism, and nationalism. In the first detailed account of Jane Campion's career as a filmmaker, Deb Verhoeven examines specifically how contemporary film directors 'fashion' themselves as auteurs - through their personal interactions with the media, in their choice of projects, in their emphasis on particular filmmaking techniques and finally in the promotion of their films. Through analysis of key scenes from Campion's films, such as The Piano; In the Cut; Sweetie; An Angel at My Table; and Holy Smoke, Verhoeven introduces students to the key debates surrounding this controversial and often experimental director. Featuring a career overview, a filmography, scene by scene analysis and an extended interview with Campion on her approach to creativity, this is a great introduction to one of the most important directors of contemporary cinema.
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Jerry Lewis (contemporary film directors) Chris Fujiwara University of Illinois Press, 2009 $34.95pb This is the premier study of an incomparable American director. Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema’s great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an ideal masculine image and an anarchic, manic acting out of the inability to assume this image.
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Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This...true stories from a life in the screen trade Bruce Beresford Flamingo, 2007 $39.99 pb A wickedly funny account of celebrity, Hollywood and everything in between. What′s it like to be a veteran director up against the machinations of modern-day Hollywood, with its self-absorbed stars, studio executives who think ′Singapore′ is a made-up country, destitute producers posing as lords of finance -- the mad, the bad and the downright notorious? Award-winning film-maker Bruce Beresford takes us through the highs and lows of the screen trade -- from high-powered dinner tables to obscure backlots, from the centres of power to far-flung locations -- with a cast of characters that includes Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Jeffrey Archer, Steven Seagal, and many others. Delightfully literate and sharply observed, this is a highly entertaining insider′s account of a rarely glimpsed world.
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Leni Riefenstahl: a life Jurgen Trimborn I.B. Tauris, 2008 $42.00 pb Leni Riefenstahl in her long and extraordinary life (she died in 2003 aged 101) was a dancer, actress, mountaineer, photographer and world famous filmmaker. She was also a liar. Riefenstahl was a protegee and confidante of Adolf Hitler, for whom she made her internationally renowned films "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia". During her eventful post-war career, she has been both villainized for her lionization of Hitler and championed as an adventurer and artist. Her remarkable ad innovative creative vision is beyond doubt. The controversy that still rages around her memory is based on her apparent complicity with Nazi leaders - right up to Josef Goebbels and Hitler himself - in allowing her work to be used as the most potent propaganda weapon in their arsenal. Jurgen Trimborn knew Leni personally. He uses detailed research and his own unblinking eye as an authority on the Third Reich to reveal this portrait of a stubborn, intimidating visionary who inspired countless photographers and filmmakers with her artistry but refused to accept accountability for her role in supporting the agenda of the Nazi high command.
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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh Amy Raphael (ed) Faber, 2008 $45.00 pb In this definitive career-length interview British director Mike Leigh reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work. Leigh's work has always reflected its times, whether the harsh studies of Meantime and Naked or the humour of the now-legendary Abigail's Party and Nuts in May. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller, and these films deal with universal themes: births, marriages and deaths, parenthood and failed relationships, families and their secrets and lies.
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No Man an Island: the Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien James Udden Hong Kong University Press, 2009 $64.95 hb This is the first book-length study in English on Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan's famous director of movies such as The Puppetmaster, City of Sadness, Flowers of Shanghai, and Goodbye South, Goodbye. His body of work reflects a unique film style characterized by intricate lighting, improvisational acting, and exceptionally long, static shots. Udden argues Hou's films reflect Taiwan's peculiar historical and geographical situation and could only have emerged there.
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Paul Newman: a life Shawn Levy Aurum Press, 2009 $49.95 hb Paul Newman, who died in 2008, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome anti-heroes in such classic films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict and The Color of Money. And for all the diverse parts he played on the silver screen, Newman occupied nearly as many roles off it. He was a loving husband and family man, a fund raiser, sold his own brand of pasta sauce to make millions for charity, drove racing cars, and much more. Shawn Levy reveals the many sides of this legendary actor in the most comprehensive biography of the star yet published.
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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman Niall Richardson I.B. Tauris, 2008 $52.00 pb Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. 'Queer' rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and refuses the status of a tolerated minority, and queer imagery dominates Jarman's cinema. Yet there has been little attention given to this rich vein in his work. This is the first book to view Jarman's uniquely personal - and pleasurable - cinema through the analytical prism of 'queer'. Niall Richardson takes up queer theory and its debates, as well as the tension between theory and activism, to apply these issues to Jarman's cinema in critical readings of his films, with special attention given to Caravaggio, Edward II and Blue. Richardson enters the debates about queer sexuality and particularly the dynamics of sadomasochism in sexual relations. He considers alternative regimes of gender and sexuality, desire and its relationship to the body, and the political impact of such images. Although Jarman's films have often been praised for being allegories of political resistance, this book argues convincingly that the 'queer' status of his cinema is as much indebted to the representation of alternative paradigms of gender and sexuality as it is to his portrayal of tendentious political battles.
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Sergei Eisenstein Mike O’Mahony Reaktion, 2008 $32.95 pb Drawing on an extensive archive of Eisenstein’s published and unpublished writings, O’Mahony situates his oeuvre in the social and political context of the first three decades of Communist rule in the Soviet Union. The book analyses his most influential films - including Battleship Potemkin, October, and Aleksandr Nevskii - as well as his uncompleted film projects, pioneering theories and methods, and copious archive of writings and drawings. O’Mahony examines how Eisenstein’s projects were generated or constrained by his volatile and complex personality, ongoing political events, and the conflict between his beliefs, the Stalinist regime and his beliefs as a Bolshevik artist. The arcs of success and defeat in Eisenstein’s career, the book ultimately reveals, are inextricably intertwined with these fraught political and personal circumstances. An in-depth and thoughtful biographical treatment, Sergei Eisenstein gives us a new, richer understanding of this standard-bearer in modern filmmaking.
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Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview Jason Wood Wallflower, 2007 $49.95 pb Talking Movies is a collection of interviews with audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers. Selected directors represent figures whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. The book offers a truly international perspective, including global pioneers who frankly discuss their craft and the social, political, and technological forces that inform it: Laurent Cantet, Robert Guédiguian, Cédric Kahn, and Bertrand Tavernier (France); David Gordon Green, Hal Hartley, and Richard Linklater (USA); Alejandro González Iñárritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico); Stephen Frears and Andrew Kötting (UK); Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey); Atom Egoyan (Canada); Suzanne Bier (Denmark); Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam); Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran); Elia Suleiman (Palestine); and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).
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Tim Burton Jenny He, Tim Burton et al MOMA, 2009 $39.95pb Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades. With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Burton's work melds the exotic, the horrific and the comic, manipulating expressionism and fantasy with the skill of a graphic novelist. Published to accompany a major career retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume considers Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker. Illustrated with works on paper, moving-image stills, drawn and painted concept art, puppets and maquettes, storyboards and examples of his work as a graphic artist for his non-film projects, this volume sheds new light on Burton and presents previously unseen works from the artist's personal archive.
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The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger Chris Fujuwara Faber, 2009 $69.99 hb Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent), Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist, while creating some of Hollywood's most enduring film noir classics. Chris Fujiwara's critical biography - the first in more than thirty years - follows Preminger throughout his varied career, penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work.
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100 Documentary Films Grant & Hillier BFI, 2009 $39.95pb Historically, documentary cinema has always been an important point of reference for fiction cinema, and the two have often overlapped, blurring the boundaries between them. In periods such as the 1930s and the 1960s, documentary cinema proved particularly influential. Over the last two decades it has enjoyed a revival in critical and commercial success. 100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films, representing documentary film-making from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke.
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Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors Deane Williams Intellect Books, 2008 $84.95hb The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-war Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical documentaries.
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British Documentary Film Movement 1926-1946 Paul Swann Cambridge University Press, 2008 $49.95pb The most important and internationally influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of this movement, which was characterized by actuality-based films made outside the commercial industry. Based upon examinations of official government records, this book provides a fascinating picture of how Grierson manipulated the civil service bureaucracy both for his own ends and, in his view, for the good of his country.
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Claiming the Real II: Documentary, Grierson and Beyond Brian Winston 2nd ed., BFI, 2009 $55.00 pb Claiming the Real II tells the story of the emergence, development
and current state of documentary film and addresses the social,
political, industrial and ethical factors that have determined
documentary production, especially in the English-speaking world.
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Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary & the Politics of the Sixties Dave Saunders Wallflower Press, 2007 $49.95 pb Direct Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inquisitiveness of filmmakers such as Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman& mdash;and predicated on innovations such as portable cameras and synchronized sound& mdash;direct cinema intimately documented presidential campaigns through the revelers of Woodstock and the dispossessed subjects of Wiseman's "reality fictions". This volume recovers these vastly influential yet politically underappreciated films, suggesting they represented a resurgence of America's home-grown philosophical tradition inextricably bound up in the artistic and political impulses of the 1960s. $49.95pb
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Directing the Documentary Michael Rabiger Focal Press, 5th edition, 2009 $85.00 pb This is a comprehensive manual that has inspired over 100,000 readers worldwide. If you are interested in making documentary films, everything you need technically and conceptually is here. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout your career.
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Documentaries.... and How To Make Them Andy Glynne Kamera Books, 2008 $55.00 pb Glynne subjects the whole documentary process to scrutiny with advice on: developing your concept; funding; writing pitches and treatments; interview technique; narrative; writing commentary; dealing with ethical issues; camera technique; sound; lighting; post-production, editing and grading; marketing and distribution; film festivals; and, the history of documentary, with additional interviews with industry insiders and award-winning filmmakers who contribute their tips, tricks and advice. Included is a DVD which features documentaries discussed as case studies in the book such as the multi-award-winning LIFT (Marc Isaacs) and Boogie Woogie Daddy (Erik Bafving), plus layouts for budget spreadsheets, release forms, contracts and more...
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Documentary (Routledge Film Guidebooks) David Saunders Routledge, 2010 $42.00 pb Dave Saunders’ spirited introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches, controversies and functions pertaining to non-fiction filmmaking. Saunders examines the many methods by which documentary conveys meaning, whilst exploring its differing societal purposes. From early, one-reel ‘actualities’ to the box-office successes of recent years, artistic complexities have been inherent to non-fiction cinema, and this Guidebook aims to make such issues clearer. After a historical consideration of international documentary production, the author examines the impact of recent technological developments on the production, distribution and viewing of non-fiction. In addition, he explores the increasingly hazy distinctions between factual and dramatic formats, discussing ‘reality television’, the ‘docu-drama’, and less orthodox approaches including animated and fantastical representations of reality.
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Documentary Storytelling Sheila Curran Bernard 2nd ed., Focal Press, 2007 $47.95 pb Documentary Storytelling offers a unique in-depth look at story and
structure as applied not to Hollywood fiction, but to films and videos based
on factual material and the drama of real life. With the growing popularity
of documentaries in today's global media marketplace, demand for powerful and
memorable storytelling has never been greater. This practical guide offers
advice for every stage of production, from research and proposal writing to
shooting and editing, and applies it to diverse subjects and film styles.
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Imagining Reality: the Faber Book of Documentary Mark Cousins & Kevin Macdonald (eds) Faber, 2007 $39.95 pb Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' (The Independent) compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film. Imagining Realitycelebrates documentary as a vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form, by gathering a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield.
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Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices Thomas Austin & Wilma de Jong (eds) Open University Press, 2008 $65.00 pb From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of documentaries on film, television and the web. In response to these rapid developments, this book rethinks the notion of documentary, in terms of theory, practice and object/s of study. Drawing together 26 original essays from scholars and practitioners, it critically assesses ideas and constructions of documentary and, where necessary, proposes new tools and arguments with which to examine this complex and shifting terrain. Rethinking Documentary is valuable reading for scholars and students working in documentary theory and practice, film studies, and media studies.
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The Shut Up & Shoot Documentary Guide Anthony Artis Focal Press, 2007 $51.95 pb So you want to make a documentary, but think you don't have a lot of time, money, or experience? It's time to get down and dirty! Down and dirty is a filmmaking mindset. It's the mentality that forces you to be creative with your resources. It's about doing more with less. Get started NOW with this book and DVD set, a one-stop shop written by a guerrilla filmmaker, for guerrilla filmmakers. You will learn how to make your project better, faster, and cheaper. The pages are crammed with 500 full-colour pictures, tips from the pros, resources, checklists and charts, making it easy to find what you need fast.
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Taking the Long View: a Study of Longitudinal Documentary Richard Kilborn Manchester University Press, 2010 $38.95 pb Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted’s world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their own. In addition to Seven Up, the book provides extended accounts of the two other best known longitudinal series to have been produced in the last three or four decades: Winifred and Barbara Junge’s The Children of Golzow and Swedish director Rainer Hartleb’s The Children of Jordbrö. ‘Long docs’ have been an especially popular form of documentary with TV and cinema audiences and the book seeks to throw light on the popular nature of their appeal.
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Composing for the Films Theodor W. Ardorno & Hanns Eisler Continuum, 2007 $32.95 pb This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book's authors. Eisler's time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when music is used in the production of films; while Adorno was able to contribute on wide aesthetic and sociological matters as well as specifically musical questions. Above all, the authors envisaged the book as a contribution to the study of modern, industrialised culture; and, in this respect, it has a particular importance to the whole area of cultural studies.
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Film, a Sound Art Michel Chion Columbia University Press, 2009 $57.95 pb French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise-it is a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, rendering-instead of reproducing-the world through cinema. The first half of Film, A Sound Art recasts the history of film as the evolution of a truly audiovisual language, considering developments in technology, aesthetic trends, and individual artistic style. The second half explores the intersection of auditory and visual realms. With restless inventiveness, Chion develops rhetoric to describe the effects that arise from audio-visual combinations, recasting how we think of sound film. He claims, for example, that the silent era (which he terms 'deaf cinema') did not end with the advent of sound technology but continues to function underneath and within later films. Expanding our appreciation of cinematic experiences that range from Dolby multitrack in action flicks and the eerie tricycle of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to the way actors from different nations use their voices and words, Film, A Sound Art showcases the vast knowledge and innovative thinking of a major theorist.
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Film Music Peter Larsen Reaktion Books, 2007 $59.95 pb Just hearing a few notes from certain songs can bring a movie back to life -whether the Doors’ “The End” from Apocalypse Now, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” in The Graduate, or John Williams’ scores to such blockbusters as Jaws, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. But what is the relationship between film and music - where does the film begin and the music end? Taking off from a variation of that question - whether music accompanies a film or a film illustrates the music - Peter Larsen probes the complex relationship between the two. He charts the history of music in film, exploring along the way the role that music plays in the narrative and psychological functions of film. Examining such classics and blockbusters as The Big Sleep, American Graffiti, North by Northwest, and Blade Runner, Larsen uses these case studies to demonstrate how scores and soundtracks can expose unexpected new facets of a film. A wholly accessible examination, Film Music will be an essential read for music scholars and film buffs alike.
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A History of Film Music Mervyn Cooke Cambridge University Press, 2008 $39.95 pb Mervyn Cooke provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer’s working practices.
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Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda (eds) University of Illinois Press, 2008 $44.95 pb As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. Introducing new methods of thinking about the interaction of sound and music in films, the contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, ambient noise, and avant-garde film sound affect identity formation and subjectivity.
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Lights, Camera, Soundtracks: The Ultimate Guide to Popular Music in the Movies Martin Strong 2008 $70.00 pb This title surveys over 50 years of rock 'n' roll movies, musicals and performance films. The book identifies the top guns involved in each film, provides a storyline, rates the film, and reviews its soundtrack. From pop and rock musicals, like the classic Elvis Presley vehicle Jailhouse Rock and the recent Tenacious D showpiece The Pick of Destiny, to performance films and documentaries like Woodstock and Dig!, all manner of rock and popular music film is here. Special mention is also made of the rock and pop luminaries who have written film scores, such as Peter Gabriel, Nick Cave and Ry Cooder. This is the ultimate, indispensable book for film and music lovers alike.
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Alistair Cooke at the Movies Geoff Brown (ed) Allen Lane, 2009 $49.95 hb On 8 October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, his television series America, or his introductions to Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to give his first radio talk. His subject was cinema. The Corporation's new film critic, he was twenty-five, cocky, fresh from a glittering university career at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. The BBC knew they had found a perfect radio voice - fluent, conversational, a voice you wanted to listen to. He relinquished his job in 1937, when he left to live in what had become his promised land: America. Covering seventy-five years of journalism, from 1928 to 2003, this is a fascinating new collection for Cooke's devoted readers and listeners, and for anyone interested in the 20th century parade of American and European films.
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Auteurs & Authorship: A Film Reader Barry Keith Grant (ed) Blackwell, 2008 $54.95 pb Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee. Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces. Includes numerous student features, such as a general editor’s introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed features. Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film.
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Cinema: a Visual Anthropology Gordon Gray Berg Publishers, 2010 $47.95 pb Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study of fiction film from around the world. The book examines ways to address film and film experience beyond the study of the audience. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Cinema uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in fiction film. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this most interesting and vibrant of media, Cinema will be essential reading for students of anthropology and film.
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Cinema in the Digital Age Nicholas Rombes Wallflower Press, 2009 $49.95 PB Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in this new era, paying special attention to the technologies that are reshaping film and their cultural impact. Examining Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), The Ring (2002), among others, this volume explores how these films are haunted by their analogue past and suggests that their signature element is their deliberate imperfections, whether those take the form of blurry or pixilated images, shaky camera work, or other elements reminding viewers of the human hand guiding the camera. Weaving together a rich variety of sources this book provides a deeply humanistic look at the meaning of cinematic images in the era of digital perfection.
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Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine Blackwell, 2008 $49.95 pb Genre is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine's book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.
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Cinematic Thinking James Phillips (ed) Stanford University Press, 2008 $39.95pb Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman, Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume approaches its subjects with a different set of interests and commitments from the bulk of works in film theory. Memory, judgment, subjectivity, terrorism, feminism, desire, race relations, experience, the work of mourning, and utopia are among the questions discussed in relation to some of the most significant films of the last fifty years. This collection analyzes the theoretical and political contexts in which the films were made and examines their reception down to the present day.
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Dali, Surrealism & Cinema Elliot King Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 pb One of the most widely recognized and controversial artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dalí, was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with such giants as Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, and Alfred Hitchcock. Influenced by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, and Stanley Kubrick, Dalí used the cinema to bring the "dream subjects" of his paintings to life, providing the groundwork for revolutionary forays into television, video, photography, and holography. From a moviegoing experience that would incorporate all five senses to the tale of a woman’s hapless love affair with a wheelbarrow, Dalí’s hallucinatory vision never fails to leave its indelible mark, while his writings continue to be relevant to discourses surrounding film and surrealism.
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East Asian Cinema David Carter Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 (plus DVD) Film directors from East Asia frequently win top prizes at international film festivals, but few books have been published about them. The films of these countries reflect periods of great political turmoil, rapid modernization in the 20th century, and the conflicts between modern lifestyles and traditional values. Covering films and filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea, this is an ideal reference work on all the major directors, including Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar Wai, Takeshi Kitano, Zhang Yimou, Shohei Imamura, Tsui Hark, and Takeshi Miike. Providing individual analyses on more than 100 key East Asian films and with checklists for the films of each country, this guide to an incredibly rich and diverse body of work is useful for both ardent fans and serious students. Includes exclusive DVD featuring Cinema on the Road: A Personal Essay on Cinema in Korea by Jang Sun-woo
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Film Art an introduction David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson 9th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2009 $114.95 pb Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its
own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the
best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema.
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The Film Genre Book John Sanders Columbia University Press, 2008 $49.95 pb A comprehensive introduction to film history, The Film Genre Book allows the reader to create their own narrative of film through history by focusing on seven genres, highlighting a key film from each genre over a ninety-year period -- 63 films discussed in detail. The reader can trace the developments in a particular genre over time or compare films in a particular decade from the different genres. Each case-study considers issues of historical context, representation and the close textual analysis of significant scenes. Analysing films as diverse as Bambi and Pan's Labyrinth, the book immerses its reader into the full range of film experience. Its breadth of study, and the way in which it bridges the gap between commercial film guides and academic studies, makes it invaluable to teacher, student and cineaste alike.
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Film History an introduction Kristen Thomson & David Bordwell 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2009 $124.95 pb Written by two
of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the
medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and
comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in its ninth edition), concepts and
events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original
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Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (Routledge Film Guidebooks) Jennifer Fay & Justus Nieland Routledge, 2010 $42.00 pb The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its post-war consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir’s heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre. Key Films discussed include: The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941); Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949); Aventurera (Gout, 1950); Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947); Ossessione (Visconti, 1943); La Bête Humaine (Renoir, 1938); C.I.D. (Khosla, 1956); The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947); The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) & Chungking Express (Wong, 1994).
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From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition Giovanna Fossati Amsterdam University Press, 2010 $76.00pb Film is in a state of rapid change, with the transition from analogue to digital profoundly affecting not just filmmaking and distribution, but also the theoretical conceptualisation of the film medium and practice of film archiving. New forms of digital archives are being developed that make use of participatory media to provide a more open form of access than any traditional archive has offered before. Film archives are thus faced with new questions and challenges. From Grain to Pixel attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research, by addressing the discourse on film ontology and analysing how it affects the role of film archives. Fossati proposes a new theoretization of archival practice as the starting point for a renewed dialogue between film scholars and film archivists.
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Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy Paolo Marrati Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 $69.00 hb In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy? How and why does Deleuze consider cinema as a singular object of philosophical attention, a specific mode of thought? How does his philosophy of film combine and further his approaches to time, movement, and perception, and how does it produce an escape from subjectivity and a plunge into the immanence of images? How does it recode and utilize Henri Bergson's thought and André Bazin's film theory? What does it tell us about perceiving a world in images - indeed about our relation to the world?
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The History on Film Reader Marnie Hughes-Warrington (ed) Routledge, 2009 $80.00pb Historical film studies is a burgeoning field, with a large and ever growing number of publications from across the globe. The History on Film Reader distils this mass of work, offering readers an introduction to just under thirty of the most critical and representative writings on the relationship between film and history. Thematically structured, this Reader offers an overview of the varying ways in scholars see film as contributing to our understanding of history, from their relationship with written histories, to their particular characteristics and their role in education, indoctrination and entertainment. It draws together the contributions of scholars from a variety of fields, such as Pierre Sorlin, Natalie Zemon Davis, Robert Rosenstone, Marcia Landy, Hayden White, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Philip Rosen, Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Together, these writings represent a novel combination of insights from film theory, cultural studies, historiography, the history of cinema and film promotion and reception. Including an introduction which describes the field of historical film studies, section introductions which contextualise the chapters and a filmography, this is an essential collection for all those interested in the relationship between history and film.
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Hollywood Blockbusters: the Anthropology of Popular Movies David Sutton & Peter Wogan Berg Publishers, 2010 $49.95 pb Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin cycles? Hollywood Blockbusters argues that these films continue to captivate audiences because they play upon underlying tensions and problems in American culture, much like the myths that anthropologists study in non-Western contexts. In making this argument, the authors employ and extend anthropological theories about ritual, kinship, gift giving, power, egalitarianism, literacy, metalinguistics, stereotypes, and the mysteries of the Other. The results—original insights into modern film classics, American culture, and anthropological theory—will appeal to students of Film, Media, Anthropology, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.
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Horror Films Colin Odell Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 pb Often subject to more cuts at the hands of the censor than a serial killer's razor, the horror film has a fascinating history, not only as film study but also as a look at what has been considered acceptable for the public to view, and what the state will allow its citizens to see. But for the most part horror films are about entertainment—consistently profitable, eminently enjoyable. From horror cinema’s beginnings in the late 19th century to the latest splatter films, from the chills of the ghost film to the terror of the living dead, there is more than enough here to keep fans awake at night. Among the many films discussed are the popular Dracula, Evil Dead, Frankenstein, Halloween, Ringu, Scream, and The Sixth Sense, as well as the more unusual Black Cat, The Living Dead Girl, Nang Nak, Rouge, and Les Yeux sans Visage. The guide also profiles such popular directors as Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Hideo Nakata, and Sam Raimi; as well as cult directors from around the world, including Coffin Joe, Jean Rollin, and Michele Soavi.
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Horror Zone: the cultural experience of contemporary horror cinema Ian Conrich (ed) I.B. Tauris, 2009 $48.00 pb Robin Wood has noted that horror 'has consistently been one of the most popular and, at the same time, the most disreputable of Hollywood genres'. Horror is still immensely popular but its assimilation into our culture continues apace. In Horror Zone, leading international writers on horror take horror into the world outside cinema screens to explore the interconnections between the films and modern media and entertainment industries, economies and production practices, cultural and political forums, spectators and fans. They critically examine the ways in which the horror genre functions in all its multifarious forms, considering, for example, the Friday the 13th films as a contemporary grand guignol, the new series of Mummy and Blade films as blockbusters, and horror film marketing on the Internet. They also examine the relationship between the contemporary horror film and the theme park ride, the horror film as art house cinema, relationships between pornography and the horror film, set and costume design in horror films such as The Silence of the Lambs, and the place of special effects in this most reputable of film genres.
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Independent Cinema D. K. Holm Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 pb (plus DVD) Just what is "independent" cinema? D. K. Holm, columnist for Kevin Smith's website and author of Robert Crumb and Quentin Tarantino, aims to define a term that can be difficult to distinguish from categories such as avant-garde, underground, experimental, or art films. By contrasting studio-era Hollywood with changes in the business since the 1970s and chronicling the rise of companies such as Miramax and New Line, this book shows the birth of a commercial environment in which the new independent cinema could emerge. Detailed assessments and previously unpublished interviews with filmmakers, such as James Mangold (Walk the Line), Jill Sprecher (Clockwatchers), and Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) show the vastly different roles independent cinema can play in different hands. An accompanying DVD features Paul Cronin's documentary Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, about the founder of the New York Film Festival and one of the country's most important film societies.
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Introduction To Film Studies Jill Nelmes (ed) Routledge, 4th Ed., 2007 $70.00 pb Lavishly illustrated with over 123 up-to-date film stills and productions shots, this is the completely revised and updated fourth edition of the comprehensive leading textbook for students of cinema. Guiding students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, Introduction to Film Studies traces the historical development of film, and introduces some of the world’s key national cinemas. Each chapter is written by a subject specialist, three new authors contribute to the book, a wide range of films are analysed and discussed, and a broad spectrum of theories and theorists are presented, from formalism to feminism, and from Eisenstein to Deleuze. Key features of the fourth edition are full coverage of important topics for introductory level, updated coverage of a wide range of concepts, theories and issues in film studies, in-depth discussion of the contemporary film industry, new chapters on Rediscovering Film; Ethnicity, Race and Cinema; Documentary; Film, Form and Narrative; British Cinema; Approaches to Cinematic Authorship and new case studies on films such as Bamboozled, Wild Strawberries, Run Lola Run, Grey Gardens, Grizzly Man, Boy's Don't Cry, Love Actually, and many others. There are marginal key terms, notes, cross-referencing suggestions for further reading, further viewing and a comprehensive glossary and bibliography, plus website resources.
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Loving & Hating Hollywood: Reframing Global and Local Cinemas Jane Mills Allen & Unwin, 2009 $39.99 pb As the
paradigm by which most other cinemas define themselves and are judged,
Hollywood is thought to determine the shape of all national and local
cinemas. But is Hollywood really such a homogenous and homogenising monolith?
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The New Film History: sources, methods, approaches Chapman, Glancy & Harper (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 $56.00pb Now available in paperback, this is an accessible and wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. Written in an engaging and lively style, the book seeks to overcome the traditional divide between Film Studies and Film History and to offer an overview of the key areas of research, including reception studies, genre, authorship and the historical film. It also offers detailed case studies on topics such as national identity and the historical film, the place of the screenwriter in authorship studies, the relationship between gangster and 'gansta', and the use of the Internet in reception studies. With contributions from fifteen leading film historians, this is the first major overview of the field of film history to be published in twenty years.
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The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film Laura Rascaroli Wallflower Press, 2009 $49.95 pb The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms - the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait - is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought, of investigation and self-reflection, in which the filmmaker, instead of withdrawing behind the camera, comes out into the open, to say `I', to take responsibility, and to address and engage with the spectator within a shared space of embodied subjectivity. Authorial, experimental and radical, essayistic cinema belongs within the lineage of avant-garde and political filmmaking and responds above all to the need we feel today for more contingent, autobiographical, private forms of expression.
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Photography & Cinema David Campany Reaktion Books, 2008 $47.95 pb Is a DVD freeze-frame a photo? Is a video clip that’s shot on a digital camera a movie? Until now, few scholars have comprehensively examined the complex intersection between photography and film. With Photography and Cinema, David Campany offers an incisive study of how the overlap between the two media is forging new territory in visual studies. The book draws on a fascinating selection of artists and works—including Alfred Hitchcock, The Matrix, Edward Weston, Bladerunner, and Leni Riefenstahl—to unearth the rich and sustained dynamic dialogue between the two mediums. Campany contends that photography and cinema have constantly borrowed from each other in numerous ways, and he examines such issues as photo essays and photo novels in print, the photographer as a filmmaker, photographic and filmic stillness, and photographers on screen. Understanding this little-known history is crucial to making sense of the ever closer relationship between the two in the future. A richly illustrated and intriguing study, Photography and Cinema is essential reading for all scholars of visual studies.
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Reading the French New Wave Dorota Ostrowska Wallflower Press, 2008 $49.95 pb One of the most important movements in cinema history, the French New Wave of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais not only revitalised French cinema, but permanently shifted cinema's aesthetic horizons by incorporating the narrative complexities of emerging modernist literature such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras and Jean Cayrol. This volume is the first title to comprehensively analyse these links between the New Wave and the New Novel, exploring intellectual figures such as Roland Barthes and Jorge Luis Borges, and their relationship with French cinema and its theorists, including Christian Metz and Noel Burch, as well as discussing groundbreaking films such as Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Annee derniere a Marienbad (1962). Examining these connections between the cinematic and the literary avant gardes, Reading the French New Wave locates France's filmmaking revolution as a part of a wider artistic re-evaluation of the mid-twentieth century.
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Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein & the Shape of Thinking Anne Nesbet IB Tauris, 2007 $49.95 pb Savage Junctures provides fresh insights into Eisenstein’s films and writings. It examines the multiple contexts within which his films evolved and Eisenstein’s appropriation of all of world culture as his source. Like Eisenstein himself, Anne Nesbet is particularly interested in the possibilities of visual image making and each chapter addresses the problem of his image-based thinking from a different perspective. Each chapter also offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the films and writings that make up his oeuvre. This is a major new contribution to studies in Soviet cinema and culture and to the field of film studies, now available in paperback for the first time.
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Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television Jane Stadler & Kelly McWilliam Allen & Unwin, 2009 $49.95 pb Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and
theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and
television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides
of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse
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Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema 1950-1980 Andras Balint Kovacs University of Chicago Press, 2007 $39.95 pb Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s post-war heyday. Kovács’ encyclopaedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kovács begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way, he provides an innovative history of the evolution of modern European art cinema.
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Screening World Cinema (a Screen Reader) Catherine Grant & Annette Kuhn Routledge, 2006 $57.00 pb Screening World Cinema addresses the issue of definitions in discussing "World Cinema" - what exactly do we understand by the term - and then goes on to reprint seminal pieces on the relationship between "First" and "Third" cinema and criticism, look at issues of modernity and modernization, address questions of national and transnational cinema, and present a selection of articles on key contemporary "world" cinemas - New Iranian Latin American and Chinese cinema.
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The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism Steven Price Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 $48.00 pb After a century of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognised as a form that deserves serious critical attention in both film and literary studies. This book is the first to combine detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to the critical analysis of the form, structure and dialogue of the screenplay text. Authorship, adaptation, the process of script development and publication are all considered in depth. Individual screenplays receiving extensive and original analysis include The Birds, The Usual Suspects, Adaptation and Sunset Boulevard. Combining the insights of film and literary theory with a clear and accessible style, this landmark study will appeal to writers, students of film and literature, and anyone interested in the creative potential of screenwriting.
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A Short Guide to Writing About Film Timothy Corrigan 7th ed., Longman, 2009 $58.95 pb This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces readers to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.
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Silent Cinema Brian Robb Kamera Books, 2007 $29.95 pb (with DVD) Silent cinema was never truly silent as performances were more often than not accompanied by live music and the noise of enthusiastic audiences. Yet silent cinema is regarded as a specific era in the history of the medium, and often as a separate art form in its own right. Robb traces how, from the origins of cinema onwards to the coming of sound in 1929 with The Jazz Singer, many of the ground rules of cinema were laid and filmmaking techniques developed, including editing and special effects, styles of acting, and filming on location. Studying the earliest origins of cinema, including the stars, comedians, and directors who became popular from the late-Victorian era to the end of the 1920s, including D. W. Griffiths, Cecil B. DeMille, and Sergei Eisenstein, this book also includes a look at the Hollywood scandals of the time. The accompanying DVD includes lengthy excerpts from films such as The Perils of Pauline, Phantom of the Opera, Salomé, and Son of the Sheik.
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Thinking About Movies: watching, questioning, enjoying Peter Lehman & William Luhr Blackwell, 3rd Ed., 2008 $74.95 pb Thinking About Movies offers an intelligent and lively introduction to the ways films are constructed, achieve their effect, and convey their powerful messages. This book provides a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers to watching movies critically and analytically - it introduces the critical building blocks required to understand film as an important narrative and cultural form and guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis such as authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience, and reception. Included is discussion of a diverse selection of films, from Citizen Kane to The Sixth Sense. Extensively illustrated throughout.
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Visual Cultures James Elkins Intellect Books, 2010 $53.95pb Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. The content is not only analytic, but also historical, tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation. Visual Cultures also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provides a wealth of information for future research. This book will appeal to those with an interest in visual studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, area studies, subaltern studies, political theory, art history, and art criticism.
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Withnail and Us: Cult Films & Film Cults in British Cinema Justin Smith I.B. Tauris, 2010 $49.95 pb Cult has entered the cultural psyche in a profound and pervasive way. There is no corner of popular culture beyond the potential for cult transformation. Indeed, in entering common parlance the term has effectively lost its clandestine mystique. But why? And how did we get here with cult? Withnail and Us charts the journey of cult in culture through an exploration of British cult films and their fans. It is about our bizarre and enduring fascination with once obscure or shocking movies, from A Clockwork Orange to The Wicker Man. What is it about certain films that provoke such obsessive fan devotion? What impels people to remote locations in search of filmic relics? Why do they gather in groups to re-enact scenes learnt by heart? Is any film worth re-viewing over 100 times? From 1968 and all that, through the cultural byways of the 1970s, this book attempts to explain such strange practices, and to trace their origins in the makings of some remarkable films, including Tommy, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Quadrophenia, Withnail & I, Trainspotting and Performance.
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Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music Sheila Bernard Focal Press, 2008 $54.95 pb An essential, pragmatic guide to one of the most challenging issues facing filmmakers today: the use of images and music that belong to someone else. Where do producers go for affordable stills and footage? How do filmmakers evaluate the historical value of archival materials? What do verite producers need to know when documenting a world filled with rights-protected images and sounds? How do filmmakers protect their own creative efforts from infringement? Filled with advice and insight from filmmakers, archivists, film researchers, music supervisors, intellectual property experts, insurance executives and others, "Archival Storytelling" defines key terms - copyright, fair use, public domain, orphan works and more - and challenges filmmakers to become not only archival users but also archival and copyright activists, ensuring their ongoing ability as creators to draw on the cultural materials that surround them.
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The Art of Avatar: James Cameron’s Epic Adventure Lisa Fitzpatrick Abrams, 2009 $49.95hb With over 100 exclusive full-colour images including sketches, matte paintings, drawings, and film stills, The Art of Avatar reveals the process behind the creation of set designs for the imaginative vistas, unique landscapes, aerial battle scenes, bioluminescent nights, and fantastical creatures. Interviews with art directors, visual effects designers, animators, costume designers &creature makers bring insight into the creative process.
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British Film Design: a History Laurie N. Ede I.B. Tauris, 2010 $45.00 pb British Film Design is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: Dr. No's Hideaway, the buffet of 'Brief Encounter', Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School... and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have created those visions. The physical environments of films are made by Production Designers/Art Directors. Their efforts have tended to go unnoticed by cinema audiences. British Film Design offers the first comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. It takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'. Certain themes recur en route. These include British cinema's obsession with realism; the Production Designer's continual struggle for recognition; influence from European artists and the benefits - and perils - of American finance.
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The Business of Media Distribution Jeff Ulin Focal Press, 2009 $55.00pb Written by the insider who headed sales for Lucasfilm across distribution markets and managed the release of Star Wars Episode III, this is the first book to show how all related media distribution markets, including television, video and online, work together and independently to finance and maximize profits on productions. It demystifies how an idea moves from concept to profits and how distribution quietly dominates an industry otherwise grounded in high profile elements (production, marketing, creative, finance, law).
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Direct Your Own Damn Movie Lloyd Kaufman Focal Press, 2009 $31.00pb A funny and irreverent tome from legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, creator of The Toxic Avenger, who reveals the secrets of his 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how!
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Directing: Film Techniques & Aesthetics Michael Rabiger Focal Press, 4th Ed.,2007 $90.00 pb This is a comprehensive manual that has inspired tens of thousands of readers worldwide to realize their artistic vision and produce well-constructed films. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout your career. Directing covers the methods, technologies, thought processes, and judgments that a director must use throughout the fascinating process of making a film. It emphasizes low-cost digital technology, which allows cutting-edge creativity and professionalism on shoestring budgets. And, recognizing that you learn best by doing, the book includes dozens of practical hands-on projects and activities to help you master technical and conceptual skills. Just as important as surmounting technological hurdles is the conceptual and authorial side of filmmaking. This book provides an unusually clear view of the artistic process, particularly in working with actors. It offers eminently practical tools and exercises to help you develop credible and compelling stories with your cast, hone your narrative skills, and develop your artistic identity. This book shows you how to surpass mere technical proficiency and become a storyteller with a distinctive voice and style.
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Dressed A Century of Hollywood Costume Design Deborah Nadoolman Landis Collins Design, 2008 $155.00 hb From the lavish productions of Hollywood's Golden Age through to the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on the magical transformations rendered by the costume designer. Whether spectacular or subtle, elaborate or barely there, a movie costume must be more than merely a perfect fit. Each costume speaks a language all its own, communicating mood, personality, and setting, and propelling the action of the movie as much as a scripted line or synthetic clap of thunder. Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis showcases one hundred years of Hollywood's most tantalizing costumes and the characters they helped bring to life. Drawing on years of extraordinary research, Landis has uncovered both a treasure trove of costume sketches and photographs—many of them previously unpublished—and a dazzling array of first-person anecdotes that inform and enhance the images. Along the way she also provides and eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the costume designer's art, from its emergence as a key element of cinematic collaboration to its limitless future in the era of CGI.
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The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age Steven Ascher Plume Books, 2008 $35.00 pb Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of film and video
production and used in courses around the world, this indispensable guide to
making movies is now updated with the latest advances in high-definition
formats. For students and teachers, the professional and the novice
filmmaker, this clear and comprehensive handbook remains the reliable
reference to all aspects of moviemaking.
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Fix it in Post: Solutions for Postproduction Problems Jack James Focal Press, 2009 $60.00pb This book provides an array of concise solutions to the wide variety of problems that are faced by postproduction artists in the post process. With an application-agnostic approach, it gives proven, step-by-step methods to solving the most frequently encountered postproduction problems. Also included is access to a free, password-protected website that features application-specific resolutions to the problems presented, with fixes for working in Apple's Final Cut Studio suite, Avid's Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as other applications.
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The Fundamentals of Film Making Jane Barewell AVA Publishing, 2008 $49.95 pb This title provides a concise overview of the collaborative practice of film production, which is broken down into key components to clarify the process that results in the end product we are so familiar with. Through a combination of accessible language, visual material and key interviews the production process is illustrated in easy to digest stages."The Fundamentals of Film Making" offers a valuable insight into the working methods of film makers. Starting with clear explanations of the different roles within the production team this book sets out the division of labour and illustrates how these separate departments come together to produce a film. It is both a practical guide and creative inspiration to new film makers looking for a way to navigate the field.
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Grammar of the Shot Roy Thompson & Christopher Bowen Focal Press, 2nd ed 2009 $30.00pb Learn how to use the basic "grammar" of making films and videos in Grammar of the Shot ! This book shows you in no uncertain terms what you absolutely need to know to put together your own film or video, shot by shot. Whether you are just learning how to frame a shot or if you just need a refresher, this book gives you a basic toolkit of how to build a successful visual story that flows smoothly.
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Grammar of the Edit Roy Thompson & Christopher Bowen Focal Press, 2nd ed 2009 $31.00pb This is the essential companion volume to Grammar of the Shot.
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How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets of a Sundance Programmer Roberta Marie Munroe Harper Collins, 2009 $25.99 pb How Not to Make a Short Film is full of advice for would-be filmmakers. Readers will learn: --how to make their script work --how to finance their film --how to deal with their producer --how to deal with their crew --how to cast for their film --how to handle post production --how to thrive on the festival circuit. Peppered with great anecdotes and interviews with other filmmakers who have struggled with their art, this is a must read for aspiring moviemakers and includes advice about the pitfalls and clichés for filmmakers to avoid.
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The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic Bobbie O’Steen Michael Wiese Production, 2009 $42.95 pb The book reveals how the editor like a magician manipulates his audience by using sleight of hand and seduces them by anticipating their needs and desires. Only then can he create those invisible cuts that grab them and keep them on the edge of their seats. Part One lays out the rules, strategies and techniques as well as the evolution of editing in movie history. Part Two shows the actual work of master editors by using 248 frame grabs individual frames from thirteen famous scenes.
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Making it Big in Shorts: the ultimate filmmaker’s guide to short films Kim Adelman Michael Wiese Production, 2nd ed, 2009 $34.95 pb First published in 2004, this new edition
allows filmmakers to tap into the raw power of YouTube, MySpace, and iTunes.
Generate millions of hits for your short films and learn how you can make
money by tapping into the power of the Internet.
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Motion Picture & Video Lighting Blaine Brown Focal Press, 2nd Ed., 2007 $69.95 pb This book is the indispensable guide to film and video
lighting. Written by the author of the industry bible Cinematography,
this book explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting
for film and video. It will show you not only how to light, but why. This
comprehensive book explores light and colour theory; equipment, and
techniques to make every scene look its best. Motion Picture and Video
Lighting is heavily illustrated with photos and diagrams throughout. This
new edition also includes the ultimate 'behind the scenes' DVD that takes you
directly on a professional shoot and demonstrates technical procedures and
equipment. In addition, 20 video clips include lighting demonstrations,
technical tests, fundamentals of lighting demos, and short scenes
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Producing Videos: a Complete Guide Martha Mollison 3rd ed., Allen & Unwin, 2010 $49.99 pb Producing Videos has been called the 'bible' of video making. A
bestseller over many years, it offers a comprehensive and user friendly guide
to all aspects of video production - from the first chapter on using a camera
(if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution
(no matter what happens, always hold onto your master).
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Projections 15: With the European Film Academy Peter Cowie Faber, 2008 $45.00 pb The European Film Academy was founded in 1988 as a cinematic brotherhood that would bring together film-makers from across the East-West divide. This volume features articles and interviews with leading directors, writers, producers, actors, cinematographers, critics, directors of festivals and cinema institutions - as well as audience members from across Europe - in which they discuss the question: What is a European film? The volume also contains a Foreword by British critic Derek Malcolm.
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Screen Epiphanies: Filmmakers on the Films that Inspired Them Geoffrey McNab BFI, 2009 $45.00 hb Screen Epiphanies brings together 32 leading film-makers to
discuss the films that inspired them to pursue a career in the movie
business, or which influenced their own film-making practice, or which stayed
with them because of their depictions of familiar communities,
intense human relationships or unknown worlds.
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Short Films ….. How To Make and Distribute Them Nathan Parker Kamera Books, 2007 $39.95 pb The advent of affordable filmmaking equipment and software, combined with the popularity of websites such as Youtube—which encourage the submission of user-created short films—add up to interest in making and viewing shorts being higher than ever. Experienced professionals are interviewed on all aspects of short film production process in this filmmakers' resource that covers screenwriting, casting, shooting formats, location scouting, soundtracks, computer effects, and how to get the final product distributed. Five award-winning short films from distributor Dazzle Films—including Being Bad and BAFTA-nominated Hotel Infinity—discussed as case studies in the book are featured on a bonus DVD, along with layouts for budget spreadsheets, release forms, contracts, and more.
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Story of the Scene: the inside scoop on famous moments in film Roger Clarke Methuen, 2009 $35.00 pb Written by a leading film critic, Story of the Scene takes a famous movie moment - such as the Singin' in the Rain dance sequence, the Alien eruption scene or the 'you talkin' to me?' Taxi Driver sequence - and tells the unique story of the circumstances of its creation. What were the exact details of Brandon Lee's actual death on camera during the filming of The Crow? Why were nearly fifty horses accidently slaughtered in a 1936 film? What were the unexpected weather conditions that created defining moments in The Seventh Seal, The Wicker Man and Bonfire of the Vanities? And just why did actor Michael Madsen drive around LA with his fellow actor in the trunk of his car prior to filming the Stuck in the Middle with You sequence for Reservoir Dogs?
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The Sound Effects Bible: how to create and record Hollywood Style Sound Effects Ric Viers Michael Wiese Productions, 2009 $39.95 pb The Sound Effects Bible is a complete guide to recording and editing sound effects. The book covers topics such as microphone selection, field recorders, the ABCs of digital audio, understanding Digital Audio Workstations, building your own Foley stage, designing your own editing studio, and more.
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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland: a Visual Companion Mark Salisbury Scholastic, 2010 $60.00 hb Think you know the classic story of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland? Think again. Renowned director and producer Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, James and the Giant Peach, Edward Scissorhands, Beatlejuice, Batman) has now applied his signature stamp to this beloved tale. This splendid "Making/Art of" companion will take readers to the world behind Burton’s camera, revealing the secrets of performance-capture technology, the marriage of live-action and CGI technology, and displaying its singular style in a deluxe, artistic format. Fans will delight in reading about Johnny Depp's performance as The Mad Hatter, and Ann Hathaway as The White Queen, to name just a few of the star performances. And, of course, the book chronicles Tim Burton's unique techniques.
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Video Production Handbook Gerard Millerson Focal Press, 4th ed, 2008 $62.95 pb Shows the full production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. The book focuses especially on why each step occurs as it does and provides guidance in choosing the simplest methods of creating the shots you want in your video project. Concentrating on the techniques and concepts behind the latest equipment, this book demonstrates the fundamental principles needed to create good video content on any kind of budget. Suitable for students and beginning videographers, the new edition of this classic text retains its clarity and directness but has been completely revised and updated. This practical sourcebook has been specially prepared to give you an at-a-glance guide to quality video program-making on a modest budget. Emphasis throughout is on excellence with economy; whether you are working alone or with a small multi-camera group.
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The Visual Effects Arsenal: VFX Solutions for the Independent Filmmaker Bill Byrne Focal Press, 2009 $74.00 pb Build your VFX arsenal with quick-access, step-by-step instruction on how to create today's hottest digital VFX shots. This essential toolkit provides techniques for creating effects seen in movies such as 300, Spiderman 3, Predator and others. Organized in a 'cookbook' style, this allows you to reference a
certain effect in the index and immediately access concise instructions to
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Wholphin # 10: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films Brent Hoff (ed) McSweeneys, 2010 $35.00 (DVD magazine) Wholphin 10 includes a heartbreaking, must-see Jonathan Demme documentary on a proud New Orleans couple coming to terms with their post-Katrina loss; Natalie Portman’s touching directorial debut, “Eve,” starring Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirlby; a surreal homage to a 1960s Christian television show for kids starring Todd Haynes; an unbelievable documentary about a Pentecostal minister who gets word from God that he will become the “Rolls Royce” of filmmaking; award-winning animation; films from Australia, Canada, and Singapore; and much more. (Total content = 11 films. 2 hours, 44 minutes) Issue # 11 will be available in June. |
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Analysing Media Texts (+DVD) Marie Gillespie (ed) Open University Press, 2006 $55.00 pb This award-winning book provides an engaging introduction to the analysis of media texts. Students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation. Each chapter provides readings and worked examples, from a wide range of texts, from the classic 1959 film melodrama by Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, through to contemporary television ads.
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Changing Stations: the story of Australian Commercial Radio Bridget Griffen-Foley UNSW Press, 2009 $44.95 pb Changing Stations is the first full-scale, national history of commercial radio in Australia, from the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through to the eve of the introduction of digital radio in 2009.
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Children & Television: A Global Perspective Dafna Lemish Blackwell, 2006 $52.95 pb This book offers an integrative view on children and television from the accumulated global literature in this field of the last 50 years, drawing on a diverse spectrum of research and combining both the American and European traditions. Children and Television features an international approach, balancing the need to contextualize television in children’s lives in their unique cultural spaces, as well as searching for universal understandings that hold true for children around the world. |
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CineTech: Film, Convergence and New Media Stephen Keane Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 $56.00 pb What does it mean to regard cinema as technology? How do special effects change our experience of contemporary film? Recent digital advances have transformed the films we watch and the ways in which we experience them. "CineTech" explores this exciting convergence between film and new media and provides a comprehensive introduction to the digital practices used in film. Throughout the text, issues and debates are clearly elucidated through a diverse range of up-to-date case studies, including the "Star Wars" prequels and the "Matrix" trilogy. Accessible yet stimulating, this timely text is ideal reading for all students of Film and Media Studies.
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Context Providers: conditions of meaning in media arts Margot Lovejoy et al Intellect Books, 2010 $59.95pb Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments increase the need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning. Moreover, Context Providers considers the work of media artists who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration and active dialogue. This book will appeal to art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art s administrators and those studying both practice and theory in media arts.
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European Cinemas in the Television Age Ostrowsna & Roberts Edinburgh University Press, 2007 $52.95 pb Radically rethinks European cinema's post-war history from the perspective of television's impact on the culture of cinema's production, distribution, consumption, and reception. In every European country television has transformed the economic, technological, and aesthetic terms of cinema production. Its growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema's audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television. Cinematic criticism has been slow to address the impact of television, but this study recognizes its influence and offers a more authentic and richer history of European cinemas.
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Feedback: Television Against Democracy David Joselit MIT Press, 2010 $24.95 pb American television embodies a paradox: it is a privately owned and operated public communications network that most citizens are unable to participate in except as passive specators. Television creates an image of community while preventing the formation of actual social ties because behind its simulated exchange of opinions lies a highly centralised corporate structure that is profoundly antidemocratic. In Feedback, David Joselit describes the privatised public sphere of television and recounts the tactics developed by artists and media activists in the 1960s and 1970s to break open its closed circuit.
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Futuretainment: Yesterday the World Changed, Now it’s Your Turn Mike Walsh Phaidon, 2009 $49.95hb Over recent years seismic changes have taken place in the structure and direction of the media and entertainment industries. Since the launch of the first commercial web browser, to the advent of broadband, digital downloads and on-line virtual worlds, patterns of consumer behaviour have adapted and evolved enormously, embracing new opportunities and having an indelible impact upon the commercial nature of media. Mike Walsh has been at the heart of this consumer revolution from its beginning and has been advising on how to react to it since. Futuretainment offers the sum total of his experiences and commentary, and offers an accessible approach to this complex and evolving subject. The book encompasses the traditional forms of media and entertainment and reveals how the rise of the internet, mobile devices, social networking, audience networks, user- generated content, ubiquitous networks and the 'adaptive web', amongst other advances, has affected them forever.
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The Media & Communications in Australia Stuart Cunningham & Graeme Turner (eds) 3rd ed., Allen & Unwin, 2009 $55.00 pb Traditional
media are under assault from digital technologies. Online advertising is
eroding the financial basis of newspapers and television, demarcations between
different forms of media are fading, and audiences are fragmenting. We can
podcast our favourite radio show, data accompanies television programs, and
we catch up with newspaper stories on our laptops. Yet mainstream media
remain enormously powerful.
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The Metaphysics of Media: towards an end of postmodern cynicism and the construction of a virtuous reality Peter K. Fallon University of Chicago Press, 2010 $43.95 pb Award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported - and even to some extent created - different conceptions of reality. He starts with the basics: a critical discussion of the very idea of objective reality and the various postmodern responses that have tended to dominate recent philosophical approaches to the subject. From there, he embarks on a survey of the evolution of communication through four major eras: orality; literacy; print; and electricity. Within each era, Fallon argues, the dominant form of media supported particular ways of understanding the world, from the ascendance of reason that followed the development of alphabets to the obliteration of space and time that we associate with electronic communications. Fallon concludes with a hard look at the mass ignorance that prevails today despite (or perhaps because of) the sea of information with which contemporary life is surrounded.
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Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates Adrian Johns University of Chicago Press, 2009 $59.95hb Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent: in the wars over piracy, it is the victims - from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan - who have always been the best known, but the principal players - the pirates themselves - have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.
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The Queer Politics of Television Samuel A. Chambers I.B. Tauris, 2009 $42.00 pb The Queer Politics of Television is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including 'Six Feet Under', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The L Word', and 'Big Love' - as serious, important texts and reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory. Chambers makes the case for the profound significance of 'the cultural politics of television: the way in which the text of a television show itself engages with the politics of its day. He argues for queer theory's essential contribution to any understanding of the political, and initiates a larger project of queer television studies, treading the same path as queer film studies. This book makes an important and fresh contribution to queer theory and to the understanding of television as politics.
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Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence Chuck Tryon Rutgers University Press, 2009 $55.95pb Reinventing Cinema examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies. Spanning multiple disciplines, Chuck Tryon addresses the interaction between production, distribution, and reception of films, television, and other new and emerging media. Through close readings of trade publications, DVD extras, public lectures by new media leaders, movie blogs, and YouTube videos, Tryon navigates the shift to digital cinema and examines how it is altering film and popular culture.
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Restyling Factual TV: Audiences & News, Documentary & Reality Genres Annette Hills Routledge, 2007 $56.00 pb Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hills’ new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment. Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide range of programmes that fall within the category of 'factuality', from politics, to natural history, to reality entertainment. Based on research with audiences of factual TV, primarily in Sweden and the UK, but with reference to other countries such as the US, this book tackles issues such as legitimacy, ethics and value in contemporary news and current affairs, documentary and reality programming. Drawing on the ethics of truth-telling and notions of quality, this wide-ranging, authoritative book expands the debate on popular factual entertainment.
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TV China: a Reader on New Media Ying Zhu & Chris Berry (eds.) Indiana University Press, 2009 $44.95pb If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the “marketized” China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first anthology in English on this phenomenon. Covering the People's Republic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, these 12 original essays introduce and analyze the Chinese television industry, its programming, the policies shaping it, and its audiences.
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The Uses of Digital Literacy John Hartley Transaction Publishers, 2010 $52.95 pb At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to be rethought as action not behaviour, and media consumption as a mode of literacy. Hartley reassesses the historical and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of digital media in various domains, including creative industries, digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion.
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The You Tube Reader Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vondereau (eds.) Wallflower Press, 2009 $59.95hb YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet. As the fastest growing site in the history of the Web, YouTube promises endless new opportunities for amateur video, political campaigning, entertainment formats, and viral marketing - a clip culture that has seemed to outpace both cinema and television. The YouTube Reader is the first full-length book to explore YouTube as an industry, archive, and cultural form. This remarkable volume brings together renowned film and media scholars to debate the problems and potential of "broadcasting yourself."
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Asian Cinema: a Field Guide Tom Vick Harper Collins, 2008 $47.99 pb Asian cinema has never been more popular than it is today. In recent years, films such as Spirited Away, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have made surprising inroads into the American box office. Directors such as Jim Jarmusch, with Ghost Dog, and Quentin Tarantino, with Kill Bill Vols. I and II, have paid unabashed tribute to the Asian directors who have influenced them. On the world festival circuit, Asian films regularly win prestigious awards and are presented at film festivals from Sundance to Cannes. This is the first book to provide a complete overview of the past, present, and future of the world's most dynamic and influential filmmaking region. Over 300 films from China, India, Japan, Korea, Iran, and Taiwan, as well as the emerging films of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka, are all included here.
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Bollywood Posters Jerry Pinto Thames & Hudson, 2008 $49.95 pb On the streets of the vibrant and anarchic city of Mumbai, the film poster is a familiar splash of colour. It is an invitation to the pleasures of Bollywood, the world’s largest film industry. This most democratic of art forms meets one of the world’s most exciting cinema industries and the result is an explosion of colour, form and typography. Bollywood’s film posters have had a long and glorious history that is only now being recognized and noted, and is brilliantly celebrated here in this lavish volume. Bollywood Posters is a must-have for film buffs, graphic designers and art-lovers.
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The Bollywood Reader Rajinder Dudrah & Jigna Desai Open University Press, 2008 $58.00 pb What is Bollywood cinema and how does it operate as an industry? Who are the audiences of Bollywood cinema? These are just some of the questions addressed in this lively and fascinating guide to the cultural, social and political significance of popular Hindi cinema, which outlines the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and its impact on global popular culture. Including a wide-ranging selection of essays from key voices in the field, the Reader charts the development of the scholarship on popular Hindi cinema, with an emphasis on understanding the relationship between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
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Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City Ranjani Mazmudan University of Minnesota Press, 2007 $43.95 pb This is an articulation of urban life in entirely new terms, specifically, the place of the village in the imaginary constitution of anti-colonial nationalism which gave way to a greater acknowledgment, even centrality, of urban space. Bombay Cinema takes the reader on an inventive journey through a cinematic city of mass crowds, violence, fashion, architectural fantasies, and subcultural identities. Moving through the world of gangsters and vamps, families and drifters, and heroes and villains, Bombay Cinema explores an urban landscape marked by industrial decline, civic crisis, working-class disenchantment, and diverse street life. Combining the anecdotal with the theoretical, the philosophical with the political, and the textual with the historical, Bombay Cinema leads the reader into the heart of the urban labyrinth in India, revising and deepening our understanding of both the city and its cinema.
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Brazilian National Cinema Lisa Shaw & Stephanie Dennison Routledge, 2007 $56.00 pb Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). Brazilian National Cinema gives due importance to traditionally overlooked aspects of Brazilian cinema, such as popular genres, ranging from musical comedies (the chanchada) to soft-core porn films (the pornochanchada) and horror films, and also provides a fresh approach to the internationally acclaimed avant-garde Cinema Novo of the 1960s. Shaw and Dennison apply recent theories on stardom, particularly relating to issues of ethnicity, race and gender, to both well-known Brazilian performers, such as Carmen Miranda and Sonia Braga, and lesser known domestic icons, such as the Afro-Brazilian comic actor, Grande Otelo (Big Othello), and the uberblonde children’s TV and film star, and media mogul, Xuxa. This timely addition to the National Cinemas series provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Brazilian cinema and issues of national and cultural identity.
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The British ‘B’ Film Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane BFI, 2009 $49.95 pb There is more to cinema than its main attractions. 'What's on with it?' was a frequent question asked by cinemagoers before the 1970s, as they tried to decide which 'A' film to see - and the 'supporting feature' often made the difference in ticket sales. These 'B' films were shown as curtain-raisers on double-bill programmes in the days before television led to major changes in film exhibition. But while they are fondly remembered by audiences, and were a central component of the British film industry, supporting films have largely been neglected by film critics and historians. The British 'B' Film is the first book to provide an in-depth account of what 'B' films were like, how they came to be made, and how they were received. The careers of many notable actors, directors and other film-makers were launched in these unpretentious but often very entertaining films.
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British National Cinema Sarah Street Routledge, 2nd ed., 2008 $59.95pb With films as diverse as Bhaji on the Beach, The Dam Busters, Trainspotting, The Draughtsman's Contract, Prick Up Your Ears, Ratcatcher, This Is England and Atonement, British cinema has produced wide-ranging notions of British culture, identity and nationhood. This is a comprehensive introduction to the British film industry within an economic, political and social context. Describing the development of the British film industry, from the Lumière brothers' first screening in London in 1896 through to the dominance of Hollywood and the severe financial crises which affected Goldcrest, Handmade Films and Palace Pictures in the late 1980s and 1990s, and the formation of the UK Film Council, Sarah Street explores the relationship between British cinema and British society. This expanded and fully revised second edition includes a new chapter on contemporary British cinema, as well as selective references to recent scholarship on British film.
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Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography Graeme Harper & Jonathan Rayner(eds) Intellect Books, 2010 $44.95pb While the
consideration of landscape on film has been growing in currency over the past
few years, as yet no single publication has attempted to embrace the
multitude of nationalities, cinematic examples and critical approaches that
Cinema and Landscape encompasses. This volume both extends the existing field
of film studies and stakes claims to overlapping, contested territories in
the arts and humanities and the social sciences.
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The Cinema Of Small Nations Duncan J. Petrie (ed) Edinburgh University Press, 2008 $52.95 pb This book is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising twelve case studies of small national – and sub national – cinemas from around the world. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, each of the case studies provides a detailed analysis of the particular cinema in question, with an emphasis on the last decade, considering both institutional and textual issues relevant to the national dimension of each cinema.
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Celluloid ANZACS: The Great War Through Australian Cinema Daniel Reynaud Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007 $39.95 pb Traces the evolving images of Anzacs from its origins as a derivative of British Military Myth to the controversial early days of its Australian identity in the interwar years, when the legend adopted the comic and lean bushman as its archetypical hero, and then to its depiction in the nationalistic fervour of the 1980s when the legend finally acquired its exclusively Australian identity and sharp anti-British edge.
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Cinema & Sensation: French Film & the Art of Transgression Martine Beugnet Edinburgh University Press, 2007 $140.00 hb Within French cinema, a specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that betray a characteristic awareness of cinema’s sensory impact. These include: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L’Humanité; L’Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side & Zidane. Martine Beugnet shows how these films offer alternative approaches to questions that are at the heart of the most burning socio-cultural debates.
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Cinema at the Periphery Iordana, Vidal & Jones (eds) Wayne State University Press, 2010 $69.95 pb This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin - exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position of place as 'centre' is subverted, and new forms of representation become possible. In "Cinema at the Periphery", editors Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belen Vidal assemble criticism that explores issues of the periphery, including questions of transnationality, place, space, passage, and migration. Cinema at the Periphery examines the periphery in terms of locations, practices, methods, and themes. It includes geographic case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins, like New Zealand and Scotland, but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures, like Palestinian 'stateless' cinema, Australian Aboriginal films, and cinema from Quebec.
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The Cinema Of Australia & New Zealand Geoff Mayer (ed) Wallflower Press, 2007 $49.95 pb From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book celebrates the commercially successful narrative feature films produced as well as key documentaries, shorts, and independent films. It also invokes issues involving national identity, race, history, and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat of Hollywood. Chapters on well known films and directors, such as The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001), and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002), are included with less popular but equally important films and filmmakers, such as Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955) They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell, 1966), Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984) and The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law, 2000).
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The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East Colin Gonul Donmez Wallflower Press, 2007 $55.00 pb Contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not only the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, but also the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), The Runner (Iran, 1989), Once Upon a Time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Ten (Iran, 2002), and Uzak (Turkey, 2003). With a preface by Cannes Palme d'Or-winning director Abbas Kiarostami, The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East unveils a diverse region of filmmaking. 288p.
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Cinema Taiwan: Politics Popularity & State of the Arts Darrell William Davis(ed) Routledge, 2007 $73.00 pb Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auteurist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema. Cinema Taiwan considers the complex problems of popularity, conflicts between trans-national capital and local practice, non-fiction and independent filmmaking as emerging modes of address, and new possibilities of forging vibrant film cultures embedded in national (identity) politics, gender/sexuality and community activism. Insightful and challenging, the essays in this collection will attract attention to a globally significant field of cultural production and will appeal to readers from the areas of film studies, cultural studies and Chinese culture and society. 236p.
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The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film Tamara L. Falicov Wallflower Press 2007 $49.95 pb The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated. She provides in-depth analysis of Argentina's contemporary period, when financial incentives led to the production of commercial "blockbusters" as well as new opportunities for first-time directors, sparking a surge of low-budget, independent filmmaking.
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Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror James Leggott Wallflower Press, 2008 $39.95 pb This volume offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of British film culture from 1997 to the present. Using a wide range of films from the Blair era and beyond as case studies& from "Notting Hill" (1999) and "Billy Elliot "(2000) to "28 Days Later" (2002) and "The Queen" (2006) & it examines the ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant and successful.
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The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry Paul McDonald & Janet Wasko (eds) Blackwell, 2007 $57.95 pb This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the 1980s to the present day. It includes important discussions of the industry’s labour and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations; and it also considers the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood product, corporate changes, and various new media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery. Bringing together an international team of leading film scholars it offers a balanced and fresh approach to contemporary Hollywood.
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The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa Audrey McCluskey University of Illinois Press, 2009 $39.95pb South African film
culture, like so much of its public life, has undergone a tremendous transformation
during its first decade of democracy. Filmmakers, once in exile, banned, or
severely restricted, have returned home; subjects once outlawed by the
apparatchiks of apartheid are now fair game; and a new crop of insurgent
filmmakers are coming to the fore.
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Diasporas of Australian Cinema Catherine Simpson & Renate Murawska & Anthony Lambert (eds) Intellect Books, 2009 $59.95pb This volume is the first to focus exclusively on diasporic filmmaking and the rich cultural diversity within Australian cinema, and it contains previously unpublished articles by some of the foremost experts on Australian cinema. Contributors discuss a variety of contemporary and historical filmmaking, encompassing documentaries, features and short films. A number of key feature films are discussed including Forty Thousand Horsemen, Silver City, Wog Boy, Head On, Russian Doll, Japanese Story, and Lucky Miles. Opening with a comprehensive chapter that introduces the organizing concept of this volume, diasporic hybridity, the essays go on to explore migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, Islamic-Australian identity and “wogsploitation” comedy. It also features a comprehensive filmography listing Australian features, documentaries and shorts with significant diasporic content.
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East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film Leon Hunt & Leung Wing-Fai I. B. Tauris, 2008 $45.00 pb Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between 'East' and 'West', but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific.
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The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 40s Charles Drazin I.B. Tauris, 2007 $48.00 pb Now in paperback with a new preface, this is a comprehensive chronicle of the British cinema's seminal 1940s, when many bold and enduring classics of world cinema were made, including Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes and The Third Man. Drazin traces British cinema's fortunes through the characters and aspirations of some of its leading personalities, including Carol Reed, David Lean, Michael Balcon and Humphrey Jennings. He also introduces readers to some lesser known, equally significant figures, like Robert Hamer, the maverick director of Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Filippo Del Giudice, flamboyant Italian genius.
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The French New Wave: critical landmarks Graham & Vincendeau (eds.) BFI, 2nd ed., 2009 $49.95pb This is a new and expanded edition of a classic anthology of writings by critics and filmmakers associated with the 'nouvelle vague'. The new edition, published to mark the 40th anniversary of the New Wave, features all the articles from the first edition plus a new translation of Truffaut's 'Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais' (A Certain Trend in French Cinema). In addition, the collection includes articles by and interviews with Bazin, Godard, Chabrol and others that helped to shape contemporary debates about the history, aesthetics and practice of cinema.
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The Golden Age Of Cinema: Hollywood 1929-1945 Richard Jewell Blackwell, 2007 $47.95 pb This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era, 1929-1945. Jewell analyses many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today. He also tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system.
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The Gorgon’s Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism and the Image of Horror Paul Coates Cambridge University Press, 2008 $39.95pb The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
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A History of Italian Cinema Peter Bondanella Continuum, 2009 $59.95pb Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman [Il postino]), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Icicle Thief), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. This book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus video/ DVD information.
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A History of The New Zealand Fiction Feature Film Bruce Babington Manchester University Press, 2007 $44.95 pb The only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past. The book manages the feat of providing a reference map of the cinema, its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products.
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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency Ashish Rajadhyaksha Indiana University Press, 2009 $44.95 pb A landmark in the theoretical and historical scholarship on Indian cinema by a preeminent film critic. This book offers new approaches to questions of spectatorship, nationalism, and the public sphere and considers the future of cinema in the context of Indian politics and in the 'post-celluloid' era.
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Italian Neo-Realism: Rebuilding The Cinematic City Mark Sheil Wallflower Press, 2006 $35.00 pb Italian Neorealism is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
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Japanese Cinema Stuart Galbraith Taschen, 2009 $70.00 pb Until recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film have had to content themselves with the collected works of Akira Kurosawa, a spotty sampling of films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu, gobs of anime, and badly dubbed monster movies. Many great filmmakers like Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita have remained unknown in the West, and musicals and comedies are hardly known outside Asia. This volume will help set the record straight, illustrating the history of Japanese cinema with vivid posters and stunning photography.
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Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War & Beyond Lina Khatib I.B. Tauris, 2008 $48.00pb Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world.
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Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Santiago Fouz-Hernandez & Alfredo Exposito Martinez I.B. Tauris, 2007 $48.00 pb In post-Franco Spain, a re-shaping of notions of the masculine has been under way for some time. The authors of Live Flesh demonstrate how contemporary Spanish films have contributed to this process. They do so by visualizing the ways in which Spanish men have been abandoning old self images and adopting new ones, and they explain and explore the complexity and diversity of these fresh cinematic creations of masculine identities. The book's point of focus is Spanish films of the democratic period, both popular and auteur, made by directors of national and international prominence, such as Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Bigas Luna or Julio Medem, as well as films featuring acclaimed actors who have contributed to the construction of contemporary ideas of the masculine in their country, including Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem. Using a fresh theoretical framework, embracing queer and feminist theory and concepts of nation, race and class, each chapter examines key films that represent the male body, highlighting notable elements – young, muscular, homosexual, (dis)abled, foreign and so on – and goes on to focus on recent case studies from the early 1990s to the present.
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Native Features: Indigenous Films From Around the World Houston Wood Continuum, 2008 $45.00pb This book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and how they challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers. Though interest in indigenous feature-length films has expanded greatly in recent years, there is as yet no book-length examination of this subject. "Native Features" will fill this gap. Written for students and the general viewing public, it explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers who experience these films while using national cinemas as their models. Each chapter includes little known information that is likely to increase the understanding and pleasure of all who view these diverse films."Native Features" should function as an essential guide for everyone interested in indigenous peoples or in innovative films.
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New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity, Memory Asuman Suner I.B. Tauris, 2010 $55.00 pb Providing a sharp and engaging analysis of the films by internationally acclaimed new wave Turkish directors, this is the first full examination of contemporary Turkish cinema to be published in English. Asuman Suner explores the emergence of the new wave Turkish cinema against the backdrop of the drastic transformation of Turkey since the 1990s. Suner argues that this new cinema persistently returns to the themes of belonging, identity and memory; it is how films address these themes that constitutes a dividing line, with big budget popular films tending to settle contradictions into comforting resolutions, while independent movies demonstrate their paradoxical nature. At the same time, she addresses the divergences between popular and "art" cinema that destabilize the very distinction between these categories.
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Palestinian Cinema: landscape, trauma & memory George Khleifi , Nurith Gertz Edinburgh University Press, 2008 $50.00pb In this book, two scholars - an Israeli and a Palestinian - in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. They discover that the more the social, political and economic conditions worsen and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema becomes involved with the national struggle. As expected, Palestinian cinema has unfolded its national narrative against the Israeli narrative, which tried to silence it. The reflection of the Israeli in Palestinian cinema is one more harsh and painful testimony to the resentment and hostility between the two peoples, who share a common patch of earth and landscape.
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Pinewood Studios: 70 Years Of Fabulous Film-Making Morris Bright Carroll & Brown, 2007 $130.00 hb A celebration of Pinewood’s first 70 years, paying a fitting tribute to the past but also looking towards the future. It contains an unparalleled selection of over 500 photographs from the Pinewood archive – featuring many previously unseen shots. 384p.
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Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film Yana Hashamova Intellect Books, 2007 $88.95 hb Since the fall of Communism, Russians have struggled to reconcile their social traditions with a flood of Western cultural imports. Contemporary Russian cinema has latched on to the resulting confusion and ambivalence, mining societal upheaval for revolutionary cinematic topics. This groundbreaking new study probes cinematic representations of the unsettled Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger, and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, and she draws thought-provoking parallels between these evolving social attitudes in contemporary Russia and the development of an individual human psyche. The cultural impact of globalization, the evolution of the Russian national identity, and the psychology of a society all intertwine in this fascinating study of the connections between film and political consciousness.
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100 All-Time Favourite Movies Anne Gerlinger Taschen, 2008 $130.00 hb boxed set It was a
tough, soul-searching process, but after much debate and deliberation TASCHEN
settled on what they believe to be the 100 finest examples of 20th century
filmmaking. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy,
epic to musical, western to new wave, all genres are represented in this
wide-ranging and devilishly fun compendium. Metropolis? Check. Modern Times?
Yep. Citizen Kane, The Seven Samurai? Of course. La dolce vita, Psycho, A
Clockwork Orange? You bet. Plus The Godfather, Annie Hall, Blue Velvet, Pulp
Fiction... and so many more cinematic gems. Think of this collection as a
celebration of contrasts, an homage to the seventh art, a gathering of
greats, and a nostalgic romp through celluloid history.
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100 American Independent Films Jason Wood BFI, 2nd edition, 2009 $39.95pb An increasingly pervasive influence on contemporary European cinema and mainstream Hollywood, American independent films have frequently provided the most experimental and distinctive voices in US cinema. A whole generation of innovative and idiosyncratic American film-makers, including Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, Hal Hartley and Spike Lee, emerged during the critical and commercial renaissance of the late 1980s and 90s. In this revised and updated new edition, Jason Wood provides a guide to one hundred of the most interesting and influential American independent films, featuring indie classics such as well as twenty-five brand new entries.
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Steven Jay Schneider (ed) ABC Books, revised ed., 2009 $49.99pb Whether you are a student of cinema, a discerning film buff, a casual filmgoer, or a film enthusiast keen to relive key screen moments, this is a fascinating book to dip into and an indispensable reference. Featuring more than a century of memorable movies, it highlights the movies you should never have missed the first time around, the classics that are worth seeing time and time again and the masterpieces you did not previously know about.
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501 Movie Directors Steven Jay Schneider (ed) ABC Books, 2007 $45.00 hb Actors may be the face of film, but it is the director who
is the guiding creative force behind all the great movies of our time. 501
Movie Directors pays homage to these masters of the big screen, with a
dazzling and comprehensive gallery of the most important filmmakers from
around the world. Every notable name ever to have graced the director's chair
is here, from Woody Allen to Fred Zinnemann, from Ingmar Bergman to Takashe
Miike... and 497 more!
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501 Movie Stars Steven Jay Schneider (ed) ABC Books, 2007 $45.00 hb Humphrey Bogart. . . Marilyn Monroe. . . Meryl Streep. . .
James Dean. . . Paul Newman. . .Not just run-of-the-mill film actors but
larger-than-life movie stars who have captured the collective imagination,
inspired millions of fans across the world, and gained immortality through
their performances on and off the screen. 501 Movie Stars pays homage
to these legends, trend-setters, and pop culture idols, with a dazzling and
comprehensive gallery of the biggest movie stars from around the world. Every
notable name to have worked their magic in front of the camera is here, from
Gloria Swanson to Julia Roberts, from Frank Sinatra to Arnold
Schwarzenegger... and 497 more! The A-Z approach of 501 Movie Stars
allows you to locate any actor with maximum ease, making it an ideal
movie-lover's reference. Each star has at least one full page devoted to
their work, with a complete filmography and feature boxes on awards, cameos,
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Art Cinema Paul Young Taschen, 2010 $70.00hb Debate over film's credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself, and largely defined in terms of formalist and realist approaches. This book explores how artists have used the medium to explode cinematic conventions and convey a truly expressive cinema one that uses rhythm, color, structure, and content to express a staggering array of ideas and feelings. Broken down into ten subgenres, including collage, appropriation, lyricism, structuralism, parody, and installation, Art Cinema gives a detailed overview of various approaches and how they fit into an art-historical context. Over five hundred films and filmmakers are included, from past masters such as Hans Richter, Man Ray, and Stan Brakhage, to contemporary greats such as David Lynch, Michel Gondry, and Lars von Trier; from art house legends Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell, and Luis Bunuel to underground icons and contemporary artists such as Kenneth Anger, Matthew Barney, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow, Chris Marker, and Stan Douglas.
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California Video: Artists & Histories Glenn Phillips Getty Trust, 2008 $79.95hb California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California artists have been at the forefront of an international movement that has expanded video into the realm of fine art. With interviews, abstracts and essays, the entries provide background material on each artist and their work. From video sculptures to electronic psychedelia, these artists have utilised video technology to express revolutionary ideas.
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The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema Richard Abel Routledge, 2010 $79.95 pb This major A-Z work, now in a new paperback edition, explores
the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the
middle 1910s. The Encyclopedia presents a wealth of information on early
cinema history, with coverage of the techniques and equipment of film
production, profiles of the pioneering directors and producers, analysis of
individual films and the rapid growth of distinct film genres, and the
emergence of something the world had never seen before - the movie star.
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The Film Encyclopedia: the complete guide to film and the film industry Ephraim Katz Harper Collins, 6th edition, 2008 $53.99 pb Ephraim Katz’s The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry. With up-to-date additions, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including - Directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers - Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking - Motion picture studios and film centres - Film-related organizations and events - Industry jargon and technical terms - Inventions, inventors, and equipment - Plus, an index of Academy Award winning films and artists, top grossing films, and much more.
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Film: A World History Daniel Borden Hardie Grant, 2009 $35.00pb A detailed guide to film that is overflowing with information and over 500 colour and black & white photographs. Film: A World History takes the movie lover through all of the notable eras of filmmaking exploring the films that made them great. From Silent to Sound, WWII to the Fifties, from New Wave to Hollywood blockbusters and World Cinema, the book reveals the changing face of film. This guide is also packed with information that will give movie-goers an insight into film actors and makers, techniques, movements and genres, awards, how film has changed and all the other key information they could want. |
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Have You Seen? David Thomson Penguin, 2010 $35.00 pb This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved – and hated – from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjoyable film book you will ever read (and you'll never think about The Sound of Music in the same way again). Available June. |
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Leonard Maltin’s 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen Leonard Maltin Harper Collins, 2010 $29.99 pb Maltin is famous for his voluminous annual, Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, the go-to reference book since its initial publication in 1969. But that book has 17,000 entries, so it isn’t a place to go for the selectivity that hardcore film buffs crave. So now Maltin has written the perfect book for everyone who has ever walked into a video store and been so overwhelmed that they rented a movie they had already seen twice. In this book, Maltin unearths 151 movies that he thinks have been unfairly under-rated, and explains why. Reading this book will inspire you to see all of the movies described here...and you won’t be disappointed in any of them.
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Leonard Maltin’s 2010 Movie Guide Leonard Maltin Plume Books, 2009 $24.95 pb First published in 1969 Leonard Maltin’s annual Movie Guide is now the best selling pocket reference with more than 17,000 capsule-size film reviews. This is an annual reference and the 2011 edition will be available in late October/ early November. |
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Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide: from the silent era through 1965 Leonard Maltin 2nd edition, Plume, 2010 $29.95 pb From the author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide comes this ultimate guide for fans of classic films both familiar and obscure. The Classic Movie Guide covers thousands of films, from the silent era to the 1960s, including The Birth of a Nation, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Grand Illusion, and The Maltese Falcon (all three versions: 1931, 1936, and 1941), Singin' in the Rain, and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! With entries spanning across the decades, this comprehensive guide has expanded star and director indexes, and capsule reviews of obscure and forgotten-the sort that turn up on Turner Classic Movies in the wee hours of the morning. This is the perfect companion for anyone who loves the thrill of discovering vintage movies on DVD or cable. This second edition will be available in June.
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Movie Makers: 50 Iconic Directors from Chapliln to the Coen Brothers Ian Freer Quercus, 2009 $39.956 pb From D.W. Griffith - 'the founding father of American cinema' - to the iconic films of Quentin Tarantino, the range is wide, featuring not only the Hollywood Greats - Ford, Hitchcock and Spielberg - but also a full complement of European directors - Godard, Almodovar and Fellini - as well as Asian directors Kurosawa and Ray. Author Ian Freer writes with infectious enthusiasm for his subject and outlines the life of every director, the passage of each career, seminal influences, and major films, peppering his accounts with fascinating anecdotes of what went on behind the scenes. Both an absorbing overview of the fine art of moviemaking and a lively cultural history, this is the perfect introduction for anyone keen to learn more about cinema, by a writer with a tremendous passion for his subject.
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Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2010 Roger Ebert Andrews McMeel, 2009 $44.95 pb Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 is the ultimate source for movies, movie reviews, and much more. For nearly 25 years, Roger Ebert's annual collection has been recognized as the preeminent source for full-length critical movie reviews, and his 2010 yearbook does not disappoint. The yearbook includes every review Ebert has written from January 2007 to July 2009. It also includes interviews, essays, tributes, and all-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns. Fans get a bonus feature, too, with new entries to Ebert's Little Movie Glossary.
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A Short History of Film Wheeler Dixon & Gwendolyne Foster I.B. Tauris, 2009 $45.00 pb The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Beginning with precursors of what we call moving pictures, Dixon & Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and colour between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer-generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Special attention is also given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, censorship and regulation and how they have affected production everywhere, and a wide range of studios and genres. |
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Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies: my year long quest to find and watch the worst film ever made Michael Adams Murdoch Books, 2010 $39.95pb Film critic Michael Adams found himself making an unusual New
Year's resolution: in the next 12 months, he would find the answer to the
question: 'What is the worst movie ever made?' He would do so by watching at
least one terrible film per day, for a year. That's 365 bad movies in 365
days. No fast-forwarding. No pressing the stop button.
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Time Out Film Guide 2010 Ebury Press, 2009 $59.95pb The eighteenth edition of the Time Out Film Guide weighs in with more than 18,500 reviews, all written by knowledgeable critics who love film. Every review lists credits for cast and other key creative personnel. The guide covers every area of world cinema (it has stronger international coverage than any other film guide): classic silent films and 1930s comedies, documentaries and the avant-garde, Europe and Asia, the Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors. This is an annual reference generally published in December.
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Warning Shadows Home Alone With Classic Cinema Gary Giddins W.W. Norton, 2010 $27.95 pb Although best known as the Village Voice’s longtime jazz critic, Gary Giddins commands pop-culture expertise beyond music. Recently he’s been writing reviews of DVD releases of classic films for the New York Sun. In this volume Giddins offers well-considered views of classics both vintage (The General, King Kong) and modern (Blade Runner) and of celebrated directors like Ford, Hawks, and Lubitsch. He tackles some relative obscurities as well, from a collection of German Expressionist silent films to foreign masterworks by Lech Majewski and Peter Watkins.
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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller John Truby Henry Holt, 2009 $34.00 pb John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Truby's own unique approach to building an effective, multifaceted narrative.
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How to Write For Television Madeline Dimaggio Fireside, 2009 (re-issue) $19.95 pb In this guide for every student of the small screen and every scriptwriter dreaming of breaking into the business, writer-producer Madeline DiMaggio hands you the tools of the trade. With dozens of examples from today's hit shows, as well as perennial classics, DiMaggio walks readers through the scriptwriting process, from learning how to watch TV like a writer to developing your script, pitching it, and eventually sealing the deal. DiMaggio answers the questions on every aspiring television writer's mind, with chapters on: · The tools of scriptwriting · Hooks that sell · Creating the pilot · Developing the episode, step by step · How to create riveting characters · Writing long form and cable movies · Adaptations and collaborations · Marketing your script
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How to Write for Television: a guide to writing and selling successful TV scripts William Smethurst 6th ed., How To Books, 2009 $27.95 pb Television is a growth industry with an insatiable hunger for writing talent. Soaps, series dramas, plays, situation comedies - television constantly needs new writers. This inspiring book is full of professional tips and techniques that producers, agents and script editors would give you themselves - if only they had the time. Complete with vital information on how to sell your writing - and how much you can earn. Packed with tips for writing and selling.
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Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc Dara Marks A&C Black, 2009 $39.99pb Inside Story offers the most important advancement in screenwriting theory to come along in years. Dara Marks's innovative method for structuring a screenplay is designed to keep writers focused on the heart and soul of their story so that plot, character and theme create a unified whole. This approach offers an easy to follow template for story construction, helping the writer to identify what the story is actually about: the thematic intention. It then uses the internal character development of the protagonist as a vehicle to drive the thematic intention and the line of action within the story.
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Raindance Writers’ Lab: Write & Sell the Hot Screenplay Elliot Grove 2nd ed., Focal Press, 2008 $48.95 pb This is a straightforward, practical, no-nonsense guide to
scriptwriting - The Raindance Writers'
Lab guides you through the tools that enable you to execute a strong
treatment for a feature and be well on the way to the first draft of your
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The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism Steven Price Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 $48.00 pb After a century of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognised as a form that deserves serious critical attention in both film and literary studies. This book is the first to combine detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to the critical analysis of the form, structure and dialogue of the screenplay text. Authorship, adaptation, the process of script development and publication are all considered in depth. Individual screenplays receiving extensive and original analysis include The Birds, The Usual Suspects, Adaptation and Sunset Boulevard. Combining the insights of film and literary theory with a clear and accessible style, this landmark study will appeal to writers, students of film and literature, and anyone interested in the creative potential of screenwriting.
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Tales From the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories Peter Hanson Harper Collins, 2010 $24.99 pb Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards. Entertaining, informative, and sometimes startling, Tales from the Script features exclusive interviews with film's top wordsmiths, including John Carpenter (Halloween), Nora Ephron (Julie & Julia), John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and David Hayter (Watchmen).
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Writing Dialogue for Scripts: Effective Dialogue for Film, Radio, TV and Stage Rib Davis A&C Black, 2008 $35.00 pb Writing
Dialogue for Scripts provides expert insight into how dialogue works. It shows what
to look out for in everyday speech, and how to apply dialogue in scripts for
dramatic effect. Writers learn, on the whole by trial, error and practice,
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Writing Movies: a practical guide to creating stellar screenplays Gotham Writers’ Workshop A&C Black, 2008 $32.95 pb From America's leading creative writing school, the ultimate book on screenwriting. To break into the screenwriting game you need a screenplay that is not just good, but great. In Writing Movies you'll find everything you need to know to reach this level. And like the very best teachers, Writing Movies is always practical accessible and entertaining. Inside you'll find: Explanations of the fundamentals of the screenwriting craft (plot, character, scenes etc). Insight into crucial (but seldom discussed) topics such as description, voice, tone and theme.
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Writing Short Film Scripts: A Student Guide Paul Kooperman Insight Publications, 2009 $19.95 pb An invaluable practical resource for media, drama and English teachers and students. Written by a former secondary drama teacher who is now a professional screenwriter and lecturer in writing screenplays.
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The Hurt Locker: the shooting script Mark Boal Newmarket Press, 2010 $29.95 pb The Hurt Locker is a riveting, extraordinary story of courage and survival on the Baghdad bomb squad, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a script by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who researched the material by traveling to the war in Iraq where he was embedded with the U.S. Army bomb squad in 2004. Boal's screenplay, a fictional tale inspired by real events, follows the layered, complex relationship between three soldiers who are thrown together in the crucible of combat. It won an Academy Award.
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Inglourious Basterds screenplay Quentin Tarantino Faber, 2009 $29.99 pb Inglourious Basterds is set during World War II and stars Brad Pitt, Mike Myers and Diane Kruger. A band of Jewish-American soldiers known as 'The Basterds' spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis, while in Paris a young Jewish French woman who runs a movie theatre is involved in a plot to kill Hitler during the premiere of a movie. Inglourious Basterds has the violence, humour, cracking dialogue, and band-of-brothers camaraderie of Reservoir Dogs, as well as the profound courage and sense of honour of the greatest World War II movies.
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Juno: the shooting script Diablo Cody Newmarket Press, 2008 $39.95 pb The official screenplay book tie-in to the highly acclaimed movie from Fox Searchlight Pictures, written by Diablo Cody (author if Candy Girl) and directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking), tells the story of a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood.
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The Road Joe Penhall Methuen, 2010 $22.99pb The screenplay for the film version of Cormac McCarthy's searing novel The Road, adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall and directed by Australian, John Hillcoat. Available August 2010.
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A Serious Man Joel & Ethan Coen Faber, 2009 $27.99 pb It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues. His domestic woes accumulate in typical Coen Brothers fashion. |
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Slumdog Millionaire: the shooting script Simon Beaufoy Newmarket Press, 2009 $39.95 pb Simon Beaufoy’s adaptation for the screen of the novel, “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup. |
