Heroism in Doctor Who
This first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in "Doctor Who" (1963-2020) uses one of Britain's longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization (of the Doctor and female characters in the series) is combined with close readings of individual episodes that feature heroic moments in crystallized narratives of past and future. Nostalgic collective memory, female empowerment and key moments of British history (e.g. World War II) all resonate in the series, which shows how popular heroes negotiate socio-cultural change and identity construction.
The Art of the Photoplay
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The River
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The Mad Max Effect
The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the MadMax series, and how it began as an inventive concoction ofa number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chasecinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, andexamines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.
Kinky Horror Films (2023)
Sex, shock, and horror go hand in hand. When you mix them right, it gets kinky. The first thing you know, someone's being cuffed, gagged, and whipped without a safe word. Combining horror with bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism often results in trauma... and sometimes in a bloodbath. In this book, I rate and review 173 kinky horror films. How many have you seen?
The Art of Avatar the Way of Water 《阿凡達：水之道》電影美術設定集
Take an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. Packed with hundreds of stunning images and written in collaboration with the filmmakers themselves, uncover the incredible creative and technical skill that went into the making of Avatar: The Way of Water. Featuring stunning concept art and intricate character, creature, and costume designs, uncover the details of Pandora in striking detail. Art of Avatar: The Way of Water is produced in collaboration with James Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Film. With a foreword by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. (c) 2022 20th Century Studios.
Fast, Cheap & Written That Way
Write Your Screenplay with the Help of Top Screenwriters!It's like taking a Master Class in screenwriting ... all in one book!Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice."I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator."Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From BeyondJohn Gaspard has directed half a dozen low-budget features, as well as written for TV, movies, novels and the stage.The book covers (among other topics): Academy-Award Winner Dan Futterman ("Capote") on writing real storiesTom DiCillio ("Living In Oblivion") on turning a short into a featureKasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou") on writing for a different time periodGeorge Romero ("Martin") on writing horror on a budgetRebecca Miller ("Personal Velocity") on adapting short storiesStuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") on adaptationsAcademy-Award Nominee Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan") on cheap ways to make it look expensiveMiranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know") on making your writing spontaneousAlex Cox ("Repo Man") on scaling the script to meet a budgetJoan Micklin Silver ("Hester Street") on writing history on a budgetBob Clark ("Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things") on mixing humor and horrorAmy Holden Jones ("Love Letters") on writing romance on a budget Henry Jaglom ("Venice/Venice") on mixing improvisation with scriptingL.M. Kit Carson ("Paris, Texas") on re-writing while shootingAcademy-Award Winner Kenneth Lonergan ("You Can Count on Me") on script editingRoger Nygard ("Suckers") on mixing genresThis is the book for anyone who's serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced! Grab it today!★★★★★"A perfect read for anyone who wants to write a film script or for anyone who just enjoys watching movies."Fred Willard, Actor, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman"This volume is packed full of useful little nuggets of information."Jonathan Lynn, Director, My Cousin Vinny, Clue, Nuns on the Run, The Whole Nine Yards"Packed with war stories and savvy advice for beginning screenwriters."Larry Gross, Screenwriter, 48 hrs., Streets of Fire, True Crime
Haunting the Left Bank
Haunting the Left Bank identifies and explores the presence of mortality in the cinema images of filmmakers Agn癡s Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais. The book uses a film-philosophical approach that engages with the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Sixteen Tongues - Annotated Screenplay
"In the future, two very special people are hiding away in a very special place...Welcome to the incredible world of SIXTEEN TONGUES." Filmmaker Scooter McCrae's 1999 independent science-fiction/horror film is a one-of-a-kind descent into a futuristic Hell. A world of surgically-modified assassins, rogue cops driven mad by their past and present, cat-and-mouse in an unusual cyber-space... all set in the profane and obscene "Sappho Motel". Happy Cloud Publishing is proud to bring you the screenplay to SIXTEEN TONGUES, annotated by the writer/director. Also included is f/x artist Glenn Hetrick's effects diary and never-before-seen full-color photographs by Patrick Rochon.
A Filmmaker’s Guide to Sound Design
This illuminating book offers a unique view into the art of sound design and the post production audio process. It was written for filmmakers and designed to bridge the creative gap between directors, producers and the artists, and technicians who are responsible for creating the full soundtrack.Building on over 50 years of combined expertise in teaching, filmmaking, and sound design, experienced instructor and author Peter Rea and sound designer Matthew Polis offer a cogent, clear, and practical overview of sound design principles and practices, from exploring the language and vocabulary of sound to teaching readers how to work with sound professionals and later to overseeing the edit, mix, and finishing processes. In this book, Polis and Rea focus on creative and practical ways to utilize sound in order to achieve the filmmaker's vision and elevate their films.Balancing practical, experienced-based insight, numerous examples, and unique concepts like storyboarding for sound, A Filmmaker's Guide to Sound Design arms students, filmmakers, and educators with the knowledge to creatively and confidently navigate their film through the post audio process.
Cultural Values in Selected Proverbs of Pete Edochie. A Hermeneutical Approach
Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject Film Science, course: Film, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate Pete Edochie's use of proverbs and its cultural implications in terms of drawing out the cultural values and assessing them within the ambits of the culture portrayed in the films. Using a number of purposely selected proverbs, this paper hermeneutically explores the relevance of proverbs in terms of projecting the values inherent in them. Film is one medium which project the material or non-material culture of a given people. With reference to the non-material culture, language is central to the projection of dramatic action in film. Particularly, proverbs which are a vital part of language are globally recognised as potent expressions of a peoples culture used to articulate a peoples norms of existence. In Nollywood, proverbs have been deployed to perform certain functions. Pete Edochie, one of the many household names in the Nollywood industry who has featured in over 300 movies since he made his debut appearance is widely recognised for his creative use of proverbs.
Bangerter’s Inventions; His Marvelous Time Clock
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Stardust by the Bushel
From a thrilling train crash staged in Queenstown for The Whip, a 1917 melodrama, to modern romantic comedies such as Runaway Bride and Wedding Crashers, the beautiful Eastern Shore has long sung its siren call to Hollywood filmmakers.Big stars were born here, have lived here, and are buried here. Natives and come-heres alike have had films made about them. Robert Mitchum. Tallulah Bankhead. The Lindas, Hamilton and Harrison. Annie Oakley. Misty of Chincoteague. Lucille Fletcher and Douglass Wallop. Edna Ferber, Showboat, and the James Adams Floating Theatre. The First Kiss. Violets Are Blue. Failure to Launch.Novelists and screenwriters tend to love this place, but at least one scribe who spent formative years here and didn't like it a bit-James M. Cain-would go on to author some of the most scorching crime stories ever to shatter Hollywood censorship standards.You'll read about all this and more in Stardust by the Bushel. Eastern Shore historian and lifelong resident Brent Lewis offers a wide-ranging compass-from Wilmington to Cape Charles, Oxford to Ocean City-finding literally scores of connections to Tinseltown.No Eastern Shore bookshelf will be complete without this fresh look at an underappreciated dimension of Eastern Shore history-its distinctive role as a hatchery, sanctuary, and stage setting for universally known moments in American pop culture.
Bangerter’s Inventions; His Marvelous Time Clock
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Best of Terror 2023
The following recommendations represent the top 18% of 2852 horror movies reviewed, rated, and ranked by Steve Hutchison. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America
This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streaming TV, that inflow of foreign programming has increased substantially. While many in the audience still prefer national or regional programs for their cultural proximity, an increasing number among the upper-middle and middle classes, particularly the young, are turning to the new foreign services, like Netflix, Amazon and Disney for class distinction, cosmopolitanism or other motives. Among the television industries, global, regional and national actors are creating a variety of programs and channels (broadcast, pay-TV and streaming) to segment and appeal to different parts of the audience.
Art and the Historical Film
From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 French revolution to Uli Edel's version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, artistic representations of historical subjects are appealing and pervasive. Movies often adapt imagery from art history, including paintings of historical events. Films and art shape the past for us and continue to affect our interpretation of history. While historical films are often argued over for their adherence to "the facts," their real problem is realism: how can the past be convincingly depicted? Realism in the historical film genre is often nourished and given credibility by its use of painterly references. This book examines how art-historical images affect historical films by going beyond period detail and surface design to look at how profound ideas about history are communicated through pictures.Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime is based on case studies that explore the links between art and cinema, including American independent Western Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010), British heritage film Belle (Amma Asante, 2013), and Dutch national epic Admiral (Roel Rein矇, 2014). The chapters create immersive worlds that communicate distinct ideas about the past through cinematography, production design, and direction, as the films adapt, reference, and transpose paintings by artists such as Rubens, Albert Bierstadt, and Jacques-Louis David.
Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads
Ingmar Bergman's rich legacy as film director and writer of classics such as The Seventh Seal, Scenes From a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander has attracted scholars not only in film studies but also of literature, theater, gender, philosophy, religion, sociology, musicology, and more. Less known, however, is Bergman from the perspective of production studies, including all the choices, practices, and routines involved in what goes on behind the scenes. For instance, what about Bergman's collaborations and conflicts with film producers? What about his work with musicians at the opera, technicians in the television studio, and actors on the film set. What about Bergman and MeToo? In order to throw light on these issues, art practitioners such as film directors Ang Lee and Margarethe von Trotta, film and opera director Atom Egoyan, and film producer and screenwriter James Schamus are brought together with academics such as philosopher and film scholar Paisley Livingston, musicologist Alexis Luko, and playwright and performance studies scholar Allan Havis to discuss Bergman's work from their unique perspectives. In addition, Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads provides, for the first time, in-depth interviews with Bergman's longtime collaborators Katinka Farag籀 and M疇ns Reutersw瓣rd, who both have first-hand experience of working intimately as producers in film and television with Bergman, covering more than 5 decades. In an open exchange between individual and institutional perspectives, this book bridges the often-rigid boundaries between theoreticians and practitioners, in turn pointing Bergman studies in new directions.
The Independent Film & Videomaker’s Guide
Wiese has packed 25 years experience in film and video into the most comprehensive and useful book ever for filmmakers seeking both independence and success in the marketplace. Loaded with insider's tips to help filmmakers avoid the pitfalls of show business.
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Decades of Terror 2023
Steve Hutchison ranks and reviews 100 amazing 2000s horror films. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
Decades of Terror 2023
Steve Hutchison ranks and reviews 100 amazing 2010s horror films. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema
Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of atmosphere. This book is an interdisciplinary reading of cinematographic practice which develops useful implications for spatial composition in art and architectural design. The way a film is set up, directed, composed, framed, and technically constructed can provide parallels, analogies and metaphors for the spatial organisation of cities, landscapes and buildings. Likewise, the way a built setting is conceived and devised can inform approaches to framing and spatial organisation in cinematography. The book begins on a personal note with a series of recollected atmospheric experiences, leading to an investigation of ambiguity and consilient discrepancy as circumstantial conditions necessary for the production of atmosphere. The mood of melancholia is explored to show the pivotal role that ambiguity, discrepancy and irresolution play in its distinctive ambiance. Atmosphere is then defined as an emergent condition arising between an ambient, affective circumstance and a mooded human being. The book then moves to analyse the inherent conditions in the setup of filmic and architectural settings that render them atmospheric. Reference is made to the cinema of Bresson, Resnais, Lynch, Tarr, Malik and Campion, and to Romanesque tympanae, the architectonic scenography of Franz Kafka's novel The Castle and the work of Spanish architects Flores Prats. The concluding section, Anatomy of Atmosphere, is a lexicon of concepts, themes and tactics around atmosphere that might usefully inform creative practice.
A History of Violence (1973)
Once in a century, a book comes along that both defines a genre - and defies it. This is that century. This is that book.The book is A History of Violence (1973). A memoir of the human race. Its concept is simple: take the date in 1973 on which a violent film was first screened - and go beyond the film to see the world that exists outside the theatre. It's a book that realizes that the line between life and cinema is as much a horizon as it is a terminator. A History of Violence (1973) takes you across that horizon to places in time you never even imagined existed. Because bombs don't explode in only one direction.169 films. The brutal and transgressive sex films (Forced Entry; High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft; Teenage Jailbait). The films of cinematic masters like Brian De Palma (Sisters), Terence Malick (Badlands), and Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now). The Italian crime films (Death Carries a Cane; The Flower With the Deadly Sting; Torso). The police procedurals (Blade; The Laughing Policeman; The Marcus-Nelson Murders). The flat-out shocking and bizarre films that can only be appreciated by surviving them (The Hunchback of the Morgue; The Night God Screamed; The Sinful Dwarf).1973. The year that the War in Vietnam ends, military coups convulse Afghanistan and Chile and Rwanda, and the specter of Watergate looms large.1973. The year that a teen thinks his neighbor is using telepathy to make him gay - so he strips him nude, kills him and his entire family, and burns down their house. The year that a husband kidnaps young men and holds them at gunpoint - while they have sex with his wife. The year that a man goes out for a night on the town with a friend - and comes home to find that his wife has murdered their children, then killed herself.1973. The year of the deaths of writers W.H. Auden and Victor Jara; actors Bruce Lee and Lon Chaney Jr.; and artists Robert Smithson and Pablo Picasso. The year of Skylab and Pioneer and Kohoutek. The year of the mass murders of Edmund Emil Kemper, Herbert William Mullin, Charlie Chop-Off, and The Alphabet Killer.A History of Violence (1973) also stands as a testament to the tireless efforts of law enforcement to solve the violent crimes that grip America. In 1973, America sees the first blue flashing lights that complete the lightbars of today's police cruisers; the breathalyzer comes into common usage; and Dr. Lester Luntz becomes the first forensic odontologist to try to crack a case by obtaining a search warrant to get a cast of a suspect's teeth.A History of Violence (1973). A history book for the history books.A History of Violence (1973) represents the culmination of 20 years of exhaustive research, employing the digital advances that have thrown wide the doors of archives everywhere for a greater understanding of the human condition - both scaling the heights of creation and plunging to the depths of annihilation. With an audience as wide-ranging as true-crime enthusiasts, police detectives and horror movie buffs, A History of Violence (1973) also presents a seething array of lurid and alluring movie advertising art - some unseen for more than 40 years.This isn't the book about violence you thought you wanted. This is the book about violence you knew you needed.
Decades of Terror 2023
Steve Hutchison ranks and reviews 100 amazing 1990s horror films. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
Opening and Operating a Motion Picture Theatre, How It Is Done Successfully
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Decades of Terror 2023
Steve Hutchison ranks and reviews 100 amazing 1980s horror films. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
Decades of Terror 2023
Steve Hutchison ranks and reviews 100 amazing 1970s horror films. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you've seen.
The Insatiable Dragon
Tells the true story of when and why China set out to replace Hollywood as the world's number one movie cinema, how it gained control of Hollywood along the way, and what Hollywood needs to do now to regain its former greatness.Exhaustively researched, this book is jam packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, analysis and details about the Hollywood and Chinese cinemas, studios, filmmakers, filmmaking, actors, and movies that have entertained and impacted audiences worldwide for over 100 years.It also shows exactly when the fate of Hollywood and China intersected, when and how China began to pass Hollywood, and the consequences of having China censors and CCP leaders greatly influence which films the world sees and which films it does not. Absorbing, entertaining and fast-paced, this book gives Hollywood, and audiences everywhere, an impassioned wake-up call about our beloved film industry and its relationship to China. Who will answer the call before it's too late?
Orienting Italy
Winner of the 2022 Book Award for Performance and Visual Culture presented by the American Association of Teachers of ItalianOrienting Italy explores contemporary Italian filmmakers' fascination with China and the Chinese in both documentary and fictional films. Delineating the contours of this fascination, the book begins with the works of Carlo Lizzani (Behind the Great Wall, 1958) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Chung Kuo--China, 1972), both of whom ventured to China with the aim of documenting new, yet physically and culturally distant, realities. Their documentary investigations yielded to fictional portrayals, from the lavish view of a historical Middle Kingdom by director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor, 1987) to the stark consideration of Italian economic exchange with contemporary China by Gianni Amelio (The Missing Star, 2006). The wave of Chinese migration to Italy in the late twentieth century created a new sense of otherness within Italy as Chinese migrants became the subjects of fictional narratives and documentaries in the works of Stefano Incerti (Gorbaciof, 2010) and Andrea Segre (Shun Li and the Poet, 2011) and Riccardo Cremona and Vincenzo De Cecco (Miss Little China, 2009). In the twenty-first century, a new chapter in the relationship between Italy and China has emerged in the form of transnational collaborations in the art and business of filmmaking.
Nietzsche in Hollywood
Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling and startling history of Hollywood film in which the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his idea of the ?bermensch looms large. Though Nietzsche's philosophy was attacked as egoistic and a sociopathic version of Darwinism in films from the 1910s, it undergoes a series of cinematic and philosophical transformations in the 1920s and 1930s under the eye and pen of some of the most significant names in early Hollywood, including Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Ben Hecht, Howard Hawks, and Ernst Lubitsch. In addition to establishing historical connections between Nietzsche's philosophy and these filmmakers, the book provides philosophical readings of many Hollywood films through the lens of the Nietzschean ideas of "perspectivism" and the critique of morality. Offering a new history of classic Hollywood films as well as a new approach to film philosophy, Nietzsche in Hollywood reveals a reading of the philosopher in American culture that has largely been ignored.
Years of Terror 2022
This book contains 265 horror movie reviews; five of the best releases each year between 1970 and 2022. Each film description contains a synopsis, a rating, and a three-paragraph review.
More Great Comedy Films
This is a sequel to a reference book called Great Comedy Films. This book includes 44 films made between 1935 and 1981. It includes all the films in date order, numerous photographs, complete cast listings, running times, directorial credits, and a synopsis for each film.
Art Maps and Cities
This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the contemporary world, little research is dedicated to investigating how artists intervene in the realm of urban cartography. The research examines a century-old history of art maps and draws on academic debates challenging traditional notions of maps as scientific artefacts produced through accurate measurement and surveying. The potential of art maps to construct personal narratives, through contestation, embodiment and play, is analysed in the city context, where spaces are shaped by urban planning and design, political ideologies and socio-economic forces. Adopting an exploratory and interpretative research approach that investigates the confluence of theories originated in different domains, this book conducts the reader todiscover what artistic practices can bring into a more creative, while inquisitive, understanding of cities. A series of semi-structured interviews with visual artists, enquiring how they apprehend, process and re-create urban spaces in artworks, explores cartographic process and methods in visual art practices in the twenty first century, which incorporates digital technologies and critical thinking.
The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005. 40th Ed.
From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas began the story of how Anakin Skywalker grew up to train as a Jedi under Obi-Wan Kenobi, found love with the Queen of Naboo, Padm矇 Amidala, before turning to the dark side of his nature and becoming more machine than man. After driving the development of nascent digital technology, George Lucas perceived how he could create new creatures and new worlds on a grander scale than ever before. He created the first digital blockbuster, and met fierce resistance when he pushed for widespread digital cameras, sets, characters, and projection - all of which are now used throughout the industry. He essentially popularized the modern way of making movies. Made with the full cooperation of George Lucas and Lucasfilm, this second volume covers the making of the prequel trilogy -- Episode I The Phantom Menace, Episode II Attack of the Clones, and Episode III Revenge of the Sith -- and features exclusive interviews with Lucas and his collaborators. The book is profusely illustrated with script pages, production documents, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography, stills, and posters.
Roots of Film Noir
Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.
Celebrating Mad Men
It's no exaggeration to say that Mad Men helped change television. The show not only established AMC as a bona fide network with some of the best programs on TV, it proved to viewers that television could be as complex, nuanced and literary as any novel. With this remarkable show as its focal point, "Celebrating Mad Men" attempts to poke into the dark corners of Don Draper's mind, peels back the layers of what makes characters like Peggy Olson and Pete Campbell tick, explores why we were so drawn to people like Roger Sterling and Joan Harris, and relives some of the show's greatest moments. Because Mad Men may be gone, but the conversation about it certainly isn't.
Jack Nicholson
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE FILM CAREER OF JACK NICHOLSON, ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIE STARS OF ALL TIME. CHARTING HIS ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY, FROM HIS EARLY B MOVIE DAYS TO HIS OSCAR WINNING CLASSICS, CHRIS WADE CELEBRATES THE ASTONISHING WORK OF A LIFE LONG HERO AND MOVIE LEGEND.
The Art of Masamune Shirow
THE ART OF MASAMUNE SHIROWVOLUME 2: ANIM?Color Editionby Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of the art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and anim矇 - his works have been the basis of several important franchises, with Ghost In the Shell the best-known. Shirow's art is marked by futuristic, cyber-punk settings, fabulous, often eccentric designs, elaborate mecha (such as tanks and mobile suits), attractive warrior women and detailed storytelling (accompanied by his famous, sometimes arcane notes). The impact of the work of Masamune Shirow has been immense in anim矇 and manga: Ghost In the Shell alone led to not one but two classic movies, two outstanding TV series (plus a third, the Arise series), and spin-off movies. Add to that the live-action Ghost of 2017, and more Ghosties on the way. Then there's the Appleseed digital animations and Appleseed cel animation, plus Black Magic, Real Drive, Ghost Hound (Unseen World) and Dominion: Tank Police. It all adds up to a remarkable presence in TV and movies. In cinema, Masamune Shirow's influence is easy to spot in the Star Wars prequels, in the Matrix movies, in Avatar, in Minority Report, in the Avengers series, and in many a superhero flick. The Art of Masamune Shirow: Volume 2: Anim矇 includes a biography; chapters on Shirow's signature works in anim矇 - Appleseed and Ghost In the Shell - and his lesser-known adaptations, such as Dominion: Tank Police and Ghost Hound. Every adaptation of the two popular franchises based on Masamune Shirow's work, Appleseed and the Ghost In the Shell, is discussed in detail: from the 1988 anim矇 of Appleseed and the 1995 movie of Ghost In the Shell to the latest versions and series (such as the Arise series, the Stand Alone Complex: 2045 series, the live-action version of Ghost In the Shell, and the Appleseed animated films). Fully illustrated in colour with over 200 images from Masamune Shirow's whole output in animation, and the neglected works, such as Black Magic, Real Drive and Pandora In the Crimson Shell. The Art of Masamune Shirow is published in three volumes: Volume 1: MangaVolume 2: Anim矇Volume 3 EroticaHardcover - full colour laminate cover, with a color flyleaf. Bibliography, resources and notes. 396 pages.www.crmoon.com
Case History Of A Movie
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Case History Of A Movie
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Watching Cosmic Time
How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries--contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that fetishized clocks and time-keeping devices as diverse as Peter Pan, High Noon, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Stranger, and Odd Man Out produce unique experiences that invited audiences to literally watch cosmic time? What role did cinema audiences play in perpetuating the presumption that order exists in the universe--and how have the polyvalent institutions of church and state implicated human agency in such perpetuation? This full-length academic treatment of the topic employs formal film analysis that is situated squarely within historical studies and addresses these cinematic and phenomenological questions--and more.
The Technique of the Photoplay
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The Film Freak Central 2005 Annual
FilmFreakCentral.net's first published collection, The Film Freak Central 2005 Annual compiles reviews of 2004's theatrical releases by the site's own Walter Chaw, Travis Mackenzie Hoover, and Bill Chambers. Content exclusive to the book includes an essay on Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle by Walter Chaw. With foreword by Shadow of the Vampire director E. Elias Merhige.
The Technique of Documentary Film Production
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