Refocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German 矇migr矇 director Ernst Lubitsch as film-philosophical exemplars of both early world cinema and historical cinema, from his silent era costume dramas to his post-war Hollywood romances. This edited collection examines recent Lubitsch scholarship within the context of transcultural and transhistorical film theory to provide a critical retrospective of Lubitsch's costume films, historical epics, and marriage comedies across his three illustrious decades of international success.
The Cinema of Extractions
From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive processes. The film industry of Hollywood, moreover, rose alongside the oil and aeronautics industries that transformed Southern California. In this book, Brian Jacobson traces the surprising and inextricable connections between extractive industries and cinema, developing new ways to read films in light of the typically unseen material practices out of which they are built. The Cinema of Extractions explores the ties between the worlds of movies and the materials that make movies possible and between the industries that make movies and the industries that use movies to reshape the world. Jacobson retells the history of cinema through the lens of extraction, considering its roots as a material form and its use as a tool for corporate and industrial world making. He brings together the material and industrial history of cinema with close formal analyses of films that depict extractive processes, juxtaposing early films and classics such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with industrial films made by companies like Shell Oil. Linking film and media studies with the energy and environmental humanities, this book models innovative historical and materialist approaches to formal film analysis and proposes a new poetics of industrial cinema.
Fame Amid the Ruins
Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 and 1953 over stars and stardom, offering intimate studies of the careers of both well-known and less familiar figures, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society during a time of political transition and shifting national identities.
Altered States of Consciousness in the Movies
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs)--including dreams, hypnosis, spirit possession and brainwashing--have long captivated contemporary culture. In the 20th century, Hollywood integrated ASCs into an array of films, reflecting society's fascination with the subject. After early cinematic portrayals laid the groundwork, the depiction of ASCs on the silver screen surged with the advent of special effects in the 1960s and are abundant in the present day. This book traces the rise and proliferation of ASCs within American cinema, focusing on major studio releases from the 1940s onward. By examining various aspects of altered consciousness, from weaponized hypnosis to spiritual encounters, the text sheds light on the cultural reception of these films, recent research on ASCs and discrepancies between scientific knowledge and cinematic representation.
Saturday Night
The New 50th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night"It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television." -- Associated Press"A chilling real-life cliffhanger." -- Washington Post"An anthropological masterpiece." -- Vanity Fair Discover the intimate and original history of Saturday Night Live in Saturday Night. From its rebellious beginnings as an outlaw comedy program produced by an unruly band of renegades to becoming a TV institution, this book captures it all. Learn how SNL created stars like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo, and Eddie Murphy. This groundbreaking book reveals what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of Saturday Night Live. From battles with NBC to internal conflicts within the cast and crew, you'll uncover love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, all intertwined with the creation of some of the most original and outrageous comedy ever. The reissue features nearly fifty photographs of the cast, crew, and sketches, providing a visual journey through the show's early years. Written by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, seasoned television journalists who have contributed to The Associated Press, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, TV Guide, Broadcasting/Cablecasting, and Advertising Age, this is the ultimate insider's look at one of television's most iconic shows.
Saturday Night
The New 50th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night"It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television." -- Associated Press"A chilling real-life cliffhanger." -- Washington Post"An anthropological masterpiece." -- Vanity Fair Discover the intimate and original history of Saturday Night Live in Saturday Night. From its rebellious beginnings as an outlaw comedy program produced by an unruly band of renegades to becoming a TV institution, this book captures it all. Learn how SNL created stars like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo, and Eddie Murphy. This groundbreaking book reveals what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of Saturday Night Live. From battles with NBC to internal conflicts within the cast and crew, you'll uncover love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, all intertwined with the creation of some of the most original and outrageous comedy ever. The reissue features nearly fifty photographs of the cast, crew, and sketches, providing a visual journey through the show's early years. Written by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, seasoned television journalists who have contributed to The Associated Press, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, TV Guide, Broadcasting/Cablecasting, and Advertising Age, this is the ultimate insider's look at one of television's most iconic shows.
A Year In The Country
A Year In The County: Threshold Tales is an exploration of the edgelands, borderlands and liminal places in film, of the places both literal and in the mind as well as culturally and amongst the paranormal realm where the boundaries between worlds, ways of life, the past and the future become thin and porous. The book wanders amongst the overlooked, the hidden from view, isolated spaces and parallel planes of existence in cinema, taking in films that interconnect with both rural and urban "wyrd" culture from the shores of Albion out into the American Deep South and across the snowbound landscapes of Europe. Amongst its pages, you'll find a wide-ranging interthreaded journey that takes in the woodland wraiths of Without Name and The Watcher in the Woods, Columbus' love letter to a time capsule of modernist architecture, Nadja and Vampir-Cuadecuc's media phantom reimaginings of their genres, Dark Tower's concrete bound haunting, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai's intertwining of spectral hip-hop with ancient Japanese tradition, No Surrender's black comedy set amongst 1980s urban decay, the creating and discovering of new worlds of electronic sound in The Shock of the Future and the seductive temptations of a preternatural carnival in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Elsewhere, the book explores the folk horror precursor The White Reindeer, journeys through an American wyrd frontier in Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Stephen Poliakoff's unearthing of buried secrets in Hidden City and Glorious 39, a rudderless tumbling down the rabbit hole in Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Woodshock and the thinning of the barriers of time and place in Mike Hodges' Black Rainbow. * * * The full chapter list is below: 1. Without Name: Stepping Over the Threshold of a Liminal Landscape 2. Dark Tower: Otherworldy Dysfunction 3. Columbus: Stasis and Escape Amongst Faded Utopian Dreams 4. The White Reindeer: A Folk Horror Precursor 5. The Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes: Disney Darkness and the Curious Shadowed Side Paths of the House of Mouse (and an Intriguing Sidestep to British Housing Estates) 6. Nadja and Vampir-Cuadecuc: Hinterland Vampire Hunters and Spectral Hallucinatory Genre Flipsides 7. The Shock of the Future: Creating and Discovering New Electronic Worlds 8. Stephen Poliakoff's Hidden City and Glorious 39: Unearthing Buried Secrets 9. Mike Hodges' Black Rainbow: The Thinning of the Barriers of Time and Place 10. No Surrender and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: Views and Stories from the Rooftops and Urban Edgelands 11. Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Woodshock: A Rudderless Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole 12. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus: Journeys Through an American Wyrd Frontier * * * The book is part of the A Year In The Country project which explores "otherly pastoral" rural culture and its intertwining with "urban wyrd" and the parallel worlds of hauntology.
The Animation Smears Book
Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these animation smears are frames that creatively replicate motion blur captured on film, which is the phenomena that we commonly observe in our everyday life.The vast world of different techniques for smears is explored in this book, expanding way beyond their commonly believed starting point in the 1940s to their actual origins that date back to the beginning of art history with illustrations and prototypes that led to their usage in some of the earliest known theatrical animations.The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique is a comprehensive guide that provides extensive information on the stylistic and creative aspects of smears and their impact, on how they make use of the way we perceive motion. Additionally, this book also reveals the names of artists who helped develop smears and the original techniques that were used.Thoroughly examined by a professional animator, the animation smear is highlighted as a versatile technique used in all forms of animation including 3D and stop-motion. This book answers all of the questions that readers ever had about smears and brings clarity to this simple yet mysterious trick that has puzzled fans, scholars, and historians for centuries.
The Animation Smears Book
Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these animation smears are frames that creatively replicate motion blur captured on film, which is the phenomena that we commonly observe in our everyday life.The vast world of different techniques for smears is explored in this book, expanding way beyond their commonly believed starting point in the 1940s to their actual origins that date back to the beginning of art history with illustrations and prototypes that led to their usage in some of the earliest known theatrical animations.The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique is a comprehensive guide that provides extensive information on the stylistic and creative aspects of smears and their impact, on how they make use of the way we perceive motion. Additionally, this book also reveals the names of artists who helped develop smears and the original techniques that were used.Thoroughly examined by a professional animator, the animation smear is highlighted as a versatile technique used in all forms of animation including 3D and stop-motion. This book answers all of the questions that readers ever had about smears and brings clarity to this simple yet mysterious trick that has puzzled fans, scholars, and historians for centuries.
Heroes of the New Hollywood
In instant classics spanning the 1970s, audiences watched Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and Robert De Niro come of artistic age. Together, this dynamic group advanced the craft of screen acting and redefined what it meant to be a man in the age of post-'60s disillusionment, burgeoning feminism, and the narcissistic machoism of disco culture. The book, featuring 35 photographs, is a critical and historical look at the films, performances, and career arcs of six of the biggest male stars of the 1970s. Studying them in the context of the times, it also touches on several of their contemporaries including Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, James Caan, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss, and Bruce Lee.
Writing, Making, and Distributing Your Short Film
This book is a concise, practical guide to writing and making a successful short film. In an accessible and relatable tone, the book covers the filmmaking process from plot ideation to film distribution, without getting bogged down in the complicated details. Written by an experienced writer and filmmaker, the book shows you how to create content, from script to screen, that can connect with an audience. It does so by considering classic storytelling templates like Aristotle's Three-Act Structure and Joseph Campbell's "The Hero's Journey", as well as examining a variety of successful short films--analyzing what makes them work, or not, and why. To support learning, it also provides a list of recommended short films to study, with brief background information on each. This is supplemented with the author's personal experiences of writing and making films, along with exclusive insights from successful Hollywood and independent writers and producers. There are also questions and prompts at the end of each chapter, uniquely designed to guide the reader through the step-by-step process of writing their own short script. Students and professionals alike who want to craft and perfect their short films will find this to be an invaluable resource and a one-stop guide to success.
Stories In Motion
Transform Chaos into Cinematic Mastery with Stories in Motion: The Filmmaker EntrepreneurAre you a filmmaker struggling to balance creativity with the demands of running a business?Do you find yourself overwhelmed by budgets, crew management, and the endless logistics of production?Ever wonder how to navigate the chaos of filmmaking while staying true to your artistic vision?Leif is a young, ambitious filmmaker who thought he could survive in the industry on passion alone. Living in a cluttered apartment and juggling dreams with reality, He is all about the art of storytelling - until he's thrown into the uncharted waters of film production's business side. His journey is one of discovery, resilience, and transformation, revealing the harsh but exhilarating realities of being a filmmaker and an entrepreneur.Stories in Motion gives a raw and humorous account of the ups and downs of filmmaking, peeling back the layers of what it truly takes to bring a creative vision to life. And through Leif's experiences, you'll discover what it actually takes to not just survive but thrive in the demanding world of film.It's time to embrace the journey, learn from the setbacks, and fuel your next project with the wisdom of those who've been in the trenches.
Breaking Away
Breaking Away, released in 1979, is the quintessential underdog movie, earning numerous award nominations and ranking in multiple Top Ten lists. Why is it so popular, to this day?What is Breaking Away about, a bike race? The race is the climactic ending of the movie, but a small portion. It's a story about class differences, honesty, pride, family, relationships, romance, and changing attitudes. In other words, it's about life.
Film Production Management 101
A comprehensive guide that grows with your career from Production Coordinator to Production Manager, and from low budget to big budget. It is designed to be used every day open on the desk to mentor you through the production process on features and series from getting hired and hiring crew in prep to post and audit.
From Havana to Hollywood
From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood-including Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tom獺s Guti矇rrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. Philip Kaisary argues that, with rare exceptions, the representation of Black agency in Hollywood has always been, and remains, taboo. Contrastingly, Cuban cinema foregrounds Black agency, challenging the ways in which slavery has been misremembered and misunderstood in North America and Europe. With powerful, richly theorized readings, the book shows how Cuban cinema especially recreates the past to fuel visions of liberation and asks how the medium of film might contribute to a renewal of emancipatory politics today.
The Art of DreamWorks Dog Man
The Art of DreamWorks Dog Man goes behind the scenes for the making of DreamWorks Animation's delightful canine-crime-fighting feature film. DreamWorks Animation brings bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey's hilarious global phenomenon book series Dog Man to the big screen. Exploring the improbable story of Dog Man on his quest to arrest feline supervillain Petey the Cat, The Art of DreamWorks Dog Man explores never-before-seen production art, insider perspectives, and making-of details. Included are: *A foreword by bestselling author and illustrator Dav Pilkey *An afterword from Emmy Award-winning writer-director Peter Hastings *Hundreds of character designs, concept art, sketches, storyboards, and color keys from the making of the movie *Exclusive interviews from the writers, artists, and filmmakers Showcasing more than 600 illustrations, The Art of DreamWorks Dog Man provides unprecedented insight into the creative process behind DreamWorks Animation's stunning adaptation of Dav Pilkey's blockbuster Dog Man literary series.
Metropolis to M
From the futuristic skyscrapers of Metropolis to the haunting shadows of M, Fritz Lang remains one of the most innovative filmmakers of the 20th century. In Metropolis to M: Fritz Lang's Cinematic Legacy, renowned film historian Hans Flemming takes readers on a captivating journey through the life and work of a visionary director who continually redefined the boundaries of cinema. This book delves into Lang's rise in the vibrant Berlin of the Weimar Republic, where masterpieces like Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse shaped the German Expressionist movement. It traces his path to the United States, where he revolutionized Hollywood with Film Noir classics such as The Big Heat. Through in-depth analyses and vivid storytelling, Flemming explores Lang's groundbreaking technical innovations, iconic visual style, and the profound themes that define his films: power, morality, and the fragility of human existence. Combining historical insight with little-known anecdotes, this book pays tribute to the "Architect of Shadows" and offers a fresh perspective on his enduring influence on cinematic art. Step into the world of Fritz Lang and uncover the genius of a man who changed the course of film history forever.
The cinema of Austria and Switzerland
Austria and Switzerland have the common image of countries devoid of drama, whose problems have essentially been solved. In Cinema of Austria and Switzerland, 1969: 2015, Ricardo Luiz de Souza analyses a series of films made in the two countries during this period, looking at key filmmakers such as Alain Tanner, Gotz Spielmann, Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke, as well as other lesser-known names and films. And, without pretending to compose an exhaustive panel of both cinematographies, some trends and characteristics are defined by analysing these films.
Metropolis to M
From the futuristic skyscrapers of Metropolis to the haunting shadows of M, Fritz Lang remains one of the most innovative filmmakers of the 20th century. In Metropolis to M: Fritz Lang's Cinematic Legacy, renowned film historian Hans Flemming takes readers on a captivating journey through the life and work of a visionary director who continually redefined the boundaries of cinema. This book delves into Lang's rise in the vibrant Berlin of the Weimar Republic, where masterpieces like Metropolis and Dr. Mabuse shaped the German Expressionist movement. It traces his path to the United States, where he revolutionized Hollywood with Film Noir classics such as The Big Heat. Through in-depth analyses and vivid storytelling, Flemming explores Lang's groundbreaking technical innovations, iconic visual style, and the profound themes that define his films: power, morality, and the fragility of human existence. Combining historical insight with little-known anecdotes, this book pays tribute to the "Architect of Shadows" and offers a fresh perspective on his enduring influence on cinematic art. Step into the world of Fritz Lang and uncover the genius of a man who changed the course of film history forever.
Kiss Your Television
An new anthology of telly tales and broadcast bimbling from semi-professional "TV rememberist" Ben Baker, author of "Christmas Was Better In The 80s" and "The Dreams We Had As Children: Children's ITV and Me". A celebration of the past and a desperate search for something in the present with retrospectives on the lost art of teatime television, Jasper Carrott and the excitement live TV, the failed attempts to create "the new Simpsons", my love for Cannon and Ball, the short lived phenomenon of 'exclusive' VHS episodes, when good telly shows become bad video games and, inevitably, ALF. Plus current TV Heaven and Hell, a perfect Christmas, Ghostwatch, the original Big Brother and more. "Ben Baker hasn't just been watching what you were watching on your telly - he was watching what was piled up next to it. Finding the interesting corners in the less interesting corners of television, armed only with a TV Times to save him from accidentally seeing Spatz (and the cover's even fallen off that), this is a riotous look at your favourite - and least favourite - shows from when you watched television because you thought you HAD to... and what you were thinking about while you were only half watching it. No, not like that. We hope." Tim Worthington, author of "The Golden Age of Children's TV"
Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!
HIP-HIP-HOORAY FOR CHRISTMAS VACATIONOn December 1, 1989 the world was introduced to the third and most successful sequel in the Vacation franchise as Clark Griswold's dream of having a fun old-fashioned family Christmas descends into a hilarious nightmare of dark comedy misadventure.Released on the 35th Anniversary of the film's premier, this book is a celebration of the movie along with trivia and behind-the-scenes details related to Christmas Vacation, which originated from a John Hughes short story called "Christmas '59" originally published in the December 1980 issue of National Lampoon magazine.If National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is an annual must-watch film for you each holiday season, or if it's a movie you enjoy quoting from "the whole year through" then you'll love this collection of fascinating details about it and the people involved in making it.
Canadian cinema
Canada is often seen as that huge, unproblematic territory to the north of the United States, where life is peaceful, people have no major worries, it's very cold and where American guilt and contradictions have no impact. But it is also often seen as a nation without an identity; something like a successful appendage of the United States, but devoid of its own values and, in the end, with nothing interesting to say or show to the rest of the world. A rich and empty region, not very significant. This is the stereotype, and Canadian cinema suffers from it. It has always been seen as an uninteresting continuation of North American cinema; a branch of Hollywood located further north and, in its more standardised trajectory, Canadian cinema corresponds to this profile. In Canadian Cinema: 1963-2015, Ricardo Luiz de Souza studies the cinema made in this country, going beyond this stereotype and analysing some of the most important films by classic filmmakers such as David Cronenberg and Claude Jutra, and new ones such as Xavier Dolan.
Screens and Illusionism
Screens and Illusionism explores the effects of illusionism as foundational to contemporary acts of perception and aesthetics. Our point of departure is the acknowledgement that our sensory perception is fundamentally subject to mediation, through a class of objects, techniques, and technologies. We emphasize mediation to consider the loss of optical certainty, and explore illusionism within the register of the uncanny. The volume is divided into three sections: Screens as Perceptual Vehicles (Part I), Mediation and its Avatars (Part II), and Alternative Teleologies of Media (Part III). Overall, the collection resonates with contemporary discussions of screen culture, media materiality and intermediality. It explores an array of pre- and post-cinematic devices and spectacular entertainments, forging links between "old" and "new" media, and across media formats.
Refocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara
Over his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation as one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemporary cinema. After his beginnings in the exploitation circuit of the late 1970s he become one of the central figures in the indie wave of the 1980s and 90s and is now an established arthouse director whose versatile oeuvre crosses the boundaries of cult, independent and Hollywood cinema. ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara offers a comprehensive critical survey of the director's work. The volume brings together a broad range of methodological, theoretical, historical and philosophical perspectives on Ferrara's work, and case studies include Ms 45, The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini and Welcome to New York.
Hawk
This is a reference book on the 1966 television series Hawk. The book includes the 17 episodes in date order, complete cast listings, directorial credits, numerous photographs, and a story synopsis for each episodes. Burt Reynolds starred as police lieutenant John Hawk, a full-blooded Iriquois Indian working the streets of New York City as a special detective for the D.A.'s office.
One with the Force
Explores how popular religions and philosophies have influenced and are manifested in the world of Star Wars.You have watched Luke Skywalker destroy the Death Star in A New Hope, seen Yoda merge with the Force in Return of the Jedi, and heard Rey contact the Jedi of the past in The Rise of Skywalker. But did you know that the Star Wars films contain parallels to religions and philosophies from around the world--from Christianity to Buddhism, and from Native American teachings to the Vedic knowledge of ancient India? In One with the Force: 18 Universal Truths in Star Wars, Krista Noble explores these parallels. She discusses the Force, collective consciousness, enlightenment, and immortality, revealing that the Star Wars films have a universal perspective on life. Readers will learn about the connections between these films and the Vedic tradition, Buddhism, Taoism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Native American/First Nations beliefs. They will see that the philosophy of the Jedi doesn't only apply "in a galaxy far, far away"; it is also highly relevant to everyday living. Like Luke Skywalker, we should all search our feelings to discover the deepest truths of life, pursue our individual destinies, and strive to reach our full potential as human beings. In these ways, we can embody the wisdom of the Jedi.
German Film
From Carl Meyer to Wener Herzog to Christian Petzold--a record of German film history through the lens of one remarkable archiveThis lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of German film based on the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. This impressive archive houses several hundred thousand photographs, 25,000 posters, 26,500 films and approximately 20,000 costumes and architectural sketches. A few standouts include the entirety of Marlene Dietrich's estate, donations by Werner Herzog and the TV documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller, as well as film scripts by Carl Mayer and Christian Petzold.German Film traces the nation's cinematic history from its beginnings in 1895 to the present day, illustrating the artistic, technical, political and social developments that have shaped its course. Twelve chapters, organized by decade, and more than 450 texts present famous and lesser-known films. The volume pays tribute to the filmmaking techniques popularized in the country as well as to all those personalities whose creativity established German film's diversity. Around 2,700 objects from all areas of the collection illustrate a period of 130 years and form an overwhelming overview of the Kinemathek's archive holdings.
I Could Have Been a Contender (On Five Films)
This book proposes an in-depth inquiry of five films (Bread and Chocolate, A Pain in the Ass, Queen of Hearts, The Mediterranean Forever, and Raging Bull), which deal with the Italian reality outside of Italy. The segment-by-segment examination of these works discloses parameters that can be used to define a deterritorialized culture which I name the Italic culture. This sort of synchronous and chronological seg-mentation of a film can assist scholars and students to better understand what constitutes the cinematographic narrative of ethnic films or, if the reader prefers, films on ethnicity, though one does not necessarily mean the other
Spanish cinema
Spanish cinema tends to be summarised by very specific names and seems to be limited to them. The first name that usually springs to mind is that of Luis Bunuel, but it's important to remember that Viridiana is the only film directed by the master in his homeland Today, somewhat forgotten, we have the name of Carlos Saura, author of some great films in the 1960s and 1970s, before going into decline. And Pedro Almod籀var is obviously the name in the spotlight today, although his films no longer have the impact that characterised him in his heyday. But beyond these more obvious names, and as usual, other filmmakers should be remembered and great films have been made. A filmmaker like Victor Erice, for example, marked his presence in the history of cinema with a masterpiece like The Spirit of the Beehive. In Spanish Cinema: 1959-2014, Ricardo Luiz de Souza analyses films produced in Spain, with the aim of defining and studying some of the strands present in Spanish cinema, starting with the films of Bunuel, Saura and Almod籀var, but also seeking to situate less renowned filmmakers and films that are fundamental parts of the cinematic landscape.
Portuguese Studies 40.2 (2024)
The second issue of Portuguese Studies for 2024, issue 2 of volume 40. Portuguese Studies is a peer-reviewed biannual multi-disciplinary journal devoted to research on the cultures, literatures, history and societies of the Lusophone world. This issue is a special issue, titled 'Filmed Representations of Former Portuguese Asia and The Indian Ocean', guest edited by Maria do Carmo Pi癟arra.
Looking in the first person
The subjective camera encompasses the point of view in its multiple narrative, enunciative and audiovisual implications. With its growing presence as an expressive and narrative resource in contemporary audiovisual, the first person shot expands the meaning and dimension of the classic subjective camera, relating technique and technology in the aesthetics of the subjective point of view, relating film narrative and spectator.
Mirror
MIRRORANDREI TARKOVSKYPOCKET MOVIE GUIDEBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) and the 1975 film Mirror. Tarkovsky directed seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. Mirror (a.k.a. Zerkalo or The Bright, Bright Day) is Andrei Tarkovsky's beloved project. It remained his favourite film, and closest to his concept of cinema. Mirror is loosely autobiographical, and combines many elements, ranging from poetry read in voiceover by the director's father, to dream sequences, flashbacks, newsreel and memory devices. The movie is a poetic exploration of childhood. Film as personal psychogeography, self-reflexive, even indulgent. This study of Mirror explore aspects of Andrei Tarkovsky's output, including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and spirituality. Mirror is analyzed in dept. The second half of the book comprises an exploration of the movie scene-by-scene (sometimes shot-by-shot). Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers. He is supremely romantic, an old-fashioned, traditional artist - at home in the company Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Brueghel, Aleksandr Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoievsky and Byzantine icon painters. Tarkovsky is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even while films celebrate mystery). His films are full of magical events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple time zones and bizarre occurrences. As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky's movies are some of the most accomplished in cinema. As science fiction films, Stalker and Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers. Tarkovsky happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre: Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings. They don't have the monsters, the aliens, the visual effects, the battles, the laser guns, the stunts and action set-pieces of regular science fiction movies. Contains illustrations, of Andrei Tarkovsky's films, Tarkovsky at work, his favourite painters, and many images from Mirror. Bibliography, filmographies and notes. Illustrated. 172pp. www.crmoon.com
Cinema, Games and Advertising
Just like cinema, games are an audiovisual product, but with the differential of interactivity with players. As a new media, electronic games have shown themselves to have great communicational potential, and the evolution of technology has led to the need to create a promotional strategy for games. Thus, taking as a reference the audiovisual strategies for advertising films according to Vanoye and Goliot-L矇t矇 (1994), this book seeks to analyse the changes that have occurred in the strategy and audiovisual aesthetics of the trailers for the Call of Duty game franchise, from the animations to the current live-action trailers.
Jack the Ripper on Film & TV
This is a reference book dealing with selected motion picture and television productions having to do with the character known as Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the East End of London in the Autumn of 1888. The book includes all productions in date order, with directorial credits, running times, complete cast listings, numerous photographs (including film posters), and a story synopsis for each entry.
Falling in Love at the Movies
Prepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film's most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com. Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swept aside in film history, these movies are thought of as pure comfort viewing. Although they certainly provide those fuzzy feelings, they have also had a significant artistic influence and cultural impact. Spanning decades of romantic comedies--from movies of the 1930s such as It Happened One Night and the rom com craze of the 80s and 90s including When Harry Met Sally...all the way to contemporary hits like Crazy Rich Asians, and everything in between--Falling in Love at the Movies will make you fall in love (all over again) with romantic comedies. Esther Zuckerman--accomplished entertainment journalist and member of the New York Film Critic's Circle--takes readers on a journey through the rom-com. She examines the psychological aspects that make us so drawn to these types of films, diving deep into the key auteurs--from Preston Sturges to James L. Brooks to Nora Ephron and beyond--who both created and subverted the canon. These directors, actors, and writers shaped the genre, establishing and also busting traditional pillars and tenets of these movies such as the "Perfect Pair" or "The Man in Crisis" and "The High Maintenance Woman." Featuring full-color images from the films throughout, along the way Zuckerman takes detours, explores iconic lines of dialogue (Who could forget Julia Roberts' "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" iconic moment from Notting Hill?) to memorable scenes (the magical moments at the Empire State Building in An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle) and weaves in interviews of artists and romantic comedy fanatics in the industry. Looking beyond the traditional rom-com, Zuckerman digs into the nooks and crannies, the films that buck the trend of "happily ever after," the ones that think beyond heteronormative narratives, and the indies that kept the rom-com alive outside of the studio system, to offer a more comprehensive story of the rom-com than has ever been seen before--and one that you're bound to love. How's that for a happy ending?
Global Movie Magazine Networks
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This groundbreaking collection of essays from leading film historians features original research on movie magazines published in China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Latin America, South Korea, the U.S., and beyond. Vital resources for the study of film history and culture, movie magazines are frequently cited as sources, but rarely centered as objects of study. Global Movie Magazine Networks does precisely that, revealing the hybridity, heterogeneity, and connectivity of movie magazines and the important role they play in the intercontinental exchange of information and ideas about cinema. Uniquely, the contributors in this book have developed their critical analysis alongside the collaborative work of building digital resources, facilitating the digitization of more than a dozen of these historic magazines on an open-access basis.
A History of Italian Cinema
This book provides a complete description of the development of Italian film and cinema from its beginnings in 1895 until today. Special emphasis is placed on those periods in which Italian film history became aesthetically decisive for world cinematography: silent film of the 1910s, neorealism after World War II, and auteur and genre cinema around 1960. And then on the multifaceted development up to the present day, which still guarantees films from Italy a significant place in international cinema. The chapters are introduced with compact descriptions of Italy's political and social history and the institutional formation of film and cinema. This is the basis for the extensive examination of genres and films. The film analyses also include a look at the reception by the audiences.
Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood. It particularly focuses on the representation of Muslims in postcolonial Bollywood cinema that draws upon earlier questions and concerns about narrative style and the politics of representing Muslims. It also includes issues concerning Muslim film genres and the chronological shift in the portrayal of Muslims that is contingent upon national politics. In Bollywood cinema, Muslims have traditionally been portrayed through the lens of religion. Narratives associated with that specific religious identity have been adapted, based on the socio-political setting of the country at the time of the film's making. The study, thus, adds to scholarship on 'representation' in popular Hindi cinema.
Jimmy
A fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man.Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean revolutionized American manhood. As a celebrity and icon, he melded vulnerability with determination, sensitivity with strength, in a way that offered a bracing and--for some--threatening new vision of masculinity. His massive influence and the fascination he has always inspired are inseparable from his identity as a queer man whose complex sexuality shattered the norms of midcentury American society. (When asked whether he was a homosexual, he reportedly said, "I'm certainly not going through life with one hand tied behind my back.")Today, even though it is widely accepted that Dean was gay or bisexual, the story of his life and personal character continue to be colored by the prejudices of an earlier era and the work of often unscrupulous biographers and journalists. Drawing on exhaustive new research (including more than four hundred previously secret pages of Dean's personal and business records), Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean is a revelatory reassessment of the man and his legacy. Free from sensationalism--but unafraid to confront the difficult facts of Dean's life--it deploys modern insights into sexual diversity to transform our understanding of James Dean's story, and the stories of boys and men like him.
Disney the Art of Moana 2
This stunning volume of the Disney Art of series is an exclusive look behind the scenes of Walt Disney Animation Studio's original feature film, Moana 2. Journey from Motunui across the vast Ocean with Moana and her crew in this installment of the beloved Art of Disney series that tells the story behind the art and making of Moana 2. Here is a stunning art book that highlights the beautiful development art and paintings from the film's creation--including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more--and features exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details. Copyright (c) 2024 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS: Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Walt Disney Animation film through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book. ENDLESSLY GIFTABLE: The next in the fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, this Disney art book is the perfect gift for Disney fans, animation students, film buffs, and more. PART OF THE FAN-FAVORITE ART BOOK SERIES: The collectible Art of series from Disney is perfect for animation enthusiasts, filmmakers, students, and fans of Disney. Add this installment to the shelf with other books like The Art of Wish, The Art of Encanto, and The Art of Frozen. Perfect for: Animation fans Disney and Walt Disney Animation fans Students, educators, and aspiring animators and filmmakers Disney+ subscribers Fans of Moana and the Disney princesses
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?
When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema--and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's artworld, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami's oeuvre offers an iconoclastic critique of the field's Eurocentrism and, in vivid prose, makes the case for a new method of appreciating the work of this essential figure. The result is a provocative perspective on the totality of Kiarostami's legacy that, with deep roots in Iranian aesthetic and Persian poetic and philosophical traditions, overcomes film's provincial preoccupation with its Western heritage and charts a new path forward for film-philosophy.
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
The ultimate guide to the productions of Irwin Allen, legendary creator of Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Time Tunnel. Take a visual journey through the mind and career of the Master of Disaster, producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, illustrated with over 2,000 exclusive images. This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and career of legendary producer Irwin Allen, the "Master of Disaster"--the man behind some of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and the visionary who invented the special effects movie blockbuster format with his 1970s hits The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. It traces Allen from his early days as a Hollywood agent and radio personality to his lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox, where he produced movies such as The Lost World and Five Weeks in a Balloon and the popular television shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Allen employed the studio's sprawling lot and soundstages, its library of movie footage, costumes and props, and its veteran special effects craftsmen to bring vivid color and movie-quality action, miniature effects and visuals to television viewers accustomed to low-budget, black and white programming. Allen's flare for action and visual punch gave audiences some of the 1960s most popular and iconic figures: Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; the Lost in Space Robot and Jonathan Harris' nefarious Dr. Zachary Smith; Will Robinson and the Robinson family of space travelers; the pop art kaleidoscope of The Time Tunnel; the Jupiter 2, the Seaview, the Flying Sub, the Spindrift. Before George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Irwin Allen broke box office records with two of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time: The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Wooed to Warner Bros. at the height of his power with the offer of a building named in his honor and one of the most generous studio contracts ever given a producer, Allen faced his biggest challenge: topping himself with The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, When Time Ran Out, and a series of ambitious projects for television. Illustrated with more than 2000 images including concept and production artwork, storyboards, blueprints, design sketches, miniatures and behind-the-scenes photographs, many of them never before published, this is the ultimate guide to Allen's famous productions, from his documentaries The Sea Around Us and The Animal World to his spectacular TV-movie City Beneath the Sea, plus fascinating unproduced projects, all explored in detail for the first time.
Secret Violences
Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure. Unlike his famous contemporaries, such asIngmar Bergman and Luchino Visconti, whose essential contribution to the art of cinema is hardly ever questioned, Antonioni's work has been repeatedly denigrated from many angles for both aesthetic and political reasons. Though the historical importance of some of Antonioni's films as an incarnation of certain attitudes and problems characteristic of the 1960s and 70s is not denied, they are often considered pass矇, artificial and boring. Contesting prevalent readings, which focus on existential and psychological motifs involving anxiety and the malady of sentiments, this book offers a re-evaluation of Antonioni's most important films interpreted as political cinema engaged with issues which are still crucial in the 21st century. Far from being politically neutral, Antonioni's oblique and "abstract" approach makes possible the prising open and devaluation of the morally and politically constrictive "organic" narrative structures. HIs approach overthrows the primacy of character and plot, on the one hand, by showing them to be emanations of the spectral materiality of capital, and, on the other hand, by allowing for an opening into the utopian dimension, implying engagement in the rethinking of our attachments to the world.
