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Herbert Brenon
An American Cinema Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Herbert Brenon, was one of the most influential film directors and producers, in the history of the American cinema. He had an output of over a hundred films and worked for most of the major studios. He was a unique film visionary, constantly experimenting, using his intelligence to push America to...
Raoul Peck
Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck...
Trash Cinema
The Lure of the Low
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilçam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the...
Beyond the Bottom Line
The Producer in Film and Television Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer's complex and multifaceted...
by Jon Lewis, Mark Lynn Anderson, Saverio Giovacchini
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone...
Sweet and Lowdown
Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Over a career that has spanned more than six decades, Woody Allen has explored the emotion of regret as a response to the existentialist dilemma of not being someone else. Tracing this recurrent theme from his stand-up comedy routines and apprentice work through classics like Annie Hall, Manhattan,...
Ang Lee
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the...
The After Effects Illusionist
All the Effects in One Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Family At War
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to 'Till Death Us Do Part'
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Look … Look … Listen! You might learn somefink. This is the story of Till Death Us Do Part, the most controversial, most influential sitcom ever made for television. It is the story of a family at war – with each other, with the world, with religion, with royalty, with politics, with the...
Sisters in the Life
A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its importance, this work has gone largely unacknowledged by cinema historians and cultural critics. Assembling...
Le Mal et ses masques
Théâtre, imaginaire, société
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Le « mal », impensé collectif, prend corps au gré de diverses représentations mythiques, poétiques, graphiques, musicales. Sorcières, guérisseuses, Machiavels, Antéchrists, voire bestiaire infernal, incarnent au théâtre ou dans la littérature pamphlétaire des xvie et xviie siècles ces...
The Long Take
Art Cinema and the Wondrous
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations. Grounding his inquiry in the long takes of international filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, Abbas...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema, only...
Location Filming in Arizona
The Screen Legacy of the Grand Canyon State
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The scenic natural vistas of Arizona's deserts and mountains have made it a favorite backdrop of movies and television shows. Westerns such as silent-era pictures derived from Zane Grey fiction through the John Ford-John Wayne classics "Stagecoach "and "The Searchers "benefited from the beautiful and...