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Filming Literature

The Art of Screen Adaptation

by Neil Sinyard
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold Pinter,...
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Paul Verhoeven

Interviews

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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016

After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls before returning home to direct...
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by Mette Hjort, Ursula Lindqvist
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

A Companion to Nordic Cinema presents a collection of original essays that explore one of the world’s oldest regional cinemas from its origins to the present day. Offers a comprehensive, transnational and regional account of Nordic cinema from its origins to the present day Features original...
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by Milo Sweedler, Colman Hogan, Marta Marín-Dòmine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

The Act of Killing is a documentary film on the Indonesian genocide that took place between October 1965 and March 1966, during which time an estimated 500,000 to 2.5 million accused communists, including landless farmers, unionized workers, labour organizers, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese Indonesians,...
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Imaging Religion in Film

The Politics of Nostalgia

by M. Gail Hamner
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .
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by Jacqueline Maingard
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race. This significant and unique contribution establishes interrelationships between South African cinema and key points in South Africa’s history, showing how cinema figures...
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Israeli Cinema

Identities in Motion

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

More so than any other art form, film relies on collaboration. The essays in this collection, “Film and the Art of Adaptation,” consider a range of contemporary films inspired by celebrated works of American literature, including Baz Luhrmann's spectacular take on The Great Gatsby and James Franco's...
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by John N. Dunbar Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014

In the first book of its kind in the English language historian Dr. John Dunbar provides an overview of attempts throughout film history to put historical topics on screen in the United States and Great Britain. The earliest attempts were biographic films about famous people and some great epic films...
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Popular Hindi Cinema

Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen

by Ronie Parciack
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in popular Hindi films through the combined prism of film studies and classical Indian philosophy and ritualism. The...
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by Sean Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influential films released in the last forty years. Yet on its original release it was both a critical and commercial failure, criticized for its perceived prioritizing...
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by C. Claire Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (�The Celebration�) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity � no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment � Festen was a...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Life and Work

by Peter Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years...
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by Alexia Kannas
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

The release of Italian director Dario Argento's Deep Red in 1975 saw both a return to form for the director and the crystallization of tropes of the giallo genre. While the film's immense popularity in Italy spawned a wave of copy-cat formula thrillers, this enthusiastic reception was not replicated...
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