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25 produkter
Glenn Ford
A Life
Av Peter Ford
Häftad, 2011
307 kr
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Glenn Ford - star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders - had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world …
Film Music of John Williams
Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
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From the triumphant 'Main Title' in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino's groundbreaking volume takes stock of …
Settling the Score
Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
Häftad, 1992
281 kr
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Settling the Score situates the classical Hollywwod film score and its practice in historical, theoretical and musical context. Kathryn Kalinak examines the conventions and strategies underpinning film scoring in Hollywood, investigating what has been considered the most influential and powerful …
Post-theory
Reconstructing Film Studies
Av David Bordwell, Noel Carroll m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
295 kr
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Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all types of film, their production and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. The authors of this …
Film Essays and Criticism
Häftad, 1997
232 kr
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This is an English translation of Arnheim's ""Kritiken und Aufsatze zum Film"", which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays, most of them written between 1925 and 1940. Arnheim began writing about film in the 1920s for a satirical magazine, ""Das Stachelschwein"" and later became a film …
Reel Patriotism
Movies and World War I
Häftad, 1997
254 kr
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Mixing film history with social history, ""Reel Patriotism"" examines the role played by the American film industry during World War I and the effects of the industry's pragmatic patriotism in the decade following the war. Looking at such films as ""Joan the Woman"" and ""Wings"" and at the …
Magic Mirror
Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-18
Häftad, 1999
225 kr
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This work is a study of ten years of native Russian film production through the Revolution of 1917, based almost exclusively on Russian-language primary sources. Showing how these films portrayed and appealed to a new urban middle class, the author examines the organization and evolution of the …
Early American Cinema in Transition
Story, Style and Filmmaking, 1907-1913
Av Charlie Keil
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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The years 1907-1913 mark a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production …
Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History
Av G.L. Ercolini, Pat J. Gehrke m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
322 kr
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Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre - he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades - …
History of the French New Wave Cinema
Häftad, 2007
307 kr
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The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. ""A History of the French New Wave Cinema"" offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, …
I Thought We Were Making Movies, not History
Inbunden, 2008
356 kr
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This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including ""West Side Story"", ""Some Like It Hot"", ""In the Heat of the …
Escape Artist
The Life and Films of John Sturges
Av Glenn Lovell
Häftad, 2008
307 kr
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Escape Artist - based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars, including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell - is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Great Escape"", …
Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
Av Tino Balio
Häftad, 2010
307 kr
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Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita, and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film …
Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Av Sabine Hake
Häftad, 2012
385 kr
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From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, rituals, and symbols, making scores of films from Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) through Des Teufels General (The Devil's …
Cinema of Sergei Parajanov
Häftad, 2013
352 kr
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Sergei Parajanov (1924–90) flouted the rules of both filmmaking and society in the Soviet Union and paid a heavy personal price. An ethnic Armenian in the multicultural atmosphere of Tbilisi, Georgia, he was one of the most innovative directors of postwar Soviet cinema. Parajanov succeeded in …
Many Lives of Cy Endfield
Film Noir, the Blacklist, and "Zulu
Av Brian Neve
Häftad, 2015
412 kr
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Cy Endfield (1914–1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain rather than “name names” before HUAC, the U.S. House of …
Six Turkish Filmmakers
Av Laurence Raw
Inbunden, 2017
938 kr
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Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and personal interviews with Dervis Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih Kaplanoglu, Çagan Irmak, Tolga Örnek, and …
Cinema of Obsession
The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling
Inbunden, 2020
967 kr
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Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Born in Sweden, she lived in England and France for most of her life, making her directorial debut in 1964 with the Swedish art film Loving Couples after a fraught transition from working in front of the …
Patterns of Time
Mizoguchi and the 1930S
Häftad, 1992
289 kr
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Although Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three most important Japanese directors (along with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa), there has been no systematic critical study of his work in English. Correcting this omission. Donald Kirihara examines in detail the brilliant early works of one of the …
Film Essays and Criticism
Inbunden, 1997
661 kr
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This is an English translation of Arnheim's ""Kritiken und Aufsatze zum Film"", which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays, most of them written between 1925 and 1940. Arnheim began writing about film in the 1920s for a satirical magazine, ""Das Stachelschwein"" and later became a film …
Magic Mirror
Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918
Inbunden, 1999
583 kr
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This work is a study of ten years of native Russian film production through the Revolution of 1917, based almost exclusively on Russian-language primary sources. Showing how these films portrayed and appealed to a new urban middle class, the author examines the organization and evolution of the …
History of the French New Wave Cinema
Inbunden, 2002
661 kr
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The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring and avant-garde techniques. This is a fresh look at the social, economic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most …
History of the French New Wave Cinema
Häftad, 2002
289 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring and avant-garde techniques. This is a fresh look at the social, economic and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most …
Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History
Av G.L. Ercolini, Pat J. Gehrke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
720 kr
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Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre - he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades - …
Tough As Nails
The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
Häftad, 2011
304 kr
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Called “God’s angry man” for his unyielding demands in pursuit of personal and artistic freedom, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks brought us some of the mid-twentieth century’s most iconic films, including Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood, and Looking for …
