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Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780415189743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema.
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1134656645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today's most popular, original and influential cinematic voices. Each entry offers both an overview and critique of its subject's career and works, looking at the genres in which they work and their relationship to other film and filmmakers. It covers figures drawn from diverse cinematic traditions from around the world and includes: *Luc Besson *James Cameron *David Lynch *John Woo *Julie Dash *Spike Lee *Joel and Ethan Coen *Martin Scorsese *Mira Nair *Wim Wenders With each entry supplemented by a filmography, references and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in contemporary film.
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-04
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 1136919457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throughout and with twelve new entries, this second edition is an up-to-date introduction to some of the most prominent film makers of the present day. The directors, from differing backgrounds and working across a range of genres, include: Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Sofia Coppola Julie Dash Shane Meadow Michael Moore Peter Jackson Guillermo Del Toro Tim Burton Jackie Chan Ang Lee Pedro Almodóvar. With further reading and a filmography accompanying each entry, this comprehensive guide is indispensable to all those studying contemporary film and will appeal to anyone interested in the key individuals behind modern cinema’s greatest achievements.
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-04
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1136919465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact.
Author: Suzanne Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1317593944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.
Author: Dominique Nasta
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0231536690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). However, the hundred or so years of Romanian cinema leading to these accomplishments have been largely overlooked. This book is the first to provide in-depth analyses of essential works ranging from the silent period to contemporary productions. In addition to relevant information on historical and cultural factors influencing contemporary Romanian cinema, this volume covers the careers of daring filmmakers who approached various genres despite fifty years of Communist censorship. An important chapter is dedicated to Lucian Pintilie, whose seminal work, Reconstruction (1969), strongly inspired Romania's 21st-century innovative output. The book's second half closely examines both the 'minimalist' trend (Cristian Mungiu, Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Radu Muntean) and the younger, but no less inspired, directors who have chosen to go beyond the 1989 revolution paradigm by dealing with the complexities of contemporary Romania.
Author: Chris Holmlund
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0415254868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.
Author: M. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-03
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1137319852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMelodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
Author: Tom Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 113595030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture. From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and "real lives." Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre.
Author: John McCarty
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn McCarty has selected fifty outstanding examples of the modern horror film. Film buffs will relive the terrors they enjoyed on the screen! Each of the fifty films is documented with casts, credits, production notes and reviews.
