Mad about the Movies
Mad about the Movies

Author: Nick Meglin

Publisher: Mad

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563894596

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Parodies of: Casablanca, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bonnie and Clyde , Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, A clockwork orange, Billy Jack, The exorcist, The towering inferno, Dog day afternoon, All the president's men, A star is born, Superman, Up the academy, The shining, Altered states, Superman II, Outland, The right stuff, Gremlins, The goonies, Lethal weapon, The witches of Eastwick, Batman, Robin Hood: prince of thieves, Under siege, Dave, The fugitive, Maverick, Interview with the vampire, Twister, Eraser, Mars attacks!, Contact, and more.

Mad as Hell
Mad as Hell

Author: Dave Itzkoff

Publisher: Times Books

Published: 2014-02-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0805095705

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The behind-the-scenes story of the making of the iconic movie Network, which transformed the way we think about television and the way television thinks about us "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Academy Awards and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power. In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. Such a movie rarely gets made any more—one man's vision of the world, independent of studio testing or market research. And that man was Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter whose vision—outlandish for its time—is all too real today. Itzkoff uses interviews with the cast and crew, as well as Chayefsky's notes, letters, and drafts to re-create the action in front of and behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and still-startling film. Itzkoff also speaks with today's leading broadcasters and filmmakers to assess Network's lasting impact on television and popular culture. They testify to the enduring genius of Paddy Chayefsky, who foresaw the future and whose life offers an unforgettable lesson about the true cost of self-expression.

The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui
The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui

Author: Gill Hale

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780754809616

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Here the theories of the ancient Eastern Art of Feng Shui are full explained, and practical advice is offered on how to make changes to your surroundings to foster good health, improve your relationships, and welcome prosperity into your life.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous?
Mad, Bad and Dangerous?

Author: Christopher Frayling

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9781861892850

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Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In Mad, Bad and Dangerous?, Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the scientist has often been used to represent the prevailing phobias of the time. In the 1950s, for example, films were dominated by the fear of botched atomic research, and were a showcase of mutated, outsized creatures and radioactive zombies. Since Hitchcock’s The Birds, however, the role of the scientist has been less straightforward, and by the 1970s damage to the environment and the spread of diseases were the predominant consequences of science gone wrong. Scientists – and the corporations that controlled them – became the ‘baddies’. The author also examines in parallel the portrayal of real-life scientists in the movies, noting how they are in the main depicted as misfits, immersed in their work, sacrificing any normal life to the interests of science, yet distrusted by the scientific establishment. Interestingly, the cinematic portrayal of fictional and real-life scientists follow very similar dramatic conventions, and Frayling concludes that the mad scientist and the saintly one are two sides of the same Hollywood coin.

Mad to be Saved
Mad to be Saved

Author: David Sterritt

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780809321803

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Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with main-stream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the 1950s. Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities, and the "rat race" toward material success. After an introductory overview of the Beat Generation, its history, its antecedents, and its influences, Sterritt shows the importance of "visual thinking" in the lives and works of major Beat authors, most notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He turns to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to portray the Beat writers-who were inspired by jazz and other liberating influences-as carnivalesque rebels against what they perceived as a rigid and stifling social order. Showing the Beats as social critics, Sterritt looks at the work of 1950s photographers Robert Frank and William Klein; the attack against Beat culture in the pictures and prose of Life magazine; and the counterattack in Frank's film Pull My Daisy, featuring key Beat personalities. He further explores expressions of rebelliousness in film noir, the melodramas of director Douglas Sirk, and other Hollywood films. Finally, Sterritt shows the changing attitudes toward the Beat sensibility in Beat-related Hollywood movies like A Bucket of Blood and The Beat Generation; television programs like Route 66 and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; nonstudio films like John Cassavetes's improvisational Shadows and Shirley Clarke's experimental The Connection; and radically avant-garde works by such doggedly independent screen artists as Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice, Bruce Connor, and Ken Jacobs, drawing connections between their achievements and the most subversive products of their Beat contemporaries.

Mad about TV
Mad about TV

Author: John Ficarra

Publisher: Mad

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563895692

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Following the popular "MAD about the Movies" comes "MAD about TV, " a moronic compilation of the best and worst MAD television satires.

A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Author: Stanley Kramer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780151549580

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Stanley Kramer, who proudly calls himself "the most frequently picked producer in movie history", has directed or produced such classics of the American cinema as "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon, On the Beach, The Defiant Ones, Death of a Salesman, The Caine Mutiny", and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". In this anecdote-laden autobiography, Kramer gives a highly-readable account of his fascinating life. Photos.

The Mad Art of Caricature!
The Mad Art of Caricature!

Author: Tom Richmond

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983576709

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MAD magazine illustrator Tom Richmond teaches how to draw caricatures, with an emphasis on aspects of the head and face.

Marcus Makes a Movie
Marcus Makes a Movie

Author: Kevin Hart

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0593179161

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Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class . . . until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he’s been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing. So he’ll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who’d be a perfect movie villain if he weren’t too terrifying to talk to. Making this movie won’t be easy. But as Marcus discovers, nothing great ever is—and if you want your dream to come true, you’ve got to put in the hustle to make it happen. Comedy superstar Kevin Hart teams up with award-winning author Geoff Rodkey and lauded illustrator David Cooper for a hilarious, illustrated, and inspiring story about bringing your creative goals to life and never giving up, even when nothing’s going your way.