Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Published: 2023-03-13
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1778871682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the synopses and reviews of the darkest films in Stuart Gordon’s filmography. The movies are ranked.
Author: Michael Doyle
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2022-02-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1496837835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947–2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit. Provocative gems such as Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dolls, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Dagon consolidated his fearsome reputation as one of the masters of the contemporary horror film, bringing an unfamiliar archness, political complexity, and critical respect to a genre so often bereft of these virtues. A versatile filmmaker, one who resolutely refused to mellow with age, Gordon proved equally adept at crafting pointed science fiction (Robot Jox, Fortress, Space Truckers), sweet-tempered fantasy (The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit), and nihilistic thrillers (King of the Ants, Edmond, Stuck), customarily scrubbing the sharply drawn lines between exploitation and arthouse cinema. The first collection of interviews ever to be published on the director, Stuart Gordon: Interviews contains thirty-six articles spanning a period of fifty years. Bountiful in anecdote and information, these candid conversations chronicle the trajectory of a fascinating career—one that courted controversy from its very beginning. Among the topics Gordon discusses are his youth and early influences, his founding of Chicago’s legendary Organic Theatre (where he collaborated with such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Mamet), and his transition into filmmaking where he created a body of work that injected fresh blood into several ailing staples of American cinema. He also reveals details of his working methods, his steadfast relationships with frequent collaborators, his great love for the works of Lovecraft and Poe, and how horror stories can masquerade as sociopolitical commentaries.
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Published: 2023-03-11
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1778871658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the synopses and reviews of the darkest films in Brian Yuzna’s filmography. The movies are ranked.
Author: Eddie Falvey
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2021-09-17
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1800858159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) has endured as one of the most beloved cult horror films of that era. Greeted by enthusiastic early reviews, Re-Animator has maintained a spot at the periphery of the classic horror film canon. While Re-Animator has not entirely gone without critical attention, it has often been overshadowed in horror studies by more familiar titles from the period. Eddie Falvey’s book, which represents the first book-length study of Re-Animator, repositions it as one of the most significant American horror films of its era. For Falvey, Re-Animator sits at the intersection of various developments that were taking place within the context of 1980s American horror production. He uses Re-Animator to explore the rise and fall of Charles Band’s Empire Pictures, the revival of the mad science sub-genre, the emergent popularity of both gore aesthetics and horror-comedies, as well as a new appetite for the works of H.P. Lovecraft in adaptation. Falvey also tracks the film's legacies, observing not only how Re-Animator’s success gave rise to a new Lovecraftian cycle fronted by Stuart Gordon, but also how its cult status has continued to grow, marked by sequels, spin-offs, parodies and re-releases. As such, Falvey's book promises to be a book both about Re-Animator itself and about the various contexts that birthed it and continue to reflect its influence.
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Published: 2023-03-11
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 177887164X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the synopses and reviews of the darkest films in Charles Band’s filmography. The movies are ranked.
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the synopses and reviews of the darkest films in Stuart Gordon's filmography. The movies are ranked.
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Published: 2023-02-22
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1778870759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the synopses and reviews of the darkest movies in the filmography of ten legendary masters of terror: Stephen King, Wes Craven, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper, Charles Band, Brian Yuzna, Lloyd Kaufman, and Stuart Gordon. The movies are ranked.
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1951627377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Author: Eugenio Ercolani
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-08-16
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1476635382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an attempt, in postwar years, to contain the invasion of U.S. product while satisfying the demands the American industry had created in Italy. The author explores one of the most multi-faceted and contradictory industries cinema has ever known through the careers of those most closely associated with it. His recorded interviews were conducted with directors and actors both well-known and upcoming.
Author: Stuart Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 2023-10-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781913051235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engaging candid memoir, horror legend Stuart Gordon gives a vivid account of his remarkable journey, from a student manning the barricades during the civil unrest of the 1960s, via an infamous stint as an experimental theater maverick, to ultimately becoming an iconic figure in cult cinema. While he'd started his professional career as a theater director, Gordon's first love was cinema, and in 1985 he shocked the world with his wickedly witty debut feature Re-Animator. The film established an unofficial Gordon repertory company, including the actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, producer Brian Yuzna, and writer Dennis Paoli. It also established Gordon as the pre-eminent cinematic interpreter of legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft, a writer many had previously regarded as largely unfilmable. Gordon went on to undertake a succession of horror, science fiction, and thriller productions that saw him working across the globe, from Italy (Castle Freak), Hungary (Daughter of Darkness) and Australia (Fortress), to Ireland (Space Truckers) and Spain (Dagon). In these pages, Gordon recalls a wealth of anecdotes, revealing what it was like to direct acclaimed actors such as Anthony Perkins, Dennis Hopper, Oliver Reed, Edward J. Olmos, Lance Henriksen and William H. Macy. Gordon also spills the beans on working with Roy Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg on the family comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids at Disney Studios. Stuart Gordon's memoir is authentically funny, disarmingly honest, and unexpectedly touching - a compelling glimpse into the life of a director happiest in Hollywood's hinterlands, pushing the limits of what the mainstream would accept. It's the story of a bona fide original, an uncompromising artist with the common touch, and of a loving family man who delighted in disturbing us all with his restless, brilliant imagination. Gordon's filmography ranges from the iconic Lovecraftian horror From Beyond (1986), to science fiction action flicks including Robot Jox (1990), gruelling period pieces such as The Pit and the Pendulum (1998), the noir thriller King of the Ants(2003), and his David Mamet adaptation Edmond (2005). Naked Theater & Uncensored Horror is Stuart Gordon's final completed work, presented here unexpurgated, and fully endorsed and approved by the Gordon family trust.
