The Odyssey of a Film-maker
Author: Frances Hubbard Flaherty
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
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Filming Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story
Author: Helen Durant
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780870700811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book details the production of Robert Flaherty's most beautiful and most ambitious film, Louisiana Story. At its core are the production diaries of Helen van Dongen, associate producer and editor for the project and a pioneer among women filmmakers. Her informative notes, which have never before been published, illuminate the problems and challenges of shooting and cutting the film on location in the bayou country of Louisiana. The essays describe the creative partnership that van Dongen developed with Flaherty. They also provide insight into New York's documentary film scene during the 1930s and '40s. The illustrations include film stills, working documents, and archival photographs; there are also biographies and filmographies.
William Greaves
Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0231553196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about its own making, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was an influential independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot, and edited more than a hundred films on a variety of social issues and on key African American figures ranging from Muhammad Ali to Ralph Bunche to Ida B. Wells. A multitalented artist, his career also included stints as a songwriter, a member of the Actors Studio, and, during the late 1960s, a producer and cohost of Black Journal, the first national television show focused on African American culture and politics. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves’s remarkable career. It brings together a wide range of material, including a mix of incisive essays from critics and scholars, Greaves’s own writings, an extensive meta-interview with Greaves, conversations with his wife and collaborator Louise Archambault Greaves and his son David, and a critical dossier on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. Together, they illuminate Greaves’s mission to use filmmaking as a tool for transforming the ways African Americans were perceived by others and the ways they saw themselves. This landmark book is an essential resource on Greaves’s work and his influence on independent cinema and African-American culture.
Odyssey of a Film-Maker
Author: Frances Hubbard Flaherty
Publisher:
Published: 1984-07-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780939660148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace Odyssey
Author: Michael Benson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1501163949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke—“a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” (The Washington Post). Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. Drawing from Clarke’s ideas and with one of the author’s short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images. In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson “delivers expert inside stuff” (San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick’s and Clarke’s archives. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published. “At last! The dense, intense, detailed, and authoritative saga of the making of the greatest motion picture I’ve ever seen…Michael Benson has done the Cosmos a great service” (Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks).
The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Author: Stephanie Schwam
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2010-07-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0307757609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick's extraordinary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1969. The critics initially disliked it, but the public loved it. And eventually, the film took its rightful place as one of the most innovative, brilliant, and pivotal works of modern cinema. The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey consists of testimony from Kubrick's collaborators and commentary from critics and historians. This is the most complete book on the film to date--from Stanley Kubrick's first meeting with screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke to Kubrick's exhaustive research to the actual shooting and release of the movie.
The Story of Film
Author: Mark Cousins
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2006-10-05
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781560259336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Story of Film presents the history of the movies in a way never told before. Weaving personalities, technology, and production with engaging descriptions of groundbreaking scenes, Mark Cousins uses his experience as film historian, producer, and director to capture the shifting trends of movie history without recourse to jargon. We learn how filmmakers influenced each other; how contemporary events influenced them; how they challenged established techniques and developed new technologies to enhance their medium. Striking images reinforce the reader's understanding of cinematic innovation both stylistic and technical. Presenting three epochs — Silent (1885–1928); Sound (1928–1990) and Digital (1990–Present) — The Story of Film spans the birth of the moving image; the establishment of Hollywood; the European avant-garde movements; personal filmmaking; world cinema and recent phenomena such as Computer Generated Imagery and the ever-more "real" realizations of the wildest of imaginations. Here are mainstream entertainment films and maverick talents, breathtaking moments and technical revolutions, blockbuster movies and art-house gems, icons of the screen and the hard workers behind the scenes. It is a powerful story of the world's most popular artistic medium.
Last Call
Author: Stephen Kessler
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781737160304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProlific poet, award-winning translator, esteemed critic--"certainly the best poetry critic in sight," according to Lawrence Ferlinghetti--essayist and journalist, editor and novelist, Stephen Kessler has been a constant creative force in the American literary counterculture for more than fifty years. In Last Call Kessler records with grief and wit, documentary realism and ranging imagination, poignancy , irony, and reflection a journey through the gains and losses of a lifetime. His emotional honesty, conversational lyricism and wry melancholy are down to earth, heart-opening and consciousness-wrenching, retro-romantic and totally contemporary. Open this book to any page and find the unmistakably authentic voice of Stephen Kessler.
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: a Space Odyssey'
Author: Piers Bizony
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836584371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2001: A Space Odyssey combines meticulous science, limitless imagination, and pure visual majesty. This compendium, previously available as a Collector's Edition, contains photographs, pre-production paintings, and conceptual designs that explore the genius behind the sci-fi classic that remains the benchmark for all cinema space epics.
Get Started in Film Making
Author: Tom Holden
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Published: 2018-08-02
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1473678544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side. Completely revised and updated, it is the perfect manual for smartphone Spielbergs, Go-Pro adrenaline junkies, drone-warriors, and wannabe vloggers. It covers every aspect of making films, showing you what's involved from start to finish. You won't get bogged down with technical jargon or confusing proprietary expressions. Instead it breaks things down into easy, step-by-step stages, emphasising that creativity, enthusiasm and drive are just as important as cool kit and funky editing apps. From scriptwriting, casting and cameras to lighting, financing, filming and editing, this is the most comprehensive, user-friendly guide on the market. So whether you're using a smart phone, a drone or a state of the art camera, get ready to step up from shooting clips to making films. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology, and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for everything you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.
