Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241484838
Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.
Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253108708
The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.
Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780810961814
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781382573
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367296
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Author : Jean-luc Godard
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1986-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780306802591
Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.
Author : David White
Publisher : Hollywoodcomics.Com Llc
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934543078
Everyone thought that the Lord of Terror known as Fantomas had perished aboard the Titanic in April 1912, but they were wrong! Fantomas returns in 1917 New York, on the eve of America entering the Great War. His diabolical plot: to capture Professor Harrington, the only man to know the secret of Eldorado and gold-making. His goal: to rule the New World. His method: to spread terror! The only man who stands in his way: Detective Frederick Dickson. This original Fantomas novel by David White is inspired from the long-lost 1920 American Fantomas serial written by Edward Sedwick & George Eshenfelder for the Fox Film Corporation. It is illustrated with 50 rare stills and advertising art from the serial.
Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780804732536
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674043268
Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.
Author : Kirk Varnedoe
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
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