Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1136919465
This 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
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317593944
Fifty 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 : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415189743
From Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema.
Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781903364529
"Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.
Author : Mario Falsetto
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Falsetto (film studies, Concordia U., Montreal, Canada) deftly interviews 17 independent filmmakers about the films they created, emphasizing the more interesting aspects of how they conceived of the films, how they negotiated their way through the process of creation, and how they view their work i
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Author : Peter Brunette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252029929
"Wong Kar-Wai" traces this immensely exciting director's perennial themes of time, love, and loss, and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. This book is the first in any language to cover all of Wong's work, from his first film, As Tears Go By, to his most recent, the still unreleased 2046. It also includes his best'known, highly honored films, "Chungking Express, Happy Together, " and above all, "In the Mood for Love." Most importantly, Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely visual films attempt to create a new form of cinema by relying on stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks to tell their story, rather than on traditional notions of character, dialogue, and plot. The question of Wong Kar-wai's use of genre film techniques in art films is also explored in depth. "
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File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Ian Freer
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Motion picture directors and producers
ISBN : 9781847245120
Moviemakers provides profiles of the 50 greatest film directors in cinematic history. From D. W. Griffith to the iconic films of Quentin Tarantino, the range is wide, featuring not only the Hollywood greats, but also a full complement of European and Asian directors. Author Ian Freer writes with infectious enthusiasm for his subject and outlines the life of every director, the passage of each career, seminal influences, and major films, plus fascinating anecdotes from behind the scenes.
Author : Celestino Deleyto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252077616
This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus. Working in the United States and in Mexico, Iñárritu crosses national borders while his movies break the barriers of distribution, production, narration, and style. His features also experiment with transnational identity as characters emigrate and settings change. In studying the international scope of Iñárritu's influential films Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona trace common themes such as human suffering and redemption, chance, and accidental encounters. The authors also analyze the director's powerful visual style and his consistent use of multiple characters and a fragmented narrative structure. The book concludes with a new interview with Iñárritu that touches on the themes and subject matter of his chief works.
