Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,92 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 : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136919457
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throughout and with twelve new entries, this second edition is an up-to-date introduction to some of the most prominent film makers of the present day. The directors, from differing backgrounds and working across a range of genres, include: Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Sofia Coppola Julie Dash Shane Meadow Michael Moore Peter Jackson Guillermo Del Toro Tim Burton Jackie Chan Ang Lee Pedro Almodóvar. With further reading and a filmography accompanying each entry, this comprehensive guide is indispensable to all those studying contemporary film and will appeal to anyone interested in the key individuals behind modern cinema’s greatest achievements.
Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134656645
Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today's most popular, original and influential cinematic voices. Each entry offers both an overview and critique of its subject's career and works, looking at the genres in which they work and their relationship to other film and filmmakers. It covers figures drawn from diverse cinematic traditions from around the world and includes: *Luc Besson *James Cameron *David Lynch *John Woo *Julie Dash *Spike Lee *Joel and Ethan Coen *Martin Scorsese *Mira Nair *Wim Wenders With each entry supplemented by a filmography, references and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in contemporary film.
Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,17 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 : Kathleen McHugh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252074475
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Author : Walter Metz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780820474038
Engaging Film Criticism examines recent American cinema in relationship to its «imaginative intertexts», films from earlier decades that engage similar political and cultural themes. This historical encounter provides an unexpected and exciting way of reading popular contemporary films. Eclectic pairings include the Schwarzenegger action film True Lies with the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, as well as the lampooned Will Smith comedy Wild, Wild West with Buster Keaton's silent feature The General. Using a theoretically and historically informed brand of criticism, Engaging Film Criticism suggests that today's Hollywood cinema is every bit as worthy of study as the classics.
Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415254868
This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.
Author : M. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137319852
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
Author : John McCarty
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
John McCarty has selected fifty outstanding examples of the modern horror film. Film buffs will relive the terrors they enjoyed on the screen! Each of the fifty films is documented with casts, credits, production notes and reviews.
Author : Tom Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 113595030X
The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture. From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and "real lives." Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre.
