Author : Norman Kagan
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2003-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461699053
Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Castaway. Herein, Norman Kagan unlocks the mind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits—appraising each work’s public and critical appeal while placing the films in the context of Zemeckis’s career.
Author : Adam Barkman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1793623465
A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied (2015). Most of Zemeckis’ major productions were not only successful when they were first released but continue to enjoy popularity—with critics and fans alike—even today. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Zemeckisʼ works and addresses the different approaches: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Zemeckisʼ oeuvre, which includes nineteen films. Contrary to the few volumes published in the past on the subject, the chapters in this volume offer specific case studies that have been previously ignored (or only partially mentioned) by other scholars. A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a great variety of interdisciplinary approaches to Zemeckis’ films, illuminating, re-reading and/or interpreting for the first time the entire career of the director, from his first films to the most recent ones.
Author : Emily Smith
Publisher : Tebbo
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781488504082
Robert L. Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Though Zemeckis has often been pigeonholed as a director interested only in effects, his work has been defended by several critics, including David Thomson, who wrote that "No other contemporary director has used special effects to more dramatic and narrative purpose." This book is your ultimate resource for Robert Zemeckis. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Robert Zemeckis's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol (2009 film), Academy Award for Best Director, Alan Silvestri, Back to the Future, Back to the Future (franchise), Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Behind the Burly Q, Beowulf (2007 film), Bob Gale, Contact (film), Crispin Glover, Dark Castle Entertainment, Death Becomes Her, Eddie Deezen, Film director, Flight (2012 film), Forrest Gump, Gary Oldman, Ghost Ship (2002 film), Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Gothika, House of Wax (2005 film), House on Haunted Hill (1999 film), Jack Rapke, James Cameron, Jim Carrey, Lithuanian American, Mars Needs Moms, Mary Ellen Trainor, Michael Douglas, Michael J. Fox, Motion capture...and more pages Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.
Author : Alexander Horwath
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9053566317
This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.
Author : Stephen Rowley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137493283
Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.
Author : Robin Stoate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838714456
This compelling study places 'Back to the Future' in the context of Reaganite America, discusses Robert Zemeckis's film-making technique and its relationship to the 'New New Hollywood', explores the film's attitudes to teen culture of the 1950s and 1980s and its representation of science, atomic power and time travel.
Author : Winston Groom
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307947408
The modern classic that inspired the beloved movie starring Tom Hanks. Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.
Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474413838
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film. Through a dynamic critical analysis of the defining films of the turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores and interrogates the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many others consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artefact, able to both reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling and resonant ways.
Author : Gianni Canova
Publisher : Marsilio Editori spa
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2015-04-20T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 883173962X
Robert Zemeckis è oggi il più "sperimentale" dei registi hollywoodiani. Attraverso un rapporto privilegiato con la tecnologia, il suo cinema persegue il sogno di generare immagini ibride e meticce, che sappiano fondere e coniugare la tradizione analogica con l'innovazione digitale.
Author : Ken Grimwood
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062030698
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"
