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Original publication and copyright date: 1982.
Author : Gregory Goodell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780312304621
Original publication and copyright date: 1982.
Author : William E.B. Verrone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786488816
Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films, which often rely on characteristics associated with historical films of the same genre. Included are works by such visionary filmmakers as David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin and Derek Jarman. The first of the two appendices contains a filmography of key avant-garde feature films, from Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) to Maximum Shame (2010). The second appendix offers a brief list of directors who have made significant contributions to films that take alternative approaches to cinematic practice, establishing new grounds for analysis and evaluation.
Author : Douglas Gordon
Publisher : Artangel Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
A work concerned with Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film, Vertigo, and with Bernard Hermann's original music written for the film. Sound disc contains Bernard Hermann's soundtrack.
Author : Andrew Osmond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 183871393X
Twenty years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today, though, they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville Rendez-Vous; the eye-popping violence of Japan's Akira; and the stop-motion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features, with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day. There are key studio brands such as Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks, but there are also recognised auteur directors such as America's Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and Japan's Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Technologies such as motion-capture, used in films such as Avatar, blur the distinctions between live-action and animation. Meanwhile, lone artists such as Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Bill Plympton (Idiots and Angels) make entire films by themselves. Blending in-depth history and criticism, 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. There are entries on Dreamworks' Shrek, Pixar's Toy Story, and Disney's The Jungle Book, but you will also find pieces on Germany's silhouette-based The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving animated feature; on the thirty year production of Richard Williams' legendary opus, The Thief and the Cobbler; and on the lost work of Argentina's Quirino Cristiani, who reputedly made the first animated feature in 1917.
Author : Bret Stern
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0060084677
Right now, you're wondering, "Gee, what kind of information is in this cute yet stylish guide?" Sure, there are a bunch of other books that will take you through the filmmaking process, and if your name is Beaver Cleaver, you might be interested in them. But you should know that filmmaking is a war, and this book will lead you through it like no other. These pages contain information learned from years spent in the filmmaking trenches. Anyone with a credit card can rent a camera and buy film stock -- but who can: Rent a camera for two weeks and pay for only two days? Set the exposure on the camera without a light meter? Feed a crew of twenty with yesterday's chicken soup? Not many. You want more? Then turn the book over and crack her open. Still here? Fine -- we'll do it the hard way: This book will tell you how to shoot a sex scene, tell you what a stinger is. And if you need help writing your script, we'll give you some scenes to copy right into your screen-play -- and yes, we even provide the characters. In short, everything you need to know about filmmaking in the real world is in this book. Everything. We'll even help you select the proper baseball cap so you can look like a big-time director. Now start reading. Let's make film history.
Author : Dominick Bagnato
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476629498
The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his debut feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author describes the practical preproduction steps needed to take a project from early concept to the first day of photography--details most filmmaking guides don't include. A scene-by-scene breakdown describes the transferrable lessons learned during the production and postproduction phases. Filmmakers' options for what to do after completing their first feature are also covered.
Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136099166
In this study, David Bordwell offers a comprehensive account of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation, unique features of the film medium, and diverse story-telling patterns to construct their fictional narratives.
Author : Patrick Robertson
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781854106544
The biggest, the smallest, the longest, the shortest, the first, the latest,he best, the worst. Film Facts contains the answer to every imaginableuestion about films, stars, directors, producers, writers, and the 110-yearistory of cinema.
Author : Peter Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317928423
Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film. It concentrates on films which depict labour organizations and political activists, as well as life in working-class communities and actors with working-class identities such as James Cagney. Reviews of the original edition: ‘...fills a gap in film studies...the study of social and labour history, and the development of popular culture in Britain and the United States.’
Author : Gregory Goodell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780312181178
Supplies advice on the financing, writing, budgeting, casting, filming, editing, and distribution of a motion picture without the involvement of a major studio.