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Geoff Murphy

Author : Geoff Murphy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1775491161
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Geoff Murphy written by Geoff Murphy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majorly entertaining memoir from a major entertainer - Geoff 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Murphy tells it like it really was in this director's cut of his life and times. "I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill!" It was the line that had cinema audiences cheering. Goodbye Pork Pie became an instant classic, and announced the arrival of a major new talent in director Geoff Murphy. With his next two films, Utu and The Quiet Earth, he cemented his reputation as a pioneer of New Zealand cinema, eventually arriving in Hollywood as a gun-for-hire in the super-charged world of studio politics and superstar egos. He'd come a long way from his days as a struggling school teacher, and then a member of a madcap band of merry pranksters known as Blerta, founded by his great friend and collaborator Bruno Lawrence. But it was the same sense of adventure -with a healthy dose of Kiwi ingenuity - that defined every stage of his career. In this candid and funny memoir, Geoff Murphy looks back on a life in (and on) film - from do-it-yourself shoots in the 1960s to epic work on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and delivers the director's cut of a truly remarkable life.

Legends of the Track

Author : Alan Whiticker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1923009168
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Track written by Alan Whiticker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Legends of the Track: Australia's champion jockeys and trainers, best-selling author Alan Whiticker tells the stories of 25 modern-era horse racing greats.This book celebrates the careers of champions trainers such as Bart Cummings, Tommy Smith, Colin Hayes, Gai Waterhouse, Lee Freedman and Chris Waller, and features interviews with the best jockeys of the modern era - Ron Quinton, Darren Beadman, Shane Dye, Hugh Bowman, Damien Oliver, Glen Boss and James McDonald.With full career statistics for each chapter and dozens of rare photos, Legends of the Track details the greatest achievements in a wonderful sporting era of Australian horse racing.

New Zealand Filmmakers

Author : Ian Conrich
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330173
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book New Zealand Filmmakers written by Ian Conrich and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most thorough study on the filmmakers who have defined New Zealand cinema from its origins to its current successes.

Predator - The Unofficial Guide to the Movie Franchise

Author : Nick Naughton
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3755457911
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Predator - The Unofficial Guide to the Movie Franchise written by Nick Naughton and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predator is a product of the last great era of Hollywood action films - the eighties. A decade of bone crunching blood splattered foul mouthed blockbuster epics (Robocop, The Terminator, Die Hard, Commando) that wouldn't know what a PG-13 rating was if it skewered them with a spear and ripped their spinal column out to keep as a trophy (as the Predator is apt to do on occasion). In this book we'll take a deep dive into the original Predator and all the sequels it spawned. We'll discuss all of these films in this book and we shall also - of course - discuss the two AvP pictures too. We'll look at the background of each film, the development of them, and discuss worked and what didn't in the actual movie.

Borderlands

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489207
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundaries, borderlines, limits on the one hand and rites of passage, contact zones, in-between spaces on the other have attracted renewed interest in a broad variety of cultural discourses after a long period of decenterings and delimitations in numerous fields of social, psychological, and intellectual life. Anthropological dimensions of the subject and its multifarious ways of world-making represent the central challenge among the concerns of the humanities. The role of literature and the arts in the formation of cultural and personal identities, theoretical and political approaches to the relation between self and other, the familiar and the foreign, have become key issues in literary and cultural studies; forms of expressivity and expression and question of mediation as well as new enquiries into ethics have characterized the intellectual energies of the past decade. The aim of Borderlands is to represent a variety of approaches to questions of border crossing and boundary transgression; approaches from different angles and different disciplines, but all converging in their own way on the post-colonial paradigm. Topics discussed include globalization, cartography and ontology, transitional identity, ecocritical sensibility, questions of the application of post-coloniality, gender and sexuality, and attitudes towards space and place. As well as studies of the cinema of the settler colonies, the films of Neil Jordan, and 'Othering' in Canadian sports journalism, there are treatments of the Nigerian novel, South African prison memoirs, and African women's writing. Authors examined include Elizabeth Bowen, Bruce Chatwin, Mohamed Choukri, Nuruddin Farah, Jamaica Kincaid, Pauline Melville, Bharati Mukherjee, Michael Ondaatje, and Leslie Marmon Silko.

Script Development

Author : Craig Batty
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303048713X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Script Development written by Craig Batty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry experiences, it brings together scholars and practitioners from around the world to offer critical insights into this core, but often hidden, aspect of screenwriting and screen production. Chapters speculate and reflect upon how creative, commercial and social practices – in which ideas, emotions, people and personalities combine, cohere and clash – are shaped by the practicalities, policies and rapid movements of the screen industry. Comprising two parts, the book first looks ‘into’ script development from a theoretical perspective, and second looks ‘out from’ the practice to form practitioner-led perspectives of script development. With a rising interest in screenwriting and production studies, and an increased appetite for practice-based research, the book offers a timely mapping of the terrain of script development, providing rich foundations for both study and practice.

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema

Author : Rob Stone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317420586
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to World Cinema written by Rob Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty-three world-leading scholars, this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing categories and weighted—often politically motivated—value judgements, thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking.

Jockeying to the top

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Publisher : New Holland Publishers (AU)
ISBN 13 : 1921836296
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Jockeying to the top written by and published by New Holland Publishers (AU). This book was released on with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don't Let it Get You

Author : John O'Shea
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864733566
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Don't Let it Get You written by John O'Shea and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of New Zealand pioneer film maker John O'Shea.

Action!

Author : Marshall Julius
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210913
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Action! written by Marshall Julius and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A-Z includes: 250 key action movies rated and reviewed with detailed credit lists and behind-the-scenes information; a no-holds-barred guide to the greatest one-liners, comebacks and monologues in action movie history; top tens, a tough-as-nails trivia quiz and more.

Patton's Tactician

Author : Geoffrey Keyes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813198747
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Patton's Tactician written by Geoffrey Keyes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation Husky, the campaign to establish an Allied foothold in Sicily was led by two of the most noted American tacticians of the twentieth century: George S. Patton Jr. and Geoffrey Keyes. While Patton is the subject of numerous books and films, Keyes's life and achievements have gone unrecognized, but his anonymity is by no means an accurate reflection of the value of his contributions and dedicated service in World War II and the succeeding cold war. Patton's Tactician: The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes is the first transcribed edition of Keyes's personal diary to be published. Edited by James W. Holsinger Jr., the diary begins in October 1942, prior to the invasion of French Morocco and Keyes's engagement in World War II and the Cold War. Holsinger has integrated a variety of related sources, including correspondence between Keyes, Patton, and Eisenhower. A day-to-day chronicle of Keyes's experiences in the World War II Mediterranean Theater and the early days of the Cold War in occupied Germany and Austria, Patton's Tactician is an invaluable primary source that offers readers a glimpse into the mind of one of America's most important World War II corps commanders.

Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression

Author : Eckhard Breitinger
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042000216
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression written by Eckhard Breitinger and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of ASNEL Papers gathers together a broad range of reflections on, and presentations of, the social and expressive underpinnings of post-colonial literary cultures, concentrating on aspects of orality, social structure and hybridity, the role of women in cultural production, performative and media representations (theatre, film, advertising) and their institutional forms, and the linguistic basis of literature (including questions of multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, and translation). Some of the present studies adopt a diachronic approach, as in essays devoted to European colonial influences on African literatures, the populist colonial roots of Australian drama, and the intersection of exogenous and autochthonous languages in the cultural development and identity formation of Cameroon, Tanzania and the Swahili-speaking regions of Africa. Broadly synchronic perspectives (which nevertheless take cognizance of developmental determinants) range over dominant genres -- poetry, short fiction and the novel, children's literature, theatre, film - and cover indigene literatures (Australian Aboriginal, Maori, First Nations) and regional creativity in West, East and South Africa, the Caribbean, India and the South-East Asian diaspora, and the settler colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Authors treated within broader frameworks include Chinua Achebe, 'Biyi Bandele-Thomas, Bole Butake, Shashi Deshpande, Louis Esson, Lorna Goodison, Patricia Grace, Bland Holt, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rita Kleinhart, Hanif Kureishi, Werewere Liking, Timothy Mo, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Ruby Slipperjack. There are self-testimonies from the writers Geoff Goodfellow, Darrelyn Gunzburg and Don Mattera, poems by David Dabydeen, Geoff Goodfellow and Olive Senior. Of particular value to this collection are the perspectives offered by African, Caribbean and Eastern European contributors.

New Perspectives on the War Film

Author : Clémentine Tholas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030230961
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the War Film written by Clémentine Tholas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media. The authors concentrate on the untold narratives of those who fought in combat and were affected by its brutal consequences. Chapters discuss the historically under-represented stories of individuals including women, African-American and Indigenous Soldiers. Issues of homosexuality and gender relations in the military, colonial subjects and child soldiers, as well as the changing nature of war via terrorism and bioterrorism are closely analyzed. The contributors demonstrate how these viewpoints have been consistently ignored in mainstream, blockbuster war sagas and strive to re-integrate these lost perspectives into current and future narratives.

The Entrepreneur's Playbook

Author : Leonard Green
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814438180
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneur's Playbook written by Leonard Green and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why stumble alone on a risky venture on your way to failure when you can tap into the best ideas and minds for increasing your chances for success? Most entrepreneurs have had to learn things the hard way--concepts such as: big ideas rarely make great businesses; laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time; and you will need dramatically more start-up money than you originally thought you did. Lenoard Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, has encapsulated together all the inside secrets, proven strategies, and mistakes experienced so that you can learn it all beforehand, rather than when all your capital is on the line. Based on his popular Ultimate Entrepreneurship course, The Entrepreneur’s Playbook explains how to: Locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products Find funding Take calculated risks and minimize failure Get serious about positioning, distributing, and licensing Stripping away the complexity favored by business schools and the hype of the technology sector, the book reveals eighteen down-to-earth principles and dozens of tactics for every kind of business. Plus, the invaluable instruction available for you is now interactive. Dozens of exercises are given throughout the book that can be submitted online for feedback.

Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir

Author : Sam Neill
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922791385
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir written by Sam Neill and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion. By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting. But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong’s celebrated My Brilliant Career. And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders. Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.

Discovering My Father

Author : Michael Collins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244900469
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Discovering My Father written by Michael Collins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a highly decorated Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, flying Hawker Typhoons with 245 Squadron, who was killed in action during the battle of Normandy in 1944.

Hollywood and the Foreign Touch

Author : Harry Waldman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831926
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and the Foreign Touch written by Harry Waldman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a few select foreign filmmakers have been widely recognized for their contributions to Hollywood, scores more have gone largely unrecognized. Arranged alphabetically, this volume provides detailed information on the filmmakers and their films.