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Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034053
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader written by David Sterritt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809228
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Complete History of American Film Criticism written by Jerry Roberts and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations of discriminating moviegoers on the differences between good films and bad. They call attention to great directors, cinematographers, production designers, screenwriters, and actors, and shed light on their artistic visions and storytelling sensibilities. People interested in what the great film critics had to say have usually been shortchanged as to their backgrounds, and just why they are qualified to sit in judgment. Using mini-biographies, placed within a chronological framework, The Complete History of American Film Criticism is the biography of a profession whose cultural impact has left an indelible mark on the 20th century’s most significant art form.
Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813586046
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Tough Ain't Enough written by Lester D. Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal Hollywood. At Eastwood’s late age, his critical success as actor and director, his combative willingness to confront serious cultural issues in his films, and his undeniable talent behind the camera all call for a new and comprehensive study that considers and contextualizes his multiple roles, both on and off screen. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars that explore the actor-director’s extensive career. The result is a far-reaching and nuanced portrait of one of America’s most prolific and thoughtful filmmakers.
Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023117201X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Cinema of Clint Eastwood written by David Sterritt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing primarily on his work as a director but also exploring the evolution of his acting style, his long association with screen violence, his interest in jazz, and the political views – sometimes hotly controversial – reflected in his films and public statements. Especially fascinating is the pivotal question that divides critics and moviegoers to this day: is Eastwood a capable director with a photogenic face, a modest acting talent, and a flair for marketing his image? Or is he a true cinematic auteur with a distinctive vision of America’s history, traditions, and values? From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, The Cinema of Clint Eastwood takes a close-up look at one of the screen’s most influential and charismatic stars.
Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815664
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The B List written by David Sterritt and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choicest noir, neo-noir, science fiction, horror, westerns, midnight movies, and morefrom critics like David Ansen, Jami Bernard, Roger Ebert, Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, and Kenneth Turan."
Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813583241
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll Movies written by David Sterritt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have regarded rock ‘n’ roll, some cynically cashing in on its popularity and others responding to the music as sincere fans, some depicting rock as harmless fun and others representing it as an open challenge to mainstream norms.
Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813126630
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh written by R. Barton Palmer and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose debut film was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or. The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh breaks new ground by investigating salient philosophical themes through the unique story lines and innovative approaches to filmmaking that distinguish this celebrated artist. Editors R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders have brought together leading scholars in philosophy and film studies for the first systematic analysis of Soderbergh's entire body of work, offering the first in-depth exploration of the philosophical ideas that form the basis of the work of one of the most commercially successful and consistently inventive filmmakers of our time.
Author : Daniel Bernardi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338070
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Hollywood's Chosen People written by Daniel Bernardi and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as Jews have helped to construct Hollywood's vision of the American dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped by those representations. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in American cinema reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.
Author : Richard Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786466995
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Mourning Films written by Richard Armstrong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.
Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338550
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Last Laugh written by Murray Pomerance and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. In The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema, editor Murray Pomerance has assembled contributions from thirteen estimable scholars that address the strange laughter of cinema from varying intellectual perspectives and a wide range of sources. Contributors consider unusual humors in a variety of filmic settings, from the chilling unheard laughter of silent cinema to the ribald and mortal laughter in the work of Orson Welles; the vagaries and nuances of laughter in film noir to the eccentric laughter of science fiction. Essays also look at laughter in many different applications, from the subtle, underlying wit of the thriller Don't Look Now to the deeply provocative humor of experimental film and the unpredictable, shadowy, insightful, and stunning laughter in such films as Black Swan, Henry Fool, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Kiss of Death, The Dark Knight, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The accessibly written, unique essays in The Last Laugh bring a new understanding to the delicate balance, unsettled tensions, and fragility of human affairs depicted by strange humor in film. For scholars of film and readers who love cinema, these essays will be rich and playful inspiration.
Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813538165
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Cinema and Modernity written by Murray Pomerance and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the significant ways that film has both grown in the context of the modern world and played a central role in reflecting and shaping our interactions with it.
Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337368
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema written by Lesley Brill and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted critic brings crowd theory to Film Studies, offering a bold new analysis of the pervasive cinematic themes of transformation and power.
Author : Claudia Springer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813564344
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Acting written by Claudia Springer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors’ reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role. The chapters in Acting provide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its inception in 1895 when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers, Wild West stars, and athletes captured in motion, to the present when audiences marvel at the seamless blend of human actors with CGI. Experts in the field take readers behind the silver screen to learn about the craft of film acting in six eras: the silent screen (1895–1928), classical Hollywood (1928–1946), postwar Hollywood (1947–1967), the auteur renaissance (1968–1980), the New Hollywood (1981–1999), and the modern entertainment marketplace (2000–present). The contributors pay special attention to definitive performances by notable film stars, including Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Beulah Bondi, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Cage, Denzel Washington, and Andy Serkis. In six original essays, the contributors to this volume illuminate the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolving practices of the American film industry. Acting is a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series—other titles in the series include Animation; Art Direction and Production Design; Cinematography; Costume, Makeup, and Hair; Directing; Editing and Special/Visual Effects; Producing; Screenwriting; and Sound.
Author : Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347667
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book After Kubrick written by Jeremi Szaniawski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of the general public) have gotten lost at one point or another, this collection looks at the legacy of Kubrick's films in the 21st century. The main avenues investigated are as follows: a look at Kubrick's influence on his most illustrious followers (Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, and Lars von Trier, to name a few); Kubrick in critical reception; Kubrick in stylistic (camera movements, set designs, music), thematic (artificial intelligence, new frontiers- large and small), aesthetic (the question of genre, pastiche, stereoscopy) and political terms (paranoia, democracy and secret societies, conspiracy theories). The contributions coalesce around the concept of a Kubrickian substrate, rich and complex, which permeates our Western cultural landscape very much to this day, informing and sometimes announcing/reflecting it in twisted ways, 21 years after the director's death.
Author : Noah McLaughlin
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968138
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book French War Films and National Identity written by Noah McLaughlin and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 184331388X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Screen Writings written by Bert Cardullo and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time. Implicitly theoretical as much as it is unashamedly practical, this book is a model not only of film analysis, but also of the enlightened deployment of cultural studies in the service of cinema study.
Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333969
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book The Honeymooners written by David Sterritt and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for newlyweds that offers all manner of advice on etiquette, homemaking, and personal care. Includes a large section of recipes and cooking tips.
