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John Sayles, Filmmaker

Author : Jack Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786405299
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book John Sayles, Filmmaker written by Jack Ryan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker. Sayles has remained a maverick, writing, directing, editing and even acting in his own films. He has directed such diverse films as The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and Lone Star, and received two Academy Award nominations. Here is the chronicle of Sayles' career--including the story of his inauspicious beginning as a second-string actor, and his work in fiction, theatre, music videos and television. The author argues that the importance of Sayles' signature plain visual style has been overlooked. A chapter is devoted to each of Sayles' feature films, offering background material on production funding, a plot sketch, an analysis of important characters, and a look at the language, setting, and politics. Each chapter also traces Sayles' technical development--his camera work, editing, musical arrangement and mise-en-scene. The book includes a complete filmography and a bibliography.

Sayles on Sayles

Author : John Sayles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571192809
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Sayles on Sayles written by John Sayles and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with John Sayles who worked on such widely varied projects as The return of the Secaucus seven; Baby, it's you; Brother from another planet; Matewan; Passion fish; Piranha; Alligator; The howling; Apollo 13; City of hope, Lone star; Shannon's deal.

John Sayles, Filmmaker

Author : Jack Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456825
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book John Sayles, Filmmaker written by Jack Ryan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker. Sayles has remained a maverick, writing, directing, editing and even acting in his own films. This fully updated revision of the author's 1998 first edition chronicles Sayles' entire career--including the story of his inauspicious beginning as a second-string actor and his work in fiction, theatre, music videos and television. A chapter is devoted to each of Sayles' feature films, offering background material on production funding, a plot sketch, an analysis of important characters, and a look at the language, setting, and politics. Each chapter also traces Sayles' technical development--his camera work, editing, musical arrangement and mise-en-scene. The book includes a complete filmography and a bibliography.

Jane Campion

Author : John Sayles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Campion written by John Sayles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano & Portrait of a Lady.

John Sayles

Author : David R. Shumway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094085
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book John Sayles written by David R. Shumway and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions. From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. In this study, David R. Shumway examines the defining characteristic of Sayles's cinema: its realism. Positing the filmmaker as a critical realist, Shumway explores Sayles's attention to narrative in critically acclaimed and popular films such as Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and Lone Star. The study also details the conditions under which Sayles's films have been produced, distributed, and exhibited, affecting the way in which these films have been understood and appreciated. In the process, Shumway presents Sayles as a teacher who tells historically accurate stories that invite audiences to consider the human world they all inhabit.

John Sayles

Author : John Sayles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578061372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book John Sayles written by John Sayles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the director/writer/actor who was nominated for both an Academy Award for script writing and a National Book Award

Sayles Talk

Author : Diane Carson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814340075
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Sayles Talk written by Diane Carson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name is synonymous with "independent film," and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented coverage of Sayles’s craft and content, as it deploys a rich variety of critical methods to explore the full scope of his work. Together the essays afford a deeper understanding not only of the individual films—including his 1980 The Return of the Secaucus Seven (named to the National Registry) and the recent Limbo and Men with Guns—but also of Sayles’s unusual place in American cinema and his influence worldwide. The focus of Sayles’s films is frequently on peoples’ lives, not on stories with tidy endings, and often a main goal is to alert viewers of their complicity in the problems at hand. One might assume his style to be content driven, but closer inspection reveals a mix of styles from documentary to postmodern. In this anthology, a set of international scholars addresses these and many other aspects of Sayles’s filmmaking as they explore individual works. Their methodological approaches include historical and industry analysis as well as psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, to name a few. Sayles Talk is both an in-depth and wide-ranging tribute to the "father" of independent film. In one volume, readers can find discussions of most of Sayles’s films together with a comprehensive introduction to his film practice, an annotated list of existing literature on Sayles, and information on resources for further inquiry into his fiction, film, and television work. Film students as well as seasoned critics will turn to this book time and again to enrich their understanding of one of America’s great cinematic innovators and his legacy.

Thinking In Pictures

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306812668
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Thinking In Pictures written by John Sayles and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.

Yellow Earth

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590789
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Yellow Earth written by John Sayles and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

A Moment in the Sun

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1936365707
Total Pages : 1293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book A Moment in the Sun written by John Sayles and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 1293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

The Cinema of John Sayles

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of John Sayles written by Mark Bould and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through discussion of films such as 'Return of the Secaucus 7', 'The Brother from Another Planet' 'Matewan' and 'Sunshine State', this study uncovers themes of racial and sexual otherness, capitalist excess and the erosion of community in the work of John Sayles.

John Sayles

Author : Gerry Molyneaux
Publisher : Renaissance Books
ISBN 13 : 9781580631259
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book John Sayles written by Gerry Molyneaux and published by Renaissance Books. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the filmmaker's childhood fascination with movies and examines how his dissatisfaction with corporate-sponsored studios led him to produce, direct, and finance his own films.

Silver City and Other Screenplays

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Silver City and Other Screenplays written by John Sayles and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Introduction that describes the making of his films, this book is a collection of filmmaker John Sayles' acclaimed work.

Union Dues

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560257301
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Union Dues written by John Sayles and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Ordinary People

Author : John Edward Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary People written by John Edward Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking in Pictures

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395453995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Thinking in Pictures written by John Sayles and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book for anyone who has ever wondered how movies really get made, by America's most brilliant independent filmmaker. Sayles gives an illuminating book about the choices that lie at the heart of every movie.

Contemporary American Independent Film

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415254868
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Independent Film written by Chris Holmlund and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.