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Screen Epiphanies

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838717986
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Screen Epiphanies written by Geoffrey Macnab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What I remember was that it was the first time a piece of fiction had had such a devastating emotional effect on me. A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, Pinocchio or Bambi or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing The Blue Angel and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally. It might have fed into a whole series of epiphanies about my own upbringing. I was living in a family where my grandparents had separated in quite complex circumstances. Perhaps it resonated with some elements of that, to do with simply how love can be a rupturing and damaging emotion as well as a healing one. Also, to see somebody who is in an authority position made so small, so diminished, by the feeling of having no control.' Anthony Minghella / The Blue Angel 'In a strange, lethal way, I was suddenly wildly attracted to the process of filmmaking, even though it is described as a nightmare - a matter of horror - in that film. There is a trancelike atmosphere. Suddenly, I was reminded that you can feel like it's a matter of life and death when you make a film. It changed from being a mediocre feeling of emptiness in your life to something that feels necessary. I realised that filmmaking can be many things - and it can be narcotic in a way. You can become addicted to it.' Thomas Vinterberg / Hearts of Darkness Screen Epiphanies brings together 32 leading film-makers to discuss the films that inspired them to pursue a career in the movie business, or which influenced their own film-making practice, or which stayed with them because of their depictions of familiar communities, intense human relationships or unknown worlds. Beautifully illustrated with images from the films discussed, Screen Epiphanies is a thought-provoking and often moving insight into the creative process and the way in which artists are inspired by each other's work, but also into the centrality of cinema in all our lives, and its power to change our ambitions and how we see the world around us.

Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts...Made While Playing Video Games

Author : J.C.L. Faltot
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462066612
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts...Made While Playing Video Games written by J.C.L. Faltot and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot of people play video games. A lot of people think they have good, even great, ideas. So what happens when these two worlds collide? Well, Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts... tries to answer these questions for us. The video game industry has boomed into a monster of the consumer market and though we may not realize it, this unstoppable machine has left a fingerprint on the generation that has grown up playing them. And by fingerprint, we mean a giant freaking punch. So now, only now, we are beginning to see what years of video game-playing, sitting-in-front-of-the-tv-for hours, learning-to-use-surge-protectors has done to our future. One such pioneer who survived this dangerous time is our author, J.C.L. Faltot, who takes a serious, albeit sarcastic, look into the machine that is the video game monster. How video games have helped shape the market, touched the lives of those who play them, and defined people like Faltot for the rest of his life. For better or for worse. And perhaps in many ways (as you will find along Faltots estranged journey) its often a little bit of both.

Screen Epiphanies

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844575770
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Screen Epiphanies written by Geoffrey Macnab and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film and Video

Author : Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and Video written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction, poetry, performance, politics and visual art, Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video. As in earlier volumes, these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives, he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but about films customarily forgotten, and always with his customary clarity. Also included are prefaces and transcripts from his own films and videos. He writes: "Another implicit assumption behind my activity is acknowledging the importance of books in collecting together initially scattered opinions, for I have long contended that the critic who fails to risk publishing books is just a reviewing journalist, or, worse, an opportunist." Celebrating four decades of book-publishing, he remains a prolific force and a unique independent voice. Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader's Digest to Twentieth-Century Writers, The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Living in New York City, where he was born, he still needs two bucks to take a subway."--Publisher's website.

Idols of the Odeons

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526147025
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Idols of the Odeons written by Andrew Roberts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term ‘star’ could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created ‘Vamp’ and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.

Epiphany

Author : Brent Saltzman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411673255
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Epiphany written by Brent Saltzman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Williamson was a near-broken man by the time he reached the age of forty-five. That was until he received the oppurtunity to take one last trip to the Eternal; the space station he had spent much of his life dreaming up. Upon arrival, he discovers that most of the oxygen-deprived crew is on the brink of death, and meets and entity that he believes may hold the key not only to his existence, but the very purpose of humanity.

Epiphany

Author : Steve Lee
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468916254
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Epiphany written by Steve Lee and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilizations rise, and they fall, often by their own hand. Ours – is no different. And this is how it happened. Synopsis: Just outside a small town in America's heartland, a young Iowan farm boy, Josh Peterson, finds his life turned upside down by an odd series of reoccurring dreams. Suddenly caught in a violent assault, Josh watches as two mysterious figures from these dreams abruptly appear to intervene in his behalf. In one inexplicable moment, these men somehow suspend reality, and in the process, rescue him from certain death. In the years that follow, Josh struggles to understand what happened that day, and the meaning of the dreams that somehow come to shape his life. In time, he finds these images connect him to a people who once lived centuries earlier, and who were themselves rescued by these same men. While he wrestles with this, a cascading chain of global events begins to unfold around him, paralleling the tragedies he's witnessed in his dreams. Created by the arrogance of man, this crisis quickly begins to unravel the fabric of civilization, tracing out the now familiar pattern of 'Rise and Fall' – even as an unseen force lingers at the edge of perception, drawing Josh through an event anticipated eons in advance. This as civilization itself teeters on the lip of an abyss. Steve Lee

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350140724
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The British Film Industry in 25 Careers written by Geoffrey Macnab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against considerable odds, have become successful producers, distributors, writers, directors, editors, props masters, publicists, special effects technicians, talent scouts, stars and, sometimes, even moguls. Some, such as Richard Attenborough and David Puttnam, are well-known names. Others, such as the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville, also known as Mrs Alfred Hitchcock; Constance Smith, the 'lost star' of British cinema, or the producer Betty Box and her director sister Muriel, are far less well known. What they all have in common, though, is that they found their own pathways into the British film business, overcoming barriers of nationality, race, class and gender to do so. Counterpointing the essays on historical figures are interviews with contemporaries including the director Amma Asante, the writer and filmmaker Julian Fellowes, artist and director Isaac Julien, novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, and media entrepreneur Efe Cakarel, founder of the online film platform MUBI, who've come into today's industry, adjusting to an era in which production and releasing models are changing – and in which films are distributed digitally as well as theatrically.

Epiphany’s Gift

Author : Mallory M. O’Connor
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480876801
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Epiphany’s Gift written by Mallory M. O’Connor and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychic medium Epiphany Mayall lives and works in the spiritualist community of Watoolahatchee, Florida. When she schedules a trip to her childhood home in Ohio to visit her aging mother, Epiphany has no idea she will soon be swept into a maelstrom of natural disasters, theft, and murder. Dr. John Bernhardt, Epiphany’s former art history professor and mentor, believes regional fracking operations are responsible for the recent earthquakes. After identifying a secretive petroleum company as the perpetrator, he wonders if the environmental disasters are somehow connected with the disappearance of a drawing from a local museum. Twenty-four hours after he writes an article about his theory, he is found dead of an apparent heart attack. When John’s ghost appears to tell Epiphany he was murdered, she becomes determined to find his killer. Aided by a former FBI art-crimes investigator and an eccentric artist, Epiphany must use her psychic skills to locate the missing art and identify the killer. Unfortunately her efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice are thwarted. Even a state senator cannot help. As the earthquakes escalate, Epiphany must decide whether to continue her battle for justice or suspend her investigation to protect her family. Set against a backdrop of psychic phenomena, corporate corruption, and global climate change, Epiphany’s Gift illustrates the perennial battle between good and evil. —Andrew Nichols, PhD, Director, American Institute of Parapsychology

Delivering Dreams

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729519
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Delivering Dreams written by Geoffrey Macnab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews with leading British distributors of today, Delivering Dreams tells the, largely unacknowledged, story of how films were, and are, brought to British cinema-goers. It profiles some of the most flamboyant and controversial figures involved in UK distribution over the last 100 years, ranging from the founders of huge companies to visionaries who have launched small art house labels. Geoffrey MacNab also explores how the sector has reacted to a rapidly changing market and technological environment, from the transition to sound in the late 1920s to the spectre of TV in the 1950s and the move to digital in the 2000s. Ranging from the films of Charlie Chaplin to The King's Speech, and published to coincide with the centenary of the FDA's creation in December 1915, this book highlights the crucial role that distributors have played in maintaining the solid foundations of the British film industry.

Creating Digitally

Author : Anthony L. Brooks
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031313607
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Creating Digitally written by Anthony L. Brooks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of 21 chapters shares endeavors associated to the human trait of creative expression within, across, and between digital media in wide-ranging contexts making the contents perfect as a course study book uptake within related educations. Globally located chapter authors share their comprehensive artisan perspectives from works associated with regional cultures, diversities of interpretations, and widespread scopes of meanings. Contents illustrate contemporary works reflecting thought-provoking comprehensions, functions, and purposes, posit as contributing toward shifting of boundaries within the field. Original to this approach is the reflective offerings on creating digitally beyond typical psychological analysis/rapportage. The book's general scope and key uses are thus to contribute to scholarly discussions toward informing future projects by having an intended wide readership including from within educations, to artisans, and wider interested public. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Werewolf Filmography

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479108
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Werewolf Filmography written by Bryan Senn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the horrific to the heroic, cinematic werewolves are metaphors for our savage nature, symbolizing the secret, bestial side of humanity that hides beneath our civilized veneer. Examining acknowledged classics like The Wolf Man (1941) and The Howling (1981), as well as overlooked gems like Dog Soldiers (2011), this comprehensive filmography covers the highs and lows of the genre. Information is provided on production, cast and filmmakers, along with critical discussion of the tropes and underlying themes that make the werewolf a terrifying but fascinating figure.

Katie Mitchell

Author : Benjamin Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622447
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Katie Mitchell written by Benjamin Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts offers the first comprehensive study of Britain’s most internationally recognised, influential, and controversial theatre director. It examines Mitchell’s innovations in fourth-wall realism, opera, and Live Cinema across major British and European institutions, bringing three decades of practice vividly to life. Informed by first-hand rehearsal observations and in-depth conversations with the director and her collaborators, Fowler investigates the intense and immersive qualities of Mitchell’s distinctive theatrical realism and challenges mainstream narratives about realism as a defunct or inherently conservative genre. He explores Mitchell’s theatre—and its often polarised reception—to question familiar assumptions governing contemporary performance criticism, including common binaries that pit realism against radical experimentation, auteurs against texts, feminists against Naturalism, and Britain against Europe. By examining a career trajectory that intersects with huge cultural change, Fowler places Mitchell at the centre of urgent contemporary debates about cultural transformation and its genuinely inclusive potential. This is an essential book for those interested in Katie Mitchell, British theatre, directing, the transformative power of realism and feminism in contemporary theatre practice, and challenges to hierarchical distributions of power inside the mainstream.

Stairways to Heaven

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178672409X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Stairways to Heaven written by Geoffrey Macnab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a parlous state. The number of films produced in the UK was tiny. Cinema attendance had dipped to an all-time low, cinema buildings were in a state of disrepair and home video had yet to flourish. Since then, while many business challenges - especially for independent producers and distributors - remain, the industry overall has developed beyond recognition. In recent years, as British films have won Oscars, Cannes Palms and Venice Golden Lions, releases such as Love Actually, Billy Elliot, Skyfall, Paddington and the Harry Potter series have found enormous commercial as well as critical success. The UK industry has encouraged, and benefitted from, a huge amount of inward investment, much of it from the Hollywood studios, but also from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council and BFI. This book portrays the visionaries and officials who were at the helm as a digital media revolution began to reshape the industry. Through vivid accounts based on first-hand interviews of what was happening behind the scenes, film commentator and critic Geoffrey Macnab provides in-depth analysis of how and why the British film industry has risen like a phoenix from the ashes.

Alien in the Mirror

Author : Maureen Foster
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476636508
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Alien in the Mirror written by Maureen Foster and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) and starring Scarlett Johansson, the 2013 film Under the Skin contains elements of science fiction and fantasy, horror, mystery, and thriller. Arguably the most compelling of Johansson's career, the movie follows a unique tale of one woman's journey to self-discovery. This is the first book to be written about the quiet masterpiece, revisiting the film scene-by-scene through all its cinematic elements. Extensive interviews detail the challenges the filmmakers faced--from hidden filming on the streets of Glasgow to defying a blizzard in the Scottish Highlands. Readers are invited to explore connections between the movie and its science fiction cousins and discover the reasons why Under the Skin deserves to find a wider audience.

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki

Author : Thomas Austin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501325388
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Aki Kaurismäki written by Thomas Austin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismäki's oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurismäki to be published in English, it offers a range of voices responding to his politically and aesthetically compelling cinema. Deploying various methodologies to explore multiple facets of his work, The Films of Aki Kaurismäki will come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurismäki.

Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective

Author : Krzysztof Stachowiak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000959066
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective written by Krzysztof Stachowiak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain of place and space in cinema and the film industry's role in establishing cultural connections and economic cooperation between India and Europe. With contributions from leading international scholars, various case studies scrutinise European and Indian contexts, exploring both the established and emerging locations. The book extends the dominantly Britain-oriented focus on India’s cinema presence in Europe to European countries such as Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden, where the Indian film industry progressively expands its presence. The chapters of this book look at Indian film production in Europe as a cultural bridge between India and Europe, fostering mutual understanding of the culture and society of the two regions. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to researchers in film studies, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, tourism, economics, sociology, and cultural studies. It will also be interest to practitioners working in local authorities, destination management, tourism, and creative business, all of whom see the value of film production in attracting visitors, investment, and creating new networks with local economic actors. The book offers much-needed data and tools to translate their professional goals and potentials into effective regional strategies and activities.